Image: ETD — Every Tree Different
This story is part of OUTER LIMITS, a Motherboard series about people, technology, and going outside. Let us be your guide.
Skyrim's environments are gorgeous. Though the game was first released in 2011, ancient history given the rapid progress of video game graphics, its immersive outdoor environments still look great. That doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement though.There are many fan-made graphical upgrades that keep Skyrim looking fresh, but one problem that they and the vanilla version of the game all share is that after spending 100 or more hours exploring Tamriel's northern reaches, the assets—the trees especially—begin to repeat. Once you've seen one tree in the forests of the Rift, you've seen them all. Modders l3st4t and AlreadyTaken777 just released a mod (first spotted by PC Gamer) to change that with the help of IRL trees.
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