Dradaki

Simple question really. I made a tree mod that uses NotW trees that I renamed to vanilla file names, so they only replace trees that vanilla Skyrim has. I tried generating the LOD using DynDoLOD, but not really happy with how they look in game as in some areas, they look like a giant + and is quite noticeable. As of right now, I am going to try and just have the flat billboard for LOD, much like how I have created for the XBox. Anywho, I was going to try and make the 3D LODs as these are infinitely better. I used them when I had the full NotW mod, but decided to make the aforementioned mod to improve performance. Since these trees are just vanilla named (ie treeaspen01.nif), could I just use these models and add "_LOD_0", "_LOD_1" and "_LOD_2" or is there a different process that has to be done? Thank you for your time