darthsloth74 Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Hi everyone. I've been persuaded by a lot of people who have commented on my released mods to embark on an extensive clothing retexture mod. I have started work on it and will try to do as many outfits as I can. I may not do all of them since I think some outfits are totally unessential Beggars, chefs etc. However I will try to at least do all the villager, merchants, blacksmiths etc who are in need of nicer quality fashions. I intend to stick to the vanilla style and all textures are handpainted from scratch. Such a large project is going to be quite a dull job so I have to break this monotony up by doing other things inbetween so as not to go completely insane. I am continuing to support my Monk and Mage Robes mod and I am also working on the Dark Brotherhood armours, robes etc where I will also be sticking to the vanilla style even though I don't really care for the Daredevil look. If the vanilla DB look is not your thing I am planning a complete Dark Brotherhood revision which will occur when the CK is released. Just thought I'd share a few pictures with you. Hopefully the people who have supported my mods approve. Female Merchant Outfit http://spacek1ght.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d4i8hvi Villager Outfit. http://spacek1ght.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d4i8gpo Dark Brotherhood Female Armour, gauntlets and cowl still to finish. http://spacek1ght.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d4i8gmi If the images appear as links its due to the fact that I had to put them on my DeviantArt Profile because Imageshack is behaving like a lemon today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandchan Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 You have my full support. Can't wait for the first few releases! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsloth74 Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 You have my full support. Can't wait for the first few releases! Thanks nandchan. I may call on that support you so kindly offered when I get to the clothing I totally despise. You don't mind doing 10-20 textures do you? No of course you won't mind. :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandchan Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 You have my full support. Can't wait for the first few releases! Thanks nandchan. I may call on that support you so kindly offered when I get to the clothing I totally despise. You don't mind doing 10-20 textures do you? No of course you won't mind. :biggrin: Hey, I never said what kind of support I would offer. ;) Texturing does not fall within my “full” capabilities. (But be sure to ask me if you need anything programmed for the project!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsloth74 Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 nandchan: Thanks I was just kidding as I'm sure you know. However I' m not sure if this falls within my full capabilities either. ;D I would like to know from people what clothing should be priority to get done first. Do people want Miner, chef and beggar clothes as well or is that something you can all overlook providing most NPC clothing is improved? No armour suggestions please. I know I said I was doing DB armour but thats just a side project to keep me sane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandchan Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I want beggar clothes once you finish everything else. I'd suggest starting with the other citizens of Whiterun that are around Ysolda during the day, to help improve the contrast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roquentin Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 ^ This. Please start with the clothing we're seeing all the time. Afterwards you can still retexture the chef outfit if you feel like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooltrickle Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Such a large project is going to be quite a dull job so I have to break this monotony up by doing other things inbetween so as not to go completely insane. If you get tired, you can always make a tutorial. Many hands make light work. I downloaded the villager04 dress which is 2048*2048 at 46 MB (main surface). The vanilla version is 512*512 at 2.5 MB. I think some of us are never going to get the full benefit of a resolution of 2048*2048. Is there any chance of you making an intermediate resolution of 1024*1024? The vanilla clothes are horrendously low-res, so I'm glad someone is fixing that, but I think ~50 MB for a single dress is a little high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsloth74 Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 Such a large project is going to be quite a dull job so I have to break this monotony up by doing other things inbetween so as not to go completely insane. If you get tired, you can always make a tutorial. Many hands make light work. I downloaded the villager04 dress which is 2048x2048 at 46 MB (main surface). The vanilla version is 512*512 at 2.5 MB. I think some of us are never going to get the full benefit of a resolution of 2048*2048. Is there any chance of you making an intermediate resolution of 1024*1024? The vanilla clothes are horrendously low-res, so I'm glad someone is fixing that, but I think ~50 MB for a single dress is a little high. Ok I'm seriously confused where do you get 50MB from? The diffuse/colour map for the dress is 2.7MB the Normal map is obviously higher at 5.5MB. The file size for the whole mod is only 6.29MB and thats been compressed in winrar. Texture size is 2048x2048 for the dress and normal map.The boots are 1024x1024. So its quite reasonable for a full set of character clothing. Of couse if people want a mid res version for performance reasons I can maybe do one later when I complete the clothing pack I'm working on of course a lot of people would have to ask for it. 50MB though you're still confusing me with that. Since I've just tested it by checking Nexus download service and I assure you its 6.2MB. At that filesize I could do 30 outfits and you'd only be looking at 188MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efikmalydoskonaly Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I'm very happy you're doing this work. I hate the low resolution of most of the clothing. You asked about our priorities - for me most of the "fine clothes" should be redone quickly. I just can't look at this nice green/blue/yellow robes with pixels starring at me saying "hi, it's 2011 and you see us on "ultra" settings :rolleyes: " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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