DynDOLOD Beta for Skyrim Special Edition, Skyrim VR and Enderal SE 2.98

[DKomar]

Hey, how do I get DynDOLOD to work with Special Edition if I also have the Legendary edition installed on my pc? TexGen loads up LE by default.

Nevermind, if only I read the quickstart.

Edited March 28, 2020 by DKomar

[Katarsi]

I have a question regarding requirements for DynDOLOD.

 

Do I need Indistinguishable Billboards if I have HD LODs Textures (performance version) installed?

 

I also have Noble Skyrim (performance) and Cathedral Landscapes (full), with the latter overwriting the former.

[sheson]

I have a question regarding requirements for DynDOLOD.

 

Do I need Indistinguishable Billboards if I have HD LODs Textures (performance version) installed?

 

I also have Noble Skyrim (performance) and Cathedral Landscapes (full), with the latter overwriting the former.

Let me repeat the Requirements from Quickstart.html:

 

Billboards work the same for all Skyrim versions. Vanilla Skyrim LOD Billboards from TES5LODGen, Indistinguishable Vanilla Tree Billboards, Indistinguishable Billboards for Skyrim Special Edition or Seamless Billboards. If using tree mods that do not include billboards, check TES5LODGen for ready-to-use tree LOD billboards for some tree mods.

 

Then in the installation instructions it says:

 

Install Vanilla Skyrim LOD Billboards from TES5LODGen, Indistinguishable Vanilla Tree Billboards, Indistinguishable Billboards for Skyrim Special Edition or Seamless Billboards and let them overwrite any DynDOLOD Resources files. Then overwrite with any LOD Billboards for mods in the load order in the same order as their mods.

 

As you can see, one of the 4 listed options is required to be installed.

Edited March 30, 2020 by sheson

[Katarsi]

Let me repeat the Requirements from Quickstart.html:

 

Billboards work the same for all Skyrim versions. Vanilla Skyrim LOD Billboards from TES5LODGen, Indistinguishable Vanilla Tree Billboards, Indistinguishable Billboards for Skyrim Special Edition or Seamless Billboards. If using tree mods that do not include billboards, check TES5LODGen for ready-to-use tree LOD billboards for some tree mods.

 

Then in the installation instructions it says:

 

Install Vanilla Skyrim LOD Billboards from TES5LODGen, Indistinguishable Vanilla Tree Billboards, Indistinguishable Billboards for Skyrim Special Edition or Seamless Billboards and let them overwrite any DynDOLOD Resources files. Then overwrite with any LOD Billboards for mods in the load order in the same order as their mods.

 

As you can see, one of the 4 listed options is required to be installed.

I sincerely apologize, but I'm really confused now.

 

I'm using guidance from this link  to make it easier on myself.

I avoided installing more landscape like Majestic Mountains and any trees mods because of performance.

 

On the Description page of the mod HD LODs Textures it says it's "DynDOLOD ready!", but I assumed that I need Indistinguishable Billboards anyway, so I downloaded that first - and there are 32 conflicting files. For now, IB sits "Uninstalled" in my Vortex mods list until I figure out what to do. IB has more tree files than HD LODs, and I didn't know which one should do the overwriting, if it should be done like that at all. That was the only thing unknown to me.

But now you say I have to overwrite DynDOLOD Resources files as well?

[sheson]

I sincerely apologize, but I'm really confused now.

 

I'm using guidance from this link  to make it easier on myself.

I avoided installing more landscape like Majestic Mountains and any trees mods because of performance.

 

On the Description page of the mod HD LODs Textures it says it's "DynDOLOD ready!", but I assumed that I need Indistinguishable Billboards anyway, so I downloaded that first - and there are 32 conflicting files. For now, IB sits "Uninstalled" in my Vortex mods list until I figure out what to do. IB has more tree files than HD LODs, and I didn't know which one should do the overwriting, if it should be done like that at all. That was the only thing unknown to me.

But now you say I have to overwrite DynDOLOD Resources files as well?

Instead of being confused by third party guides, read and follow the constantly updated included documentation.

 

It is rather simple: most likely every load order has vanilla trees as not all tree mods overwrite all trees. Billboards for vanilla trees need to be installed if you want to generate tree LOD. AFAIK HD LODs does not contain billboards for all trees. In fact it adds a ton of billboards for small flora like shrubs and bushes that in the interest of performance you probably do not want to have LOD.

 

Now, which individual Billboard you use in case there is more than one option from different mods depends on which you find matches the tree it represents the best.

 

All of them probably look better than the original billboards of the game from available on the TES5LODGen Nexus page. 

[aeternitatum]

Ran into a bug running DynDOLOD SSE. Here's the  DynDOLOD_SSE_log

 

https://pastebin.com/gktPtKuW

 

Edit: Forgot to tick TexGen Output. Let me rerun then double check. Whoops!

Edited March 30, 2020 by aeternitatum

[Katarsi]

Instead of being confused by third party guides, read and follow the constantly updated included documentation.

 

It is rather simple: most likely every load order has vanilla trees as not all tree mods overwrite all trees. Billboards for vanilla trees need to be installed if you want to generate tree LOD. AFAIK HD LODs does not contain billboards for all trees. In fact it adds a ton of billboards for small flora like shrubs and bushes that in the interest of performance you probably do not want to have LOD.

