Old Farts' Coffee House

[Avrie]

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Keep it clean (mostly) While the game is listed as mature, a lot of the people aren't
Keep it civil (always) arguing a little is fine, just keep it friendly

Move over young ones ... Gramps moved back in.

[fauxpas]

Avrie님이 먼저 게시:

Ye gads Empress, Now I have this image of you doing the whole 4H thing as a little girl.

Nah, my parents didn't believe in extra curriculum activities so the closest I got to 4H was actual ranch work.

[DragonMaster]

grimus님이 먼저 게시:

Would that 40" 120 Hz 4K Ultrawide be curved, maybe OLED? *dons the drool bib* "Cause that's the one I want, but then I'd have to buy a new GPU ...

Now your talking my 55" 4k 120 hz Samsung that I bought me for last Christmas

[DragonMaster]

Silent Protagonist님이 먼저 게시:

and yes @alex i have quit cigarettes for about 2 weeks now and yes i am using a vape right now at a lowered effectiveness testing one out pretty easy for being 2 weeks in so far (and using video games to keep my mind off smoking)

I quit smoking almost 5 years ago after having smoked for 40 years or so. And believe it or not it only took me 3 days and I was done. Next time your at the doctors get him/her to write you a prescription for Chantix. Its how I was able to quit.

[smr1957]

Avrie님이 먼저 게시:

Ye gads Empress, Now I have this image of you doing the whole 4H thing as a little girl.

She would wrestle the steers to the ground single handedly and brand them

[cfs111]

When you get bored of looking at textures... https://youtu.be/NBR_C6tbim8

[Mephitic]

Ash Spawn in a Giant camp. That's new. Poor Mammoths.

[SIMelissa]

smr1957님이 먼저 게시:

Fo the amount that whole get up cost, you can probably actually buy a very small farm.

Yeah but probably not an air-conditioned tractor to ride around the small farm.

I found a Logitech G29 wheel & pedals on Amazon for a tad more than $200. My son said he wants it, too, and has offered to split the cost. <happy mama!>

[SIMelissa]

I am just now getting back to my ugly yellow tree issue . . .

Sinsling님이 먼저 게시:

Just to expand simelissa, it seems like your problem is your tree texture is something like this:
Draw distance:
<1000 = good
1000-4999 = none
5000-9999 = none
10000+ = bad

Because there are no textures for the 2 middle slots, it maintains using the bad texture until you are close enough then remains good until you are far enough away again.

You need textures in those middle slots so that there is a smooth transition in quality.

What could have happened to make those textures go missing? Or were they never there to begin with? Perhaps I only just noticed them because the enb colors the fall trees so beautifully.

Avrie님이 먼저 게시:

SIMelissa님이 먼저 게시:

Could it be my graphics card? It's the 4GB version of the RX 570. I was using a 2GB card until my son surprised me this one for Christmas.

No, I've seen that before and it's the tree LODs... those are vanilla LODs. What tree mods are you using and do you have DymDOLOD installed?

No tree mods. No DynDOLOD installed.
Sounds like I need both. Is that right?

[Sinsling]

SIMelissa님이 먼저 게시:

I am just now getting back to my ugly yellow tree issue . . .

Sinsling님이 먼저 게시:

Just to expand simelissa, it seems like your problem is your tree texture is something like this:
Draw distance:
<1000 = good
1000-4999 = none
5000-9999 = none
10000+ = bad

Because there are no textures for the 2 middle slots, it maintains using the bad texture until you are close enough then remains good until you are far enough away again.

You need textures in those middle slots so that there is a smooth transition in quality.

What could have happened to make those textures go missing? Or were they never there to begin with? Perhaps I only just noticed them because the enb colors the fall trees so beautifully.

Avrie님이 먼저 게시:

No, I've seen that before and it's the tree LODs... those are vanilla LODs. What tree mods are you using and do you have DymDOLOD installed?

No tree mods. No DynDOLOD installed.
Sounds like I need both. Is that right?

dyndolod should be able to fix the issue. even if you dont have a direct tree mod, you may have something that overwrote a path somehow. a texture pack specifically for those tree should be able to re-write those for you. combine a texture pack and dyndolod and you should get a nice, smooth transition in tree quality.

