Help me create decent lighting around an outfit station

Octopuss

I am trying to build well lit outfit station in my home, but haven't had much luck so far.

The goal is to have bright yet not overblown as neutral as possible colour lighting around the station.
The neutral colour can - as far as I can tell - only be achieved with the combination of both the enchanted lights, BUT those are so bright there are reflections everywhere. This can be slightly improved with distance, but there isn't really enough even in large houses.

My setup so far consists of pair of those lights hanging high under the ceiling, and two large Clockwork illuminators on the floor in front of the station.


It's far from ideal. Even high up in the air, the enchaned lights produce a bit too much reflection, and the illuminators emit too warm light. The sides of my char are completely dark.


Could anyone try to come up with better solution? Same house if possible (the only other I have is Amaya Lake Lodge, which doesn't have any suitable large room).

Earrindo

I mean, from a technical standpoint, you want to create a circle of lights that are totally neutral in tone with medium high brightness. Determine the exact location of where your character stands when at the outfit station and construct the circle around that point. Even spacing and make sure they are far enough away that it doesn't wash out your character.

From a home decorating standpoint this is not the best solution, as a big circle of potentially floating lights isn't going to look like it belongs.

The happy medium would be 4-6 lights spaced in a rough square or rectangle, ensuring one light to either side, one light behind and one light in front of where you stand.

As for specific lights, the dwemer lantern, or if you have it from the furnishing pack, the dwemer lamp post, give off acceptably neutral and bright light that, in my experience, dont adjust how dye colors look.
I dislike the varla stone lights as they are simply too bright, and their colors too pronounced. I feel they effect how dyes look enormously.
The other thing to look into would be the glowing vvardenfell sprouts from the luxury vendor. Warm bright light, but still quite neutral. If you paired those with the coldharbour glowing sprouts you could probably achieve a fairly neutral, brightly lit area.

Apologies for my rambling reply, hopefully something will be useful!

StormChaser3000

I haven't tried it yet, but what if to put this station outside the house, somewhere in the well lit (by natural light) part of the yard? In theory during the daytime you should get the the most accurate preview of the colors.

Octopuss

I don't intend to decorate the house, because it turned out I am completely *** when it comes to things like this, so I can do whatever to the place :P

Going to check on the lights you mentioned.

StormChaser3000 wrote: »

I haven't tried it yet, but what if to put this station outside the house, somewhere in the well lit (by natural light) part of the yard? In theory during the daytime you should get the the most accurate preview of the colors.

That's exactly the problem. I don't always play during nighttime, and with day/night cycle lasting several hours, I don't want to plan when can I go mess with outfits.