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Increased draw distance for Toussaint

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About This Mod

It's not a new mod, it's an update for INCREASED DRAW DISTANCE, one of the greatest mods made by sjbox, so thank you to him, not me. This new version works with DLC Blood and Wine, increasing lod and draw distance for many Toussaint meshes and textures. I just redesigned this old fashion to work with two DLCs. For HOS, posters and NPC you should use my mod: modAioNPCforIDD. Why? Because modIncreasedToussaintDrawDistance and modAioNPCforIDD are planned to work together. But they will work separately.

This is the first version that isn't 100 percent stable for ModIncreasedToussaintDrawDistance, even if it took over 80 hours of work (attempts and failures) to create this "stable" version, but it's still not perfect, and I don't know if it will ever be. However, this new version can be used in both the Toussaint region and Vanilla, but in order to make this mod correct in Toussaint, I had to remove some mesh from the original mod. So for the vanilla region, modIncreasedDrawDistance_2_0_3 is actually the best, even if I don't think you can see any visible difference when you're walking on Vanilla land. So if you don't want to replace the fashion every time you go to Toussaint, you can leave ModIncreasedToussaintDrawDistance for the whole region. But the best solution is to make two different IDDmod, one for Toussaint and save modIncreasedDrawDistance_2_0_3 for Vanilla. This way we can activate modIncreasedDrawDistance_2_0_3 and disable ModIncreasedToussaintDrawDistance when you are in Novigrad, Skellig etc.. And vice versa when you are in Toussaint. But creating a whole new mod with bootstrap is now beyond my competence in modding. So I hope that someone has this opportunity, I contacted sjbox original author, but it does not seem active anymore, I hope that it will be active again someday.



The effect and purpose of this new version:


This version is intended to make the modIDD work as intended in the original idea (Vanilla, DLC and NPC).



Installation and Removal :


-All installation and removal processes are exactly the same as the original fashion.


-If you have already installed the original mod, to install this new version you just need to remove modIncreasedDrawDistance_2_0_3 from the mods folder and replace it with ModIncreasedToussaintDrawDistance and all.  


-I tested this new version on version 1.32 Goty on GOG galaxy. I can't guarantee that this new version will work on an older version or on a non-Goty version of the game. All my tests were done with a value of 10 for all fashion settings.



Requirements :


-In the custom file you have to change " SpawnedLimit=150 "to " SpawnedLimit=100 " for Toussaint only, this corresponds to lowering the value to Extreme to hight. With this value I didn't have a T-bug on the NPC in Toussaint (it may remain in a frozen pose for the child, but it's a bug already present in the game). Personally I can go with a value of 120 without any bugs (if I exceed this value, the bug starts to appear), so I put my value on 115.

For vanilla, you can adjust the value to 300 (that's the maximum, and it's more of a placebo than a real tweak), even though the value I've never seen any bugs in the NPC in vanilla.



-I strongly advise you to adjust the quality of the distance between the shadows (see my tweet file) and use Holgar96's modHQfaceV3 for better rendering.



-All other tweets I use for NPC and shadows are in "My Tweek" (see the green part of this presentation).

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