Nuclear LOD

Nuclear LOD is a LOD patch project, that optimises and fixes existing models from both vanilla and almost all other LOD mods, while providing additional LOD models, higher quality and fixed LOD textures, additional patches for texture mods and optional support for specular lighting (for bright highlights in distant object LOD).

Requirements

- Following the LOD Guide for Viva New Vegas, which provides all required LOD mods, the correct install order, and working LOD for your New Vegas modlist.

- Regenerate your object LOD and tree LOD via the guide after any updates. Requires the newest xLODGen build (aka FNVLODGen), build 127+, as per the guide.

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

If you do not follow the LOD Guide, please do not expect support.

Install Order

- LOD Guide mods

- Nuclear Core

- Nuclear Trees

- High Priority Core

- High Priority Trees + any patches for High Priority

- Nuclear LOD Patches for texture mods + Specular if you use it

If you use these, place them after Nuclear LOD

- Physically Based Vehicles

- Rectified Water Towers

- Sandy Roads

- Rock Remesh

- Sandstone Desert

- Decent Rubble Piles

- Decent Muck Pools

- Industrial Pipe LOD FIx

- TTW Mossy Rocks - UHQ Standalone

Thanks to all the extensive LOD mods across the Nexus, LOD coverage in Fallout New Vegas has reached a point where most essential models have been covered. Unfortunately with extended render distances, LOD can use a significant amount of RAM at higher fBlock settings. Nuclear LOD aims to reduce the size of various models with minimal to no loss of quality, reducing the overall cost of LOD. Vert counts and tris have been reduced across the board, with additional per model optimisations simplifying detail where the change would not be visible from a distance. In testing with extended render distances this can save somewhere between 70-80mb of RAM usage without loss of detail.

Beyond optimising these models, Nuclear LOD fixes various issues with textures, models and the load order for LOD, prioritising optimised meshes between LOD mods and fixing existing assets for maximum compatibility with various engine fixes. This includes missing specular data for a vast majority of assets, allowing the use of specular lighting (bright highlights) for a better matching distance. This requires support for any texture mods used atop vanilla, with patches provided for most major texture mods (still WIP)

Also provides some new models for LOD used for landscaping across the New Vegas and DC