Are you re-using any proxies from the Novigrad LOD mod by BoostIn4Kix? Aside from the tower problem, there were numerous other.bugs, such as see-through black triangles.
I assume White Orchard utilizes most of Velen content and no special work is required for WO. Skellige terrain is filled with mountains, hills, etc. and proxy rework would probably make little difference.
What about Toussaint? I would love to get started on it if that has not been done yet and although my modding of meshes was limited so far, it was an area I wanted to improve skill-wise. There are also stone border meshes, detail of which improves visibly at short distance and increasing both hideDistance and LOD distance had 0 impact. It could be a proxy, but which one?
Aside from mesh LOD, there are also short FX and light source draw distances. I know MoreShadows mods increase some of those, but far from all. I think LOD mod would benefit from rework of those, something I have already done. So far:
- increased ALL template light source distances and range by 2x
- added shadows to more non-complex sources (with 0 glitches so far), such as bonfires
- increased CookedFX draw/view distance by 2x for all light source templates
- improved light flickering offset for some torches to reduce low-resolution visibility on surrounding shadows
- re-enabled CookedFX for smoke and other FX for many light sources that CDPR disabled
Furthermore:
- cut all non-0 LOD and increased all light source w2p FX draw distances by 2-3x, where autoHideDistance/range parameter was present, enabled sub-frame emission to all
- cut all non-0 LOD, increased draw distance of all quest, environment, level, and general fire, fog, smoke, cloud, gameplay, etc. w2p FX by 2-3x where possible, added sub-frame emission to all
- added wind influence to some FX
I know BetterFX did some of the LOD cutting and IPS added wind influence, but not LOD distance doubling or sub-frame emission from what I could tell. I started from scratch vanilla w2p files because I wanted full control of all the changes.
I can post it all here if MoreShadows authors do not mind because I did use their light source templates (and many more) as it would be stupid to use vanilla ones, considering it was for personal use.
I think it would be a good addition to LOD mod and I could care less for my files being used or credit given. I mostly want to contribute and be part of the effort, BUT that Discord group hates me, does not respond to me, and would rather re-do the same themselves or not do it at all or have someone else do it
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It sucks that TW3 fans don't get all the content they could or have to wait longer due to this BS.