Only required if using the Optional Shrubs of Snow Mesh
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Author notes
Shared with open permissions. See Description page for further details.
File credits
All meshes and texture were modified from vanilla assests
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Changelogs
Version 2.01.01
Fixed naming of the BYOH (Hearthfires) mesh
Version 2.01
Added Hearthfire/BYOH meshs
Version 2.0
Improvements made to plant meshes
Dirt mound re-made from scratch. Has less triangles and vertices than previous version. Now has exactly the same shader setting as vanilla
Further Texture Improvements
FOMOD with all options made available
Version 1.15.0
Removed collision from dirt mound to reduce jiggle/shimmering
Version 1.14
Added alternate reworked diffuse/color and normal textures
Version 1.13
Specular color changed to reduce dirt mound shimmering after plant harvest
Covered Mesh File is now actually the covered mesh
Version 1.12
Improved dirt mound mesh and adds vertex colors
Optional support for Shrubs of Snow Added
Version 1.11
Improvements made to mesh to prevent edges of the dirt mound from being visible at certain farms
Version 1.1
Collision added to dirt mounds so PC & NPC's feet don't clip through the dirt Improved the shape of the dirt mounds to be more round and less blocky, also eliminated the sharp edges on the dirt mesh to prevent edges from sticking out when potatoes are placed on a slope.
Mesh Changes
Dirt mound under the potatoes has been rounded
Poly count of plant portion was increased from 288 triangles and 275 vertices to 1198 triangles and 856 vertices
The leaves and stem have been smoothed
Leaf Animations have been added (the vanilla version did not have this enabled)
UV maps have been adjusted/re-mapped
The normal maps for the roots have been flipped. It was upside down in vanilla for some reason.
Alpha property was removed from the dirt mound. This was causing the dirt mound to be invisible when used with complex terrain parallax.
Vertex colors were removed from the dirt mound. This makes the mound blend better with the surrounding ground texture when not using terrain blending.
Four mesh options are available: Exposed Roots (like vanilla), Partially Covered Roots, Covered/No Roots, and an Immersive option that distributes the three root options using Base Object Swapper
Texture Changes
The vanilla texture was AI up-scaled, then I did touch ups on the texture in Photoshop (changing the color and fixing the alpha channel)
I created a new normal map for the up-scaled and touched up texture using Substance 3D Painter
Textures are available in 1k, 2k, and 4k
Installation Download the FOMOD and install with your mod manager of choice. The FOMOD contains all of the installation options.
Permissions and Credits All textures and meshes used for this mod are modified vanilla assets.
This mod is shared with open permissions. You may alter or port it to another version of the game (i.e., LE, Xbox, etc.) so long as you credit me and share your version with open permissions. You are allowed to earn donation points on any mod that uses assets from this mod.