Oblivion Reloaded recommened mod question/confusion

[Murielkai]

Alright, Oblivion Reloaded recommends Really AEVWD and Unique Landscape Compilation. Really AEVWD requires you to run TES4LODGen which generates LOD's and Unique Landscape Compilation says to run "Landscape LOD generator tes4ll-v5" which also generates LOD's? So do these work together or what?

[lubronbrons]

I want to share what I know about this, but still need confirmed by people that have more knowledge about this

 

- TES LODGen is different from Landscape LODGen, they work differently

 

- TES LODGen will generate DistantLOD folder in your Oblivion Data folder, I don't like TES LODGen at all because if I do this my game will get lag so much. This is for exterior, to prevent building pop-up in front of your eyes. So in distance you will see building from afar before you reach that building. I prefer pop-up building because my rig is not that good. For sure, that mod Really AEVWD is for high end PC

 

- Landscape LODGen will optimize mesh and make mipmap from it, the author (Gruftikus) give us several choices. We can choose quality or performance, for quality the vertices will be more and detailed when we see the LOD from afar. As for performance the vertices in mesh will be less and the detail will reduced too. Some said that mipmap can increase performance because this map is something like fake generated shadow so the game should not load this shadow thing thus the performance increased

 

hope someone can clarify this more

[Murielkai]

So is it alright to use both then?

[lubronbrons]

Yes,

this step is recommended :

1 install everything (your mods)

2 run TES LODGen

3 run Landscape LODGen (this mod can optimize all LOD mesh existed in your Oblivion Data and give them mipmap, if you unsure backup first everything)

 

NOTE : if you using Mod Organizer make sure you run TES LODGen and Landscape LODGen from your Mod Organizer

both of LODGen mod need to detect all your loaded active ESP

 

remember if you install any Location / City mods, you must re-do this whole process

because LOD must be always generated manually like this

not all modders give LOD file from start (we must generate manually using TES LODGen)

and ...

:)

when you testing it

be ready for your fps reduced (because more stuff in your Oblivion world loaded in exterior)

[Murielkai]

Thank you, I am on this step right now and would have ran TES4LL first then TES4LODGen. Glad I read this first. =)

[beldaran1224]

As a different point of view, TES4LODGen doesn't create any lag or issues for me at all. I have a laptop - a good one, but still a laptop.