klotim

Always liked the step mods and I couldn't resist to promote myself. Mod description: Using Bellyaches HD Dragon Replacer Pack as a base, Skyrim finally got completely retextured dragons. 2K-4K and 4K-8K textures with AO, HQ uncompressed normalmap, optimized textures covering all vanilla and DLC dragons. Dragons is Skyrims Main subject and should therefore look best. Never before have Skyrim users seen such high quality dragons until...now. As it said, it covers all the dragons, (except for durnehviir at the moment i'm writing this). I also retextured some other mods, deadly dragons, bellyachee dragons, Dragon lords and such. The mod stays true to vanilla design and color except for some design spots here and there ( some scales on the head, more scales on the wings). Realistic dragons 4K-8K by Frozunswaidon

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Welcome klotim, We have already been watching your mod with interest, I have merged your post into the existing thread, please search in future before starting new threads. As far as your mod, we are currently looking at the Millenia Weapon Retexture Project and the aMidianBorn Armor series so those are the competition.  We are very concerned with the size of your mod and although we haven't gotten to the point of analyzing it technically I would guess that you haven't optimized it to our standards. We are not interested in simply making Skyrim look as awesome as possible, what we are looking for is making Skyrim look as awesome as possible in a lore friendly way that does not unduly decrease performance and remains consistent with all the other mods included in STEP. Alright let me tell you then :)First of all, This mod is supposed to be lore friendly, I just wanted the weapons to look like weapons and not plastic weapons that you used when you were 5 years old. I replace Bethesdas leather on the handles to a HD texture. I'm also using different photos on different weapons. It turned out to look good and still look originally just that the steel sword actually looks like steel. I have optional files tho, For those who want "bad-ass" Daedric weapons. However, That is under optional. There is also a optional crossbow texture. Lore friendly it is and soon with smaller size indeed. Compression with DDSopt and 7z on ultra compression made the 1.31 GB files turn into a 761 mb! This is without ENVmasks

Alright got ya now! Using DDSopt right now. Only thing left for me to do is envmasks and environmental maps and then compress it once again with 7z. Should I combine the Weapons with the shields in same pack or different? Should I use the lossless option on texture compression or lossy?

sad that there is so much negative comments... If you think that I could do it better, why don't you PM me then and help me? I'm quite new to this but I haven't done this for myself. I tried to do this for the community. That is all.

Hello! What do you think about adding this mod to the STEP project? What Unique HD Weapon Textures - UHWT mod does in short is that im focusing to retexture every weapon, Shield and armor in game including DawnGuards. Every weapon in game is completed and so is the shields, This also includes the torches and all the Artifacts. And no this is not only the weapons that you usually have in your own hand but also the monster weapons. Falmer sword, Giant club etc. Please note that I'm working on this mod daily and right now is to fix bugs. only one bug fix left. After that, Armors! Better quality textures for a enchanted Skyrim is what both you/I and the community want right? So let them have it? Best regards, More pics on my mod page! Here is some sample pics: Shields: Leather shield Steel shield Weapons: Quiver ancient ancient handaxe