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Declutter: Roads

Removes small and medium road "chunks", goal being to help FPS on lower-end machines.

Skyrim's roads are a patch-work of long static meshes filled in with large, medium and small chunks here and there. The long road meshes have lots of brick, so to give the appearance of parts of the road being washed out or missing they use these road "chunks" sporadically.

Of all the objects in Skyrim, the road chunks are actually on the lower-end of poly counts (most using less than 1000 polys). However, we can remove small and medium chunks without noticing any visual change (unless you compare/contrast images like above). This shaves off some poly's from the overall scenes being rendered, thus hopefully increasing FPS. Likewise, the long road meshes and the large road chunks still piece together to form coherent roads, albeit more washed-out / worn-out looking. (IE: sporadic patches of dirt to seem like the road is rustic / not maintained well).