[SIMelissa]

Thanks. I'll give it a try -- tomorrow, when I have some fresh brain cells.

[Avrie]

[quote=Sinsling;3158630999992200611
dyndolod should be able to fix the issue. even if you dont have a direct tree mod, you may have something that overwrote a path somehow. a texture pack specifically for those tree should be able to re-write those for you. combine a texture pack and dyndolod and you should get a nice, smooth transition in tree quality. [/quote]

You can't make as silk purse out of a sow's ear as the expression goes. DynDOLOD can't fix what isn't there. Those vanilla LOD files will always look that bad until they are replaced.

SIMelissa님이 먼저 게시:

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Have a look at a few of the tree mods. Those trees will be fixed by Realistic Aspen Trees
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4423

But they would also be fixed by some of the tree replacer mods like 3DTrees
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/12371

3DTrees uses different tree meshes and some of them like the aspen are digital scans of real trees. There is a bit of patching involved with this mod, but the trees look great. Either way I would probably recommend creating a LODGen with xEdit at the very least, but DynDOLOD would be preferred.

[Avrie]

Goooooood Morning Tamriel!

It is Loredas thank the divines. Wage slaves rejoice the weekend is here and Avrie wishes you well. Excuse me while I empty the ash pits and rebuild the fires. Ahhhh, much better no? Avrie does so look forward to the weekend. We always start the new batch of mead, and crack a fresh cask of ale, and what little remains of the previous batches goes into making reductions for marinades. Avrie will get back to cleaning shortly, but first things first as we say ...

Brew of the day is Indonesian ... Oh, Avrie likes this blend. Bold with a smooth slightly woody finish, and it makes a very good Lungo as well as ristretto. Shame it isn't single origin... I love doing research on the farms. Oh well, it's on the order more list. Yummy

Checking the hot sheets 17 new ... Bimbettes, beef, pointy sticks and a couple of tweaks for Milhail mods. Check

Fudgyduff has released two more utilities to go with the two he released yesterday.

A Closer Look SSE
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/27737
Adds a key to zoom your camera in. Includes MCM for configuration.

I'm Walkin' Here
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/27742
keeps NPCs from pushing you around when you stand and talk. I wonder if it also keeps NPCs from riding into the back of your horse LOL (Avrie will believe that when he sees it)

Luminous Atronachs by Raxyx7
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/27732
Atronachs emit light. Different colors according to elemental type. ESPLite version also available. This is how the original game should have been 2 cookies. DLed

That's about it, I will give a shout out to Lazman555 for releasing an non replacer version of his female outfits mod

Female Outfits Standalone CBBE Bodyslide
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/26088
Avrie likes the idea that not every NPC will be wearing the same mini dresses. But what a chore to pick and choose ... We like choice, 1 cookie

There, The place looks much better. Avrie will be serving Carrot, potato and dragon stew, and grilled Sabercat in a garlic mead reduction with Snowberries. Good to ward off the night chill and cure what ails you. The fires are stoked, the kettles scrubbed, and the floors are sweeept, Agh! Where's that mop. We-B-Open!

[Mephitic]

Luminous Atronachs looks nice. Installed, and thank you for your daily reviews. They're very useful. (errgh, 336 mods, 212 plugins - the precipice looms).

Arthmoor has been busy again, MO2 tells me another handful of village mods are updated.

[Mephitic]

Ruh roh. Installed a few mods - most of them purely textures but not all.
Also updated a few that were definitely only textures.

But -- loaded the most recent save and got the achievements are disabled warning.
Mind, I don't care about achievements at all but I do have SSE Engine fixes loaded and this message tells me that clearly something is conflicting with it.

Probably. I'll try a fresh start, I have only about 10 hours on this save so I don't feel too badly about it. I hope that fixes it, I'm not looking forward to spending time this weekend troubleshooting when I'd rather be playing.

[update] That appears to have done the trick. At least, saving in and loading in the abandoned prison doesn't trigger the message. Now to go through the MCM thing and get out of there to really confirm.

[Uncle64]

I'm Walkin' Here
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/27742
keeps NPCs from pushing you around when you stand and talk. I wonder if it also keeps NPCs from riding into the back of your horse LOL (Avrie will believe that when he sees it)

Same here. Dont like that feature in the game at all.