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I'm currently making a mod that is adding a mall location. Before the power gets turned on I want the cell to be lit by exterior lighting.

First time posting here, I'm sorry if this should go elsewhere. I used to have very dark nights (torches and/or light spells were a must) and warm firelight. Then I uninstalled Skyrim and bam - all that was gone, despite the fact I installed back almost all the exact same mods. In fact, it appears the outdoors areas in Skyrim are not affected almost at all by my lighting mods. I have tried to install several 'dark nights' mods, and I've chosen the darkest possible settings in them, but the nights don't appear to even change. And all the fires are pale, almost white, compared to the warm oranges of before. Interiors, however, appear to be just fine. Here's how an inn looks. And here's how lights looks outside. And my nights are very pale (with brightness at the lowest possible setting)... ...compared to the ones before (with brightness at 50%). And here's what kind of light a torch used to give. Another example. And now it's just... well, white light. (I sadly don't have any other screenshots to show the warmer firelight of before.) I tried googling the problem but found nothing but an old, now deleted forum post nobody had even replied to. I have uninstalled my Skyrim twice due to this problem (visuals are extremely important to me), and nothing has changed. I have tried several different mod combinations and even mods that are specifically aimed to give the fire/lanterns a warmer color and/or make the nights darker (with and without other mods), but no luck. The fires do get brighter, though. Getting an ENB is out of the question, as trying to make one work was the original reason I ever uninstalled my Skyrim. I'd do something with my skyrimprefs.ini, but I'm a bit too afraid to try anything since I'm not exactly familiar with this kind of stuff. If anyone has even a vague guess of what could help, please share it with me. I'd be forever glad.