Building Oblivion

Xelene · 5 Jul 2011 at 17:15

The engne is always going to do it sadly

It's mostly when you transition from DistantLOD to local, I get the landscape popping about and it is distracting. The other one is grass clumps popping into existence.

Xelene · 5 Jul 2011 at 21:49

It mullers my framerate too. The author of LODgen isn't talking about what happens when you install RAEVWD, and again it's probably one of those where not having 2GB VRAM hurts. Delete Oblivion\Data\DistanLOD\*.lod to get rid of it.

Xelene · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:08

daninthemix said:
Yeah I've had to dump that folder (11,000+ files!) as my fps was horrendous. Would love to be able to use LODgen though.

Wait for the script

Xelene · 5 Jul 2011 at 22:35

no idea, look at the console commands - there's probably one.

Xelene · 6 Jul 2011 at 22:47

daninthemix said:
More problems....since Better Cities my FPS in parts of the Imperial City drops - I kid you not - to around 5 fps.

Is my computer really that feeble??

Try with the FPS patches. Like I told you I suspect you are getting texture memory overload. (especially as you are running full fat QTP3) Open console, sdt 13, tdt, what does texture memory say?

I get around 12-15fps in the Waterfront which is the heaviest area, my card has 2GB VRAM - other than that you have a better rig than mine. The LOD stuff around the Imperial City will murder your frame rates. Look at my suggestions as to what to install and what not to install with RAEVWD.

will13 said:
I've ran into a probelm with All Natural (Well it happens with Bettter Citys, but that needs All Natural to run anyway), Oblivion is just closing straight too desktop everytime its launched, Oblivion works fine with all the other mods I've installed though

Better Cities doesn't need All Natural to run. Read the docs, make sure you've installed it all correctly and run Boss (READ THE OUTPUT WITH A FINE TOOTHCOMB), rebuild Bashed Patch.

Xelene · 6 Jul 2011 at 23:47

will13 said:
I got it too work by building it as a OMOD in OBMM

Probably you picked a couple of mods inside that conflicted with each other. Bash decided to redo all of the wizard code which has broken a bunch of stuff, so we have to wait while the downstream mods fix themselves.

Xelene · 7 Jul 2011 at 18:52

OBGE update.

BTW: to respond to the question about the next update. I'll update when we got MSAA on ATI working or definitly rejected. I optimized a lot of the effects, so actually in reality it should be a real performance update (if nothing else).

Xelene · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:02

sldsmkd said:
When RAEVWD runs it generates *.LOD files in Oblivion\Data\GeneratedLOD - each one corresponds to a cell on the map. (You can see X and Y coordinates in the file name).

I've cobbled together a whitelist of cells that have something of interest in them and are in the more open areas (so not behind half a mile of forest). The script just deletes the LOD from areas you are less likely to see. It has around 60 cells whitelisted (out of maybe a 1000) - helps framerates a lot. It means you may get statues and such popping up - but the key dungeons and landmarks should stay viewable when distant.

It does the same thing as some of the other VWD mods, but uses the much improved meshes from RAEVWD. (The other mods just display the full detail meshes)

Been doing some work on this, and while the principle is good it's an awful lot of work. Mostly fairly tedious work at that, basically it involves travelling around a lot with full VWD, making a note of what you can actually see / think is important, then visiting each of those areas and jotting down the map locations.

There may be some way to extract the data out of this map:

http://www.uesp.net/maps/obmap/obmap.shtml

But i'm mostly working against this http://faqsmedia.ign.com/faqs/image/article/703/703867/geleto2_es4o_worldmap.jpg and this http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5703

Xelene · 18 Jul 2011 at 15:02

daninthemix said:
Bump OP, have you paused on this for now?

Got sidetracked. I'll finish it up this week, not much to do now.

Been learning Python.

Xelene · 20 Aug 2011 at 09:27

Pighardia said:
I was just about to post in this thread actually. I hope you are going to continue with this sldsmkd.

I will, i'm just kind of busy with other stuff at the moment.

mintybrown said:
I have a slight problem though: my view distance is 'white' in the distance.

That's one of the shaders, SSGI I think. There's some issues with fogging at the moment (or were last time I looked).

jp_bl_68 said:
I can't find any of those lines in my .ini file. Do I just add them?

They should be there if you have run the game once.

Xelene · 27 Nov 2011 at 17:50

David_VI said:
Anyone whos using OOO can you tell me how to know if its working? I'm new to this but I have Oblivion working with OOO and Unique Landscapes but not having played it vanilla i'm unsure how to tell anything is working.

Is there somewhere I can go that will have tougher enemies to see if OOO is working?

Cheers
David

I never got it working, but from what I hear if you leave the Imperial Isle you will see tougher monsters.

Xelene · 27 Nov 2011 at 17:52

madindehead said:
I'm a bit confused when it comes to making the OGBE package. Is it enough to simply rename the folders as they are? Or do things need to moved around. Sadly, that bit isn't really very clear sadly. Would be easier maybe with a screen shot to show the folder layout again. Especially with so many shader folders. Installing OBGE sadly killed my game, and after uninstalling, I don't get normal water textures anymore

OBGE is best to go to the TES forums for support. The way they organise stuff with that changes on a daily basis.

Xelene · 6 Nov 2013 at 22:24

I thought about following this guide, but then I took an arrow to the knee.