High Poly Swamp Fungal Pods (But Not too High)

So while working on my Cathedral Asset Remake I've discovered a number of alchemy ingredients whose meshes were never improved upon by modders, such as spider eggs. As for Swamp Fungal Pods, Dovanique has a high-high poly replacer, but with 27k triangles it makes my laptop cry tears of blood. It also over-smoothes the (to use a very scientific term) lil' nipple at the top of the pods. (Dovanique also made great unique textures, but I used vanilla in the screenshots to compare the meshes more clearly.)

My first impulse was to create an entirely new model based on Geastrum campestre, but if I fall down that rabbit hole the asset remake will wind up taking a back seat, so I restricted myself to a simple mesh edit to bring the model to a state acceptable for use alongside Cathedral assets. The second flora model might not actually be used in game, as it doesn't have a harvested state, but I added one to make it functional in case other mods use it.

Model Comparison:

Vanilla  Not Too High     Dovahnique

floraswampfungalpod01.nif 91kb, 2k triangles 107kb, 4. 5k triangles 1039kb, 36k triangles

floraswampfungalpod02.nif 30kb, 1k triangles 90kb, 4k triangles    N/A

swampfungalpod01.nif  12kb, 250 triangles 23kb, 940 triangles  553kb, 27k triangles

TLDR: A performance friendly upscaled (up-polygonned?) version of the vanilla swamp pod with tidier UVs and compatibility with texture replacers like Mari's.

Other Not Too High Poly Models:

Creep Clusters

Like the concept? Check out IWantATardis' improved meshes, which are also compatible with vanilla retextures:

Spider Eggs

Giant's Toes

Human Hearts

Q: Mods in screenshots?

A: Dovanique's Diverse Unique Fungal Pods (mesh only), Skoglendi, Detailed Landscapes Morthal Swamp (custom ini).