DynDOLOD installed but with distorted textures in cities

[meowz]

Hi, I have DynDOLOD installed and everything is working great except for a few hotspots in most of the major cities where the pixels appear to be stretched or distorted. I'm a little lost as to what to do in this situation. I know it is DynDOLOD because I don't have these problems when I deactivate it from the load order. I think it is a problem with my settings when I initiated the texgen, but I'm not 100% sure. I basically just chose the default settings with the highest resolution in texgen and dyndolod exe...

 

 

Maybe some kind soul with expertise can help me with this issue? I'm pretty new to modding, so sorry if there is an obvious answer to this question. 

 

Kind regards!

 

sample images in whiterun:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/188136368@N07/?

 

 

modlist:

 

0  0     Skyrim.esm

  1  1     Update.esm

  2  2     Dawnguard.esm

  3  3     HearthFires.esm

  4  4     Dragonborn.esm

  5  5     Lanterns Of Skyrim - All In One - Main.esm

  6  6     Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch.esp

  7  7     FISS.esp

254 FE   0 Ecotone Dual Sheath.esl

  8  8     Paradise_City_RESOURCES.esm

254 FE   1 DeathExpressions.esl

  9  9     3DNPC.esp

 10  a     Unique Flowers & Plants.esm

 11  b     DynDOLOD.esm

 12  c     SkyUI_SE.esp

 13  d     Blowing in the Wind SSE.esp

 14  e     Blowing in the Wind - Lanterns of Skyrim Patch SSE.esp

 15  f     SMIM-SE-Merged-All.esp

 16 10     Blowing in the Wind - SMIM Merged All Patch SSE.esp

 17 11     ELFX - Exteriors.esp

 18 12     Blowing in the Wind - ELFX Exteriors Patch SSE.esp

 19 13     Laundry.esp

 20 14     Vivid WeathersSE.esp

 21 15     Mortal Enemies.esp

 22 16     chfshPlayerVoicesets.esp

 23 17     EnhancedLightsandFX.esp

 24 18     Weapons Armor Clothing & Clutter Fixes.esp

 25 19     EEKs Beautiful Whiterun - JKs Whiterun - Eli's.esp

 26 1a     EEKs Beautiful Whiterun - JKs Whiterun.esp

 27 1b     Cutting Room Floor.esp

 28 1c     SoundsofSkyrimComplete.esp

 29 1d     OBIS SE.esp

 30 1e     Undriel_QuaintRavenRock.esp

 31 1f     Immersive Hold Borders SE.esp

254 FE   2 GDOS - Splendid Mechanized Dwemer Door.esp

 32 20     SkyTweak.esp

 33 21     Ecotone Dual Sheath Patch.esp

 34 22     360WalkandRunPlus-RunBackwardSpeedAdjust.esp

 35 23     Settlements Expanded SE.esp

254 FE   3 SoS_ELFX+Weathers_Patch.esp

254 FE   4 SoS_ELE_Patch.esp

 36 24     T'Skyrim Riverwood with Leaf Rest.esp

254 FE   5 JK's Dragonsreach.esp

 37 25     Hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

 38 26     Guards_Armor_Replacer.esp

 39 27     All Geared Up Derivative.esp

 40 28     Heart Breaker SE.esp

 41 29     VioLens SE.esp

 42 2a     DSerCombatGameplayOverhaul.esp

 43 2b     Critical Hit.esp

 44 2c     critical hits recalculated SE.esp

 45 2d     MorePainfulNPCDeathSounds.esp

 46 2e     Combat Evolved.esp

 47 2f     weapons armor clothing clutter fixes.esp

 48 30     unofficial skyrim se.esp

 49 31     obis.esp

 50 32     immersive armors .esp

 51 33     skyrkmesm.esp

 52 34     weaponsarmorclothing allgud.esp

 53 35     gaurdsarmorreplacer allgud.esp

 54 36     armorallgud stuff.esp

 55 37     Vivid Weathers SE - Extended Snow.esp

 56 38     Vivid Weathers - Extended Rain.esp

 57 39     FNIS_PCEA2.esp

 58 3a     FNIS.esp

 59 3b     JZBai_ThrowingWpnsLite.esp

 60 3c     JZBai_ThrowingWpnsLite_LL.esp

 61 3d     DeadlyCombat.esp

 62 3e     Bleed Them Dry - DG+DB.esp

254 FE   6 Perks from Questing.esp

 63 3f     SignatureEquipment.esp

254 FE   7 3DNPC0.esp

 64 40     DiverseDragonsCollectionSE.esp

 65 41     RaceMenuMorphsCBBE.esp

 66 42     RaceMenu.esp

 67 43     CBBE.esp

 68 44     XPMSE.esp

 69 45     DeadlyMutilation.esp

 70 46     NorthernGrass.esp

 71 47     Unique Grasses.esp

 72 48     Populated Cities Towns Villages Legendary.esp

 73 49     SimplyBiggerTreesSE.esp

254 FE   8 AncientLand2.esp

 74 4a     Immersive Encounters.esp

 75 4b     Run For Your Lives.esp

 76 4c     Paradise_City_Merged.esp

 77 4d     Blowing in the Wind.esp

 78 4e     fallentreebridgesSSE.esp

 79 4f     S3DTrees NextGenerationForests.esp

 80 50     JKs Skyrim.esp

 81 51     SkyrimIsWindy.esp

 82 52     Bandit Economy.esp

254 FE   9 JKs Skyrim Leafrest Patch.esp

 83 53     Solitude Skyway SE.esp

254 FE   a GDOS - Glorious Solitude Door - Rotation Fix.esp

 84 54     skyrimaguas_Bigger Better Sun & Moons.esp

