DROPPED Realistic Mushrooms (by Mystery Modder)

[Neovalen]

Discussion thread:
Realistic Mushrooms by Mystery Modder
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This one looks great... much more variety in colors/types of mushrooms. Unfortunately that means some conflicts with TreesHD, etc cause the mushrooms share textures... need to evaluate but figured I'd share.

Conflicts: High Quality Food and Ingredients, Hybrids HD Plants and Herbs Retexture, TreesHD Skyrim Variation

The question is, which is better?! :)

[TechAngel85]

Only six tree textures conflict and that could easily be fixed by placing it higher in the load order than Trees HD. I like it.

[Neovalen]

Aye, but of course we need to check which is better, etc.

 

For now just based on texture comparison(not in game):

 

TreesHD vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* treeaspenaddon01.dds -> TreesHD

* treereachaddon01.dds -> Realistic Mushrooms

 

High Quality Food and Ingredients vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* moratapinellabits01.dds -> Mixed.. like the bottoms of HQFI and cleaner tops of RM.

* scalypholiotabits01.dds -> Mixed.. same as previous.

 

Hybrids vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* mushroom01.dds -> Realistic Mushrooms

 

Overall, I would go Realistic Mushrooms all the way except treeaspenaddon01 has to go TreesHD.

[TechAngel85]

Aye' date=' but of course we need to check which is better, etc.[/quote']

You better get to takin some shots! Lol! :P

[Neovalen]

Made a run through the game, the new textures in general look very nice.

[z929669]

Aye, but of course we need to check which is better, etc.

 

For now just based on texture comparison(not in game):

 

TreesHD vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* treeaspenaddon01.dds -> TreesHD

* treereachaddon01.dds -> Realistic Mushrooms

 

High Quality Food and Ingredients vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* moratapinellabits01.dds -> Mixed.. like the bottoms of HQFI and cleaner tops of RM.

* scalypholiotabits01.dds -> Mixed.. same as previous.

 

Hybrids vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* mushroom01.dds -> Realistic Mushrooms

 

Overall, I would go Realistic Mushrooms all the way except treeaspenaddon01 has to go TreesHD.

Need the screens!

[Cestral]

Aye, but of course we need to check which is better, etc.

 

For now just based on texture comparison(not in game):

 

TreesHD vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* treeaspenaddon01.dds -> TreesHD

* treereachaddon01.dds -> Realistic Mushrooms

 

High Quality Food and Ingredients vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* moratapinellabits01.dds -> Mixed.. like the bottoms of HQFI and cleaner tops of RM.

* scalypholiotabits01.dds -> Mixed.. same as previous.

 

Hybrids vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* mushroom01.dds -> Realistic Mushrooms

 

Overall, I would go Realistic Mushrooms all the way except treeaspenaddon01 has to go TreesHD.

 

Don't really agree with you here.

 

treeaspenaddon01.dds: TreesHD does indeed have a nicer wood texture, but the branches are worse, and the connected mushroom embedded in this texture will shine pure white when viewed in game. Overall, Realistic Mushrooms is much better.

treereachaddon01.dds: Realistic Mushrooms may have a nicer mushroom texture attached when viewed separately, but otherwise its colors are just way too strong and shiny making it stand out extremely much. It looks very out of place. TreesHD wins, even with the slight issue it has with the texture not entirely covering the mesh.

 

moratapinellabits01: Indeed mixed opinions, but you have to keep in mind that the world viewed texture and the inventory textures must match. This is the inventory texture only of the treereachaddon01 connected mushroom.

scalypholiotabits01: Same thing again, but this time for the treeaspenaddon01. The Realistic Mushroom version of this one looks "bugged" however, because I think the lightmap is a little off, causing it to look very blurry and strange. Thus, HQ Food wins.

 

mushroom01: I would agree with you that Realistic Mushrooms has a higher quality looking texture, but it suffers hugely from clipping issues which just looks terrible when viewed in your inventory (look at the whole lower part of the mushroom). This in addition to its colors that are too strong and shiny making it feel out of place makes the Hybrids version the overall winner.

[z929669]

Aye, but of course we need to check which is better, etc.

 

For now just based on texture comparison(not in game):

 

TreesHD vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* treeaspenaddon01.dds -> TreesHD

* treereachaddon01.dds -> Realistic Mushrooms

 

High Quality Food and Ingredients vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* moratapinellabits01.dds -> Mixed.. like the bottoms of HQFI and cleaner tops of RM.

