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- You are allowed to edit the files and upload your own version of Majestic Mountains. - You are allowed to use the files within your mod (a landscape mod for example). You don't need to contact me first. A simple credit is enough honor for me.
fixed some gaps between mountain meshes and landscape
moved one shrine on the path to HH out of a mountain
reduced the greenish tint in Darkside
changed the moss color
updated several textures of the Complementary Pack
Version 2.6
fixed gaps between meshes
changed some landscape textures
the lod of the landscape textures wasn't applied correctly in combination with Terrain Lod Redone, the Complementary Textures lod are loose files now
Version 2.5
Fixed the blurry lod
updated the textures
some uv tweaks and fixes
Version 2.4
cleaned up the the esp files
rebuild all meshes from scratch, fixes all seams, removed a lot of stretching (but it is hard to find all stretching, there still might occure some)
added new collisions to the mountain meshes (still less lower polycount than the mesh itself, isn't perfect, but much better)
created new lod meshes for DynDoLod
revamped all mountain textures
fine tuned the moss falloffs and recreated the moss textures (it is less dominating now)
added optional esp files without esl flag in the installer
Version 2.3.1
Fixed MountainRidge03.nif
Version 2.3
fixed a lot of stretching issues (although I may missed some)
fixed grey rocks with sulfur shader applied
fixed some headers on several meshes
fixed two grey snow meshes
updated Lightside textures
Version 2.2
Switched mountainslab01mask with mountainslab02mask
All plugins (except ESM) are now flagged as ESL
Updated ESM file included
Version 2.1
Fixed wrong applied snow material on several meshes
added a fallback mode for snow mountains to the 1.84 version (only necessary if you have issues)
fixed some headers on several meshes
Version 2.0
recreated all mountain UVs from scratch, this will eliminate over 90 percent of all seams (but left out the rock and cliff meshes)
used multilayer parallax shader on the mountains
added the missing waterfall fix
tweaked all UVs for a higher pixel density
added a makro detail texture to all mountain meshes
reedited all snow shader ini settings.
updated the snow textures for a much better snow shader fitting
flagged the sun position esp files as esl
Version 1.84
finished the Complementary Pack
replaced several missplaced moss mountains
switched ice covered mountains with snow covered ones
damn: I forgot to include the fixed waterfall mesh
Version 1.83
fixed bright water foams at night (all versios)
fixed lines on lod ice shards (all versions)
fixed snow mountains in Soul Cairn area (all versions)
cleaned up the moss.esp (all versions)
added fielddirtgrass01.dds (Lightside /Darkside)
fixed wrong snowrocks01alt.dds (Lightside)
Version 1.82
-removed all softlight flags from the meshes for an improved compatibility with Enb
-created new snow textures from scratch that are working in almost all lighting conditions (they are not too bright and not too dark regardless of you weather/enb combination)
-added fitting textures for Mehrune
-fixed a lot of uvw issues
-removed vertex colors from the snow covered meshes and the surrounding landscapes for a great fitting snow
-changed several landscape textures of the Complementary Pack
-fixed the mountainslab02mask in Darkside (glowing objects at night)
-fixed USSEP record conflicts in the moss.esp
-added multipass ash material in Solsteim for seamless ash transition between mountains and landscape
-removed moss in the Soul Cairn area
Version 1.71
Darkside only
-brightened up the mountain textures a bit and added some saturation
-reduced saturation on fieldgrass02
Version 1.7
- created a complete new Darkside version from scratch, it works much better with dynamic lighting ( old version stays in the optional section)
-created new high quality ambient occlusion maps for Main and Lightside (baked them into diffuse and used them for softlighting)
-created a complete new grass texture
-created a new pebble texture
-snow normal maps got some more drift
-replaced most green moss meshes in the Rift
-created new high quality pineforest textures wich will blend much better with dirt textures
Donations
Both straight donations and premium membership donations accepted
I am ill currently. This gave me the chance to revamp Majestic Mountains completely. And I am proud to say that the mod is official part of the Cathedral Concept now. But it can be installed still as standalone. Like always.
You should rerun DynDolod when updating to 2.4.
And a big thanks goes to mnikjom for the landscape.esm patch.
Introduction:
The goal of this mod is a complete mountain rework. The lighting of the mountains was changed in a way to fit much better to dynamic day night cycles and the weather system of Skyrim. There are several differences to other mountain retextures. One of the biggest difference is the mountain texture. There were two textures used for the mountains originally. But one of this textures was barely used. While looking into this texture data I've decided to merge the two textures into a big one. I've adjusted the uvw data and created a fitting lod. This causes a very natural geologic look. I wanted to prevent the look of stacked stones as much as possible. The second big difference is the moss. I've created an optional esp wich assigns a projected moss material to the mountains. This prevents the look of texture tiling very effectively. The mod also offers a texture pack for everyone who doesn't find fitting landscape textures. And finally I've managed to get really good transitions from snow covered meshes to snow covered landscape. I've created three different versions: default, Darkside and Lightside. These versions should be able to cover up many different lighting, weather or texture setups. There is a big variation of installed mods in the community and I try to be as compatible as possible. Check out my other mods too. My mods are designed as on mod splitted into three stand alones: Blended Roads , Terrain Lod Redone, Underground and Halls of the Greybeards.
