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About this mod

3D hybrid LOD models for mindflux's Aspens Ablaze to be used with DynDOLOD 3.xx+.

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Compatibility
This add-on supports Aspens Ablaze versions 2.35, 2.36, and 2.37.
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 ABOVE the 'tree' rule. List order of mesh rules matters.

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
treeaspen06         | Level0      | Billboard4  | Billboard1   | VWD      | FarLOD | Unchanged
treeaspen07         | Level0      | Billboard4  | Billboard1   | VWD      | FarLOD | Unchanged
treeaspen08         | Level0      | Billboard4  | Billboard1   | VWD      | FarLOD | Unchanged
treeaspen09         | Level0      | Billboard4  | Billboard1   | VWD      | FarLOD | Unchanged
treeaspen           | Level0      | Level1      | Billboard4   | VWD      | FarLOD | Unchanged
tree                | ??????      | ??????      | ??????       | 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      | FarLOD | Unchanged

tree                | ??????      | ??????      | ??????       | VWD TREE | FarLOD | Unchanged

*Set LOD Level 32 to something like 'Billboard6' only if using a mod like A Clear Map of Skyrim to get the trees on the map. Otherwise, set LOD Level 32 to 'none'.



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)