Enhanced Vanilla Vines

Retextures the vines, the Northern Foothills vines, and the Marsh trees with their vines, in a vanilla-friendly way. Includes green and winter options as well. 4k resolution, but better performance than vanilla 2k textures due to less alpha overdraw.

The vanilla vines suffer from incorrect alpha and very poor normal maps. This makes them look exceedingly ugly, while being one of the most common textures seen in the game, used in over 50 different variations and placed many thousands of times throughout the Commonwealth. I have created new 4k enhanced and corrected textures, fixing the bad alpha, and properly made normal maps. This will actually increase performance slightly, due to less alpha overdraw, while being beautiful 4k resolution, and will be more visible at distances.

This covers the normal vines texture, the Northern Foothills vines texture, and the Marsh tree atlas with its connected vines texture. Also improves the appearance of the Marsh trees, since they are placed on the same texture.

Of course, if you prefer a different Marsh tree texture, adjust your load order accordingly.

To understand alpha overdraw, consider the below comparison:

Vanilla - 114. 7 fps - less dense vines due to alpha overdraw from incorrect alpha on diffuse texture.

EVV - 116. 5 fps - more dense vines due to correct alpha and proper mipmap alpha coverage. Increased performance. Increased VRAM usage due to 4k texture.

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