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 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? 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. Try opening the "farmclothe04_female_cloth_d.dds", in GIMP. Then look at the bottom of the window. It should read "main surface (45.5 MB)". Then do the same for the vanilla version (2.6 MB). I could be wrong but I'm assuming that is how much memory the whole dress takes up. I'm not talking about the size of the downloaded file; I know it's about 6 MB. I realise that 50 MB, is not a big deal, as most people have plenty of RAM. The problem is, Skyrim doesn't use all the RAM available. I've haven't seen the game using more than 1 GB, even though I have 4 GB available. The reason I ask for 1024*1024 is my monitor is not big enough to justify a resolution of 2048*2048. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsloth74 Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 cooltrickle. Ok that explains that. For a minute you had me worried I thought I'd uploaded the PSD or something. If you have 4GB then as long as you've got some form of 4GB enabler and a 64bit OS then you should have no problem with high res textures. In regards to your monitor yeah thats a problem so I take your point. I was going for true high res though not medium res as I'm sure you can appreciate. You could always reduce the texture in GIMP provided you have the DDS plugins and have experience of this sort of thing. Of course if its really an issue for you I'll do it for you upload to mediafire and PM you a link if want. May not look so hot though I hate reducing or enlarging anything, it lets Photoshop have too much control and messes it up, but it may be OK. Let me know if this is what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsloth74 Posted December 5, 2011 Author 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. Good to know. Point I was making is I have no intention of doing Beggar and Chef clothes if I can avoid it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooltrickle Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 It's not a huge deal; I was just trying to give you a heads up about people that might want a 1024*1024. I don't want to create more work for you. I'm not sure if there is much difference in a 1024*1024 texture and one that has been reduced from 2048*2048. If it's worth making the texture at 1024*1024, I don't mind helping you out, but I would need some help to get started though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necKros Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) Need help? I'm looking for something to retex while I get the source materials for my new character textures... We could split out work, I don't care working on the less important outfits :) Edited December 6, 2011 by necKros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsloth74 Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) Need help? I'm looking for something to retex while I get the source materials for my new character textures... We could split out work, I don't care working on the less important outfits :) necKros : Many thanks for the offer it would certainly make the project go faster. If you really don't mind helping this is the list of things I have done and am also planning to do from the unpacked texture folders: farmclothes 1-4 and variantschildren clothes barkeepblacksmithgrey beard robe is going in my mage/monk pack.ignore all mage and priest stuff because most of that is in my mage/monk pack or is going to be in it.jester is getting done for Dark Brotherhood.barkeeper clothestavern wench clothes If you want to do anything else in the clothing folder feel free. Maybe fineclothes 01 and 02 would be a good place to start. Yarl clothes also. Just leave me the female Yarl clothes that Yarl Elfsif of Solitude wears I'd really like to do that one. Whatever you have the time to do would be greatly appreciated. Currently all full clothing is going to be 2048x2048, footwear and gloves 1024x1024. However where outfits are split into diffent textures for example pants, tunic etc I think I'm going to do them 1024x1024. Its not sensible to do all that at 2048x2048 and would be an uneccessary performance drain for some users. I know it goes without saying but I will give you full credit in the readme and mod description for whatever you do. On a side note I downloaded your Beauty Faces mod, really nice work. Will be endorsing that one. Edited December 6, 2011 by darthsloth74 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necKros Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Need help? I'm looking for something to retex while I get the source materials for my new character textures... We could split out work, I don't care working on the less important outfits :) necKros : Many thanks for the offer it would certainly make the project go faster. If you really don't mind helping this is the list of things I have done and am also planning to do from the unpacked texture folders: farmclothes 1-4 and variantschildren clothes barkeepblacksmithgrey beard robe is going in my mage/monk pack.ignore all mage and priest stuff because most of that is in my mage/monk pack or is going to be in it.jester is getting done for Dark Brotherhood.barkeeper clothestavern wench clothes If you want to do anything else in the clothing folder feel free. Maybe fineclothes 01 and 02 would be a good place to start. Yarl clothes also. Just leave me the female Yarl clothes that Yarl Elfsif of Solitude wears I'd really like to do that one. Whatever you have the time to do would be greatly appreciated. Currently all full clothing is going to be 2048x2048, footwear and gloves 1024x1024. However where outfits are split into diffent textures for example pants, tunic etc I think I'm going to do them 1024x1024. Its not sensible to do all that at 2048x2048 and would be an uneccessary performance drain for some users. I know it goes without saying but I will give you full credit in the readme and mod description for whatever you do. On a side note I downloaded your Beauty Faces mod, really nice work. Will be endorsing that one.Right on, I'll scout the clothing folder and I'll let you know. Probably fine clothes will come first, I had them on my list already anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthsloth74 Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 necKros: Ok many thanks. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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