* scalypholiotabits01.dds -> Mixed.. same as previous.

 

Hybrids vs Realistic Mushrooms:

* mushroom01.dds -> Realistic Mushrooms

 

Overall, I would go Realistic Mushrooms all the way except treeaspenaddon01 has to go TreesHD.

Don't really agree with you here.

 

treeaspenaddon01.dds: TreesHD does indeed have a nicer wood texture, but the branches are worse, and the connected mushroom embedded in this texture will shine pure white when viewed in game. Overall, Realistic Mushrooms is much better.

treereachaddon01.dds: Realistic Mushrooms may have a nicer mushroom texture attached when viewed separately, but otherwise its colors are just way too strong and shiny making it stand out extremely much. It looks very out of place. TreesHD wins, even with the slight issue it has with the texture not entirely covering the mesh.

 

moratapinellabits01: Indeed mixed opinions, but you have to keep in mind that the world viewed texture and the inventory textures must match. This is the inventory texture only of the treereachaddon01 connected mushroom.

scalypholiotabits01: Same thing again, but this time for the treeaspenaddon01. The Realistic Mushroom version of this one looks "bugged" however, because I think the lightmap is a little off, causing it to look very blurry and strange. Thus, HQ Food wins.

 

mushroom01: I would agree with you that Realistic Mushrooms has a higher quality looking texture, but it suffers hugely from clipping issues which just looks terrible when viewed in your inventory (look at the whole lower part of the mushroom). This in addition to its colors that are too strong and shiny making it feel out of place makes the Hybrids version the overall winner.

good advice. Agree with most, but for the first. I think the wood texture is more obvious to me I guess.

[Cestral]

Yeah it's definitely the toughest choice to make. The reason I didn't go with the TreesHD version is because those shrooms shine so abnormally crazy much even when afar, while the wood quality doesn't make much of a difference except when you're pretty close. Also the branches shine unnaturally much of white, which I find very eye-catching and annoying.

[z929669]

Yeah it's definitely the toughest choice to make. The reason I didn't go with the TreesHD version is because those shrooms shine so abnormally crazy much even when afar' date=' while the wood quality doesn't make much of a difference except when you're pretty close. Also the branches shine unnaturally much of white, which I find very eye-catching and annoying.[/quote']

I'll keep this in mind next time in game. I may not have noticed these problems before (and now they will likely glare at me every time I look since I know about it :P )

[TechAngel85]

Yeah it's definitely the toughest choice to make. The reason I didn't go with the TreesHD version is because those shrooms shine so abnormally crazy much even when afar' date=' while the wood quality doesn't make much of a difference except when you're pretty close. Also the branches shine unnaturally much of white' date=' which I find very eye-catching and annoying.[/quote'']

I'll keep this in mind next time in game. I may not have noticed these problems before (and now they will likely glare at me every time I look since I know about it :P )

I still have mine set up like Cestral's choices with Real Mushroom's addon textures instead of TreesHD. I like them better and the wood texture was that noticeable to me while gaming because I'm stopping to pick the mushrooms; not stare at the wood grain on the broken aspens. Plus, I like consistency.

[TechAngel85]

Option addon released for Dragonborn users: Dragonborn Mushrooms.

 

[z929669]

I have to object to the mushroom stew option of this mod. The vanilla stew was always one of my favorite textures in the game ... it looked like stew!

 

This retexture looks like sombody added a handfull of stringly mushrooms to the top without stirring it in. First off, the original was a chunky stew that looked like it was full of something that could have been meat or mushrooms. Second, all of the mushrooms are covering the actual stew, so that it no longer looks right. The texture looks like a ground texture, lacking depth. Lastly, nobody picks long, spindly mushrooms and throws them into soup. They are cut up and they would be proper mushrooms rather than these "weed" muchrooms.

 

This is nothing like vanilla and makes it too obvious that the stuff in the pot is supposed to be mushroom stew.

 

I am removing this from the STEP:Core recommendation, mainly because it changes the original to something completely different, and is certainly not 'better'.

[Aiyen]

I am entirely certain that this will be the new best example of STEP being nit picking on stuff! lol

 

But I admire your passion for the mushroom stew Z!.... and you just made me hungry! dammit!

[phazer11]

Um... then why not just tell them not to install the mushroom stew optional...?