Boston Natural Surroundings

Endorsements

10,111
Unique DLs

--
Total DLs

--
Total views

--
Version

3.0

Download:
Manual

0 of 0

File information

Last updated

24 November 2023 6:02PM

Original upload

23 March 2018 8:07PM

Created by

Silverfox600

Uploaded by

Silverfox600

Virus scan

Some files not scanned

Tags for this mod

Lore-Friendly

Terrain

Models/Meshes

Textures

Foliage (Plants)

Overhaul

Works with Next-Gen Update

Current section

Viewing:

About this mod

Version 3.0 revives the classic take on what BNS started out to be, inspired by fallout 76.

Requirements

DLC requirements

DLC name
Automatron
Far Harbor
Vault-Tec Workshop
Nuka World

Mods requiring this file

Mod name	Notes
4estGimp - Boston Natural Surroundings Tree Trim	Required file. Trimming a few trees.
A Little Piece of Far Harbor - A Egret Tours Marina Blueprint	Don't really needed
Advanced Needs 76 - Wood Chopping	<- Optional
Alentours naturels de Boston
America Rising 2 - eXoCompat Patches	Required for the 'Boston Natural Surroundings' patch.
Anom's Sanctuary Redux - SS2 - BNS - Riverfix Patch	Necessary
BNS 3 Tree Trim	Hard. BNS Trees 3, Default version (Not green)
BNS Trees Only-xrayy Winter addon	you need the 2.4 trees only version under old files
BOREALIS - Landscape Retexture	Required for the LOD pack
Boston Natural Surroundings and Immersive Wasteland Grass - Compatibility Patch
Boston Natural Surroundings Chinese translation
Boston Natural Surroundings dirt road fix	Necessary
Boston Natural Surroundings DV	Zwingend benötigt
Boston Natural Surroundings Extended	Version 3.0
Boston Natural Surroundings Performance Textures	REQUIRED to be installed first
Boston Natural Surroundings Retextured	this mod is a requirement
Cannibal Toast's PRP Patch Compendium
Fallout 76 Inspired Autumn Flora Overhaul	Required main file
Grass Is Always Greener - Boston Natural Surroundings - Prewar Grass - Merged	Not required
Haru's The World After	Optional
Horizon patch BNS Trees	Trees only. Not tested with BNS Landscape.
Minuteman Watchtowers - Plenty o' Exploration Patch	Optional patch included
Miscellanous Performance Optimization - PRP
MOFAM - An Advanced Guide and Modlist for Fallout 4
RobCo - Advanced Needs 76 Wood Chopping	<- Optional
Some Scrap Recipes	Only for the all tress scrappable file
Traducao do Mod Boston Natural Surroundings

Permissions and credits

Credits and distribution permission

Other user's assets All the assets in this file belong to the author, or are from free-to-use modder's resources
Upload permission You are not allowed to upload this file to other sites under any circumstances
Modification permission You are allowed to modify my files and release bug fixes or improve on the features so long as you credit me as the original creator
Conversion permission You are not allowed to convert this file to work on other games under any circumstances
Asset use permission You are allowed to use the assets in this file without permission as long as you credit me
Asset use permission in mods/files that are being sold You are not allowed to use assets from this file in any mods/files that are being sold, for money, on Steam Workshop or other platforms
Asset use permission in mods/files that earn donation points You are allowed to earn Donation Points for your mods if they use my assets
Console modding permission This mod will not be available on Bethesda.net for console users

Author notes

All permissions are only granted for the mod framework.

File credits

Impulseman45 for new tree models and textures.

Donation Points system

Please log in to find out whether this mod is receiving Donation Points

Translations Russian Portuguese Mandarin Italian German French

Translations available on the Nexus

Language	Name
Russian Author:Snoopy81S	Boston natural surroundings Russian localization
Portuguese Author:Oruam	Traducao do Mod Boston Natural Surroundings
German Author:Taurec	Boston Natural Surroundings DV
Mandarin Author:GEKSSL	Boston Natural Surroundings Chinese translation
French Author:from Silverfox600 and translated by Sternjager	Alentours naturels de Boston
Italian Author:Roger08	Boston Natural Surroundings - Traduzione Italiana

