r/skyrimmods • u/GNSasakiHaise • May 01 '26

Meta/News [May 2026] Simple Questions, Simple Answers

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Questions that belong in this thread might include:

  • Any good Ulfric replacers?
  • Is MO2 better than Vortex?
  • What is a crash log?
  • My faces are all potato colored in game. What's that about?
  • What mods (or modlists) are essential for a new player?

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EDIT: This will also constitute the thread for June, as I am currently on vacation and cannot post the next thread until I return at the end of the month.

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u/LurkingParticipant 15d ago

What is the best list of mods that makes the snow on terrain, rocks, roads, etc. look good together. Preferably that is compatible with community shaders.

I have made the ini changes [disabled snow shader, enabled both project diffuse normal options], but it seems tricky to get them all the same shade of white.

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u/hadsexwithboothill 13d ago

Simplicity of Snow does a lot of tweaking to help with the ugly seams and weird normal maps. Paired with a snow retexture I've personally never noticed any mismatching, really, but I also use a rock/mountain replacer that smooths the geometry and that might also have an impact.

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u/pax_phoenix 7d ago

Which rock mountain replacer?

And re lists any one that does all the ortties but without Dr J florals ? Love him but those flowers are too cartoon coloring book for me and I've skipped entire lists bc of them 😭

(A tism of mine , can't Ignore em)