ACCEPTED Vanilla Landscape Corrections - VLC (by Step Modifications)

[DoubleYou]

Discussion topic:
Vanilla Landscape Corrections - VLC by Step Modifications
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[z929669]

Obviously, I'm voting to accept this, since we have control over it and can address any issues as they arise.

Kudos to TechAngel85 for putting this together.

[Mercury71]

To test it should i place it in "09 - Fixes", remove SLaWF and SLiSR and just rerun Step 5 LOD?

[z929669]

11 hours ago, Mercury71 said:

To test it should i place it in "09 - Fixes", remove SLaWF and SLiSR and just rerun Step 5 LOD?

Yes, this is exactly correct. It can go anywhere in the installer priority, but we'll put it in Fixes in alphabetical order.

[Mercury71]

11 hours ago, z929669 said:

Yes, this is exactly correct. It can go anywhere in the installer priority, but we'll put it in Fixes in alphabetical order.

DynDOLOD protested at first so i had to untick "VLC Patch - CuttingRoomFloor.esp" to be able to generate LOD.

EDIT: Fixed in latest version! 

[easyrider1988]

There is a typo in the fomod info.xml

<id> is 64738, not 104962

And when you install the mod and right-click and select Visit on Nexus command, MO2 sends you to the Snowy Landscapes in Snowy Regions page.

 

Edit: Also, the version is not updated

Edited June 1 by easyrider1988

[TERRAOperative]

I found I had to disable 'VLC Merged Patch - CFR-StaveChurchBW.esp' to remove a dependency error but this is not in the 2.3 guide, is this an error on my part that I missed something or is this instruction missing from the guide?

Edited August 20 by TERRAOperative

[Mercury71]

39 minutes ago, TERRAOperative said:

I found I had to disable 'VLC Merged Patch - CFR-StaveChurchBW.esp' to remove a dependency error but this is not in the 2.3 guide, is this an error on my part that I missed something or is this instruction missing from the guide?

Had to do this also.

[z929669]

11 hours ago, TERRAOperative said:

I found I had to disable 'VLC Merged Patch - CFR-StaveChurchBW.esp' to remove a dependency error but this is not in the 2.3 guide, is this an error on my part that I missed something or is this instruction missing from the guide?

10 hours ago, Mercury71 said:

Had to do this also.

 

VLC Merged Patch - CFR-StaveChurchBW.esp is only needed for patching the Stave Church of Skyrim mod is installed. The Update File is not 'smart' so one must have some inkling of what plugins are actually needed from the Update File.

Those that choose the Cutting Room Floor patch will get the following when installing the Main File:

Merging the Update File adds one redundant plugin that needs to be removed:

I will update the wiki instructions.

@TechAngel85

 

 

[TERRAOperative]

Thank you!

[D1Z4STR]

Should testers be using VLC with ERM? I thought VLC was made with MM in mind.

[z929669]

6 hours ago, D1Z4STR said:

Should testers be using VLC with ERM? I thought VLC was made with MM in mind.

They are compatible.

[D1Z4STR]

Okay thanks. So, ERM is a contender to eventually replace MM? Does Tech know that? Removing MM with its 6 corresponding mods is a good jump. 

[TechAngel85]

2 hours ago, D1Z4STR said:

Okay thanks. So, ERM is a contender to eventually replace MM? Does Tech know that? Removing MM with its 6 corresponding mods is a good jump. 

It's fine. VLC only used the landscape changes from the MM ESM. This mainly just paints rock landscape textures around the base of mountains and rocks for blending purposes. Vanilla did this in spots but not everywhere. MM extended this to pretty much everywhere and that is what VLC has incorporated from MM.

Changes to the mountain/rock textures used isn't going to affect anything unless the textures are really, really different in color. For example there are some mods that make the mountains/rocks more brown in color. However, without also including the rock landscape textures with those sort of mods, there is going to be a mismatch between the mountain/rock color and the landscape rock color. It's up to those authors making those changes to be thorough enough to recognize such inclusions are required when making such drastic changes to the original colors of objects that may require blending with the landscape or other objects. In similar cases, Step has rejected many flora mods over the years simply because their colors didn't blend naturally into the landscape.