Improved Vanilla Reach Trees

The goal of this reach tree mod is to improve the appearance of vanilla reach trees without doing any major modifications to the vanilla mesh so that these trees will have the same performance as the vanilla versions of the trees.

What's been improved?

• []All new textures for both the crowns and trunks. The bark texture was created from scratch from images I took of Eastern Red Cedar tree. The branch textures were created from images in the Creative Commons. Trunk and Branch main/diffuse textures are in 2k resolution. Normals and parallax textures are in 1k. In testing, 4k textures did not out perform the 2k textures even with extreme close-up viewing of the tree textures, so 4k textures are not included. All screen shots for this mod were taken with the 2k textures.

  []The meshes have had some minor work done to them to improve how they interact with the textures. No more odd squares in the middle of the trunks. Mesh lighting for the crowns have been reduced from the vanilla settings. They may still appear to glow slightly in certain lighting conditions but if the mesh lighting is lowered any more, the backside of the branch meshes will appear too dark.

  []Complex Parallax option is available. Requires Community Shaders or ENB.

  []All reach tree related textures and meshes have been touched (at least all the ones I could find). This mod includes ReachBranchPile01, ReachBranchPile02, ReachCliffTree01, ReachCliffTree02, ReachTree01, ReachTree02, ReachTreeStump01, and TreeReachTree01Magic (aka the Sleeping Tree).

  Installation

  • []If you want to replace all or most of the reach trees in the game with the reach trees from this mod, choose the first main file. If you only want to replace the reach trees in the Frozen Marsh choose the Marsh Only main file.

    []Both options have a FOMOD with all of the options for the trees.

    []If you installed on of the optional ESP plugins, make sure the plugin loads after your other tree mod's ESP/plugin. If you use LOOT you may want to edit the metadata of the ICFVanillaReachTrees.esp file so that it will always load after your other tree mod.

    []If you installed the DynDOLOD 3. 0 meshes for ultra tree LOD, you will need to run TextGen to generate the tree billboard textures and run DynDOLOD to generate the LOD for the trees. Make sure you have the Ultra LOD option checked in DynDOLOD.

    How to tell if I need one of the optional ESP files

    If you have another tree mod installed and do not see these reach trees after properly installing this mod, check the following:

    [*]Do you see any file conflicts between this mod and your current mod? If yes, is this mod winning the conflict? If yes, make sure this mod is active in your