The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - MODS & TWEAKS

[Mr Krugga]

looks much better in photoshop than it does ingame

needs higher res textures but doubled the image size from 1024x1024 > 2048x2048 just gives a big blur that will look as bad but use twice as much memory to it needs someone with skills to redraw over the original textures
you can see the difference in screenshots though.(i only edited the road , bridge and rocks i couldnt be bothered to edit every texture as it would take me ages unless i could script it




btw the actual grass floor seems to be seperaed into grids so any high res texture mods are likely to be everything apart from the grass floor textures

The difference is very noticeable as it is.

Certainly better than the oversharpened mods.

 

[arknor]

i cant figure out how to make a normal map of a texture
i tried following some guides on the net but i just end up with a blue image with no height outlines at all :S

i put a modern brick texture on a bridge for the lulz and it looked suprisingly good lol
the bricks have no depth to them without a proper normal map though



btw if anyone wants to play around themselfs all you need is
fall out mod manager to extract the textures from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\Skyrim - Textures.bsa
all the textures are clearly labeled as bridge01 road01 etc and under catagories making them easy to find.
you need a plugin so photoshop/gimp can open the texture files
PHOTOSHOP DDS PLUGIN http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop
GIMP DDS PLUGIN http://code.google.com/p/gimp-dds/

when you extract the textures using "fallout mod manager"
they come out the correct folder order and you can just drop the "texture folder into
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\

and the game will automaticly use the loose files

just type "free textures" into google to find some good free sites

 

[Jono8]

no more blocky faces and detailed faces is excellent. Much improved faces!

 

[Calabi]

If your talking normal maps then these should work.

Shadermap is very simple and easy and cheap.

http://shadermap.com/

This you can easily paint in manually yourself. I think they have a newer one which works a bit better but they charge for.

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77272

 

[arknor]

the second one you linked to NDO looks good ill have a mess around with it later

 

[Kotu]

just some info, the framerate fix dll file is whats causing the game to see your graphics card as a Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS, this is probably why stuff like msi afterburner stop working. If you just delete the dll then it will pick up the right card again.

 

[Neil79]

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1271620-aageons-hq-texture-pack-wip/

wip

 

[platypus]

Is there anyway to enable a noclip/flying mode? I want it for recording.

 

[Teaf]

Is there anyway to enable a noclip/flying mode? I want it for recording.

Open the console and type "tcl" without quotes to toggle it on/off.

 

[Mr Krugga]

snip

Find 10 differences.

 

[Neil79]

I found wally!

 

[platypus]

Open the console and type "tcl" without quotes to toggle it on/off.

Hmm thinking about it, will this mess up my achievements?

 

[Frenzy]

My shadows on ultra were really blocky and it finally annoyed me enough to find a fix.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/615805-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/60975074

Follow that guys advice.

Ok it still looks like blocky ****, no difference. I must be doing something wrong...

Edit

fixed it by changing to fShadowDistance=2500.0000

 

[bhavv]

Heres a fix not to look as old as gandalf anymore

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=103

Im hinking of installing all the faces mods:

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/search.php

Will they work together or clash?

 

[madindehead]

The console command for carry weight doesn't stick between game loads for me. That is exiting Skyrim fully, and relaunching. Anyone else got this?

 

[Rob43]

Have you tried making the .ini file read only?

Just tried that,but still changing back to 8600gs How can it be doing that ?

Cheers,

Rob

 

[Devious]

nm

 

[Neil79]

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ENBSeries Mod Released

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-enbseries-mod-released/

Earlier today, we informed you about a post-processing graphical mod that was released for Skyrim. Well, get ready everyone as the man behind the ENBSeries has released his mod for Bethesda’s RPG. As always, the ENBSeries for Skyrim adds SSAO – so you won’t have to mess with Nvidia’s Inspector Tool – and some other graphical effects. In addition, Boris released the first bunch of screenshots that can be viewed bellow.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Some really good mods coming out.

 

[Pighardia]

Will they work together or clash?

At this point, almost every mod will work together as they are only adding/replacing textures or meshes, it is when the creator kit is released and we start seeing plugins that conflicts will occur. With textures the worst that can happen is that one gets overwritten by another one.