Download Real Shelter (non-CoT) .99

For best results install on a save without this mod installed. Please read the description before reporting issues or asking questions (it may already be answered

- All cities and towns are sheltered and compatible with Open Cities.
- All bridges, farms, mills, Nordic ruins, Dwemer ruins and military camps have been sheltered.
- The Winterhold College terrace shelters have been removed. The circular nature of the terrace caused unstable behavior and being semi-open to the snows shelter wasn't really practical there anyway.
- The MCM menu options have been stabilized. You should be able to enable/disable debug mode and the mod with no problems.

KNOWN ISSUES
Weather mismatches: 'Sheltered precipitation' refers to the rain & snow effects this mod surrounds a shelter with, either rain or snow bands. Currently, Real Shelter can only provide one type of sheltered precipitation at a time. Since a few areas in Skyrim can receive both snow and rain precipitation, sheltering in those areas could result in outside-weather to sheltered-weather mismatches. Meaning it could be snowy outside that turns to rain when shelter is entered; or rain can turn to snow when under shelter. Please help and report any locations you see these mismatches in for future fixes.
Odd weather behavior: This mod uses conditional timers and the game can force or revert weather. As a result entering and leaving sheltered locations too rapidly can cause strange weather behavior. If odd weather happens wait a minute to see if normal weather resumes. If not the console command ' fw 15e ' can be used to restore weather defaults.
Load game crashes: Occasional crashes have been reported when loading a game that was saved under shelter during rain or snow. To reduce this risk save your game in an interior location or during fair weather if outside.

BUG REPORTING
This mod is nearing full release so be sure to let me know of any problems needing attention (broken shelters, visible rain bands, etc). Be sure to read the description page and this post before reporting.

Check before reporting:
* Use BOSS to sort load order. Loading RS after weather/lighting mods can fix some lighting issues.
* Verify you have the right version needed, CoT or standard.
* Make sure your game is up to date and is a legal copy.
* Consider if anything was changed or added before the problem started.
* Consider if your issues may be related to changes made to your ini files and/or graphics driver game profile.
* Check to see if you are using Skyproc or need to update a patched mod (i.e. Automatic Variants, Dual Sheath Redux, etc.).
* Are you using any other programs that affect the game directly (i.e. NVidia Inspector, Gamebooster, etc)?
* Make sure the bug is repeatable.
* Papyrus logs are not crash logs. Disable logging after troubleshooting, it can be resource-intensive and a drain on game performance.

When reporting:
* Please be specific and polite.
* Note what you were doing when the problem occurred and which exact shelter it occurred in or if it affects all shelters.
* State if you are using SKSE, ENBs or any mods that affect lighting or weather.
* State how you isolated the problem to this mod.

This mod will be updated to version 1.0 later this year

Just leaving some feedback.

I noticed the sound of rain while in shelter is louder then when out of shelter.  This leads to an odd transition when moving in and out of shelter.

I think if you kept the in-shelter rain sound to always be lower then the out of shelter rain, the transition wouldn't be as noticeable.

Also, the lighting that appears above the shelter to illuminate the rain seems to bright.  Is it possible to reduce that?

Regardless, this feature needed to be done by someone, and I thank you for taking the time to do it.

Hi, thanks for that. The sound and visual transitions are due to the nature of the change from Skyrim's rain to Real Shelter's rain. Skyrim's rain is an on-screen filter effect that is not actually in the world. It's the exact same no matter what direction you look around. Real Shelter turns that off and turns on rain bands that actually exist in the world (as opposed to just being on your screen). When you view up a rain band or across two or more behind each other the rain mist effect stacks and causes the brightening effect. The existing imagespaces from the original rain to this mods rain stay in tact though. The sounds are actual rain sound emitters this mod turns on so there is another transition. I think of it as a normal change due to the rain 'hitting' the roof or overhead shelter. I hope all that makes sense

Yeah, I understand.  Thanks for clarifying.

Just curious, do you have a preference rain texture to use along with this, or do you use it with vanilla?  Obviously the vanilla rain screen effect are sparse and barely visible, which make it look weird when in shelter as your rain effect is so filled out.  I found the mod 'Real Rain' to fit with your shelter rain, as they are both quite dense.

Real Rain is good as it thickens the default rains. Almost any rain mod is good to use with this for the reason you stated.

The rains RS uses are default rain objects without modification. They are about the size of a grown tree & sparsely used in Skyrim (some caves use them like Sunderstone Gorge) but look much better than the filter rain. I wish all Skyrim's rain looked like that but having so many rain objects would probably blow up most machines.

I have a quick question.

I'm making a house mod for Dawnstar it uses the shack kit and is an exterior player home I really don't want the snow coming through into the cosy little home is there a way that I could do what this mod does just for my house mod?

This was causing my game to freeze up for several seconds after walking through a door when auto save started. I had to remove it. Also, when you moved in and out of the shelter, the transition was too obvious. I think you are on to something with the mod, and I'm glad someone's trying to fix Bethesda's sloppy work so I will keep track of this and see if it goes anywhere beyond where it is now.

Hi there, just been playing around with your mod and what can I say it looks GREAT! My only issue is proberby the same as Warburg's. When I'm under shelter your rain looks fantastic, when I leave, the game kicks in a rubbish rain shader, and it's unbarable. I've tried adding differnt rain mods before RS but to no avail. The rain mods only seem to work when RS isn't active.

Is there any way for me to replace the rain shader (when outside) with your one (when inside), cause' if there was I would be so happy!

I am using the CoT mod and (of course) the correct version of your mod to go with it. However I think it's the CoT which is affecting this in such a way ( the rain is transparent and kinda too wide)

Anyway, I hope i made some kind of sense, if you got back to me It'd be much appreciated Thanks for a wonderful mod!