Desert Landscapes

The goal of this mod is to make the desert so beautiful and interesting that you won't want to fast travel anymore.

This mod fills Mojave's more barren areas with details and level design I hope breathe life into the uncannily barren gameworld. Many of the edits in this improvement over the former "Enhanced Mojave Landscapes" (now deprecated) have been inspired by the amazing blog https://theluckythirtykate.com, which photographs the real-life equivalent of New Vegas' locations. Similarly, Bird and Hike.com has been a great resource for accurately placing native flora to fitting sections of the map. Many edits made by this mod have the purpose of capturing the aesthetic of the true location.

The spirit of this mod was inspired by my experience with other apocalyptic titles like S. T. A. L. K. E. R and Metro: Exodus and the journeys I had through the Zone in particular. The lack of fast travel forces the player to acquire map familiarity, recognize landmarks, and notice a lot more detail in the game world overall. This lends to a greater "aliveness" of the setting and humbles the player to feel less like protagonist, but just another person in this region. Likewise, urban details in the New Vegas outskirts are heavily influenced by the level design of Cyberpunk 2077, which does a great job making Night City feel filthy and seedy. NV needed some of that energy in its urban areas.

My former mod "Realistically Trashed Water" has been included in the plugin as it meets the intent of this project. The plugin title has been retained as "Enhanced Mojave Landscapes" so those of you with the old version in your load order can overwrite it without your mod manager thinking a mod has been removed by updating to the final version.

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Please use Bale's Physically Based Vehicles for the full intended effect.

While not incompatible with Landscape Texture Improvements, please place this mod BELOW that one in order to reach the full intended effect. Similar to Landscape Texture Improvements I have made an effort to blend things seamlessly. Desert Landscapes should be placed below in order for changes in grass and base landscape textures to override, however don't sweat as both mods are compatible (I use both myself).

With the final version of this mod substantial changes have been made to the base landscape and elevation of several locations. Please utilize the Viva New Vegas LOD guide to easily and properly regenerate LOD after using this mod. Regenerating both Region AND Terrain LOD is necessary for Version 3.

Changelog:

(this is everything I remembered to write down, there is more)

General, Map-wide additions:

-Expect to see more Joshua Trees, Mesquite, Yucca, and more across the entirety of the map and in approximations of the true habitat based on this