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Changelogs
Version 2.25
Additions:
Caesar's Palace, a new casino model, has been added out back, behind the Ultra-Luxe, where the hotel asset from Fallout 3 used to be.
New apartments and hotels around the exterior of the Strip
- Pyramid Hotel (by the Golden Gate)
- the Desert Inn (by the Gomorrah)
- various apartment filler behind the Lucky 38
Active radio tower nearby the New York, New York
Even more signs, mainly around the new buildings
Minor decor and lighting placement
Plus some more greenery because everybody likes palm trees :)
Removals:
The hotel asset behind the Ultra-Luxe has been fuckin' yeeted because the LOD sucks and its way too distracting
Same thing with the skyscraper assets making up the New York, New York that had no LOD either
Sign assets with person and performer names on them have been nailed over with wood planks to remove the namedrops
- this is to avoid timeline and lore errors
Leeiyon statues near the Tops have been removed, for fear of causing crashes, and for aesthetics *sparkle sparkle*
Speaking of the Tops, the prerelease door that was accidentally revealed/ "restored" has been covered over properly
Probably some other minor things I can't remember
Adjustments/ Fixes:
Broken skyscraper assets for the New York, New York have been replaced with better buildings that actually HAVE LOD and still fit the look
The Landmark Tower fell over to a bad storm and now its half-embedded in the ground
That fountain which used to be in the middle of the road now reappears with the Pyramid Hotel!
Circus Circus buildings that were set up by the Tops have been repositioned to no longer clip
Pedestrian overpass asset lowered, so it no longer appears to defy gravity
Names of Fallout lore performers have been added to the Old Vegas signs in place of the IRL names
Repositioning of the LOD iterations for the Strip, so its more consistent in areas like McCarran, the Mojave, and Freeside
Patches:
The Strip Walls Restored patch is now completely hole-proof, your favorite pack of Vegas engineers have now ensured a solid wall experience
- by that I mean the walls for Freeside, the Strip, and the Mojave now operate as expected
All LOD problems with every version should now be fixed, as far as I'm aware
Version 2.0
> THE "OPEN" FIRE UPDATE
or "how to cry learning multibound culling"
Removals:
Some major features and buildings have been removed/ replaced entirely, including -
- the Astennu Pyramid
- Astennu's Mt. Hotshit Volcano
- Astennu's Neon Spiral Decor
- NCR Embassy Fountain
- Ultra-Luxe Parking Lot Fountain Flower Display
Some signs and decor have been removed/ replaced entirely, including -
- New Frontier
- Palm Spa
- Thunderbird
- El Rancho
- Santa Anita
- Liquors arrow
- Tropicana
- Tower of Pizza
- Ultra Luxe exterior neon and street display
All adjusted light sources have been removed in order to maintain compatibility with Strip Lighting Overhaul and for performance
Additions:
One and a "half" new background casino buildings! -
- the Golden Gate
- the Global Hotel (as an addon to the previously included All Roads model)
The New York, New York now has redone skyscraper placement and building additions for both the Strip and Mojave versions
All Roads comic buildings (Cassino 7, Dice Casino, Iris, Global Hotel and Pig Strip Club) got redone placement and scaling for the Strip and Mojave
Landmark Tower moved to behind the Ultra Luxe to fill out the space more cleanly
Circus Circus now has more hotel buildings for a grander sense of scale
Circus Circus Marquee moved off the street
Some more signs and decor have now been added in place of the removed ones, including -
- Flamingo
- Castaway
- Stardust
- Tube Bar
- Desert Rose
- Westward Ho
- Dunes
- Mint Rollin' entry display
Revamped Ultra-Luxe parking lot, now more of a theater dance centre...
You can now walk along the Pedestrian Walkway near Vault 21 courtesy of prodlimen
Altered audio sources -
- NCR Monorail now has more variance throughout the day, so the same order of lines isn't repeated 24/7
- New audio source at the NCR Embassy/ Michael Angelo's corner
- New audio source at the Ultra-Luxe Parking Lot
Volumetric lighting around the Strip has been completely retouched, aiming for better color and layers to the night sky
More greenery near the road, including a line of lit up palm trees akin to real-world Vegas
LOD model placement in the Mojave and Freeside adjusted, hopefully still avoiding disappearing acts
Some general lived-in clutter that doesn't disrupt the cleaner and "oasis" feel of the Strip
Simple Open Strip:
The entire mod has been remade in order to work off of both Lightweight Strip Overhaul and Simple Open Strip as a base
Occlusion culling from Simple Open Strip has been carried over and refined for Brightweight Open
The whole project now being developed with Simple Open Strip in mind means that prior versions will be left as legacy with, possibly, some polish patches
Such a massive alteration of course means that a new save will be required to run 2.0 properly
Make sure to use version-appropriate patches and material!
