High Priority LOD

Optimise your LOD, loading only what's necessary at long distances, restricting non-essential LOD to the foreground and reducing LOD's memory usage. Minimal loss of real detail. Recommended to use with Nuclear LOD for further memory savings.

Requires the newest xLODGen build (aka newer FNVLODGen), build 126+. 

Load the High Priority plugin/s at the end of your load order, but before your weather mod as per the guide. Order is all other mods, then LOD plugins, then HighPriority.esp + patches, then your weather mod. Your weather mod is last so that its climate changes apply atop High Priority LOD.

Change the following in your FalloutCustom.ini file (IMPORTANT):

; Increases the maximum distance of LOD

fBlockLoadDistanceLow=30000

fBlockLoadDistance=130000

Lastly, regenerate your LOD following the LOD Guide from Viva New Vegas. Then disable all High Priority LOD mods in Mod Organiser.

These plugins are only required whenever LOD is generated. Post-generation, High Priority flags on some meshes may cause visual issues, and for the best experience you should disable High Priority plugins until your next LOD gen.

This mod assumes you have all core Bug Fix mods from Viva New Vegas or The Best of Times, especially LOD Fixes and Improvements - NVSE. It also assumes you have all LOD mods from within that guide, else you may see missing resources in-game. If you have high quality terrain LOD already generated, you only need to regenerate your object LOD.

The LOD guide is for all users of all guides, VNV is however recommended to ensure you have all essential modern fix mods for New Vegas.

What even is this?

Fallout New Vegas provides two settings to control LOD distances, fBlockLoadDistanceLow and fBlockLoadDistance.

In vanilla, something like 98-99% of LOD is loaded within fBlockLoadDistanceLow. Only some very large meshes such as Hoover Dam, the Outpost statue and a few other meshes are flagged as 'High Priority' LOD. These LOD's are split off into a separate block, the 'High' block controlled by fBlockLoadDistance. Some LOD is instead handled as Imposters to appear at further distances, such as the low-quality 'Imposter' meshes that represent the Strip region in vanilla at a distance, however these are either excessively low detail (and can flicker requiring the Imposter Flicker Fix mod that removes them), or can be a compatibility nightmare when their use is expanded. The most important thing to remember, is that LOD can use a significant amount of RAM at higher fBlock settings.

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