Summer Woods

    This is a standard resolution mod, which mainly uses 512 x 512 images. This mod replaces the ' Yellow Fall Forest Aspen {birch} Trees ', with Green 'Aspen' Trees and Copper Beech Trees, as well as some Oak Saplings. The Fall Forest ground cover is replaced by  Field Grass , Bluebells, and Buttercups, there is a "No Flowers" option.

    This mod was developed from Tamu's " tamu75 Alternative Aspen Trees Aspen Tree Mod ". The computer I am using could render the grass at "Tamriel Reloaded's" minimum grass render settings, however many encounters around Riften would run slowly or crash. Though Tamu's green 'Aspen' trees were a huge improvement on the yellow/brown scape, I wanted more variety in the woods.

    I have replaced Tamu's high resolution "Aspen" trees, with trees from "GKB Green Trees" Mod. I have used green trees mixed with, a Red Copper Beech Tree, an "Oak Sapling" {which fits the existing LODs}, and a dead brown stump. The field grasses from Vurt's Mods were then reduced to 512 x 512, using "PAINT.NET". I have also reduced the density of the Field Grass/Bluebells to be closer to " Tamriel Reloaded's " Performance Settings.

    I have replaced some of the original Vurt's grass with bluebells. I have also attempted to add some buttercups, {based on 'globe Flowers'}. The Buttercups are mapped onto a  ' *.nif '  file which effects the way they are rendered, so some don't look very good. There is a "No Flowers" option which can be used to replace the bluebells, buttercups or both.

    There are two versions of this mod. Stand Alone  =  "SummWood_SAv1.1", and a version for those who already have  "GKB Green Trees"  installed = "SummWood_GKBv1.1".  The " *.ESP " file in both mods is the same, and is called "Bluebell.ESP".

The "standalone" version of "Summer Woods" contains all the GKB tree files needed for the woods, and a recoloured version of Tamu's original vanilla tree LOD.

The version of "Summer Woods" for  " GKB Green Tree" users does not contain the GKB Tree files, and has a recoloured " GKB Tree LOD.

The "No Flowers" Option that goes with this mod can replace either or both of the flowers, if manual installation is used through "Nexus Mod Manager".

    " FallForestGrassObj02.dds " AND " FallForestGrassObj02_n.dds " replaces the Buttercups with Ferns.
    " GreenAspenGrass01.dds " replaces the Bluebells with 512 x 512 Field Grass.

    The ground textures in this mod don't look very good unless a yellow/green or green " Whiterun Tundra Moss " is used. I am using Vivid Landscape's "Tundra Moss Revised 256 "

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.