Terrain parallax normally disables the usual blending that the game does between two different textures. This plugin fixes that problem, making your landscape blend beautifully again!
Highly recommended, alleviates blending issue with grass and dirt
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Changelogs
Version 3.2.3
Removed decals from vanilla additions, as missing textures make decals invisible
A few more addons in the FOMOD
Updated Pandaria's Grasses patch
Version 3.2.2
Added a few additional patches to the FOMOD, including some CC content, Shadows over Ilinalta, and No Grassias Ultimate
Version 3.2.1
Added ESLified versions of the grass mods required for Nolvus and QW 1, which should hopefully help smooth the installation process. No longer need to ESLify plugins again when installing.
Version 3.2
Separated vanilla parallax-related addons from changes strictly required for TPBF into a separate plugin
Updated all patches in accordance with the slimmed down TPBF main plugin and added Skyrim.esm and Update.esm as masters
Updated temporary Atlantean patch with some missing fixes and synchronized with TPBF changes
Removed some addons and patches that are no longer necessary due to the plugin changes
Version 3.1.7
Added patch for ICFur's Grass Patch
Fixed No Grassias - Extended patch
Version 3.1.6
Separated addons and patches into different sections in the FOMOD
Added patches for Mixed Grass, Pandaria's Grasses, and Nolvus Grass Mashup
Updated Atlantean temporary patch to remove 1 error
Version 3.1.5
Added patches for Flora Orientalis, Waterplants of Skyrim, and Vinland Grass Patch
Updated patch for QW Grass Patch 2
Version 3.1.4
Updated patches for Cathedral Landscapes, Northern Cathedral Regional Grass, Northern Grass, and Unique Solstheim Grasses
Added an experimental patch for QW Grass Patch 1
Version 3.1.3
Corrected patch for QW Grass 2
Version 3.1.2
Removed Origin of Forest patch, a patch is no longer needed for this mod
Corrected Cathedral 3D Pine Grass patch
Version 3.1.1
Removed a few more records that were causing purple textures
Updated all patches that had errors in them, should hopefully resolve infinite loading screens
Added patches for a few more mods
Version 3.1
Removed extraneous overrides that were causing purple textures (sorry about this, big oversight)
Created a few more addons and patches for additional mods
Fixed some plugins being incorrectly selected or omitted in the FOMOD
Version 3.0
Major overhaul of the mod. Now uses a new method to apply parallax textures that requires much fewer patches!
Created addons to enable parallax and parallax (TPBF-compatible) for over 100 mods. You still need textures for these mods to work, this just enables it in plugin.
Removed the compatibility version as the new version makes it obsolete.
Separated addons and patches in the FOMOD so you can only install patches if you prefer. Few mods need patches, details in the FOMOD.
Added support for vanilla DLC landscape textures
Version 2.0.8
Updated Icy Mesh Remaster patches to latest version.
Version 2.0.7
The latest version of BDS 2.11 - DE no longer requires a patch, which I would have realized if I had checked for updates before I made the patch. Removed (select None or Other in the FOMOD)
Fixed error message in the FOMOD
Version 2.0.6
As the Atlantean Landscapes patch now has multiple options, please download it from that mod's page. Removed from TPBF FOMOD as my version is always out of date.
Added a small patch for Better Dynamic Snow 2.11 - Definitive Edition.
Version 2.0.5
Updated the Atlantean patch to match the one on its mod page
Removed some harmless ITMs that were mistakenly added
Added and updated patches: Embers XD, EVE - Moss Shaders Restored, Icy Mesh Remaster, and Stretched Snow Begone
Version 2.0.4
Added another updated patch for Atlantean Landscape.
Added a free 1.6 update version of the patch for Creation Club content.
Version 2.0.3
Updated the Atlantean Landscape patch to match the latest release (Thanks WiZkiD!)
Version 2.0.2
Fixed one static that was mistakenly changed to use the wrong texture
Added patches for Blended Roads, Embers XD, Moss Rocks, Skyrim 3D Rocks
Version 2.0.1
Patch for Atlantean Landscape added to the FOMOD
Version 2.0
Added new Extended version of the mod, which applies this fix to many more objects in the game (almost all of them).
