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Kind of a no brainer really. The only one I'd really like from HD Baskets over this mod is the picnic basket.

That may be Trade and Barter territory to be honest. That is the only mod that would affect vendor gold in all of STEP.

I'll have to review the new version. I just read the chanlog and it's extensive. Will update later tonight.

I'll ask Sparrow Prince and Scarla about adding LODs. I just followed the directions in the manual. It was pretty easy to just copy the mesh and add _lod.nif. I'll try out the smoke effect to see if works good.

There are tons of terrain mesh errors where the textures come together. I didn't notice any with the mod installed and I noticed a ton without right away. Just go around Whiterun and look at the errors around the farms.

CASM - Cipscis' Automatic Save Manager by Cipscis This is mod that has finally made it's way over from Fallout. I've been using for FNV so long I can't remember a time it wasn't installed. It's saved me so many headaches over the years and now it's finally here for Skyrim. Basically, install it and setup up your autosaves accordingly in the MCM menu and forget about it. Easy peasy. I haven't actually tried the Skyrim version yet, but if it's anything like it's FNV counterpart then this is a shoe in for STEP. Never will I forget to save again after running around for 2 hours and not saving. Options include autosave frequency between 1-30 minutes, amount of autosaves to use, and toggle saving during combat and sneaking.

I was using this earlier today and could tell right away all that missing after I removed it. It is sad that there may be a problem with this mod because it really improves the terrain.

Quality. Pretty sure that was the 1k version.

sheson, would there be a way to add a smoke effect to the chimneys added by Farmhouse Chimneys in the LODs? I created the _lod.nif for the meshes and it looks good with the farmhouses having the chimneys from afar, but I'm feeling a little greedy.

I did DDL with the LODs for the chimneys. Here's one zoomed in a bit. If there is a way to add the smoke effect to these it would pretty freaking awesome.

Added the picnic basket without the vanilla shot. All vanilla baskets look terrible anyways. I actually kinda like HD Baskets for the picnic basket though. Maybe mix and match or something is best.

I guess we can test that mod against Paarthurnax Dilemma to see which fits STEP better. I think both offer a way of figuring out that quest with a third option. Is this mod compatible with Alternative Start?

FNVLODGen should be loading any BSA that has a plugin. That is the only way to do it with FNVEdit AFAIK.

Not sure if anyone saw this mod yet, but check it out for some Borderland's style fun. https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/59528/?

Hmmm… I never considered that for some reason. I always forget about mods with the NoMerge tag. Thanks for reminding me about that.

I think we can still get in trouble for stealing an idea, but I'll look into it myself. I've also been wanting to make tweaks to some terrain meshes, like positioning, and add them to the STEP plugins. Between this and SP's decrease those plants, we have some serious options for low to mid range systems.

It probably uses the AOS sound either way. AFAIK there are no included sounds in the BSA.

Pip boy light may be in the Bashed Patch tweaks. That LOD effect is something I meant to look at a long time ago, like back when I started the guide and just forgot about it. I may have to revisit that mod.

I like it too. I think the splashes are noticeable, but not in your face. It's almost like they apart of the game the whole time. Did you use either of the optionals in the installer? I didn't.

I just played around with this a bit. I like it around the roads and the water's edges. It's a really simple mod. We should ask if we can include it in STEP since it takes about one minutes to do it in xEdit.

Those may be to high. Where did you ever get 2048 and 1024 from? I'd try 1024 and 512.

Whatever happened with this mod? If we are going to relook at Splash of Rain, then this is a keeper. Anyways, both Rainbows and Shooting Stars are Extended, so that would probably keep this version Extended as well.

Doubtful on the clipping since those are just stood up next to certain things and the size difference has more to do with the way I placed it on the table. I think vanilla is lower res version of HD Baskets, but I'll update with those I guess. EDIT: Alright, I updated with vanilla and they suck.

LOOT has extra tags that are for the test version of Wrye, but the rest are good to go. You can also use the generate bash tag script for xEdit to help you out. It will even add the tags to the header except for Deflst, and then Wrye will read them automatically. I'll be adding that script to the guide soon I think. I need an easier way to move it form GitHub to xEdit for general users.

Just make sure to update Farmhouse Chimneys to the latest version.