Storms and Sound (v2.9 when I found it last) is great for lightning storms too. It adds some awesome weather patterns (rain, snow, etc). That one is Atmospheric Weather System (last grabbed it at v2.1), and the Tweaked enhancement mod for it (Atmospheric Weather System Tweaked, last grabbed at v2.5). I'm also quite attached to my weather mod too, I think it's also better. I'm actually not too fond of Octagon's water mod (I prefer 'Improved Water'), but everything is great. Keep in mind many of the bigger mods like OOO or Frans already have a huge number of game mechanic altering mods (such as the essential Living Economy), these screens only highligh graphical ones for the most part. Here's some selected screens from Octagon's modded version to inspire people on the fence ( and here's the rest). Just open OBMM, click utilities->archive invalidation->update now after you've installed everything and you don't need to know more than that. I won't get into it, but without doing this you probably won't be seeing the changes from the texture packs in your game. omod format so you can add and remove mods easily) and for archive invalidation. You also NEED to get Oblivion Mod Manager, partly for OMODs (basically a way to organize your mods in a simple. Blade9722 2048 LOD textures+Blade9722 Border Region LOD textures (fixes the ugly long distance textures because QTP3 doesn't touch those)Īll of these can be D/L:d at Planet Elder Scrolls. Low-Poly grass (for better FPS, you may not need this depending on your rig) Darnified UI 1.3.2 (an absolute must, makes the interface worthy of the PC) Bomret's Texture Pack Shivering Isles (basically SI version of QTP3) Qarl's Texture Pack Redimized+patch (this is a version of QTP3 that is reduced+optimized for equally good visuals but much lower memory hit, get this instead of the basic QTP3) Skip Introduction Dungeon 1.0 (obviously you don't need this) Aside from OOO (which is a given IMO but it is a huge, dramatic change), these are the mods I started out with as a base and I recommend you get all of them: I've been into Elder Scrolls modding since 2005 so I have some experience with it.

I just D/L:d Oblivion from Steam yesterday and modded it today with the barebones.

Oblivion level scaling mod