The Guy Who Made GTA IV Look This Gorgeous Is Hard At Work On Modding Skyrim

The Icenhancer graphic mod for Grand Theft Auto IV turns Rockstar’s game into something some could mistake for film, rather than a video game.

And now Hayssam Keilany says he is working on a mod to turn the sometimes jagged world of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim into a similar moving masterpiece.

Keilany dropped a few images on his Facebook page earlier this week showing off a much improved Skyrim and hinting at the coming of some mod work.

“More informations tomorrow or later on the forum. If you guys have question about the Skyrim one. Taking a break of GTA4 modding for few days, but still creating textures is kinda long. (trees, grass,etc)”

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(33 Comments)
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    Neo-Kaiser

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM

    Oh look, he modded Skyrim to have Battlefield lighting effects.

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      Fenixius

      Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:32 AM

      Sadly not; it’s just a different sunglare sprite. And a beautiful flora texture update. No new lighting tech.

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    f4ction

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:28 AM

    Might have to re-install Skyrim (who am I kidding? I need to do that anyway).

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    LDX

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:35 AM

    what abouts saints row 3? :(

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      KriticKill

      Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 7:07 PM

      The entire Saints Row series need to go die in a fire not get a graphics update.

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        TheUprightMan

        Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 12:25 AM

        Saint’s Row is what GTA should have been ( and was in the early years ).

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          LTVBOY

          Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 8:52 AM

          So true!

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    Trex

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:42 AM

    My copy of Skryrim is already modded beyond recognition, but those screen shots look awesome.

    I think Skryrim will be one of those games I keep on my HDD long after I finish it just to see what it looks and plays like with different mods.

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      McGarnical

      Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:13 PM

      I’m not aware there is much available for Skyrim, but I’m kind of new to it and haven’t hiuted around much.

      Care to let me know what you’ve installed?

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        Morkai

        Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM

        Me too, I’m keen to see what people are using to make a beautiful game even more so.

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        Mike

        Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:48 PM

        Head over to skyrimnexus.com …more than enough mods there to get you started. Super easy to install and remove too if you change your mind.

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        Trex

        Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:58 PM

        Umm….. here goes.
        Vals crafting Meltdown
        QD Inventory
        Immersive HUD
        Glowing Ore Veins
        Reduce object splash
        Enhanced night sky
        No more blocky faces
        Detailed faces/lips/hands
        Detailed bodies
        High Quality Eyes
        FXXA Post Process Injection
        Poison/potion retexture
        Skyrim Flora Overhaul
        Serious HD Retexture Landscape Skyrim
        Chris’s Whiterun HQ Textures
        Enhanced Distant Terrain
        Enhanced Horse Skins
        Realistic Water Textures
        Skyrim HD -2K Textures
        HD Furniture
        Immersive Skyrim Thunder
        Improved NPC clothing
        Skyrim Sunglare

        I got all these mods and a few more from Skyrim Nexus.
        I’ve also edited the .ini file for more shadows, more grass, longer high quality object view distance.

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          Trex

          Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:00 PM

          With all those it doesn’t as good as those screen shots, so this one looks worth the wait.

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            Trex

            Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:01 PM

            *look as good

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          McGarnical

          Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 8:18 AM

          Thanks!

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            Jt

            Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 11:51 PM

            I don’t see how adding the sun lense flare adds to realisim—– when you look at the sky you don’t see haexagonal artifacts in your vision. everything else though can’t wait for it!!

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        Redemption2021

        Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 5:32 AM

        Don’t forget the Middle Earth role playing MOD that is being ported from Oblivion to skyrim as we speak.

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    The Insufferable Señor Steengo

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    “Hard at work” what? All he does is make config files for ENBSeries.

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      maaaaaat daaaaaamon

      Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:31 AM

      Keep in mind that he isn’t getting payed for this and is doing it in his spare time.
      I also don’t see any mention of you doing anything like this so I kindly suggest you stfu and/or gtfo.

      Anyway, this looks freaking brilliant. Looking forward to it being released.

      • [–]

        ed

        Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:44 AM

        Haha, you just got slapped, dip shit.

      • [–]

        ed

        Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:44 AM

        Haha, you just got slapped, dipshit.

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      El Kapitan

      Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:37 AM

      Oh cool…

      Can you send me a link to download your mod? It’s obviously gonna be far better than this guy’s if you’re critiquing it.

      Seriously, be more jelly.

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      McGarnical

      Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:14 PM

      You, sir, are insufferable.

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    Cannon

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:55 AM

    Wow that looks nice

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    Supreme

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:01 AM

    Make is 10/10 game go all the way to 11 baby!

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    Sam

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:22 AM

    I’m surprised this guy hasn’t been hired by a developer, geez. That Skyrim mod looks fantastic.

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      Drew

      Friday, December 16, 2011 at 12:04 PM

      i know right and he is doing it without the time or the backing of a team and a developer

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      Kid

      Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:17 PM

      Actual developers are able to do what he’s doing on PC too. But because of consoles and system requierments they aren’t able to impliment these amazing graphics.

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    P4NT5

    Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:46 PM

    I think i smell my GPU melting…

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    Loktera

    Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 4:54 AM

    We nee to get this man working on Minecraft. NOW>

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    sam

    Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 1:38 PM

    this looks amazing! i can’t wait to try it out when u get it all done. i’ve just built a new system a month ago and i think this will be a good test for it :)

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    AdomRockz

    Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 6:02 PM

    Gaaaah it’s times like these when I wish I had a gaming PC to play Skyrim instead of my PS3…but I do love my PS3.

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    Vedette

    Friday, April 6, 2012 at 12:48 AM

    this guy really needs to start working for minecraft.

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