LE Better looking cities from distances

[gezegond]

So there are a variety of lod enhancer for skyrim, but afaik none of them touch the 5 closed cities of skyrim. What really bothers me is that the lods for these 5 cities are ridiculously ugly.

 

If you look at Riverwood from a distance, it doesn't look detailed, but it looks nice enough. Now go and look at Whiterun from a distance, it looks like a desolate place with 5 buildings in it. Even the number of buildings and the roads aren't right, and that really breaks the immersion.

 

Now when you play the game with mods such as Dev Aveza or my mod "constructible shacks", you're gonna be looking at these ugly lods a lot more than you normally would. Maybe you want to build a nice shack near whiterun, or to park your airship over whiterun. Well too bad, whiterun looks like s#*! from any distance unless you actually go in it.

 

So, any modder familiar with lods and good at making these kinds of stuff wanting to fix this glaring issue? :D

[DemongelRex]

I think Dynalod will remedy this, provided you have the hardware to run it.

[gezegond]

Not really. From its description it just uses in game models to generate better looking LODs. It can't generate better LODs for closed cities because there is no high quality model there to make high quality model out of. The high quality models in closed cities are located in another worldspace. If you use TCL to move through city walls you will see how badly it looks, it's worse than all other LODs, and you see this even when you're pretty close, like if you parked your airship right over whiterun.

 

I may just make one for whiterun myself since other people don't seem to want to bother. I can't do other cities since I haven't visited them in game yet Im not sure how they look.