[LE] LOD will not generate correctly

[saintgrimm92]

I've got a world space fully built and ready to go.

First, I tried following this tutorial:

 

It does nothing but use XLOD to generate everything.

Everything worked except the glacier slabs had purple textures from a distance. (DLC2GlacierSlab01 > DLC02\Landscape\Glaciers\DLC2GlacierSlab01.nif) and this is a huge problem, because the world space is in a crater of ice and thus surrounded by the glacier slabs on all sides. The map works, but the glacier slabs are bright purple from the map as well.

 

Doing it this way generates files a lot differently, it creates the objects & tree folders with their LODs, but it does NOT generate the BRT/DDS files for terrain the way the guide says it will.

 

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So I tried using the guide from the author of wyrmestooth:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j0xoZFy3tj_J9aL-O0JVqHMLcizGl0Vj/view?pli=1

 

This guide uses Oscape to generate the land LOD, and that's as far as I can make it because it just doesn't.

 

It creates the terrain BRT files and texture files as the guide says it will (specifically the files XLOD is NOT creating). However, the map is nothing but clouds and everything still pops in, as if there is no LOD at all in-game.

 

 

 

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I decided f*#@ it, I'll try both. So I deleted all the files created by Oscape, re-followed the guide, re-created everything. Still no LOD in-game, but it generated the files again. I then ran XLOD and re-did all that stuff, except using the lodsettings file created by Oscape, instead of a duplicate of Tamriel.LOD.

And the result was nothing. It was no different than if I had only used Oscape.

 

 

 

 

 

So basically, XLOD using a duplicate Tamriel.LOD does not generate land BRT & DDS files, but somehow still creates the map and LODS just fine in-game, except for a single item, the DLC02GlacierSlab01. Oscape generates the land BRT & DDS files and <worldspace>.lod, but does nothing in-game.




EDIT:

XLOD creates a folder in meshes > terrain. This folder is named after my world space. This folder is EMPTY except for "Objects" folder which holds the object BRT files. And "Trees" folder which holds the Tree BRT files. That is it. It creates NO BRT files inside the folder named after my world space. The video says it will, but it does not. Oddly, it still creates a map and land does NOT pop in.

Oscape DOES create the loose BRT files inside of the folder named after my worldspace. However, the map is empty and all land still pops in instead of having distant LODs.

 

 

 

EDIT2: I will go ahead and re-do the LOD with XLOD and post screenshots.

*This time XLOD did NOT generate a "trees" folder and the trees are popping in. But I followed the guide exactly again.

 

 

 

I do not know why a trees folder was not generated this time. I did it exactly as I've been doing it all day. But it's obvious, as earlier when I used XLOD, these trees would have been visible in the first screenshot, but now that the trees folder was not created, they are popping in like the texture of the glacier.

Edited October 17, 2023 by saintgrimm92