Stirk Performance Improver

Like my other mod, Turn Normal Grass and Kelp Into Groundcover, this mod improves the look and performance of Province: Cyrodiil's pre-alpha version of Stirk by deleting a bunch of plants, then putting them back in a separate grass plugin.

Unlike my other mod, in Stirk's case that means converting over 85% of the original objects into grass. This causes a very substantial performance improvement, particularly near the harbor.

The P:C developers are aware that there is far too much kelp in the water around Stirk, and they are going to fix it in a future release. In the meantime, this mod is meant as a band-aid to make the island playable for people who want to visit the island in its pre-alpha state.

Installation:

How to install

1. If you have any mesh replacers which affect vanilla kelp, you have to duplicate their meshes into this mod's \Meshes\grass\ folder. There is a list of affected files at the end of this description.

2. If you are an OpenMW user and this is your first time adding a grass/groundcover mod, you will need to locate your settings.cfg file, open it in a text editor, find the heading (or create it if it doesn't exist), and add underneath it the line enabled = true (for more information about finding and using your settings.cfg, consult the OpenMW documentation).

3. If this is your only groundcover mod, you should use a grass density setting of 1. 0 to prevent any of the original plants from disappearing entirely. In OpenMW, that means editing settings.cfg, under the heading, to include the line density = 1. 0 and you might also want to increase the rendering distance for groundcover, using a line like rendering distance = 16000 (where one cell of distance = 8192, and the default for this setting is 6144)

4. Enable hm-grass-stirk-GROUNDCOVER.esp as a groundcover plugin:

• [] If you use OpenMW, this means editing your openmw.cfg file to include the line groundcover=hm-grass-stirk-GROUNDCOVER.esp (Do not enable it in the OpenMW Launcher!!!)

  []If you use MGE XE, this means generating distant land with hm-grass-stirk-GROUNDCOVER.esp enabled. If this is your only groundcover mod, set the grass density to 1. 0 when you generate distant land.

  5. Enable hm-grass-stirk-CONTENT.esp as a normal plugin. Do not enable the GROUNDCOVER.esp as a normal mod!

  Is it compatible?

  [*]It works with both