Grass and Ground Overhaul SE

A convenient All-in-One solution for Skyrims grasses & grounds for the lazy mod user. It comes with dozens of new high-resolution grass textures, complemented by matching ground textures and pre-crafted, fitting LODs. Every region of Skyrim has its own look with different grasses and colors. To offer optimal performance, the grass models are mostly simple meshes and make use of hand-edited mip maps to give the grass fields a dense look with even moderate density settings.

You can choose between the full version (containing grass, ground textures, LOD) and an only-grass version, if you prefer to stay with your existing ground textures from other mods. While both versions technically work perfectly well, I recommend to use the full version for the best look, alongside with the mod No Grass in Objects from meh321, which allows to draw grass beyond the loaded cell border. Mip maps from my grass textures are hand-edited to make a good fit with the LOD textures, and you need the ExtendGrassDistance setting to make use of that. Refer to his mod page on how to use this setting and how to pre-cache grass.

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                                                                                                   Requirement, recommendations

• []Required: Operating system newer than Windows 7 (for valid reasons my textures are in BC3 format, which will make Windows 7 users crash). I do not support Windows 7, sorry you are on your own. If you want to convert all textures to BC7 yourself, make sure to not redo mip-maps, as they are hand-edited by me.
  • []optional: ExtendGrassDistance from No Grass In Objects to make grass grow beyond cell border. Highly recommended if your system can handle the increased draw distance.
    • []optional: Use temporal anti-aliasing (TAA). Some people do not like it because they think it makes things to blurry, however I have the opinion that it is absolutely necessary to keep grass flickering in check (even on my 2k-monitor). I also omitted the 3 smallest mip maps of every grass texture to improve visuals of distant brushes, at the cost of slightly increased flickering (this was a design choice), and TAA is highly recommended to compensate for that!
      • []optional: Really Blended Roads in case you use the full version which includes ground textures, in order to remove seams near roads.

        [*]optional: An ENB preset (greatly enhances grass through shadows). My mod was designed with an ENB in mind. Specifically, I used Silent Horizons ENB for Cathedral Weathers to desig