Could you, using flats or large models, simulate distant grass with a well made texture ?

Wouldn't that create a HUGE performance hit?

Apart from that it isn't possible. Grass is generated on the fly so there is nothing you could make a low detail model for.

Only if you fancy going around the CS and hand placing thousands upon thousands of dummy grass objects that have no close distance mesh. Doable, yes, but only if you have 6 months of spare time on your hands and a desire to edit every last outdoor cell in the game. I don't think the returns would be worth it because you'd likely end up crippling your performance in ways we can't possibly imagine right now.

The performance hit would be like running around http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=29580, except worse and everywhere...


Edit: wording

Region Editor - could possibly do all the placment but it would be nasty in some areas most likely.

Else not worth it once again, game would not be able to handle it anyways,

you can change the grass draw setting in the ini file. i have mine set to something ridiculously high so i dont see the magical grass except in those areas with mid lod popup once in a while.