Skyrim Special Edition

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This changes the trees in the marsh area around Solitude/Morthal, done with Happy Little Trees as the backdrop.

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This mod gives the marsh by Solitude/Morthal a completely different look and feel while using Happy Little Trees.  My original goal was just to swap out a tree I didn't like, but I (unintentionally) fell down the rabbit hole and took it much further.  Since the change was so dramatic, I figured I'd share it as a mod.

This is what was generally done:

- reach trees, winter aspens, and marsh trees were replaced with various types of dead pines.
- one of the driftwood types replaced by a pine of some sort.
- one of the reach tree types replaced with a dead shrub, so whatever one you use will appear.
- where 'trees' begin were pushed back just slightly from the shoreline.
- 1064 trees affected on my last count.

The 'swapper' version mainly (you guessed it) swaps the trees as described above.
The 'thinner' version instead disables the affected trees.  The one exception are the one type of reach tree that was swapped for a dead shrub - those will still appear.

While I do offer a couple plugins that do not require Happy Little Trees, I have no idea how this will look.  Depending on the tree mod, it could be good?

All plugins offered here are ESL flagged.

As far as load order, the HLT version needs to load right after HLT.  LOOT will take care of this.  For the non-HLT plugins, make sure those load immediately after whatever tree mod you use - LOOT will not know what to do here.

I ran around... a lot.  If you see anything weird (ex floating tree), feel free to report it and I'll have a look. If you are reporting something, do include the ref id, though (open console with '~', click the tree).

Lastly, LODs.  Yes, you will need to rebuild them if you want this to look 100% right.  You can certainly install this to take a look and see if you like it or not, though.  You just won't have the right distant trees.