No Grass. STEP Guide

[Solfox]

Finally at STEP 6. Benchmarking, No grass visible. I followed everything word for words. When I launch the game through Steam the grass is there. But when I launch SKSE through MO there is no grass, Grass precache only lasted 9 mins to complete. I followed everything in NGIO guide. seems like bricked.

[z929669]

2 hours ago, Solfox said:

Finally at STEP 6. Benchmarking, No grass visible. I followed everything word for words. When I launch the game through Steam the grass is there. But when I launch SKSE through MO there is no grass, Grass precache only lasted 9 mins to complete. I followed everything in NGIO guide. seems like bricked.

Precaching grass requires > 9 min for sure. It should be more like 25-90 min. Revisit BethINI Environment settings and NGIO settings. NGIO has had several recent updates, and I haven't tested with the latest versions yet.

[Solfox]

I just found the likely cause. I had Grass Cache Helper NG active since its one of the early mods in 02-Extenders. The mod page says: 

A- This mod enables loading grass instead of creating it at runtime. If all your grass disappears, one of these things happened:

- You don't have a grass cache installed (.cgid files that can be generated with NGIO). If this is the case, you need to generate grass precache or install an already generated grass cache downloaded from here on nexus.

Not sure if enabling the mod Grass Cache Helper NG. Made the grass disappear and much later in the guide when it's time to generate precache grass it  only took me 9 mins to do because the grass were never there in the first place.

[z929669]

5 hours ago, Solfox said:

I just found the likely cause. I had Grass Cache Helper NG active since its one of the early mods in 02-Extenders. The mod page says: 

A- This mod enables loading grass instead of creating it at runtime. If all your grass disappears, one of these things happened:

- You don't have a grass cache installed (.cgid files that can be generated with NGIO). If this is the case, you need to generate grass precache or install an already generated grass cache downloaded from here on nexus.

Not sure if enabling the mod Grass Cache Helper NG. Made the grass disappear and much later in the guide when it's time to generate precache grass it  only took me 9 mins to do because the grass were never there in the first place.

You definitely should be using Grass Cache Helper NG, so keep that enabled, or you won't have grass. This mod should be enabled along with NGIO when creating the grass cache, which should then be installed as a mod in MO (just a /grass folder). Be sure you aren't using Grass Cache Fixes, and disable/delete it if you are. That mod will sort it's plugin at higher priority than the Step patches, which causes grass to not render. Be sure your grass BethINI Pie settings are correct. Sort plugins with LOOT before creating the grass cache.