Andrew Herweyer

Upgraded Stock IV Vegetation

Added 2024-04-25 12:14:24 +0000 UTC

The release of the Upgraded Stock IV Vegetation is now ready for download!! I wanted to offer them for free for the public as a thank you for everyone for the support while tools and other methods are created for RevIVe. Thank you also for being patient while these were fixed and modified.

A big thank you to Shvab for creating his awesome wind shader which allows all these features.
A big thank you to Utopiadeferred for his amazing program to help fix broken everything model related.
A big thank you to AssaultKifle47 for helping me with this shader as well.
A big thank you to Icelaglace and NAVZAHED for helping with direction and guidance for many many things.

All models have been upgraded with new features which are listed as follows:

2 sided leaves
new leaves diffuse textures
norm and spec maps for leaves
leaves translucency (not true translucency but a functional one for IV)
some updated norm maps and added spec maps for barks
new wind shader with customizable wind and spec settings
real shadows from leaves
vertex AO added (gives much more depth to vegetation especially on cloudy days)
new vertex normals for much more accurate leaves canopy lighting
all embedded textures so tex dictionaries are no longer used
all models set to a draw distance of 299

ENB trees settings in enbseries.ini is no longer used All settings are changed (wind, spec, and bump) through the ODR file when exported from OpenIV Any textures are customizable but will keep vertex AO plus vertex normals within the model

WARNING If the models are imported and exported into or out of 3ds Max, it will break vertices, smoothing groups, and vertex normals for lighting

The download is in ⁠#links in our Discord Server.
https://discord.gg/WXFJuUVSFc

Enjoy!!