Nature of the Wild Lands - 3D LODS upd1
Description and installation:
Test version of 3D tree LODs, which you can play without any issues.
At the moment, 79 meshes for the most common trees in the game are ready.
The LODs range from 600 to 1500 tris. Compared to LODs from other tree mods, mine are slightly better optimized. Essentially, the LODs are hybrid — the tree trunk remains as a billboard, while the crown has simplified geometry from the full meshes. In this way, I tried to balance between good-looking LODs and optimization. The LODs use textures from the full tree meshes, which are then atlased together with LODs of other objects.
To generate the LODs, you need to use TexGen (make sure you have checked the HD Tree option) and DynDOLOD (you need to select Ultra instead of Tree LOD).
I'm attaching screenshots of my TexGen and DynDOLOD settings, which may help you generate the LODs. Note that for trees, in the Mesh and Reference rules for LOD Level 4, you need to set it to Level 0. You can also use Level 0 for LOD Level 8 and others to make 3D LODs load at very far distances, but obviously, this may significantly decrease FPS.
Requirements:
Update 1:
29 new lod meshes have been added.
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Nature of the Wild Lands - 3D lods.zip13.81 Mb
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Sarah McMorn
Im happy to see this! Do any of the seasonal trees for the seasons patch have 3D LODs yet? I'm just wondering how many of the common snowy and autumn trees are covered in those seasons (if any).
Oct 03 2024 17:53
fxckthisworld
Sarah McMorn, as of now, 3D LODs are ready for the following trees: pine, spruce, aspen, and conifer. All of these LODs support seasonal variations of the trees
Oct 03 2024 18:35 
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Michael Tiernan
Looks so good. My LOD has a mix of your new models and generated models, can’t wait till it’s complete!
Oct 04 2024 00:57 

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Sarah McMorn
So I am having a bit of trouble with Seasonal Tree LOD. The trees swap up close but after generating dynolod as it is in your screenshot (except I have seasons enabled) the tree lod doesnt swap with the seasons. I am at my absolute wits end trying to get the LOD to swap. Any help would be appreciated
Oct 05 2024 09:00
Sarah McMornReplying to fxckthisworld
Edit: I THINK I may have actually gotten it working!!
Oct 05 2024 14:08 (changed)
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Emre ÇelikReplying to Sarah McMorn
Sarah McMorn, How did you get it working? I also can't get trees to work, everything else works fine.
Nov 17 2024 19:37
Lukas Lindström
these are perfect! Hope you get some more backers because you deserve it.
Oct 12 2024 20:16 

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Weiss Zwan
Those trees with snow is great in game. But on LOD in map, It looks like having much less snow from above, a bit too green.
Feb 13 2025 15:10