PBR Flora Overhaul

The intention of this mod is to provide a somewhat complete coverage of Skyrim's flora with nice PBR textures. Without technical dependencies to other mesh or texture mods to make it easy to use. Where I can I will let you select between different options to cater for different tastes. As a base I am using open perm textures or textures from mod authors that were so kind to grant me permission to use them here. Also I may offer some upscaled and cleaned vanilla textures.

For other plants not covered by this mod, I highly recommend to check my Cathedral PBR Plants and Diverse high-quality PBR shrubs. The 3 mods together shall cover most of Skyrim's Flora without overlap and conflicts.

For proper movement of leaves according to wind strenght I highly recommend to use Dynamic Wind Framework with the patch from Dynamic Wind - Patchhub.

Updates with version 2. 0

• []Removed shrub options from the main file as I would recommend to use Diverse high-quality PBR shrubs instead.

  Whoever would like to use it can download the optional file with Shrub Options from this modpage.[/]

  []Added clover plant and probably some more I forgot[/]

  []Added some plant textures from Faultier[/]

  []Added some plant textures from Mari after converting them to PBR[/]

  []Added a PBR conversion of Canis Root 2k-4k Textures Redone from Haladoon[/]

  []Prepared default options which will be used for upcoming support of Seasons of Skyrim (only default and brighter / darker options will receive seasonal variations)[/]

  Disclaimer

  PBR (physically based rendering) approximates how real materials react to light and is used in most modern games. PBR is a part of Community Shaders 1. 0 that has several benefits which includes  more realistic lighting than in vanilla and complex material.

  There are two ways (maybe more) to create PBR textures:

  1. Using raw assets which have all the maps needed for perfect PBR textures.

  2. Using non-PBR textures and create missing maps using AI models based on what is available.

  For most of the textures in this mod I have used the 2nd approach as I do not have the raw assets. To achieve this I have unbaked shadows from diffuse maps, upscaled them using an AI model, created separate Ambient Occlusion maps, and roughness maps. Also meshes needed to be configured to enable physically based rendering.

  Please consider that some materials benefit more from PBR than others. Especially those textures which make heavy use of additional metallness, roughness maps or other features like glint or multilayer. Plants do not make use of this.

  So PBR Flora Overhaul plants won’t knock you off your feet like some other PBR mods. But they still look better in various light conditions than vanilla textures imho.

  Contents:

  This mod includes new textures for: