Removing one specific ugly tree type from game/lods

[ElCapitan8866]

Hi, I am currently using Seasons of Skyrim with Happy Little Trees and LODgen with Dyndolod3 (all updated to latest versions). LODgen and Dyndolod both run great, no problem there. My problem is with one specific tree type in Solstheim that is not replaced by the Happy Little Trees mod, using vanilla assets from the Dragonborn DLC instead, and it really is an eye sore. Using the console I identified this tree as belonging to the Dragonborn DLC with Base Form ID: 0403383D, Type: Static, Model: DLC2TreePineShortHeavySnow.niff.

 

I tried using SSEEdit to locate the static 0403383D, find all references to it, I double clicked each reference and individually deleted each record referencing this static that way. While this did remove the ugly trees from the game, they remained in my previously generated lods. Unfortunately Dyndolod now crashes with a "reference" error when I try to run it to remove the ugly tree from my lods.

 

How can I go about removing this ugly tree in a way that won't crash Dyndolod?

 

Thank you!

 

[ElCapitan8866]

Hi all I found a solution in case anyone runs into this problem in the future:

 

I used SSEEdit to create a copy of that tree into a new .esp (so I can move it down my load order) and simply replaced the niff file for the ugly tree model with one that works with Happy Little Trees (DLC2TreePineShortHeavySnow01.niff instead of DLC2TreePineShortHeavySnow.niff). That did it, ugly tree is gone from the game and LODs generate without a problem.