DROPPED Improved Vanilla Mountains HD (by rgabriel15)

[TechAngel85]

Discussion thread:
Improved Vanilla Mountains HD by rgabriel15
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Dropped in v3.0.

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[Southman]

I like them very much! Always prefered vanilla mountains.

 

Anyway, you might want to consider have terrain bump for the mountains now that you have excluded AOF detailed mountains.

 

Improved Vanilla mountains HD looks much better (imho) with terrain bump.

 

Comparison:

 

Without Terrain bump: https://oi44.tinypic.com/2v8lhqw.jpg

With Terrain bump: https://oi43.tinypic.com/y1il1.jpg   (With only mountainslab02_n.dds installed in terrain bump, looks better that way)

[Smile44]

Terrain Bump is in STEP Core along with this already.

 

:)

[Southman]

Yeah but STEP recommends to delete the mountainslab-files :) https://wiki.step-project.com/Terrain_Bump#Recommendations

[TechAngel85]

We recommend deleting the mountain slabs from Terrain Bump because during our texture compares we found out that it makes some texture mods look really bad. True that if only Improved Vanilla Mountains HD is used it looks better; however, since Terrain Bump is a Core mod we had to take into consideration that Pack authors might use other texture mods. Therefore, the removal of the slab textures were necessary for best Core compatibly.

[Xzender]

I just want to bring to attention that his mod has been removed from the STEP guide's landscape and environment section. Is this intentional? I don't see anything regarding this in the changelog.

[TechAngel85]

It's not intended. Unfortunately I don't have a computer to fix it right now. Hopefully one of the staff will jump on this.

[EssArrBee]

Hmm…. There was a yellow error box on the guide I mentioned last week and it was probably this mod that got messed up some how. It is on the working 2.2.8 guide as well so we will have fix both.

[z929669]

Fixing now, should be resolved shortly

[DoYouEvenModBro]

Is the BCF provided in order to automatically delete those two files? Also, I took another look at the comparison shots that Southman posted. I actually disagree and I think that the mountains looks better WITHOUT the Terrain Bump mountain slabs. They look so jaggedy with the mountain slab files.