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Aesthetics & Ambience

Separator:​

  • Right-click the empty space in the left pane of MO2 and select Create separator.
  • Name the separator Aesthetics & Ambience .
Why the small selection of texture, lighting, animation, and audio mods?

Many of these mods are out of the scope of this guide, and as such we have only included those that we feel are critical or highly impactful. For an extensive guide on these types of mods, check out New Vegas Visual Renewal. Support for New Vegas Visual Renewal is provided on The Wasteland Supplemental.

If you do decide to use the New Vegas Visual Renewal guide, move the mods in this section down to the corresponding seperators referenced in that guide.

Visual Improvements​

Contrasted LOD Noise Texture​

Adds LOD noise texture for Mid Frequency Details, which helps blend far terrain with closer details.

  • Main File - Contrasted LOD Noise 2k

High Resolution Bloom​

This mod edits the resolution of the bloom render target, allowing it to use higher screen resolutions instead of the hardcoded quarter size.

High Resolution Water Fog​

Increases resolution of water depth render target, thus significantly reducing aliasing.

Mobile Pip-Boy Light​

Attaches the Pip-Boy light to the Pip-Boy so it moves with the player's arm.

Simply Upscaled Grass​

Upscales grass texture, improving visual quality with negligible performance impact.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Simply Upscaled Grass - Vanilla Style - 2k

Animations​

3rd Person Animation Fixpack​

Fixes gliding, stuttering, limb popping, broken fingers, animation bugs, bad blending, etc, of 3rd person animations.

Installation:​

  • Main File - 3rd Person Animation Fixpack

ISControl Enabler​

Allows for manual repositioning of the gun and crosshair. Required for multiple weapon and animation mods in the guide.

Instructions:
  • Hold the aim button and right shift until the ISControl crosshair appears, then release right shift while still holding aim.
  • Adjust the sights angle by moving the mouse.
  • Adjust the sights distance with the mouse wheel.
  • Adjust the sights position by holding left shift and moving the mouse.
  • Press enter to save your iron sight alterations.

Weapon Based Hands Clip Distance​

Allows for manual repositioning of the players hand clip distance.

Instructions:
  • Hold the aim button and press right alt. Alternatively, if adjusting clip distance while your weapon is at the hip, simply press right alt.
  • Adjust the hand clip distance with the mouse wheel.
  • Press enter to save your hand clip distance alterations.
  • Press backspace to exit the editor.

HIPControl - Weapon Idle Position Adjuster - ESPless​

Allows easy adjustment of weapon position on screen. Mainly required for animation mods.

Installation:​

  • Main File - HIPControl

B42 Weapon Inertia​

Gives weapons realistic inertia movement.

Anniversary Anim Pack​

Includes three of Hitman's previous animation/bugfix mods, Subtle Camera Motion, Iron Sights Recoil Animations, and Fire Animation Variants. Also includes some previously unreleased animations.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Anniversary Anim Pack

New Vegas Animation Overhaul - Guns​

The definitive first-person animation pack for guns in Fallout: New Vegas and TTW. Two-and-a-half years in this making, this pack covers (almost) every weapon in base New Vegas, its DLCs, and in TTW.

Installation:​

  • Main File - New Vegas Animation Overhaul - Guns
    • Animation Preset:
      • Vanilla
      • WAP Friendly
      • Custom

New Vegas Animation Overhaul - Melee​

The definitive first-person animation pack for all melee and unarmed weapons in New Vegas and TTW. Every one-handed, two-handed, and unarmed/fist-type melee weapon has been re-animated.

