ACCEPTED Northern Foothills Rocks Fix (by ossumpossum)

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Northern Foothills Rocks Fix by ossumpossum
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The game was initially designed to use two different exterior rock textures: a darker variant in the Northern Foothills region, and the brighter gray variant everywhere else. However, I believe that Bethesda had issues setting up the LODs to correctly match the darker variants (they royally screwed up their material swaps and lod meshes for this), so they reverted the texture paths to the brighter gray variant, which is what you then see everywhere. This mod restores the materials to point to the Northern Foothills rock textures.

One obvious result is that since no one has actually seen these textures in game due to this issue, none of the current retextures for this rock texture (yes, people did faithfully retexture it despite never seeing it in game), they don't blend very well with the landscape. I'm currently working on a rock texture mod (which is pretty much done) that will use this fix to restore the darker variant while also blending in very well with the landscape.

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Marked as Accepted for current dev 1.0 guide.