Hurrah to the TES Nexus community! Now for the MOD top 10 list…

The Oblivion Engine has a certain way it loads the game world (Wilderness worldspace) area. You have normal tree/landscape textures and meshes that load in the cells around your character (the detailed ones), then you have a separate DistantLOD mesh/textures that load several miles (in the game) away from you (that are very basic and have very few polygons). So unlike most other games that simply use the exact same textures/meshes but just remove detail the further out you are from them – Oblivion DistantLOD textures/meshes and normal detailed textures/meshes are completely separate and are in even in separate folders in the Oblivion>Data folder.

Its not quite the same issue as when you have 2 mods changing things in the same cell and competing causing a land tear – thats only with the normal detailed textures/meshes – not with the distantLOD, and Landmagic should fix 95% of that anyways.

As you get closer to the distantLOD the oblivion engine removes the meshes and you have the normal tree/landscape textures and meshes – which in a perfect world should look the same as the distantLOD textures and meshes and the transition should be seamless. And probably if there was no mods running and was just vanilla oblivion – it would be seamless transition.

In your case – for whatever reason, whether TES4LODGEN has failed to create a distantlod mesh for that cell or a rogue mod is causing an issue – the distantLOD is NOT matching what the detailed normal tree/landscape textures and meshes in that cell actually look like, and it appears the oblivion engine is also not removing the distantLOD meshes even though your character is actually ontop of it. I strongly suggest saving a game where the above picture was taken, turning off DistantLOD in the video/game options and reloading to see if that fixes it.

As I mentioned in the PM, I could never get the DistantLOD to work properly so I just turned it all off and made do with the Fog of War. And thinking of it, I remember I had floating low poly trees in the distance around Stirk too.

Hope that helps a bit

Knightwalker

Clearly, the LOD or mesh (NIF) files need to be replaced, but having tried this there is still no evidence of change. Perhaps if I knew which files to swap out? Again, reinstalling VI is of no avail.