Enhanced Vanilla Trees SE

Enhanced Vanilla Trees (EVT) is a mod that aims to enhance the vanilla experience. Though vanilla enhancement is at the core of the mod, we also provide a variety with optional branch textures from Skyrim Flora Overhaul and alternative trees from Realistic Aspen Trees and SFO.

Skyrim LE version: Enhanced Vanilla Trees

Additional Texture Options: Enhanced Vanilla Pine Branch and Bark Retexture with PBR

Features

• []Enhanced 'Vanilla' Trees (see below for how we do this)[/]

  []'Lush' option, which double the amount of branches on the pine trees[/]

  [](< v3. 0. 0) Large tree options that are 50% larger than vanilla trees[/]

  [](≥ v3. 0. 0) Larger tree option implemented via plugin to reduce maintenance overhead of larger-scale models[/]

  []Custom Trees that have the lower, leafless branches removed from their trunks and alternative trunk textures to be more visually pleasing[/]

  []Support for Realistic Aspen Trees built in[/]

  []Support for Vurt's Snowy Pines Trees from SFO built in[/]

  []Optional pine branch textures created by Vurt from SFO[/]

  []Optional greener bark textures (only for Custom Trees options)[/]

  []Support for ENBSeries/ReShade/Weather mods that increase ambient brightness via darker trunks[/]

  [](≤ v2. 1. 1) Pre-generated LOD included --Bad practice! LOD accurate only for the mod author's mod list![/]

  [](≥ v2. 2. 0) Pre-generated LOD NOT included (DynDOLOD 3+ required to generate tree LOD per best practice)[/]

  []FORTHCOMING in v4. 0. 0: Animated branches for all pines and aspens, rework of aspen trunks similar to methods used for pines, inclusion of DLC1 winter aspens.[/]

Through splitting the mesh and UV-remapping, the trunk texture is applied, vertically, around the tree trunk 2x to 3x more than vanilla. This results in less texture stretching, thus, allowing the texture detail to remain closer to its original quality. This technique does not result in any performance loss!

Besides having 2x to 3x the quality on all tree trunks, these higher polygon meshes also allow EVT to have more complex and detailed trunk shapes. Here is an illustration o