Fixes:
A heap of mesh optimizations, courtesy of zzjay, are now finally included in the main package
Several problematic glowing buildings which were too bright to look at have now been edited for a much more pleasant appearance
Odd placement of roads to make a parking lot now replaced with a solid concrete surface
Lighting oddities as a result of the placed light sources are now no longer an issue
Some use of imposter meshes in the Strip bypasses a lack of LOD models while ensuring quality
Fixed the Ultra-Luxe not having proper glow in the Mojave
NPC navigation issues as a result of poorly placed statics should now no longer be an issue
Patches:
Updated for 2.0 -
- Strip Walls Restored
- Iguazu - A Mall in the Strip
- FPGE - Functional Post-Game Ending
Version 1.70
Fixes:
Several alterations to the exterior worldspace LOD setups, now visible from
- Freeside
- FreesideNorth
- Mojave
Better placement of filler and optimization of casinos for LOD in order to avoid, at all costs, large disappearing buildings
The Astennu and small entertainment buildings do not have exterior space LOD, just placement, this is known but worked around with location choice to minimize its impact
All other buildings appear as normal
Some lighting added in around the exterior Mojave New York, New York
Version 1.60
Additions:
Better lighting around -
- the New York, New York
- Astennu
- the Tops
Better volumetric placement and coloring
More decor for Astennu's Mt. Hotshit Volcano
Fixes:
The blue lights on the statues in front of the Ultra-Luxe now have probable sources, instead of being summoned from the floor
Astennu Neon Spiral Decor now has more sensible texture-mapping, looks less like a mash of weird pixels
Removed some light sources for better performance, replaced some with volumetrics
Removed some buildings for the Mojave Worldspace New York, New York and unseen filler buildings to hopefully fix LOD generation issues
Added Lonesome Road as a master in order to fill out the Mojave Worldspace New York, New York with better-fitting and fewer-poly models
Version 1.50
> THE "GLOW-UP"DATE
or "how to cry porting 3d models to nifs"
Additions:
Two new background casinos -
- New York, New York
- Astennu
Major update to the entirety of the Strip's lighting -
- New volumetrics
- Colored lighting in spades
- Imagine actually being able to see past the fucking streetlamps with all this neon
- Well, now you absolutely can and it looks gooood
- Tested and minimized flickering
New decor around the Luxe Square
More signs, redid some placement
Unique models -
- Astennu Pyramid
- Astennu Liyohns
- Astennu Mt. Hotshit Volcano
- Astennu Neon Spiral Decor
- New York, New York Statue of Liberty
Concept art-inspired watchtower and filler buildings for scale
LOD-enabled models of the new casinos have been placed in Freeside and the Mojave, to be viewable from a distance
Fixes:
A patch of street by the Vault 21 Gift Shop has been re-aligned
Decreased reach of the Circus Circus music, so its not as jarring
Some new collision boxes to make it harder to walk out of the Strip barriers
Fountain by the NCR Embassy has been marked as an obstacle - NPCs should attempt to path around it now
Patches:
Cleaned Brightweight Strip Walls Restored file, as it should be :D
Removed obstructing wall from the Strip Walls Restored file
Version 1.10
Fixes:
Ultra-Luxe window flickering and lights disappearing at certain angles completely fixed, now at least 90% better
Carried over YUP edits to the Ultra-Luxe static, maybe now 5% better... so 95% better in total
Patches:
Edited Iguazu patch to be a basic new .esp with the changed records only, meaning you can merge it just fine and its a lot easier to keep updating this mod
New FPGE patch, carrying over the three record edits - should be fully compatible now
New Strip Walls Restored "patch", standalone - but I heavily recommend you download the original mod if simply to endorse it (might have bugs, if so lemme know)
