Requesting a Landscape LOD Generator

[jessebannon]

Well, I need to make Landscape LOD for my mod.

I tried using this tutorial, but that failed for me.

I also tried using the CS to make LOD, and that destroyed one of my cells, and didn't make any LOD.

 

So basically, if you know of an easy program for this task, or want to help me out, that'd be great.

Thanks.

 

EDIT: Okay, so I found out how to make LOD. But now my problem is that a few meshes do not show up far away, so how do I make meshes visible when distant?

[Vorians]

For any mesh to appear VWD (Visible When Distant) in-game, it needs to have a corresponding _far mesh.

 

A mesh named "BigCommonHouse.nif" would have with it in exactly the same folder, "BigCommonHouse_far.nif" - and it's this second mesh which will appear VWD in-game (after running TES4LODGen to regenerate the VWD data in the DistantLOD folder).

 

_far meshes ought to be less detailed, collision-free meshes which look similar to the original (take a look at some vanilla meshes which have _far meshes with them). Installing RAEVWD might give you what you're after, but if RAEVWD doesn't include what you need and you're not able to edit meshes yourself, then simply copy the original mesh and name it to match the original but with "_far.nif" on the end instead of ".nif". Not advisable if the object is going to be appearing a LOT in-game, as using a non-optimised mesh intended for close view as a VWD mesh will have an impact on FPS in-game.