Installation:​

  • Main File - New Vegas Animation Overhaul - Melee

Enhanced Locomotion​

Complete 1st person locomotion animation overhaul. Covers all animations: running, walking, jumping, landing, sneaking, limping, etc, for all weapon types.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Enhanced Locomotion

Iron Sights Aligned​

Comprehensively aligns iron sights across mods that alter or add animations and weapons.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Iron Sights Aligned
    • Weapon Meshes:
      • Vanilla
      • Tale of Two Wastelands
      • Weapon Mesh Improvement Mod
    • Base Animations:
      • Vanilla
      • Anniversary Anim Pack
      • FNV Clean Animations
    • kNVSE Animations:
      • New Vegas Animation Overhaul - Guns
      • EliV3's ETJ kNVSE Animations
    • Weapon Replacers:
      • WAP Weapon Replacers
      • Laser Weapon Iron Sights
      • 10mm Pistol and Friends
      • C.A.R and OUR Friends
      • Combat Shotgun and Friends
      • DKS and Friends
      • R91 and Friends
    • Additional Patches:
      • Yukichigai's Unofficial Patch
      • Hitman's Anims No Burst Fire
    • Animation Preset:
      • Vanilla
      • Custom
info

In the upcoming FOMOD, UNCHECK patches for any mods you skipped earlier in the guide.

  • Main File - Iron Sights Aligned - Mod Support
    • Weapon Meshes:
      • Vanilla
      • Tale of Two Wastelands
      • Weapon Mesh Improvement Mod
    • Base Animations:
      • Vanilla
      • Anniversary Anim Pack
      • FNV Clean Animations
    • kNVSE Animations:
      • New Vegas Animation Overhaul - Guns
      • EliV3's ETJ kNVSE Animations
    • Weapon Patches:
      • Claim the Mojave
      • Dead Money Tweaks
      • Havasu Blues
      • More Mojave
      • New Vegas Bounties I LE
    • Tale of Two Wasteland Mods:
      • .32 Caliber Weapons Pack
      • Alton IL
      • A World of Pain for Fallout 3
      • DC Arsenal
      • EDGE
      • The Regulators
    • Standalone Weapons:
      • Hitman's RPD
      • Hitman's KRISS Vector
    • Weapon Packs:
      • Classic Fallout Weapons Remastered
      • NS Weapons All in One
      • Supplementary Weapon Pack
      • ZL Armaments Remastered
    • Another Millenia Team:
      • Another Millenia
      • Another Millenia Add-on
      • Another Millenia - Hitman Part 2
      • Tactapack
    • anonx1987:
      • Wasteland AR Pack
      • Wicked Pistols Pack
      • NVRA - AR70
      • NVRA - Augomag
      • NVRA - MPK
      • NVRA - Uzi
      • AK-50
      • Colt 2033
      • Fedorov Avtomat
      • Marlin Thumper
      • Raging Bull
      • Rainer AK - Remastered

kNVSE Fixpack​

A selection of kNVSE related bug fixes, covering issues that commonly occur when using kNVSE animation mods.

Scope Aim Tweaks​

Configurable tweaks when aiming with a scope such as blur and fade in from black.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Scope Aim Tweaks (No Plugin)

PSRO - Peripheral Scope Reticle Overhaul​

A comprehensive overhaul of all vanilla scope reticles with pixel perfect alignments and a full clear view of surroundings.

Installation:​

  • Main File - PSRO - Peripheral Scope Reticle Overhaul
    • Continue?:
      • Let me in.
    • Background Visibility:
      0% (Original)
      25%
      50%
      75% (Recommended)
      100% (Vanilla Replacer)
    • Fin?:
      • Finish.
  • Optional File - PSRO - Mod Compatibility Compendium - FOMOD
    • Continue?:
      • I got everthing. Let me in.
    • Select Your Patches:
      • AMAC-1500 Sniper Rifle
      • CFA - Classic Wattz 2000 Laser Rifle
      • Classic AK-112 - The Adytum Rifle
      • Classic Fallout Weapons Remastered
      • DMT - Dead Money Tweaks - Complete Overhaul
      • EVE - Essential Visual Enhancements
      • Gyrojet Carbine
      • LaFrance Specialties M16-K
      • Mosin Nagant - Sniper Rifle
      • Mossberg 590 Special Purpose Shotgun
      • Panzermann's Changes
      • Sturmgewehr 44 (STG 44)
      • Tactapack
      • Turbo Gatling Plasma
    • Mossberg 590 Special Purpose Shotgun:
      0%
      25%
      50%
      75% (Recommended)
      100%
    • Tactapack:
      0%
      25%
      50%
      75%
      100%
    • Finished:
      • Oh ye. We did it. Finished.