Installation:
Please read the readme before contacting me. I've tried to include the most common problems and the fixes in it. Simply choose the installer pack you want to use. If you are using DynDoLod or SSElodgen you should download the fitting lod pack too.Every version of Majestic Mountains has it's own fitting lod pack with lod textures up to 2k in size. For load order advices I suggest to have a look at TUCOGUIDE. This sites provide very useful informations about load orders.
About Dolomite Weathers, NAT and certain Enbs: Dolomite Weathers and Majestic Mountains love each other. Really! But you need to install the snow fix wich comes with the installer. This snow fix might be necessary by using some Enbs too. It is listed as Dolomite Weathers in the compatibility section of the installer. And you should set Majestic Mountains below Dolomite Weathers in the load order because they are using different lod snow settings.
NAT also blocks the usage of the Snow Shader. But you should check if "bEnableProjecteUVDiffuseNormals" is set to "1" in your SkyrimPrefs.ini.
This mod changes many things regarding snow too. If you are playing with the improved snow shader you'll be fine. But if you are playing with "Improved Snow" disabled you need to set "bEnableProjecteUVDiffuseNormals" to "1" in your SkyrimPrefs.ini. The snow in this mod is designed to work with a projected texture and otherwise the snow won't fit. Due to the fact that most other snow texture replacers aren't covering the projected diffuse I can recommend Fluffy Snow, Real Snow HD 2k, my Sparkling Snow in the download section (proof of concept) or the snow within the Complementary Pack for a good fitting. Due to the fact that snow is very sensitive to weather mods/ Enb you should choose the snow which fits best to your exterior lighting.
Majestic Mountains 1.59 and up contains some meshes that would conflict with Realistic Water two. I recommend using the meshes from Majestic Mountains.
You should be aware that the Complementary pack needs Blended Roads for the snow roads.
Troubleshooting:
This mod uses custom settings for the Improved Snow Shader. If you are getting too bright snow at night the install the snow fix please.
Due to almost removing one mountain texture from Sky this mod conflicts with many other. I dealed with this problem by changing the textures of certain meshes in the esp files instead of editing meshes. This eliminates coflicts very effectively. But there may be mods wich are doing the same. Most conflicts occure with water mods. I created my own fx meshes now and removed some of the redirections within the esp files. If you get asked for overwriting meshes within water mods you should do it.
This mod has two optional sun direction esps. This esp files aren't compatible with enb. They will break time of day.
Majestic Mountains is compatible with Better Dynamic Snow too. Better Dynamic Snow should be set below Majestic Mountains in the load order. Use Fluffy Snow or the Complementary Pack, disable the Snow Shader in the launcher and set "bEnableProjecteUVDiffuseNormals" to "1" in your SkyrimPrefs.ini.
It appeared SSE Engine Fixes might be causing an issue. This may be very specific to my modlist, but if you are having this problem, and are using SSE Engine Fixes, go into the .ini file under skse/plugins/EngineFixes.ini, and set this line to "false": BSLightingShaderForceAlphaTest = false ; Forces alpha test flag on when NiAlphaProperty/AlphaTest true. Fixes object LOD reflections.
The mountains are using the same shader material like the glaciers in version 2.0.
This material needs multipass snow. You will get grey mountains otherwise. There are a lot of mods that are reverting the snow material back to single pass. This is a problem! Even for lower versions of Majestic Mountains. Because it may destroy snow fitting on earlier versions. If you are getting grey mountains then move Majestic Mountains lower in your load order. And if you are using DynDoLod then you have to rerun it after changing your load order.
this mod isn't compatible with other mountain retextures
this mod is compatible with all major snow mods
"HD Lods" is using my mountain lod textures. You shouldn't overwrite it during the installation
I created my own fx meshes now and removed some of the redirections within the esp files. If you get asked for overwriting meshes within water mods you should do it.
There are two meshes conflicting with ELFX. I suggest using the EFLX files.
Majestic Mountains is using meshes with more polygons than SMIM. It is highly recommended that you overwrite the SMIM meshes. Except for rocks which got a compatibility patch in the installer.
You can use Enb mesh fixes with Majestic Mountains. If you are asked to overwrite then choose yes. I added several compatibility fallbacks in the esp and the textures.
This mod has two optional sun direction esps. This esp files aren't compatible with enb. They will break time of day.
Known Issues:
There might be lighting conditions (a dark ambient only lighting) where decals may be barely visible by using improved snow
with Vanilla lighting and most weather mods the grass fading on the Tundra should be almost invisible. especially with Verdant! But since grass uses only ambient lighting this fitting might be destroyed depending on the daytime and the lighting condition. Enb makes it usally worse. This is an engine limitation and I can't really fix it.
the moss and the projected snow sometimes tend to create stripes. This is an engine limitation of the projection system. I could work around this issue pretty good. But there is no way to fix it completely.
The snow textures of the Complementary Pack are having a pretty specular sparkling. But Skyrims Snow Shader removes it somehow. If you want this sparkling effect then disable the snow shader.
there seems to be an issue between the snow shader and Enb on some systems like here: https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/images/1704/8933251-1533458911.png I ca't reproduce the issue. But disabling the snow shader helps and the game doessn't look worse without it.
