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DuskyB

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About this mod

Some of the meshes from Majestic Mountains have tangent space errors that result in black artifacts. This fixes those artifacts by replacing the faulty meshes with ones that have fixed tangent spaces.

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29/04/2021: These fixes are now included in Skyrim - A Mountainous Experience by MrNeverLost
which I highly recommend you install if you don't use it already, as it improves and fixes many
of the mountain meshes from both Vanilla and Majestic Mountains. Also going forward when I fix
any rock or mountain mesh it will be done in that mod, this one will stay as it is, at least for now.


24/04/2021: These meshes (v1.0 of this mod) have now also been uploaded as a misc file to the MM modpage,
so you could now get them from there too if you wanted. Keep in mind though that if I fix other instances of
these artifacts I won't be able to update the file on the MM modpage myself, so it will be updated here first.
If that matters to you then you should get the file from here, if it doesn't then just get it from either page.


The fixes:


Those artifacts might seem very small to some, but a bigger issue is that they create black reflections on water even from far away that can be very noticable. Using an ENB can make them less noticable but it's of course best to eliminate them completely by fixing the meshes.


This currently fixes the following meshes:

  • landscape\rocks\snow\rockanimalden01.nif
  • landscape\rocks\snow\rockcliff07.nif

If any other tangent space errors are found in the future just let me know and I'll fix those meshes as well.

A fix for the rockcliff07.nif mesh already exists, but it is not ideal as it simply reverts that mesh to its 3.1 version, whereas I'm fixing the tangent spaces directly in the meshes themselves using their latest version (that being version 3.2 as of the day of upload). If you were using that fix you can just use this instead.

I'm uploading this here because this issue has been reported and confirmed since November 2020 and unfortunately it has not yet been fixed officially.
If T4GTR34UM3R ever fixes it themselves in a main update then I'll make sure to notify users that they no longer need these fixes.


Installation:

Put this right below Majestic Mountains in your modlist so that the fixed meshes overwrite the original.


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