Enhanced Vanilla Trees

Applied my experience with enhancing texture detail through UV-tweaking to vanilla pine trees and this mod is the result.

Through splitting the mesh and UV-remapping, we force the texture to be applied more times and thus reduce stretching of the texture to a minimum (this method of texture application does not result in increased Vram usage)

Besides having double and sometimes triple the resolution on all applied trunk textures, these higher polygon meshes allow us to have more complex and detailed shapes of the trunks.

On top of this, this mod offers tree versions with more foliage, larger tree sizes and custom textures for both foliage and trunks, It's an all-in-one complete Vanilla tree enhancement package.

This mod is also the only tree mod that has parallax on the trunks of the trees, as the original Vanilla tree meshes simply do not allow it. (available with Custom tree options)

There are however two small drawbacks that you should know about

1) The trees have reduced animations, and while the leaves on the trees are still animated, branch flexing is not possible at this time, and if you didn't know this, all the tree mods that provide custom models (SFO, Tamriel Reloaded Trees, Caribou Gone) and even any tree mods that add additional foliage (partially) all suffer from this issue, so if you were using one of these mods before and never noticed reduced level of animations, you won't notice it here either, but since I am enhancing Vanilla trees, this is a fact worth mentioning.

Here is a demonstration video of the animations that can be expected:

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Aspen trees that are provided with my mod, are provided for convenience reasons only (matching tree sizes and LODs), so they will have full animations.

2) These meshes are slightly finicky when it comes to applying new trunk textures to them and while there is nothing stopping you from trying, any new textures that you try to apply to them may look weird. So unless you know exactly what you are doing, stick to the trunk textures  that I supply with this mod (you can still change the branch/foliage textures all you like though).

If you do want to spend your time on finding or making your own textures for my trees, you should stick to meshes from Vanilla-textured options (basic/lush/lush(large)) as those meshes follow the same rules of UV-unwrapping as Bethesda meshes did and finding modded textures for them will be much easier.

This does not apply to Aspen trees textures and you can change their textures freely.

But do not fret, you will not be limited to Vanilla textures only, I have taken the time to find and edit and apply custom te