Deleting LODs

[megageeklizzy]

I am currently trying to make a mod that removes the larger cities and other civilized areas for a request from some people who use survival mods. I've deleted the hold capitals and was going to release the mod yesterday, but when I tested it to make sure everything was working, I realised that the cities were visible until I got within a couple of cells from them. I've tried generating LODs for both the Tamriel worldspace and the Whiterun worldspace, deactivating anything that might affect LODs, deleting the base objects that made up the cities, and deleting all of the object references of the cities both in the Tamriel worldspace and the Whiterun worldspace. I don't understand. I've searched the internet for solutions, and haven't found anything I haven't already tried.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. If you can help me resolve this problem, I would really appreciate it.

[megageeklizzy]

I figured it out, and figured I'd post my solution here in case anyone else ever runs into this issue. I'll explain what I did and provide links below.

 

What I ended up doing is I downloaded DynDOLOD and TES5EDIT(the former requires the latter), and simply followed the directions on DynDOLOD's mod page. It is fairly easy, with a pretty short step-by-step guide to creating an LOD. That's all there is to it. After hours and hours of searching for a solution, I felt pretty darned stupid when I found this and it solved my problems in about fifteen minutes.

 

DynDOLOD - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/59721/?

TES5EDIT - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25859/?

[myztikrice]

I appreciate you wanting to post your solution, but it would help more if you said what you did rather than simply what programs you downloaded.

Edited July 11, 2015 by myztikrice