Messed Up Rainbow Lod

[jtucker40]

Hey guys, so I installed a number of worldspace enhancers, including Deserts of Anequina, Stirk, Tamriel Heightmaps, and plan on installing a few of the TWMP landscape add-ons. I installed Tamriel Heightmaps a while ago, and it worked well at first, but now whenever I look at the land that was added by the mod I get these really strange rainbow-ish lod textures.

 

http://imgur.com/a/9pkCk

 

I'm not sure if it's my load order (which I will post below) but I have ran tes4lodgen countless times and that hasn't fixed anything. If any of you guys have encountered this problem I would appreciate any help you could provide. Thanks!

 

Note: In the second image I'm standing on a beach from the Deserts of Anequina mod

 

Load Order:

Oblivion.esm

TamRes_LandscapeResource.esm

TamRes.esm

Cobl Main.esm

Better Cities Resources.esm

TR_OoT_Main.esm

Hammerfell.esm

Tamriel.esp

TamRes.esp

Side's Backpacks.esp

Reznod_Mannequin.esp

oc_darker_nights.esp

Wood Bows and Leather Armors.esp

FenrirTheWolf.esp

DLCShiveringIsles.esp

Better Cities .esp

C&C - The Blackwood Company.esp

CapesandCloaks.esp

DMRangerArmor.esp

KDClothCirclets.esp

XSPipeMod.esp

RealSwords - Bosmer HI.esp

Cobl Glue.esp

Cobl Si.esp

Cobl Tweaks.esp

Shield on Back 3.1.esp

Trade and Commerce.esp

Side's Sailing Ships.esp

TR_Stirk.esp

Stirk_Compatibility_Patch.esp

Knights.esp

Salmo the Baker, Cobl.esp

Kyoma's Journal Mod.esp

Cobl Silent Equip Misc.esp

actors_in_charge.esp

KnightlyArmory.esp

HammerfellBorders.esp

ElsweyrAnequina.esp

KohdiScimitar.esp

Reaper's Esmeralda's Desert Manor.esp

HelmetCollection.esp

Medieval Shields.esp

Camping.esp

DecoratorAssistant with OBSE v1.1.esp

Shadowcrest_Vineyard_COBL.esp

Better Imperial City.esp

Better Cities Full.esp

Better Cities - COBL.esp

Better Cities - VWD of the IC.esp

Better Cities - No LEYAWIIN Flooding.esp

Better Cities - Knightly Armory.esp

Housewives v101.esp

Castle Almgard V25.esp

JTMedievalArmor.esp

Dynamic Map.esp

[jinix the elder]

I have this exact problem with a new install of MCIslands (moocow) with no other mods running.

The land in the distance is rainbow colors(same as the pic in your link) that turn 'normal' as you approach the colors -

other than the rainbow colors - its fine.

 

Can any one offer help as to why this occurs and possible solutions?

 

regenerating LOD does not help any.

[Slangens]

OK, first: This has NOTHING to do with Tes4LODGen. the LODGen tool only updates the distant object data, in other words, what objects(e.g buildings and rocks) are displayed in the distant LOD.

Your problem are the textures of the distant landscape.
I've heard of this problem before, and I remember setting your video setting preset in the Oblivion Launcher to "High" or "Ultra" might help.
I can't exactly remember what is the cause of this, though.

[jinix the elder]

Thanks for trying to answer this - every little hint helps.

I have played with various settings but to no avail yet.

I have seen this occur over the years of playing Olivion mods and have yet to find any one else on the 'net who has been able to give advice.

I know perfectly well that it is MY setup and thats why there is not much about it any where.

I'll keep plodding along and come back to the problem at some other time... meanwhile iF I solve it, I will come back and post the answer as I'm sure that eventually someone else will experience the same glitch/error/texture thingy.

[TheRomans]

The rainbow texture on distant landscape usually occurs when the game is set to small or medium textures, and only large textures are available in the mod's LOD.

 

Test by changing your video setting to large and see in the textures are then correct. Then decide is you want to run large textures hereafter, live with the rainbow texture, or ditch the mod. Mods labeled HD or something similar with typically only have large textures supplied.