Why are there no truly hd mods?

[Aegrus]

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but. . .

 

I recently bought Dragon Age. It's downloading from steam at this moment, in fact. I've been browsing mods, however, and it seems that there are none that add photorealistic textures to the game. There also don't seem to be any lighting mods. I'm used to a modded version of Skyrim, so this came as somewhat of a shock. I'll play the game no problem with lower-res textures and vanilla lighting- I played it on the ps3 (worse than the pc version), and loved it.

 

But given that my pc can blow away the system requirements for max settings in DA, I was wondering if there are any very high requirement mods that simply aren't popular due to the grade of pc required to run them smoothly. If anyone knows of any, (especially related to improving character textures), would they please post names or links?

 

Edit- maps that add or pronounce bumpmapping are also appreciated.

Edited December 24, 2011 by Aegrus

[Parqer]

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but. . .

 

I recently bought Dragon Age. It's downloading from steam at this moment, in fact. I've been browsing mods, however, and it seems that there are none that add photorealistic textures to the game. There also don't seem to be any lighting mods. I'm used to a modded version of Skyrim, so this came as somewhat of a shock. I'll play the game no problem with lower-res textures and vanilla lighting- I played it on the ps3 (worse than the pc version), and loved it.

 

But given that my pc can blow away the system requirements for max settings in DA, I was wondering if there are any very high requirement mods that simply aren't popular due to the grade of pc required to run them smoothly. If anyone knows of any, (especially related to improving character textures), would they please post names or links?

 

Edit- maps that add or pronounce bumpmapping are also appreciated.

 

 

You may already know about this and have passed it up (it isn't exactly what you're looking for), but there's a mod called "Dragon Age Redesigned". It doesn't provide photo-realistic textures, but it's definitely an aeshetic improvement. It overhauls all of the NPCs and offers multiple face morphs for most companions. It isn't ultra HD, but it definitely helps. I wouldn't want to play DA without it installed.