Tale of Two Landscapes Mod

Includes LOD meshes and textures. Make sure to regen your object and terrain LOD following this guide.

A High Priority LOD patch has been provided for download. Just enable the patch plugin during LOD generation, it can be disabled with High Priority LOD after LOD generation per the LOD guide.

What's new?

- Plugin that separates the Landscapes between the FO3 and FNV by making new Texture Set and Landscape Texture records and then swapping the Landscape Textures used by the FO3, Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel and Point Lookout Landscape records.

- xEdit script based patching process to provide the easiest method of patching for any load order that we can provide.

- Landscape record edits based off Landscape Texture Improvements (FNV - TTW). Both can be used together with the patching process outlined below.

- Brand new muck pools, completely unique to DC/FO3 side of TTW.

- 141 177 brand new textures made from the ground-up, including some of my own custom PBR assets I created from exploring my city.

Made with painstaking care to remain as close to vanilla as possible.

- All vanilla landscape textures, and most Anchorage, Point Lookout, and the one asphalt texture in the Pitt.

Compatibility?

- An xEdit script and blank patch plugin have been provided as extra downloads. Running the patching process outlined below will provide compatibility between this mod and any other mod that edits Landscape records in FO3, Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel and Point Lookout. The only exception is mods that edit Landscape records in regular ESP plugins. To provide compatibility with mods that edit Landscape records in regular ESPs we would have had to make the patch a regular ESP, which would have contained a high number of temporary records, which get treated as persistent records in regular ESPs and bloat memory use.

- What can I do if I use a mod that edits Landscape records in a regular ESP? Either manual patching the records yourself, or you can ESM flag the plugin in xEdit, which is not recommended unless you are an experienced modder.

Patching Process

- If you have never downloaded or used xEdit before, review this guide

- Install Tale of Two Landscapes and the blank patch in your mod manager.

-CRITICAL! Place TaleOfTwoLandscapes.esm directly below YUPTTW.esm in your plugin load order. The patching script will not work if the mod index for TaleOfTwoLandscapes.esm is not 12.

- Place the patch plugin below all other ESM and ESM flagged ESP plugins that edit FO3, Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel or Point Lookout Landscape records in your plugin load order.

- Download and extract the xEdit script and place "TTL Auto-Patcher.pas" in your xEdit "Edit Scripts" folder.

- Start xEdit and enable all of the base game dlcs (including the different item packs), TTW, TaleOfTwoLandscapes.esm, ESM and ESM flagged ESP plugins that edit FO3, Anchorage, The Pitt, Broken Steel or Point Lookout Landscape records, and TaleOfTwoLandscapesPatch.esp.

- Once xEdit is booted up, right click TaleOfTwoLandscapes.esm and click "Apply Script"

- In the script drop down menu, select "TTL Auto-Patcher" and click "ok".

- Let the script run, when it is done, you should see "TaleOfTwoLandscapesPatch.esp successfully generated." in the console.

-Close xEdit and save the changes made to TaleOfTwoLandscapesPatch.esp.

- Generate LOD following this guide.

Tbh this is a project I've been working on for over 4 months now, a lil endorsement would be cool •ᴗ•

That's it.

CREDITS:

DarkSolarLegend - help with making the plugin and being my bestie

FinalCatalyst - making the automated scripting used in making the mod and used for patching and being the coolest cat around

Biggie404 - For Landscape Texture Improvements which was used as a base for landscape record edits

kamchatkaa - helping me test and providing feedback

humantis - helping me test and providing feedback

The myriad others that tested out the private builds I put up on discord and provided feedback. Thank you <3