TRY THE SUCCESSOR,
A FOREST AT SUMMERS END


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Autumnal Equinox
- happens when the sun crosses the celestial equator, September the 22th this year and the 23th in the year of 2287. 
Autumnal Equinox turns your game into a forest that is trying to regrow, but the malnutrient ground from nuclear destruction is leaving it in an autumn state.

Comparison with vanilla weather and no enb:


The mod is split into three different parts - Trees, Grass and Plant-Remover.
Each file is completely stand-alone and are usable independent from each other (if you further want to easily mix'n'match with other mods).
-  for best look, activate all 4. esp files


Features:

Trees:
- New types of trees and varies the many old trees to create a barely-thriving forest.
- Retextures and reshapes vanilla trees and modded trees to have a more consistent autumn feel.
- Trees have each received many more types of variants per texture, whereas vanilla only had one type of tree per texture.
- A varying amount of leaves, some trees are still dead but most trees have a few amount of leaves, with better visibility in mind.
- Adds much more trees everywhere.

Grass:
- Combination of the short vanilla prewar grass, together with regular vanilla grasses and the Boston Natural Surround grasses.
- All have been retextured and adjusted for a more varied grass field with a consistent autumn-look. 
- Adds many small rocks in more places for variation in the fields.
- Many plants are now shorter and smaller
- Fixed 'nograss' flags on landscapes, and together with the shorter grasses should result in barely any grass clipping anymore.
- espfe light flagged plugin

Plant Remover:
- Removes many of the vanilla static, clipping plants (those you can walk through that can not be harvested), that are not covered in the Grass plugin, since they were rather unimmersive and the greater grass variety makes up for it.
- espfe light flagged plugin

PreMade LOD:
Generated for all expansions, but also works without any.
Made with FO4LODGen Ressources, so has many more additional details besides trees than vanilla.
The trees have been reworked to fit the LOD.
8k textures for best look - includes 4k normals and 4k speculars for no visual and performance hit.
- espfe light flagged plugin


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Newer screenshots are taken with Vivid Weathers and some mods, but no enb.

Installation:
- Stand-Alone, just drag and drop and activate. 

- Load the Trees .esp above FO4FI_FPS_fix, BostonFPSFix or Previs Repair Pack etc,
- Load the esp as low as possible to overwrite other retextures
- Load PreMade .esp last
- Make sure no loose files are overwriting the ba2 archives.


- Optional part; making LOD's yourself
>This is likely only needed if you have a heavy load order that makes many large world additions.
All LODs are fit for highest resol ution, 8k textures. Since it is just 3 textures in total that gets loaded, should not have much performance hit. If making LOD's yourself, do not load the premade plugin. In FO4LODGen, check "Use backlight pow" on, and set "Default alpha transparency" to 128 and set "Atlas Size" to 8k and "Max texture size" to 1k.


Performance:
This does not have a big performance hit, might cost a few fps at most.
> Trees are mostly added outside the town where performance is fine.
> Grass is also mostly used outside the town.
> Plants will be mostly disabled leaving better performance since there is less objects.
- They are espfe light plugin, so they take no extra esp slots.
- No broken precombines or conflicts on any of the mods.


Recommended mods to pair with:
Lush Ambience
- adds forest sounds like birds chirping.
Less Aggressive Animals And Creatures
- for more realistic wildlife behavior
Some Trees
- even more vanilla trees added, which will use this mods retextures (but needs a self-made LOD)

Credits:
Silverfox600; 
- Based on the great Boston Natural Surroundings BNS-framework, with full permission by the author to make this stand-alone by including all necessary resources.
flecked; 
- Uses his two great mods The Aspen Commonwealth, and Pine Trees Redone, with full permission by the author to make this stand-alone by including all necessary resources.
foreverasir;
- Uses part of the tree-leaves textures from the great Springtime Tree mod and includes birch trees, with full permission by the author to make this stand-alone by including all necessary resources.
Impulseman45;
- For his great fir trees, which is also part of BNS.

Wouldn't be possible without all their great work, big thanks.