Textures for the wasteland, 1 mod or more?

[RoNin1971]

I've been working on my own 'greener' wasteland mod on the side for the past few months,mostly to increase my skills&knowledge to work on textures (grass, ground, plants, trees) for FO4 and for the nicer view (imho).

There are (or where) several mods for that, but non fits my wishes. Like: Greener, but only a bit retaining still a grim, desolate look. A nature barely surviving instead of dead (vanilla) or a jungle (most mods).

...and those I do like, a bit at least, usually are missing on some stuff. Like: Leaves on trees.

 

So I've been slowly working on my own (texture only) mod, to create my own set of high quality textures to replace the vanilla ones and put some life into that wasteland.

 

Without touching the models or materials. At least that's one of my goals. (but my fingers itch after all I've seen...)

 

After I 'discovered' AI Up-scaling to be the next best innovation in graphics manipulation yielding astonishing results I upped my resolutions way up to the extremes of 8K. (that's 16x8K for some of the tree textures!)

Although my main goal is to have a top quality 4K set. So far the 8K's are good enough too for distribution and there will be a 2K set for those with lesser GPU's.

 

So, here is the thing:

I now have roughly 2 sets of textures: vanilla & 'green'.

In multiple resolutions: (4x)2K, (8x)4K & (16x)8K.

 

Keeping the option open for more flavors, each adding 3 sets (2,4 & 8K)

 

My 'challenge' is this:

Should I put all that under 1 mod? (How?)

or separate? (How to devide?)

or use a mod for each texture?

How to name it? - a greener HiRes nature kind of name would not accurately describe the content (for those seeking only 4 or 8K versions of the vanilla textures), if all in 1 mod.

 

I'm leaning towards 2 mods, one for the vanilla flavor and one for the greener set, but I've been playing with the idea of creating a separate mod for some of the textures, like the MapleAtlas02.

So I would love to hear what you guys think I should do...and how to name (any of) it.

 

edit:

Ok, that should have been mod talk, not requests... but it will do :cool:

Edited October 11, 2021 by RoNin1971

[RoNin1971]

Perhaps a preview will help?

[RoNin1971]

I just released all (6) versions for my MapleAtlas02 texture replacement as a 'stand-alone mod': https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/55042/?tab=description

I'll probably do the same for a few others. (Vines & Elm for example)

[RoNin1971]

I just (pre)released it as a single mod (with only the 'green' set in 4K): RoNin1971's UHD Landscape Enhancement

 

I'll add a 'vanilla' 2K set later.

 

Still need to finish both the vines & elm tree though, but as I'm getting requests for the use of my maple tree, I've decided to early release my own landscape mod.

 

I'll create separate mods for those 3, like I did for the maple. (as well as include them with the complete texture mod.