Viva New Vegas

A Comprehensive 2020 Fallout New Vegas Modding Guide

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• LOD
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Creating a Separator in Mod Organizer 2

• Right-click in the left pane of MO2 and select All Mods -> Create Separator
• Input LOD into the pop-up and select OK

Installing LOD Assets:

FNVLODGen

Files to install normally:

• Main File - FNVLODGen Resources

- Resources required for proper LOD generation

LOD Additions and Improvements

Install normally

- New low-poly models for FNVLODGen

Less Horrendous Vikki and Vance Casino LOD Mesh

Install normally

- Replaces the terrible LOD model and textures of the Vikki and Vance

ETL - Terrain LOD Noise

Install normally

- Improves the generic LOD noise texture. Edited to lower the texture sizes to reduce shimmering. Original mod by tgspy

Generating LOD:

NOTE: If you did not install your own large-scale texture mods not in the guide, such as NMCs Texture Pack, just install the following normally and ignore the instructions below: FNVLODGen Output

The following steps are only needed if you installed your own large-scale texture mods not in the guide, such as NMCs texture pack:

• Click the button on the toolbar of MO2 and select INI Editor
• Navigate to the Fallout.ini tab
• Find the line that starts with SArchiveList=
• Replace the entire line with the following (needs to all be on one line):
• SArchiveList=Fallout - Invalidation.bsa, Fallout - Textures.bsa, Fallout - Textures2.bsa, Fallout - Meshes.bsa, Fallout - Meshes2.bsa, Fallout - Voices1.bsa, Fallout - Sound.bsa, Fallout - Misc.bsa
• NOTE: This step is only necessary if you used the BSA Decompressor from Core - Tools
• Exit out of the INI Editor and click the button on the top bar of MO2
• Select FNVLODGen (if you do not see FNVLODGen listed, go to the Core - MO2 Config section for instructions on how to add it to MO2)
• In the Arguments box, add -o:"FNVLODGen path\Output"
• Make sure to change the path to the actual file path for your modding folder, for example -o:"C:\Games\Fallout New Vegas Modding\FNVLODGen\Output" (you will need to manually create the Output folder)
• Makes sure you keep the -fnv argument as well, separated from the -o argument by a space
• Select Apply and then exit
• Run FNVLODGen through MO2
• In the left pane, right-click and select Select All
• In the right pane, change both Atlas size options to 8192
• Check the Terrain LOD option and un-check the Trees LOD option (Tree LOD is non-functional in New Vegas, actual LOD for trees is included in Object LOD)
• Leave the rest of the settings default (your default settings maybe be different than mine, and some settings will be grayed-out, but you should still leave them be
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• Select Generate
• Let the generation process run (took around 50 mins on my i5 7500) and close the program once the message LOD Generator finished (you can close this application now) appears
• Navigate to the file path you put in the Arguments box
• Control+right-click on the meshes and textures folders, add them to a single archive (with 7-zip or WinRar), and install the archive normally through MO2
• Title the mod FNVLODGen Output

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