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thanks :) this has been my first experiment on landscape ever...and honestly something i did in the launch breaks from work in last 3-4 days on a sort of amiga 1000 pc ...lol ....i guess there's an enormous space for improvements. the idea is to remake landscape and towns...including dlc files, we'll see how things go...equipments in the book take 90% of my time and resources. lanscape are very easy works (lots of photo sources) so i guess small but frequent releases for the moment, and a cumulative package for the book when there will be material enough.... i think to support parallax... at least to give the option... not immediately btw.

there was a typo fix o apply so i took down the files for some minutes...if you downloaded the mod just released probably those files are bugged....check that cubemap textures (armor/ebonymail/m-f if are named chitin_e_ebony ...if not...rename both cube maps...otherwise armor got no proper render ingame...sorry ...my error on first files. if your cubemaps re named properly you'll notice that black variant is way darker and have just white reflections.... the silver variant got totally different reflections... gold well... is gold trimmed...no need to say.

Hey man, if you download my texture you can see I did this exactly. The 2K version has a 1024 normal that I saved at 8888 argb unsigned. The 1K version has a 512 normal map at the same uncompressed. I did my research before I made my textures. :)i checked your textures...and that's why i've been speaking about lossles compression...you did right... but i do a cuirass with 1024 uncompressed normal...a weapon that you see in first person all the time...for other things stick on 512,256,128 with a good specular.... is anything you really need....just my opinion

this thing of smaller but uncompressed normal maps can be extremelly usefull ...in case f fur...organic textures... herbs and so... in example one of the biggest problem of low res normal maps (and for low res i mean small files... not bad files) is the banding... that sort of little squares extremelly visible...uncompressed normal (tga) or that compression posted above...wich is lossless... do not have such problem.... so basically...a 512 normal uncompressed gives better results than a 1024 ddsdxt5 (but got a better specular... smaller but without arifacts....not a detail) with the use of ddsop and the increased precision of mipmap the trick is done. what we save from ivy terrain flowers and so on in terms of vram and computing can be used for better envmaps in example....i just checked bethesda skyrim envmaps for a recent work....my god ... the sadness

well ... took a close look ingame and in photoshop yesterday...must admit these textures are not bad... maybe some minor details less and more "big shapes" on normal maps like in ewi work would be perfect for more variety...but yeah... not bad,..author did also some discrete color choices... i like

oh.... damn.... siverfish grotto...spent lots of game hours there... awesome !

2k texture.... ivy something is strange looking these words toghether... 512X512 and eventually uncompressed normal maps or 8888 argb 32 unsigned..(same vram of a 1k file compressed and much better results). makes much more sense.... yeah.... i know i'm the usual....well you know what... :)

phazer11..EssArrBee....is easy to not see differences if you judge by images and not try ingame. if the gold accents had another color...it was not gold xiamthewalrusx .... which material is blue purple? soulgems?... not used on armors about black variant... ebony set will have an esp to enable forgeable silver and gold trimmed variants.... default ebony is black...at least in the book

lol...we're still discussing about vanilla textures+resize+ noise+photo overlay ? :D please no

agree.... map should not be consumed just watching them....would be interesting to see different maps maybe...one for sanctuary, one for ritual stones, one for cities and villages and so

definitely +1 on this mod....i really like it

thanks Monty... and wellcome back :) thanks CiXwOw... update on the book is on a really good point...steelset has been uploaded because i do not like to have things not released for too long...i start to tweak and play with photoshop files compulsively and it spoils me the fun of the thing so releasing them was like to put a tombstone on the wip :) iron is ready too... but i need to test+tweak and play...this time because it's needed :) oricsh got big axe big sword and big hammer ready...working on the other pieces... weapons usually do not take too much i think i'll be able to update the book during the weekend (also depends from scripting stuff..we'll see) i still remember how happy i was when i get the ebony set in morrowind cutting away the head of a noble in a duel with an enchanted daedric dai-katana :) this is the point.... ebony set is kinda NOBLE stuff... so i guess it will have GOLD... not yellow...not white... reflective pure gold...and intricate design on some conjunction parts...i'd leave the breastpleate big areas clean...black and smootly reflective somehow...kinda obsidian look...i'm still making experiments on this side of the thing

uploaded whole package of steel weaps.... as optional file for the moment...still not included in main file update....update will have also iron and orcish stuff for sure (and whatever i'll be able to finish) i guess ther's no problem for any installation

thank u mothergoose... i tried to stick on vanilla as much as possible... but that olive green was a true eysore imo...armor now may be too dark in some areas...it's more reflective btw, overall "impact" is nice afterall. i tried my best on a true messed up model... not a perfect job ... but better than default. oh i posted the link here... it will be part of the book before tomorrow anyway ... there was no reason for a standalone thread imo.

https://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/29831 brand new one...as promised.... orcish a problematic set...full of mesh errors (horrors) reworked the thing kinda million times before deciding to upload.... clearly ....open to any suggestion to improve the whole thing in future

i like a lot this work...really a lot...like many other hectrol things....there's a small problem in color maps compression.... (dxt5 with empty alpha) nothing that ddsopt cannot handle perfectly without quality loss.

i have a good news and a bad news... which one first? :D the bad.... 1.3 got a small bug...installing plain iron set from the installer leads to a white fur variant...installing white fur variant for iron leads to.... no iron file installed....sorry...totally my bad ..i did not check twice the files actually installed by modmanager. the good one(s)... orcish set is done and ready for upload... just waiting few more images and opinions from friends who tested the thing.... ergo book 1.4 with orcish and helm of yngol + fixed installer very soon, hopefully during the week end...have still to check few things. future plans for 1.5 : it will cover probably mostly new WEAPONS...i delayed a bit but worked in the meantime....i'd like to finish some of the many weaps retextures almost done ...but never completed. :)

oh...improved closeface... i know the mod...author did fight a lot with the same problem of uvmapping...if there was a better uvmapping and more rounded polygons cut would not be so vsible. let's face the truth once more... bethesda models are completely killed by optimization for console porting.... we have often to work with many many limits to improve the look of armors

sorry king... maybe i did not understand the point...what i'm squishing exactly? 0.0 i want a new look for my armors and i do that.... to just tweak a bit vanilla look is simply not what i want to do...there are TONS of tweaked textures around... nobody needs mine

stretching in beast races helmet is on bethesda models themselves cus bethesda did not a proper re-uv mapping for them... simply tweaked standard meshes for human races...textures follow the bad uvmapping.... there's nothing i can do with just a texture replacement. to make anything work fine the only thing to do is REMAKE models...which would lead to incompatibilities, and it is a LOT of work....honestly since nobody pays me for this....cannot find the idea interesting :D

as said maybe, i cannot play without frostfall :) ,did not test too much v2.0, so far no problem...looks awesome and really improved

it's not bad... normal map still got too much noise...but textures are precise and accurate,some diversification for colors and maybe darker-more saturated wood would be good...it's a good work btw ,really done from scratch without pre-made stuff.

agree to leave this very small file in this thread...will be anyway part of the book. yes techangel,,,is true about some parts...and it is totally my fault because has been a really quick and dirty job...i did in a couple of hour...maybe less ...so the specular map is just a tweaked diffuse... not a proper thing checked layer by layer... i'll release an improved version in the book...hope soon

the "leather" version is a bit better... still too lucid... to avoid misunderstanding.... texture is fine...just imo does not blend with the rest of the armors

crisis 4 ? :) wrong textures for skyrim...in fallout would look great no offense but material looks a lot technological... it's a good textures... clearly... but does not have any feeling of leather...looks polymer