Verdant - A Skyrim Grass Plugin

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fa5WuBRNRYUINTRODUCTION:

Originally this was just going to be a tweak of Tamu75's Unique Grasses and Groundcovers plugin to add more grass density, but I started to reintroduce some of my favourite grasses from SFO and Unbelievable grasses into the plugin, and before I knew it I had a whole new grass look for Skyrim!

This grass plugin is my personal take on skyrim's landscape, and almost all areas of skyrim have lots of dense grass. This mod uses the Grass on Steroids tweak, so people with medium to low end machines should be able to run this with less of an FPS hit than some other grass mods.

This mod uses grasses from SFO, Unique Grasses, Unbelievable Grass, Tamriel Reloaded - Grass and Hoddminir's Flowers, but it is standalone and has no requirements.

INSTALLATION:

Install with your mod manager of choice.

I have now included a custom ini file (Verdant - A Skyrim Grass Plugin SSE Version.ini) for easier grass installation. The grass settings I normally require are located in that ini file. Here's the two necessary ini edits for verdant to work properly:

iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=15   (Always keep this setting at this number, otherwise you lose grasses)

iMinGrassSize=60                        (For better performance, you can raise this number up to a 100 or more)

LOAD ORDER:

You can place this high in your load order, above water mods ( to avoid water seams) but below Majestic Mountains, as it's snow grasses will override mine., however if you can't do that, I've included a patch for it. There's also a patch now for Origins of Forest as well.

DYNDOLOD SUGGESTIONS:

For Verdants tundra grass to match well, adjust these settings in your dyndolodSSE.ini file:

OpenDynDOLOD_SSE.ini found in \DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\DynDOLOD. Scroll to the heading grass LOD brightness multipliers.. Adjust these settings for Verdant:

RegularGrass:

GrassBrightnessTopR=0. 568

GrassBrightnessTopG=0. 509

GrassBrightnessTopB=0. 368

ComplexGrass:

ComplexGrassBrightnessTopR=0. 994

ComplexGrassBrightnessTopG=0. 840

ComplexGrassBrightnessTopB=0. 614I got the values from this mod, which is a great resource for color matching grass lods.

SOFT REQUIREMENTS :

[*]No Grass in Objects - Fixes grass clipping through objects and is a great mo