TESReloaded is a custom made graphical extender for Bethesda games Oblivion, Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, developped by Alenet and maintained by Llde.
It overrides the rendering pipeline to inject various effects that can be completely configured.
It relies on the script Extender of each game, such as xOBSE or xNVSE. The script extender must be installed first.
The mod supports the following effects (more to come):
- Ambient occlusion
Proximity shadowing.
- BloodLens
Blood effects on the screen when hurt.
- Bloom
Increases brightness of lights and light blurriness.
- Cinema
Grain and film effects
- Coloring
Color fine tuning.
- Depth of Field
Dynamic depth of field based on distance.
- Godrays
Sun beam effects.
- LowHF
Screen and sound effects during low health/fatigue.
- MotionBlur
Motion blur during camera movements.
- POM Shaders
Parallax occlusion mapping to add bump effect to surfaces.
- Rain
Precipitation shader that replaces vanilla rain effect.
- Shadows (for exteriors and interiors)
Post process and forward shadows in exteriors during the day, and support to up to four light sources in interiors.
- Sharpening
Increases detail contrast.
- SMAA
Anti Aliasing.
- Snow/Snow accumulation
Snow precipitation, and white blanket effect on the surfaces.
- Watersurface/Underwater
Overhaul of the look of the water surfaces/lighting under water, caustics.
- Volumetric Fog
Exponential fog which adds up with depth.
- WaterLens
Droplets appear on the screen went getting in and out of water
- WetWorld
Water puddles appear during rainy weather.
To activate/Deactivate each effect, press O in game to bring up the menu. Navigate the menu with the arrow keys, and activate/deactivate effects and increase/decrease effect values with the numpad +/- keys.
The configuration is stored in the .dll.config file and can be edited directly with a text editor.
To build, with Visual Studio 2019 (Community Edition) with Desktop Development librairies, Windows SDK and DirectX9 SDK installed, run the build.bat file in command line, with the following command:
build.bat "ProjectName" "C:/DeployFolder/""Project Name"can be eitherOblivionReloadedorNewVegasReloaded.- The second argument is optional, and can be used to copy the built library to the game folder or (preferably) to a mod folder managed by Mod Organizer 2. Otherwise, the built files can be found in the
/build/folder at the root, to be copied manually.
First Make sure that xOBSE/xNVSE is installed.
The files from the built folder must be then copied into the game Data folder.
To use a mod manager, create a zip with the contents of the /build/ folder and drag & drop it into the mod list.
It can be helpful to create a separate mod with only the .config file to try different settings.
If the mod loaded properly, a message will appear at the bottom of the title screen with the version number. If not, try reinstalling directX or the directX SDK.
- ENB
If you want extra control over the look of your game, use Reshade which is compatible.
- Improved Lighting Shaders
Problem: Big areas covered in broken shaders results in bright blue surfaces.
Solution: Remove the TESReloaded Shaders with "SLS" in the name, as they are the source of the conflict. Only post process shadows will be working.
- Enhanced Camera
Problem: Crash when loading a game.
Solution: Disable "First Person Shadow" setting in Enhanced Camera .ini.
Check License for the licensing terms.
If you want to contribute, create a fork of the project, and join the discord to discuss possible developments.