Changelogs

Version 3.0
- Removed most trees from beaches as requested by some.
- Added aspen and elms to the marsh area.
- Removed all changes from the glowing sea including weather changes.
- Removed all the weather changes present in 3.0-Beta.
- Added goodneighbor and diamond city fix by Terenor82.
- Removed floating trees at CIT building after destroyed.
- Removed immisive lighting from trees and grass.
- Cleaned my esp from all dirty edits.
- Split mod into 2 seperate modules namely landscape and trees (description in download tab)
- Generated new LOD.
Version 2.4
- Spruce trees recreated to offer more density and also a more realistic look.
- Scots pine added sparsely to the worldspace.
- 3d lods this time and no more billboards.
- New grasses in 3 different tones for 3 of the main regions i focused on.
- Some plant and rock retextures to better fit the look i was going for.
Version 2.2
- newly made trees and lod from scratch that offer better performance as the poly count on them are lower.
- newly made grass along with ground textures to only enhance the vanilla landscape.
- 2 versions added 1.the main version, and 2.the trees only version that many of you requested.
- mod made from scratch so you wont see all the ground and rock textures from my previous version.
- only added grass and trees to enhance the vanilla look and to blend in nicely with the dead environment so v.2.2 is very lite weight compared to 2.0.
Version 2.0.0
- new high quality textures for ground landscapes, not all only grass rock and dirt textures.
- new high quality rock textures.
- pine trees redone and proper LOD meshes made by me.
- new grass and plant textures made by me.
- higher quality LOD using NeuraLOD by Payload.
- fixed the trees clipping trough the vertibird at fort strong.
- added scrap recipe's for the workshop trees.
- did some optimization in some areas where trees where too dense.
- Added a No - DLC version for those who do not own all of the DLC but compatible with any number of DLC's you might own.
Version 1.30
- Removed the floating trees at the CIT ruins.
- Made the pine trees standalone from far harbor to not replace any vanilla trees as it is fully custom assets.
- Made a lot of changes to textures such as towning down saturation and changing some textures to make it more balanced.
- Fixed the floating tree at the vault sign of vault 111.
- Noticed that there was a lot of trees clipping through the bridges with my pine versions and is fixed now.
- Fixed the vanilla trees being too thick in the terrain dds.
- Swapped the hero tree with the redpinefull within the lore friendly version and collision is now fixed.
Version 1.26C
- Added new textures for the pine trees.
- Removed the record causing CTD mentioned by BOBtheMaster.
Version 1.26B
- Added a new texture fot the pine trees.
- Removed the record causing CTD mentioned by BOBtheMaster.
Version 1.26A
- Added a new texture for the pine trees.
- Compressed the normal and specular textures mentioned by Hamper only for the 1.26A version as the rest of the versions dont have any normals and specular textures.
- Removed the record causing CTD mentioned by BOBtheMaster.
Version 1.26.2
- Cleared the errors in xedit mentioned by likeaboss58.
- Added double grass density to all esp's for vanilla grass for the bonus versions main download.
- Added unmodified grass density esp replacements for the bonus main download.
Version 1.26
- Added grass density esp's for the new versions.
- Diamond city and nuka world still the same as 1.22 just updated version numbers to prevent confusion.
- Tweaked the new elm trees movement for more performance when close to them.
- Removed the record causing CTD from the mod framework and updated the institute LOD esp to prevent the LOD bug.
- Removed the record causing CTD from the basic version and removed errors from the nuka world esp.
Version 1.22
- Made 3 new versions - 1. Tall pine trees covering the commonwealth 2. A mixture between green maple trees and pines 3. A totally vanilla version featuring commonwealth and nuka world.
- Made diamond city and nuka world addons instead of being merged with the main mod.
- Moved the workshop trees to a vanilla category - under resources/Misc.
- Fixed the LOD error that was occuring in previous versions.
Version 1.20F
- Reworked grasses to be more dense and more ground covering and also changed the grass textures to a normal green.
- Amazing New trees courtesy of Impulseman45.
- Added a no nukaworld version for those who requested it.
- Reworked the workshop trees a bit now you will find the new trees in there as well.
- Added standard grass density esp's for all the grass versions for better performance.
- Trees only version also added with the new update.
- Added no daimond city esp's for all versions of the new version.
- Updated the textures for the institute trees within the mod framework.
Version 1.12F
- Updated nuka world landscape with hand placed trees, retextured grasses and Lod terrain and objects.
- Updated far harbor by generating Lod objects and terrain and changing some grasses.
- Added a trees only version.

Donations

Straight donations accepted

Donate

Please be Sure to Enable Precombines as this Mod don't Break them by Checking these Lines in your Fallout4.ini and Fallout4Custom.ini:

[General]
bUseCombinedObjects=1
bPreCulledObjectsEnabled=1

BOSTON NATURAL SURROUNDINGS

   A Few Things to Note:

* 3.0 Features Various Trees Inspired by Fallout 76 Ranging from Maples, Elms, Pines, Firs and Aspen.

* All Areas Covered Except for the Glowing Sea as Requested.

* Improved LOD to Some of the Trees that Needed it.

* 3.0 Consists of 2 Modules Namely BNS Landscape and BNS Trees.

* Planning a Green Swap on all the Trees for the BNS Trees module soon.



INCOMPATIBILITY:

* Mods that Changes Landscape Ground and Grass Textures (use tree only version if you want to use your own grass).

* Any Mod that has Lod Files in them.

* Be Sure to Check your Data Folder for any of these Files before using this Mod.

RECOMMENDED:

* Commonwealth Critters
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/23725

* Campsite - Simple Wasteland Camping
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/11734

* Boston FPS Fix
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/26286/

    CREDITS:

* Ousnius for Bodyslide.

* Zilav and Sheson for F04lodgen.

* Gimp development team for Gimp 2.0.

* Bethesda for Fallout 4 and Creation Kit.

* Matortheeternal for the xEdit Replace Formid Script.

*  Payload for the NeuraLOD Mod.

*  And all my supporters for all the hints and feedback.

Boston Natural Surroundings

File information

Last updated

Original upload

Created by

Uploaded by

Virus scan

Tags for this mod

About this mod

DLC requirements

Mods requiring this file

Credits and distribution permission

Author notes

File credits

Donation Points system

Translations available on the Nexus

Version 3.0

Version 2.4

Version 2.2

Version 2.0.0

Version 1.30

Version 1.26C

Version 1.26B

Version 1.26A

Version 1.26.2

Version 1.26

Version 1.22

Version 1.20F

Version 1.12F

Straight donations accepted