GUIDE [WIP] DDSopt & Texture Overhauls

[z929669]

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[z929669]

Are Vurt's textures automatically omitted from optimisation when using the settings from this post?

No, but not all of Vurt's textures have problems with DDSopt either. We just need to note which ones need to be skipped and add them to the INI in the correct position.

And another question, what does "Ignore border on optimizing" do and should it remain set to 1%?

I am not sure on this one either, so I just leave it at the default. Ethatron will need to explain.

[frihyland]

Are Vurt's textures automatically omitted from optimisation when using the settings from this post?

 

And another question, what does "Ignore border on optimizing" do and should it remain set to 1%?

Skip the branches.

 

The borders of many textures "tile" and so they cannot be optimized without creating seams.

[uLoop]

Hi, I have been lurking around this thread for a while, but I couldn't find much in the way of a coalesced list of vanilla textures broken by DDSopt pre III. Is the exclusion list in the ddsopt.ini complete, or do I have to worry about ddsopt corrupting vanilla textures?

 

PS: I excluded the .png files, the hotiron files, the textures\graynoise.dds and the textures\effects\highfrequencynormals.dds files. The pineforest files should be fine, as they are handled in the .INI. Any other suggestions?

[z929669]

DDSopt Pre III is pre-configured to deal with all vanilla textures appropriately. Go ahead and run it without worry.

[uLoop]

DDSopt Pre III is pre-configured to deal with all vanilla textures appropriately. Go ahead and run it without worry.

Thank you.

[Besidilo]

DDSopt Pre III is pre-configured to deal with all vanilla textures appropriately. Go ahead and run it without worry.

Even the paper textures? I thought those should be omitted from being optimised by DDSopt.

 

Same for Vurt's branches.

[frihyland]

DDSopt Pre III is pre-configured to deal with all vanilla textures appropriately. Go ahead and run it without worry.

Even the paper textures? I thought those should be omitted from being optimised by DDSopt.

 

Same for Vurt's branches.

Those aren't vanilla textures, those are mods :P Vanilla = Textures.bsa and the HR DLC bsa's

[Besidilo]

 

DDSopt Pre III is pre-configured to deal with all vanilla textures appropriately. Go ahead and run it without worry.

Even the paper textures? I thought those should be omitted from being optimised by DDSopt.

 

Same for Vurt's branches.

Those aren't vanilla textures, those are mods :P Vanilla = Textures.bsa

Oh, my bad. Which paper textures are we supposed to avoid then?

[Ethatron]

Someone compiles me a list of mods to look at? (besides Soul Gems Differ)

And the idea with the "ini" was that you can start managing, hacking, exchanging, sharing, organizing the unsolvable special cases without the supervisor. It's not the supervisor's favorite officially approved list. ;^)

The special alpha-mode is only on for files marked "foilage" in the ini, it isn't applied by default.

[Besidilo]

You're back!

 

Start with the Texture Pack Combiner, those are the core mods.

[Ethatron]

C'mon, "look at every texture that exist" is not a good response. :P

[torminater]

It's what all of us have to do, too. Unfortunately.

[Besidilo]

It's what all of us have to do' date=' too. Unfortunately.[/quote']

 

Indeed. :(

 

If you have to pick, start with the textures from large texture packs first, e.g. Skyrim Realistic Overhaul 1.5, Skyrim HD - 2K Textures 1.5, WATER 1.5b, Skyrim Flora Overhaul 1.5a, that are actually being used in TPC, e.g. let it combine the files first and look up the specific folders...

[frihyland]

C'mon' date=' "look at every texture that exist" is not a good response. :P[/quote']

I agree, starting with mods that are more likely to have issues is a much better idea.  I would suggest water, blood, and parallax mods to start with.

•  WATER - Water And Terrain Enhancement Redux
• Pure Waters
• Blacksmithforge water fix
• Enhanced Blood Textures
• Crimson Tide - Blood
• Project Parallax - Roads and Bridges
• Project Parallax - Markarth
• Project Parallax - Windhelm
• Project Parallax - Solitude
• Parallax Rocks and Mountains
• Project Parallax - Whiterun

Nice to see you back Ethatron.

[Kelmych]

Based on discussions in this thread earlier this year, I'm not sure how DDSopt handles providing the correct set of mipmaps for textures that are rectangular. My impression was that these need to done in a separate run through DDSopt with the "Don't eliminate lower mip levels" flag checked. If so, it would be useful if there were a flag that caused this for rectangular textures only ("Don't eliminate lower mip levels for rectangular textures") so that the processing could be done in a single run with DDSopt.