Compatibility
This add-on supports Aspens Ablaze versions 2.35 and 2.36.
Fixed Mesh Lighting - Aspens Ablaze FML trees will prevent this add-on from working properly.





Description

These are DynDOLOD Alpha 3.0 3D hybrid LODs for Aspens Ablaze. Uploaded with permission from mindflux to supplement his excellent custom trees.

• This mod also tweaks 5 of the main mod's NIF files (of approx. 30 total) to match settings consistent with almost all of the other aspens in AA. For example, the 'Specular' shader flag was stripped and glossiness was changed from 20-80 from branch meshes where applicable.
• Performance optimized normal maps for both LOD and full trees
• Performance optimized LOD diffuse textures for LOD only in the Performance option
  

The result is optimal mipmapping, branch alpha, and LOD transitions of leaves with distance.


Installation

• Being an 'add-on' to Aspens Ablaze, install at higher priority the Aspens Ablaze main mod so that its assets are overwritten by the add-on.
• Run TexGen, and follow with DynDOLOD. See these LOD instructions for guidance.
  
  

DynDOLOD Mesh Rules Recommendations

Add mesh rules to the bottom of the rules in the order shown below just after the 'tree' rule (which affects ALL trees) but just before the '\' rule (which affects everything not specified previously).

If using the 'Performance' option of this mod (highly recommended), the following mesh rule settings are recommended:

Mesh Mask/Reference | LOD Level 4 | LOD Level 8 | LOD Level 16 | Flags    | Grid   | Reference
treeaspen           | Level0      | Level1      | Billboard4   | VWD TREE | FarLOD | Unchanged
treeaspen06         | Level0      | Billboard4  | Billboard1   | VWD TREE | FarLOD | Unchanged
treeaspen07         | Level0      | Billboard4  | Billboard1   | VWD TREE | FarLOD | Unchanged
treeaspen08         | Level0      | Billboard4  | Billboard1   | VWD TREE | FarLOD | Unchanged
treeaspen09         | Level0      | Billboard4  | Billboard1   | VWD TREE | FarLOD | Unchanged

If using a legacy or 'Quality' version of this mod, the following mesh rule settings are recommended:

Mesh Mask/Reference | LOD Level 4 | LOD Level 8 | LOD Level 16 | Flags    | Grid   | Reference
treeaspen           | Billboard4  | Billboard4  | Billboard1   | VWD TREE | FarLOD | Unchanged





For more information about using DynDOLOD 3.xx and all other LODGen, check out the LOD instructions on the latest Step guide.

None of this would have been possible without sheson (DynDOLOD fork) and the xEdit developers (base application)