Renamed the original version of the mod to the Compatibility version.
Fixed a rarely texture that was mistakenly changed to another texture.
Version 1.1
Added 3 more options for people to fine-tune their load orders (and avoid missing textures).
Added a FOMOD installer.
Removed all non-landscape changes from the landscape-only version of the mod. Now it really only has landscape changes.
You may have noticed when using any landscape textures with parallax that the blending on corners of certain objects (like cliffs and some roads) is completely removed, leaving a nasty seam that looks totally unrealistic. This simple ESL-flagged plugin creates a best-of-both-worlds scenario where as many of these seams are fixed while preserving your favorite parallax textures, and without requiring any messy mesh edits! A small amount of work is needed to set this up for your game.
Supporting Mods Here is a list of mods that I am aware of which have built-in support this fix. With a supporting mod installed, you can simply install the plugin for Terrain Parallax Blending Fix and immediately start playing. The installation steps below are for mods that don't already support the fix. Expect this list to start small and grow over time!
Cathedral Landscapes - Complex Parallax Addon An addon for the famous Cathedral mod which implements parallax. A patch is included on this page. Cathedral Landscapes created by DrJacopo and parallax addon created by me
Make sure you have both the NON-Parallax, as well as the Parallax textures from your favorite landscape mod. Without both of these, you can't benefit from this fix, so ask your landscape mod's author to support both!
Download and install this mod. Select the addons and patches that you need based on your load order. The installer tries to select all of the addons and patches that you need automatically, just make sure that the selections are correct. NOTE: If your mod manager isn't MO2, you probably need to open the file Parallax TXST Fixes.ini and add its contents to your Skyrim.ini file manually.
OPTIONAL: Install my parallax mods for vanilla, Landscapes, Whiterun, Dungeons, which are designed to take advantage of this fix. It's not required, but if your textures don't support the fix, these will allow you to see vanilla textures with parallax rather than pink/purple textures.
Load the NON-Parallax version of your landscape textures first (let the Parallax version overwrite it).
Open the textures folder for the Parallax version of your landscape mod.
If any of the textures in the following list are in your mod, you will need to move them to another folder. Arrange the textures like this:
If you have parallax mods for mines and/or Whiterun, you should create matching copies of these textures, as well. Old Texture Location New Texture Location Textures\Architecture\Whiterun\WRDirtbase.dds Textures\Architecture\Whiterun\Parallax\WRDirtbase.dds Textures\Architecture\Whiterun\WRFieldGrass01.dds Textures\Architecture\Whiterun\Parallax\WRFieldGrass01.dds Textures\Dungeons\Mines\MineFloorDirt01.dds Textures\Dungeons\Mines\Parallax\MineFloorDirt01.dds
Troubleshooting
In the end, you should have a folder structure for the Parallax version of your landscape mod that looks similar to this (if you don't have all of these textures, it's okay, you just need the ones that are listed above):
If you still have "spiky" landscape textures, it's worth investigating your other mods to see if any of them circumvent the changes from this mod. There is no good reason to ever do this. Here is a real example from a mod called Summerset Isles, which breaks the changes for dirt02, causing it to use the spiky texture where it should use parallax. You can easily find mods that alter LTEX or LAND records by using xEdit's Apply Filter feature, which can be found by right clicking any plugin and selecting Apply Filter. The edits from summersetisles.esp had to be removed to get this working.
If anyone wants to make a script to automate this simple task, I would appreciate it - feel free to share it in the comments. After those short installation steps, you can play and forget this ever happened! Be mindful that this fix requires some landscape textures to be loaded twice - once with parallax and once without. In my experience, there is almost no performance impact in doing this, but YMMV.
Permissions
I encourage mod authors to adjust the relevant landscape texture paths and add this mod as a requirement if you want to incorporate the fix. The plugin is necessary for more than just the INI tweak.
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