Renovation

Tier 1 - Covering the Bulk

These are meant to be installed in this overwrite order to achieve good results. Most problematic textures will be overwritten, and you’ll end up with the most cohesive solution that doesn’t involve a ton of file selection.

Stopping after this section will give a usable result, although not complete.

Landscape Texture Improvements

This one first since it’s not truly a texture mod, but a landscape edit that fixes many of the worst landscape seams. This is not a hard requirement, but it’s a great mod to have. This is only a plugin - for load order, follow the author’s recommendation. It should go directly under the base game and DLC plugins, even before YUP. For TTW users, it should go after the TTW (and hotfix, if any) plugin and below YUPTTW, but before anything else.

NV users (assuming they are using YUP) should use the YUP patch. TTW users should not use the YUP patch.

Wasteland Flora and Terrain Overhaul

Use the Fertile version. You will also NEED to use the plugin from Wasteland Flora and Terrain Overhaul (Patched) to avoid crashing.

DO NOT use the Honest Hearts add-on. It will cause crashes and visual oddities.

You will want this mod to add LOD and avoid pop-in as much as possible.

TTW DC Flora Overhaul

For TTW users, I recommend this as well or the mod below (don’t use both).

Currently, only the Dead version is fully working. This mod does require a few special considerations -

First, you will need the fixed ESP from my discord - the Nexus version will have quite a bit of missing LOD and significant pop-in.

Second, you will need to generate LOD after installing. There is a separate set of fixed meshes to remove some visual artifacts, available on my discord. Leave these disabled until after you have generated LOD. After generating LOD, activate the fixed UVs mod, making sure it’s lower than TTW DC Flora Overhaul in MO2’s left panel.

There is also WIP testing alternative with some vastly superior tree meshes available on my discord. This is still in-progress so has some visual issues.

If you want something a bit more “ready to use”, the next mod may be your jam.

TTW Northern Greenery

An alternative to above - the improvements to the above mods are included for a high-quality and gorgeous look to the northern part of the DC map.

The only caveat is that it adds most of the flora to the northern areas of the map, and leaves the southern area mostly as-is. Honestly, to me this is more than sufficient as well as being very friendly to the atmosphere if the game.

Highly, highly recommended.

NMC's Texture Pack for New Vegas

Yes, even TTW users can stick with only the New Vegas version under this new guide. It will cover a handful of items not covered by other packs. Use the Small or Medium versions. What this mod covers is very limited in scope, and the Small version will usually suffice. Choose a pack size (again, small is normally sufficient), and download/install all files for that pack, in order.

You will also want the “Patch for all size packs” under optional files.

POCO BUENO Texture Pack

Another baseline pack to cover some additional items. Yes, I intentionally selected Poco Bueno instead of Ojo Bueno. This eliminates some problematic textures and the infamously borked Nuka Cola Machine.

I also recommend the higher res water tank download.

Fallout 3 HD Overhaul

Yes, this is for both TTW and vanilla NV players. In some ways, NV is literally just a paid DLC for Fallout 3. It recycled a load of assets from FO3 and its DLCs, so this pack has a massive amount of coverage in NV. TTW users should also use all of the DLC packs for this mod as well. Avoid using the water and LOD packs.

If you decide not to use this pack, you may want to increase the quality of NMC, and use Ojo Bueno instead of Poco. Remember to hide/delete the Nuka Machine and disable the esp if you use Ojo (located under data\meshes\clutter\vendingmachine).

Hide or delete the LOD-related folders and files for this mod when installing. The important ones to hide are under textures\landscapes\lod, but ideally search for everything with “LOD” and delete it (except for the hoLODisk). Alternately, you can simply disable FO3HD when generating LOD for an easy workaround.

Performance warning - these textures are oversized. If you have an 8gb+ GPU, they should be fine in terms of performance, however may increase stutters and definitely will increase load times. Aside from using up extra hard drive space. I strongly recommend downscaling using this process for the pack, since it contains a large amount of unneeded 4k/8k textures.

You can use the main pack, as well as the DLC packs. As I mentioned, please 100% avoid the LOD pack - it will break this guide. The water is just not very good, but you are welcome to try it. Alternately, you may want to use the following DLC packs for Anchorage and Point Lookout - I find them to be generally better looking.

