Happy Little Trees Add-On - DynDOLOD 3

Compatibility

• []Works with HLT 1. 01 and 2. 03.

  []This add-on is incompatible with any mod that alters HLT tree meshes, because changes to the full-model meshes mean changes to the CRC32 checksums of those meshes, which means these LODs will no longer work with them. Example: Fixed Mesh Lighting

  Description

  This mod provides Happy Little Trees (HLT) 3D hybrids LOD models (resources) for DynDOLOD. It will remain a work in progress in response to any changes to HLT.

  DynDOLOD LOD models are useful ONLY if using tree mesh rules where LOD4|8|16|32 = Level0|1|2.DynDOLOD-TexGen will create Ultra tree Billboards for all trees without need for LOD models provided by this mod.

  Quality version: 3D hybrid LOD models created using the DynDOLOD toolbox. Copies of the crowns stripped down for LOD models with trunks converted to billboards (i.e., 'hybrids') for better performance. For LOD to look right, this version MUST be used if using any of the Alternate textures of the main mod (HLT).

  Performance version: 3D hybrid models from the 'Quality' version were customized by T4gtr34um3r to reduce poly counts even further, yielding even better performance at a very slight cost of transition quality from LOD to full models. This version also comes with optimized LOD textures, so the file is larger than the Quality version. Recommended to eek out a few extra frames for those using mesh rules like 'Ultra' and 'Optimal' described below. These models will provide no performance gain when used as 3D billboards in mesh rules (as in the 'Performance' mesh rule below); HOWEVER,

  • []this version allows use of 3D models (Level0|1|2) at every LOD level (Level0|1|2) without a significant performance hit.

    []this version will not look right if using any of the Alternate textures in the main mod (HLT), because the Performance version comes with custom LOD textures of its own.

    This mod adheres to DynDOLOD best practice by ...

    []NOT providing tree billboards, which are now created by TexGen 3 consistently and at higher quality than is typical of hand-made billboards.

    []NOT providing pre-generated LOD(!), which will almost never correspond to the end user's mod list and only serves to add 'bloat' to the mod.

    [*]Providing the trunk models that are used by TexGen 3 to create trunk billboards, allowing the end[/co