What's up with all the black re-textures?

[zanity]

I'm PUZZLED. Most retextures are anything BUt black. The black retextures are a clearly well received niche. So why your post? Just to attack something you personally don't like? I can think of no other possible reason.

 

Nexus is NOT your personal playground. What other people do or desire is NOT your concern- even in the realm of 'idle curiosity' (which itself is usally a thin veneer over a passive aggresive mindset).

[aesfocus]

It is kinda a multi-layered issue. I agree with what has been said before that it has something to do with the ease.

To go to the original to black and white takes a few moments and 1 or 2 layers max. To go to bright and stupid like I love to do.. well

It is 40 layers and an episode of Off Topic, and you'll note how dirty most of the fallout textures actually are. To keep contrast and detailing you are spending a lot of time making sure the details come through, but not the nasty grunge. Then you have work on the normals and spec maps, which bethesda intentionally left dirty and damaged, a outfit might look bad with them left as they are. (the retextures for renovated furniture I first released vs. the stand alones)

 

It also has to do with personal taste. IRL I like things to be bold, annoying, bright and tacky as hell. A lot of people IRL prefer to wear nothing but darker tones. And finally it may have something to do with retexture vs. standalone. Making yourself a cute retexture doesn't mean you'll want to or can release it. Maybe FOEdit isn't your thing, maybe you are like me and pressed for free time, or you don't think you'll have an audience. At this point a lot of modders may still be fiddling around with the tools as well. You may be able to find a few modders who are excited and want to produce content you want and you only need ask them politely to make something a bit different. Once more variety of armor mods exist, you'll see more retexture artists come out. Cause right now a lot of the vanilla meshes force you into a certain sort of thing.

 

So the long and the short of it, the people who are currently modding are generally stickin to their aesthetic, you'll see more variety as time goes on, but if you have a specific thing you want you'll either have to request or get frustrated like me and make your own.

[brokefoot]

Likely you see black/grey retextures flood the Nexus upon game launch. Notice how most of them came really early. Not as many black rextures surfacing now that the game has been out a while. Its much easier to work with greyscale, than color.

 

What I've noticed is the onslaught of camo retextures. Those showed up early, too, but are still being released on what feels like a daily basis. But, hey... that's what people like, I guess.

 

For a while, my pessimistic side was telling me "if it ain't boobs, camo or guns then nobody wants it". Still feels that way, guess its just the general user base right now (?).

 

Just my view, honestly.

 

I hope Macintroll shows up to do a FO4 version of his New Vegas HiRes mod.