Thanks, finished it and it does work: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2103277525 . Although you will see some more vegetation spread out, since your view distance of 10 did hide those. Another question, did you already use the minimal settings for 'min # of copies' and 'max # of copies' for the shrubs, rosebushes and waste? Since I did try setting '0' for minimal and '1' for max on those, but got an error when using that.

sure

Is it okay if I try this out with your mod? Since I think the cleanest way to test it is using it as a mod through Steam and keep the dat004.cpk as it is for the game.

possibly

In Mica's Extended Foliage mod, the following was done to prevent grass popping up out of nowhere: "I've also extended the view range of all vegetation by 5x. You shouldn't notice any pop-in of vegetation anymore." Could the same be done for this mod to improve it?