Oblivion PolyGone Overhaul [OPO], Polys be Gone!

The Elder Scrolls IV OBLIVION: Oblivion PolyGone Overhaul By 5H4RP and more importantly: Iggey, phaedrusQ, 3shirtlessMen, OneofTwo, HTF Current Version: BETA 0. 5 (20-Sept-2006) ********************** Index: 1. Description 2. Version History\\What\'s Included 3. What\'s Next 4. Installation 5. Mirrors 6. File requirements/Compatibility 7. Permissions ******************* ******************* 1. Description ******************* Oblivion PolyGone Overhaul (OPO) is an ambitious project to reduce Bethesedas overly \"generous\" use of polygons on ingame objects with little to no loss in quality. Ultimately it is the goal of the project to improve a gamers performance via: -Shortened loading times -Less popin -Potentially better framerates -Less Hard Drive Thrashing. Note: There is no guarantee of any of the above gains...yet. None. Nada. Zip. You may get some benefit. You may not. I make no promises that this will helping anything. ******************* ******************* 2. Version History\\What\'s Included\\ ******************* BETA: Sept 15, 2006 initial release. Rocks The first round of objects to benefit from OPO is the common rocks and boulders that are everywhere within the game. Many of these objects are upwards of 3000 polys and used hundred if not thousands of times. For example, one rock is used 46000 times, another is used 16000 times. The objects can safely be reduced significantly down 20%-40% of their original total polygon count with no loss of quality. Iggeys VWD This allows you see to many objects from far away like towns, forts, ruin, Cloud Ruler Temple,etc VWD = View When Distant. Previously TamrielVWD was doing this but with full polys so this was a significant performance hit. Iggey has reduced all the polys on the VWD. It\'s quite spectacular to see Weye from Aleswell. Cathedral Hellmark and 5H4RP Polycount 29900 > 20100 Updates 0. 1 - Fixed invalid texture paths (Colovian Highlands, GF Lichen) 0. 2 - Fixed invalid texture paths (GF, GF Moss, Camoran Paradise) 0. 3 - Updated NiTriStips, fixed invalid texture paths (again) (Oblivion) 0. 4 - Fixed two meshes in Great Forest - Moss region that were causing crashes 0. 5 - Added UOP support for rocks, renamed all meshes to .nif ******************* ******************* 3. What\'s Next of OPO ******************* Imperial Waterfront Reduction (75% done) Landscape LOD reduction wz LOD utility which will allow us to make rocks and other objects stop popping. ******************* ******************* 4. Installation ********************** To extract the standard file you will need 7zip (www. 7-zip.org). You will need Oblivion Mod Manager for the omod file (http://timeslip.chorrol.com/obmm.html) To install: Extract