Nature of the Wild Lands - Animations Addon

NOTE: DISABLE THIS ADDON WHEN RUNNING DYNDOLOD/TEXGEN

Adds trunk and branch swaying animations to most NotW trees. Supports seasons.

Base Nature of the Wild Lands mod has animated rustling of leaves, but no swaying branches or trunk. Look at the videos tab to see what the new animations look like.

Plugin included with this addon are must since the swaying amount is configured in the plugin. Without plugin the trees would swing like crazy. The plugin can be kept enabled when generating LODs, but the meshes file must be disabled. If you have already generated your LODs, this mod is basically plug & play.

Branch flexibility for the tree records determines the amount of sway, if you wish to tune it further in xEdit.

The real verticle / face count of the meshes is half of what MO2 nifviewer plugin shows, because the trees use NiSwitchNode, which makes only half of the verticles be rendered at any given time, thus the verticle and face count of these meshes is the same as original Nature of the Wild Lands mod.

Some performance cost can still be expected due to CPU overhead caused by the animations.

Making this mod required editing of hundreds of models, which means there is possibility of bugs I didn't catch, so I'm leaving the discussion and bug tabs open for now.

Can be safely installed/uninstalled at any time.

Credits to fxxkthisworld for the original mod and giving me a permission to release this.