4K Anchorage Snowscape - I recommend the 4k/2k option with the 8k rocks optional file. 8K seems overkill until you realize how they are stretched and split - trust me, this is one thing you want in 8k.

4K Lookout Swampscape - as with the last one, I recommend the 4k/2k mix option. You are free to use the grass retex as well.

Superpele's Disordered Texture Pack

While not super crispy, this is aesthetically one of the absolute best packs for any Fallout game. While coverage is limited, what it does covers it covers extremely well.

A texture guide exclusive.

Nut Vegas - Landscapes

One of the biggest changes from previous versions of the texture guide - Nut Vegas is a landscape texture pack that will cover both wastelands. I’ve found it to be a better fit aesthetically for this new guide, and I highly recommend it. I recommend the MEDIUM version for 8gb and larger GPUs, and the LOW for anything less, regardless of your monitor resolution. Even on my RTX 4090, Nut’s HIGH preset has too much VRAM load and I do not recommend it.

Legacy Reborn is a solid alternative, I’ve just found it doesn’t mesh as well with the rest of the guide. Many people do prefer it though, so it is definitely a viable option.

I do not recommend George’s Landscape Retextures. It has a few technical issues and some artistic choices that I really dislike.

If you find you dislike the rock textures in Nut Vegas, feel free to try Nut's Rock Hard Rock Retexture. It does require a quick step to fix the file structure:

go to meshes\landscape\landscape

• move DLC04 and Rocks folder to meshes\landscape

• (optional) remove duplicate landscape folder

(thanks to konradl for that fix)

Please note you will want to use either the 1k or 2k option (I recommend 1k) as well as the LOD file for these to look correct.

Finally, for some reason there is some sub-optimal texturing on rocks in the Capital Wastes for TTW users.

You have two options - you can use Legacy rocks only instead of Nuts by installing Legacy before all other texture packs, letting it get almost totally overwritten (waste of space), or pull out the rockcanyoncluster mesh and texture files and add them as a separate mod, and enjoy.

Alternately, (this is my personal solution), pull those files from UHQ Terrain.

To do so, download from the link. Then create a working folder either on your desktop or wherever is convenient. Name the folder “textures” and inside create a subfolder named “landscape”. Now open the zip file you downloaded and copy rockcanyoncluster01.dds and rockcanyoncluster01_n.dds into your working folder, inside the “landscape” subfolder you created. After you’ve done that, zip your working folder using your favorite tool (Windows works just fine for this) and manually install as a mod into MO2. Load it below all other landscape texture packs.

Roads Redone (Road Retexture)

A great add-on for Nut Vegas. This may cause some pixel smear on slower response monitors. Optional file is optional - use if you want, don’t if you don’t. I recommend both the main and optional files.

Parallax series -- Rocks variety

An excellent add-on for Mojave rocks, with a few caveats. First, make sure you have the required mods noted on the mod page, and follow that page for overwrite order placement (Wasted LOD should be above this mod).

Second, you will need to choose a version. While the parallax occlusion feature that gives rocks depth looks great most of the time, due to limitations of parallax occlusion as a technology, they can look odd in some instances.

I recommend trying the Occlusion version to see if it bugs you. This mod can be swapped midgame for the alternate version, so no harm in testing.

For the 4k versus vanilla options - the 4k version is not as heavy as the mod author anticipated, but still may be too much for lower spec machines. On an 8gb+ GPU, I would go for the 4k version. On anything less, or if your machine is already struggling with the rest of the guide, use the vanilla version.

Note: While this mod is placed here for organizational purposes, Wasted LOD Mojave and Parallax Rocks should be BELOW your other LOD mods in MO2’s left panel, with Wasted LOD before Parralax in order. This is the one exception to all LOD mods being after all texture mods.

Inviting Vaults - A vault retexture

Wonderful vanilla+ look and well-done upscale (a relative rarity in upscales).

Better Grass

An esp-less modernization of the old favorite Enhanced Grass. I recommend leaving the Vertex Lighting option disabled as it can look very weird.