LODGEN limit?

[Deleted49413338User]

I been recreating level 0, 1 and 2 lods for Boston natural Surroundings. I made some less bright textures as well as using different pine textures. I also made LOD meshes that worked better using two flat triShapes for custom trees. But this means having a front and side texture for each LOD mesh, instead of having the two textures in one DDS.

 

I am aware I could make the front and side texture onto one dds and use UV map in nifskope to correctly line everything up. but, damn, took me a long time to create the Flat LODs I have. I really don't want to redo them.

 

I used this method in this mod and it worked ok, https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/36976

 

My question is, Can I use this method for the rest of BNS's custom trees to create the flat lods? it seems like the easiest way. I attempted to use a vanilla ElmForestLod mesh with billboards of the new elm forest trees but it is too small an cuts off the sides. I attempted to edit the to top 4 verticies to give it a cone shape and better accommodate the wider texture, but things just got warped and didn't line up with the original tree mesh when it was pasted into the LOD nif. Using the same method I used in my pine mod I could create an almost perfect Flat LOD mesh.

 

My worry is that when using FO4LODGEN, will I run out of space if adding too many custom trees and making LODs for them? I think I read the terrain texture that holds all the Flat lods can be separated into two dds textures?

 

 

 

[zilav]

LODGen will create as many atlases as required, you can't run out of space in FO4. You can however create sub optimal LOD meshes that will cause some extra FPS, and that's it.

[payl0ad]

Just for clarity, that means the BTOs LODGen generates will point to a second set of atlas textures if their UVs wouldn't fit on atlas 0?

Edited May 20, 2019 by payl0ad

[Deleted49413338User]

Also curios ? keep me posted PayLoad

[zilav]

Yes, the same in Skyrim.

[Deleted49413338User]

Thanks :)

[Deleted49413338User]

I have tried this and only ever get one Atlas texture but it seems rest of BTO lod objects not found on atlas are just UV mapped to loose LOD texture files?

Is this any way going to affect performance? I am guessing the most important thing is the meshes are combined right?

[zilav]

Textures are not atlased when they are larger than Max Tile Size setting or have tiled UVs larger than UV Range setting (vanila LOD meshes have tons of them because Bethesda).

You can try to increase both.

Of course it will afffect performance which depends on hardware and the number of used loose textures.

[Deleted49413338User]

Ahhh. Thank you, yep that will be why.