 85 55     BlendedRoads.esp

 86 56     Fluffy Snow - BlendedRoads Patch.esp

254 FE   b DragonCombatDialogue.esp

 87 57     WetandCold.esp

 88 58     WondersofWeather.esp

 89 59     Bijin NPCs.esp

 90 5a     Bijin Warmaidens.esp

 91 5b     Bijin Wives.esp

 92 5c     IcePenguinWorldMap.esp

 93 5d     AMatterOfTime.esp

 94 5e     iHUD.esp

 95 5f     TKDodge.esp

 96 60     DragonbornAscendant.esp

 97 61     dD - Enhanced Blood Main.esp

 98 62     dD-Larger Splatter Size.esp

           EBT - IC PATCH.esp

 99 63     Action Combat.esp

100 64     RaceMenuPlugin.esp

101 65     Men of Winter.esp

102 66     Men of Winter - Skills&Perks Module.esp

254 FE   c SoS_VividWeathers_Patch.esp

103 67     Hothtrooper44_Armor_Ecksstra.esp

104 68     JKs Whiterun exterior.esp

105 69     Footprints.esp

254 FE   d Containers and Leveled Lists Fixes.esp

106 6a     Immersive Citizens - AI Overhaul.esp

107 6b     EEKs Beautiful Whiterun - JKs Whiterun - Eli's - ICAIO.esp

108 6c     EEKs Beautiful Whiterun - JKs Whiterun - ICAIO.esp

254 FE   e SoS_ImmersiveCitizens_Patch.esp

109 6d     Open Cities Skyrim.esp

110 6e     JKs Skyrim_Open Cities_Patch.esp

111 6f     Immersive Citizens - OCS patch.esp

254 FE   f SoS_OpenCities_Patch.esp

112 70     JK's Whiterun-Open cities SSE.esp

113 71     Immersive Encounters - Open Cities Patch.esp

114 72     Blowing in the Wind - Open Cities Skyrim Patch SSE.esp

115 73     RealisticWaterTwo.esp

254 FE  10 RealisticWaterTwo - Watercolor.esp

254 FE  11 RealisticWaterTwo - ELFX Patch.esp

116 74     WACCF_BashedPatchLvlListFix.esp

117 75     Modern Brawl Bug Fix.esp

118 76     DynDOLOD.esp

 

 

 

[sheson]

The sample picture of Solitude show the low resolution vanilla LOD textures which look not distorted at all. 

 

The questions is why LOD shows that close up. Most likely because the 2 pass instructions in the manual for Open Cities were not followed.

[meowz]

The sample picture of Solitude show the low resolution vanilla LOD textures which look not distorted at all. 

 

The questions is why LOD shows that close up. Most likely because the 2 pass instructions in the manual for Open Cities were not followed.

Thanks for your quick reply. It would seem I was definitely missing some steps. I had a look over the instructions manual and followed the text instructions for Open Cities installation on the manual, as well as the Gamerpoet video and I'm still getting the "Found Open Cities Skyrim.esp. Do not load when generating LOD... etc" message. I started from scratch by reinstalling all of the mods for DynDOLOD and billboards beforehand with no luck, and also turned off all of the OpenCities patches and plugins for the first step. Again it might be another obvious mistake I'm making but maybe there's something else here that I'm missing? 

Edited April 26, 2020 by meowz

[sheson]

Thanks for your quick reply. It would seem I was definitely missing some steps. I had a look over the instructions manual and followed the text instructions for Open Cities installation on the manual, as well as the Gamerpoet video and I'm still getting the "Found Open Cities Skyrim.esp. Do not load when generating LOD... etc" message. I started from scratch by reinstalling all of the mods for DynDOLOD and billboards beforehand with no luck, and also turned off all of the OpenCities patches and plugins for the first step. Again it might be another obvious mistake I'm making but maybe there's something else here that I'm missing? 

You really need to follow the instructions in the manual. Do not save any plugins in the first step. Make sure Open Cities and all its patches are enabled in the second step when only the plugins and SKSE folder are generated.

[meowz]

You really need to follow the instructions in the manual. Do not save any plugins in the first step. Make sure Open Cities and all its patches are enabled in the second step when only the plugins and SKSE folder are generated.

Feeling silly now. Looking back at the manual I should have opened the SSE ini file instead of TES5 file like GamerPoet did in his video. It seems to be running now, I'll report back if there's anymore problems that persist! 

Edited April 26, 2020 by meowz

[meowz]

I finally got it to work and WOW my game has never looked better. I thought maybe I'll just show you some quick screencaptures as some sort of a gesture of my appreciation? Thanks!

 

https://www.flickr.com/gp/188136368@N07/m8b9oc

 

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