 

Now, which individual Billboard you use in case there is more than one option from different mods depends on which you find matches the tree it represents the best.

 

All of them probably look better than the original billboards of the game from available on the TES5LODGen Nexus page. 

I wasn't confused by the 3rd party guide, but by your rather technical comment (I'm a bit of a n00b...), but that was temporary. Bottom line, you helped    

 

During the install I examined the official documentation as well, since the first guide didn't include some necessary details. I managed to get it all properly set up and working on the first go. My game looks awesome and I'm glad I've finally decided to use DynDOLOD. As for performance...well, I'm playing on a laptop and I'm not expecting miracles. It's the same as it was before, and that's as good as it can get.

 

Thank you for this awesome tool/mod!

I laughed when my antivirus reported the exe - Taking Your Firstborn   

[sheson]

I wasn't confused by the 3rd party guide, but by your rather technical comment (I'm a bit of a n00b...), but that was temporary. Bottom line, you helped    

 

During the install I examined the official documentation as well, since the first guide didn't include some necessary details. I managed to get it all properly set up and working on the first go. My game looks awesome and I'm glad I've finally decided to use DynDOLOD. As for performance...well, I'm playing on a laptop and I'm not expecting miracles. It's the same as it was before, and that's as good as it can get.

 

Thank you for this awesome tool/mod!

I laughed when my antivirus reported the exe - Taking Your Firstborn   

Great. Enjoy.

[Katarsi]

Just a tiny question:

If I replace a few flowers with different meshes and textures that have a glowing effect, do I have to generate LOD again?

Edited March 31, 2020 by Katarsi

[sheson]

Just a tiny question:

If I replace a few flowers with different meshes and textures that have a glowing effect, do I have to generate LOD again?

Only if those flowers have LOD already and you notice the LOD not be matching anymore and you want to change that.

[GentMAB]

Good afternoon, 

 

Getting an issue where it freezes everytime no matter what I select, even selecting just one file for it to use.  It will freeze and then go to Not Responding.  My logs don't show much regrettably as it tends to freeze right after starting.  Definitely would appreciate any help, I was able to get it working at one point and now its doing this every time.  

 

https://pastebin.com/4SSPjEw5

 

is my log.

[sheson]

Good afternoon, 

 

Getting an issue where it freezes everytime no matter what I select, even selecting just one file for it to use.  It will freeze and then go to Not Responding.  My logs don't show much regrettably as it tends to freeze right after starting.  Definitely would appreciate any help, I was able to get it working at one point and now its doing this every time.  

 

https://pastebin.com/4SSPjEw5

 

is my log.

Make sure the system/hardware is stable, for example overclocking/memory times and drivers are up to date.

 

Check in task manager if DynDOLOD uses CPU. Just wait then. It may be just busy creating textures atlasses.

 

Make a screenshot of the message window where it  gets stuck.

Edited April 4, 2020 by sheson

[GentMAB]

Guess it didn't like being told on or watched, it went through good this time after I opened Task Manager to watch the CPU Usage.  Gave me an error about one of my mods first which I was able to fix and now it completed successfully.  Thanks for your help.  

[Jomaha]

Check this out and tell me what anyone thinks about my LOD. 

 

https://www.bitchute.com/video/7OjBkBhOUr6m/

[xxxprhymexxx]

I am sorry. I am new to this and followed a guide on youtube and everything went incredibly smooth until I hit this wall. I have been googling random bits of the errors and trying to track down an answer or how I go about correcting this problem. Any info would be so so so greatly appreciated as I am ready to put my fist through my monitor =( 

 

[00:02:40.167] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\kingstreebarkwinedave.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\kingstreebarkwinedave.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\66DC22D98FB047A39153CD5D171710FB.dds">

[00:02:40.211] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\scotspinebranch_multi_snowy.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\scotspinebranch_multi_snowy.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\A01D3CB6A1684DD884FB650A758E6524.dds">

[00:02:40.261] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\scotspine_scan_roots_snowy.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\scotspine_scan_roots_snowy.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\7418E34BAFF447A9A4652367BAA650A6.dds">

[00:02:40.308] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\scotspine_scan_trunk_snowy.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\scotspine_scan_trunk_snowy.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\CAC2BCB3E9E5494382DC6470BCCADE54.dds">

[00:02:40.339] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcomp.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcomp.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\BFECC02D5DFF4D79935B984A90F90BC7.dds">

[00:02:40.370] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcompsnow.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcompsnow.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\8C3D42D049464C708476F67C44744231.dds">

[00:02:40.400] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcompsnow.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcompsnow.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\454645A06BB14663BC4A401FCA969694.dds">

[00:02:40.448] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\scotspine_tileable_snowy.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\scotspine_tileable_snowy.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\D8CF332668A449328726B8943561E545.dds">

[00:02:40.480] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcompsnow.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcompsnow.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\31BA776BF9AA4A7C8100E7EF082D62B6.dds">

[00:02:40.512] <Error preparing texture textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcompsnowl.dds for atlas: Error loading textures\landscape\trees\treepineforestbranchcompsnowl.dds: Executing TexConv returned error C0000135: "E:\DynDOLOD\Edit Scripts\Texconvx64.exe" -nologo -y -m 1 -f R8G8B8A8_UNORM -o "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit" "C:\Users\James\AppData\Local\Temp\SSEEdit\3631B72027CE443E81C227C8100FD677.dds">

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