issue with dyndolod registering 3D LOD trees for near and internal billboards for far LOD

[glarthirs_body]

I am a mod author that has made custom trees for my custom worldspace. With my trees, I have also made 3D LOD versions of these trees, and I was originally successful in using DYNDOLOD to generate tree LOD using these 3D LOD models.

 

Because the 3D LOD models are relatively expensive, I still want to use billboards for the farther distance LOD. For all of my trees I have made billboards, and placed the billboards and respective txt. documents in the correct folder "Skyrim\Data\Textures\Terrain\LODGen\MYMOD.esp".

 

For each of my trees, I set the LOD rules in DYNDOLOD to "static lod 4" for LOD level 1, billboards for LOD level 2, and blank for LOD level 3.

 

I ran DYNDOLOD, and was able to generate working LOD using these billboards. HOWEVER, there is now a problem where DYNDOLOD says that it could not locate the 3D LOD trees.

 

I checked the log, and this is an example of the message generated for a single tree:

 

exampletree "exampletree" [TREE:021A61B8] meshes\mymod\my mod trees\exampletreefolder\exampletree.nif

     Billboard found, new tree, 3D LOD not found <exampletree_46832375> fallback Billboard

     LOD4: textures\terrain\lodgen\mymod.esp\exampletree_001a61b8.dds using internal

     LOD8: textures\terrain\lodgen\mymod.esp\exampletree_001a61b8.dds using internal

 

 

 

So DYNDOLOD is saying that it is not finding my 3D LOD trees. Again, previously when I had these 3D LOD meshes named for instance "exampletreepassthru_lod" for the highpoly model "exampletree", and when I was not using billboards, DYNDOLOD was able to find the 3D LOD trees and use them. But now once trying to use 3D LOD and billboards together, DYNDOLOD does not find the 3D LOD trees.

 

I noticed that the log output mentioned a label "exampletree_46832375", so I tried renaming the 3D LOD tree this name, and tried running DYNDOLOD again, but however the same log messages showed up and the problem remains.

[sheson]

The correct filename for the 3D tree LOD model would be exampletree_46832375passthru_lod.nif

 

This is explained in DynDOLOD/Docs/trees.ultra/tools/DynDOLOD_CreateStaticTree.html

[glarthirs_body]

It worked! Thank you Shenson and I apologize for missing that detail. Cheers!

[sheson]

Great. Don't worry about it, always glad being able to help mod authors.