Truth ENB

Parallel lines pass through a lens drawn in fine lines and gather at a bright point, then spread out past it, with one small fan of spectrum colors.Parallel lines pass through a lens drawn in fine lines and gather at a bright point, then spread out past it, with one small fan of spectrum colors.

ENB shader suite

Truth ENB is a from-scratch ENBSeries 0.504 shader suite for Skyrim SE/AE, with a computed physical atmosphere and sky, raymarched clouds, an aurora curtain, exposure and tone mapping, five quality tiers, and an optional native camera bridge.

Status
active
Access
inspect
Release
release-candidate source 1.0.0; tag v1.0.0-rc.1
Checked
2026-08-28

Listed in the catalog under

Who it is for

Audiences

  • Skyrim ENB users
  • ENB preset and shader authors
  • Skyrim mod developers

Deployment contexts

  • Skyrim SE/AE with ENBSeries 0.504
  • partial optical and post-processing use with Community Shaders and Effects 11
  • local Windows shader and runtime development

Inputs and outputs

Inputs

  • Skyrim scene, depth, weather, time, interior, bloom, lens, and adaptation data
  • one supported shader host and one selected quality-tier overlay
  • optional native camera data and SkyrimBridge celestial data

Outputs

  • a nine-stage Skyrim ENB shader suite
  • procedural sky, cloud, aurora, optical, exposure, color, and tone-mapped frame output
  • deterministic release-candidate archives, WARP reference captures, and verification reports

Run or evaluate

Entrycmake --preset vs2026-x64; cmake --build --preset vs2026-x64-debug
Verificationctest --preset vs2026-x64-debug --output-on-failure --no-tests=error

Inspect the public source

Architecture and relationships

Related records

Architecture, dependencies, and relationship notes

Dependencies

  • enb-runtime-core

Relation-backed claims

  • Truth ENB builds against ENB Runtime Core
    Truth ENB pins ENB Runtime Core for its native runtime build.
  • Truth ENB supports an optional runtime integration with SkyrimBridge
    SkyrimBridge is optional for the base optical suite and supplies celestial data used by the current procedural sky path.

Current evidence

Truth ENB 1.0.0 source

Verified

How we know

CMake identifies project version 1.0.0. Current main is c2eaa9f, 32 commits after release-candidate tag v1.0.0-rc.1. Public upload remains blocked until the required live Skyrim SE/AE and ENB 0.504 acceptance runs are recorded.

How we know

The pinned shader source defines SkyrimBridge interoperability as an optional surface and preserves a safe path when its values are absent.

Limitations and authorization boundaries

  • Public upload remains blocked until the required live Skyrim SE/AE and ENB 0.504 acceptance matrix is recorded.
  • The Community Shaders and Effects 11 path currently covers only partial optical and post-processing compatibility; world-space prepass composition remains disabled there.
  • Generated promotional art is not gameplay evidence; visual-quality claims require labeled in-game captures.

Authorization boundary. Truth does not bundle ENBSeries, Community Shaders, Effects 11, Address Library, SkyrimBridge, or Bethesda shader source. Install one supported shader host and the required game and runtime dependencies separately.