***INSTALLATION***

Nexus Mod Manager (NMM) Installation (www.skyrimnexus.com/content/modmanager):
a)  Download through NMM, and activate there.
b)  Follow as from 3) below

Manual Installation:
1) Unzip the files anywhere.
2) Move the ESP file 'Realistic Lighting - Full' into the Data directory of your Skyrim installation (located inside the steam folder, under steamapps/common/skyrim).
3) When starting Skyrim, click on data files, and make sure the 'Realistic Lighting - Full.esp' is checked.
4) (Optional) Move the files you want from the optional files to the Data folder.
5) Run Skyrim!


***FILE LIST***
Main files:
Realistic Lighting - Full.esp - See "basics" for details.

Optional files:
Ralistic Lighting - Inteiors.esp - Applies the changes from the full version to interiors only
Ralistic Lighting - Exteriors.esp - Applies the changes fromt he full version to exteriors only
Ralistic Lighting - Bright lights.esp - Does what it says. Already included in the full version.
Textures\sky - Textures for more smooth overcast clouds and darker clouds in general, as well as a custom sun and sunglare texture. Minimal difference from "vanilla".
Textures\landscape - 1024x1024 custom snow textures with lower brightness if you don't like being "blinded" by the "vanilla" snow.


***BASICS***
Makes the lighting more realistic without the use of screen shader injections or other post-processing. This means there will be no performance decrease at all, and all weather and locations have unique light settings!

The "fixes" in this mod for exteriors:
- More powerful sun color
- Lighter sunset/sunrise skies
- Lighter cloudy skies
- Darker ambient color
- Very dark nights (If it's too dark, you may need to fix your monitor's brightness, try this: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php)
- Fixed color balance and saturation for all weather types to look realistic/neutral
- Removed bloom
- Removed forced contrast increase

For interiors:
- Removed fake "reflected light" color
- Darker interiors
- Very dark dungeons
- Fixed saturation, the color balance was fine
- Removed bloom (candles still glow from particles)
- Removed forced contrast increase

This affects all weather, all interiors, and all dungeons. Some special quest areas or quest weather states may not be affected. I think this also makes the game have a considerably more dark and ominous feeling than a "fantasy paradise" feeling that I always got from Oblivion and default Skyrim. Also note that this won't decrease performance at all, and for some people the removal of bloom may actually improve performance.


***CHANGELOG***
Version 1.5a
- Fixed a problem with clouds being black/dark gray in some areas
- Added optional ESPs
Version 1.5
- Darker fog and clouds for applicable nights.
- Interior tint removed and compensated with brightness and saturation tweaks
- Interior brightness tweaks: shadows should be a little lighter in dungeons and a little darker in buildings.
- Day clear sunlight brightness lowered by 0.3.
- Lowered spell light brightness.
- Better cloud colors for dawn and dusk.
Version 1.42p
-Hot fix which updates the Brighter Interiors file, and updates the readme correctly.
Version 1.41p
-Brighted up interior lighting, added some optionals.  Exteriors are in progress.
Version 1.4p
-Fixed the menu bug, made some changes to the auroras, balanced the light a bit better (dungeons are still quite dark).  Dampened the magic lights to just slightly over vanilla.
Version 1.3p
-(From Pluto) Added in components of my own mods, integrating them in, so I could correspondingly up the brightness levels and normalize the brightness curves more. Early version, it'll require some tuning to get right.
Version 1.2b
-Fixed some night sky colors
-Added brighter lights in full and as an optional ESP
-Lowered saturation back to 1.1 levels. Sorry, it looked better.
Version 1.2a
-Lowered daytime, sunrise, and sunset saturation some from 1.2.
Version 1.2
-Slightly increased saturation in exteriors.
-Slightly increased saturation in dungeons.
-Made the overcast/rain/fog skies darker at night.
Version 1.1
-Increased "dark dungeon" imagespace sky color - it was too dark
-Added advanced options