Compatibility Skeleton​

Allows multiple mods that edit the skeleton mesh to work together, required for B42 Weapon Inertia.

Installation:​

  • Optional File - NVCS Vanilla Weights
note

This mod MUST load after any other skeleton containing mods, which should already be true if following the guide.

Weapons​

aWRP - Another Weapon Retexture Project​

Millenia's Weapon Retexture Project, configured as scriptrunner-based model replacers.

Installation:​

  • Main File - aWRP - Resource
  • Main File - aWRP - Scripts (TTW)
  • Update File - aWRP - Resource Hotfix
  • Main File - aWRP - NVAO-Guns Patch

Kyu's Ballistics - Fixed​

Visually updates all the muzzle flashes, impacts and tracers that ballistic weapons use.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Kyu's Ballistics Fixed - TTW

Bullet Trails​

Adds those non-sensical, but cool looking, smoky trails to bullets that cool games use today.

Audio​

ATMOS Ambient Sound Overhaul - TTW​

A port of ATMOS Ambient Sound Overhaul from Fallout 3, adding more than 200 new ambient sound effects. Over 3000 hand placed sound emitters. 3D sound effect with actual distance and direction in the world. Only affects the Capital Wasteland.

ATMOS Ambience Overhaul​

Modernized ambient soundscape with an object based directional sound system. Estimated near 1000 new custom-built sound effects, crafted with film industry grade equipment. Only affects the Mojave Wasteland.

Installation:​

PhySFX​

Replaces the impact sounds of various physics objects in the game, such as metal objects and glass, with newer, higher quality audio.

All Weapon Sound Overhaul Modern Edition Redone - AWSOMER​

A full replacement of all ballistic, explosive and energy weapon sounds.

Installation:​

Lighting​

Improved Lighting Shaders​

xNVSE plugin that almost completely fixes the exterior lighting bug, and allows up to 4x the number of active lights!

Installation:​

  • Main File - Improved Lighting Shaders

Atmospheric Lighting Tweaks - TTW​

Makes changes to Image Spaces and Lighting Templates to give interiors a more dynamic and atmospheric look.

Installation:​

Natural Interiors​

Remove the tints from Interiors.

Weather​

MoonlightNVSE​

Fixes moonlight, making the moon the light caster instead of the sun.

Longer Weather Transitions ESPless​

A small improvement that extends the weather transition time by a factor of 20, which fixes abrupt weather transitions when using varied weather types.

Desert Natural Weathers TTW​

An overhaul of weathers with 360 degree panoramic cloud textures, improved lighting, and DLC support.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Desert Natural Weathers TTW

Accurate NASA Stars​

4k star texture and mesh using NASA satellite images to create a real-world accurate starfield.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Accurate Stars
  • Optional File - Accurate Stars - Mothership Zeta Patch

NillaPlus Maximum Moon 4K 2K 1K​

Improved, higher resolution texture for the moon.

Installation:​

  • Optional File - NillaPlus Majestic Moon (medium) 1K

Cloud Upgrade NVSE​

NVSE plugin which adds pseudo-animated clouds for horizons and panoramic cloud systems.

Interior Rain​

Interior rain sounds powered by Climate Control NVSE.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Interior Rain
  • Optional File - Interior Rain - TTW

3D Rain​

Replace the poorly designed 2D rain found in Zion Canyon (as well as in most weather mods) with a new 3D version. Rain no longer looks abnormal when you look up or down.

Installation:​

  • Main File - 3D Rain

Climate Control - Rain​

Rain fixes and improvements powered by Climate Control NVSE. Supports 3D Rain.

Installation:​

  • Main File - Climate Control - Rain
  • Optional File - Climate Control - 3D Rain
caution

Weather mods MUST always load after all other mods, which should already be true if following the guide.