Summer Plants


    This mod replaces many of the "Whiterun Tundra Plants" with nettles dock plants, and summer flowers. This is a low resolution mod, which uses 512 x 512 images.This mod builds upon "Tamriel Reloaded grasses" , "Tamriel Reloaded Performance ESP", and "Tamriel Reloaded Performance Textures, which are required for this mod.


    I developed this mod to draw together two of my favorite mods, "Tamriel Reloaded Grasses", and  "GKB Green Trees". Many of Tamriel Reloaded's flowers appear beneath stands of GKB trees, I have replaced these flowers with Wild Foxgloves, Poppies, Oxeye Daisies, and Woundwort. These flowers needed other plants, like Nettles and Dock plants to balance them. The Nettles and Dock plants soon spread across the Whiterun plain, and needed yet more Nettles to stand in plauseably dense clumps. I then turned my attention to some of the smaller plants which disappear into the low resolution 'brown scape', I have replaced some of these plants with "Pyramid Orchids and fresh shoots", and "Cowslips with Nettle Seedlings".  Once I had done this I found that I had turned the Solitude approach road into a semi-wild cottage garden, all it needed was 'blue' to complete the picture, so I added some more Vipers Bewgloss. The Nettles and Dock plants DO NOT appear outside Solitude. If you install Summer Woods, the Buttercups will appear on Whiterun Plain. Tamriel reloaded must be installed before this mod. It could be advisable to install this mod manually using Nexus Mod Manager so that you can reject some of the new plants to suit your own tastes, there is a list of the plants below. The Woundwort, and one stand of nettles can NOT be rejected as I have changed their size settings in the Summer Plants ESP. The density of the 'cowslips + nettle seedlings'  has been reduced.

    13grassobj.dds                           - Nettles & Dock Plants

    33grassobjxx.dds                        - Large Bushy nettle

    49grassobjxxtu.dds                     - Tall Nettles

    50grassobjxxtu.dds                    -  Tall nettles

    58grassobjxxam.dds                  - Viper's Bewgloss - Tall spikey blue flower

    59grassobjxxam.dds                  - Foxgloves, Poppies, & Oxeye Daisies

    Blue1.dds                                  - Woundwort {ESP changed must install}

    Blue2.dds                                 - Nettles  {ESP changed must install}

    flortundra2.dds                           - Pyramid Orchid + Fresh Shoots

    flortundra.dds                             - Cowslips + Nettle Seedlings

    tundragrassobj04.dds                 - Small Dense Dock Plant {Does not sway in wind}



During the development of this mod the Grass initialisation files  { * /my docs/my games/skyrim.ini }   files were set to ;-

    [Grass]
    iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=15
    iMinGrassSize=20

Acknowledgements ;-  Resources -  tamu75, Ga-Knomboe Boy, 32cm, and vurt.  Tools -  PAINT.NET, Gimp and Insane Bump plugin, paint shop pro, Irfan View, and ddsfile viewer. Online tutorials -  Darkfox127, and Zaric Zhakaron.