Cathedral Landscapes

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WARNING

The latest version of this mod (3. 0. 3 at the time of this writing) comes with a new "light" plugin (ESPFE) option. Use this option ONLY if you know what it means to do so. DO NOT try to use the optional ESPFE plugin with an existing savegame, particularly if you are updating Cathedral Landscapes during an existing playthrough. To ensure compatibility with an existing playthrough, choose the ESP plugin option (traditional "fat" plugin).

Also, any other mods using prior versions of Cathedral Landscapes as a master (including custom patches) will cause CTD or ILS if the optional ESPFE plugin option is selected. Either update those mods and patches, or use the traditional "fat" ESP plugin instead, which will cause no problems whatsoever outside of using a plugin slot as always.

Lightweight Grass & Landscape Overhaul

The grass found in this mod is far lighter and more efficient than the vanilla grass. We have created dense grass that renders on 3x as many surfaces as vanilla as well as on steep mountain slopes, so regions like the Reach become blanketed in grass. This grass also comes with landscape textures and terrain LOD that has had grass and other ground cover baked in so your grass will blend seamlessly into the distance.

Performance-friendly Grass: Our grass is performance friendly for three reasons.

• []Our grass textures have a lot of grass on them which allow you to render fewer models and textures. In addition, by increasing the density of grass within the textures, we have massively reduced GPU overdraw.

  []Our grass models decrease your poly count. These models consist of only 3 triangles. For perspective, most grasses in vanilla game or mods consist of 12 to 200 triangles. Grass is 2D, and adding a whole bunch of extra polygons isn't going to change or improve that, so by simplifying the models we have improved performance at no visual cost.

• We provide matching landscape textures which make grass appear denser than it actually is, for example.

  3D Ground Cover: We've made low lying ground cover so you'll have 3D ground. Here's an example of 3D ground with small plants. Notice how cohesive the landscape texture and ground cover is. This is a true 3D effect, and the result is stunning on both 2D monitors and VR. Here's an example with piles of aspen leaves. Similar approaches in alternate mods use 100's of polygons to accom