VELDT - Greener Pastures

"How curious! how real!

Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun."

- Walt Whitman 'Starting from Paumanok'

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER... RIGHT HERE!

Welcome to the first VELDT expansion!  Greener Pastures is a retexture for VELDT.  The mostest hyper-realistic and ultra immersive HD texture experience you'll ever- wait, hang on, I've got the hyperbole cranked up to the 'Nexus' setting, gimme a minute...

... OK that's better.  Where VELDT presents a palette of muted duns, tans, and beiges, representing a temperate grassland in late summer or fall, Greener Pastures is lush, green, vibrant, and flowery as a meadow in early summer.  While working on VELDT, I encountered a bunch of fantastic grass textures that just didn't look right shoehorned in among all the dry late-season seed-heads and straw.  So I set them aside for another series of projects, the first of which you see before you here.  As with its parent, Greener Pastures features a series of more or less unique biomes throughout the Commonwealth.  The green grassy northern pampas looks very different from the reed swamps in the south and the flowery meadows scattered across the center of the map.  The Glowing Sea is itself extensively (and suitably strangely) revegetated.  Speaking of the 'Sea, there is an optional ground retexture of the Glowing Sea designed for use alongside BOREALIS, which turns the Seascape from icy glacier to fertile bog.

TELL ME WHAT IT DOES THE WHO!

Please read the VELDT page first.  I'll wait.

OK, this is VELDT, but green.

Greener Pastures also has an entirely optional ground retexture designed to work alongside BOREALIS.  The Glowing Sea is changed from glacier to bog, and the flurries of snow BOREALS places here and there in shady patches throughout the Commonwealth have been swapped out for mosses and lichens.  The patch includes landscape LOD, but will require that you generate your own object LOD, if you're into that sort of thing.  Learn all about it here (but please don't pester me with LOD questions, this is another grass mod, not a LOD mod).

In addition, there is an entirely optional 'performance'-grade substitute plugin for VELDT.  Lots of people like to use green grasses with tree replacers, which can be taxing on the system.  The (kinda-sorta) performance-friendly version cuts down on the crazy heavy grass in areas I noticed slowdowns when Greener Pastures was running alongside other flora mods.  It looks fine, potentially even better in certain areas, but it lacks a certain 'oomph' that the super-dense original VELDT plugin provides.  I recommend you try the original first, and if you find it too slow, then swap in this replacement.  This replacer will also work fine with the original late-summer VELDT textures, if t