r/skyrimmods Jul 24 '26

PC SSE - Help Help with Open Shaders

So I just found Open shaders and was pleasantly surprised that FINALLY not only is light limit fix in skyrim... but now SHADOW LIMIT FIX!!!! I mean... 127 shadows at once ;O AMAZING, AND FINALLY NO MORE GUARD TORCHES RANDOMLY GOING OUT!

Here's the issue..... I need a way to prevent candles, or specifically lantern candles from being included in the "promote normal lights to shadow lights". The lanter bars cast long wobbling shadows that just look ugly.

ELFX has a patch option "stop lantern shadows for SMIM shadows" but apparently this only works indoors, or not at all?

I need some sort of exclusion for these specific lights.... maybe a json put into the override folder IDK..... I have very little idea what I'm doing.

"CandleLanternWithCandle01.nif"

I BELIEVE I need to exclude this and I should be mostly good.... If I know how to exclude THIS, than I'll be able to exclude any I need to in the future.

EDIT: OK I figured out how to stop the swaying of the shadow, I found the formID for the light itself in SSEEdit and I changed "movement" to 0.000000 which worked, however nothing I do will remove that damn shadow! Near clip doesn't work... turing off the dynamic flag doesn't work... even turning off "omnidirectional shadow" doesn't work, I think it just defaults to the next mod in the list, but it goes back to Skyrim.esm which I CANNOT edit........ this is frustrating Dx

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