theuprising Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 (edited) Anyone know the pros and cons of each? I think, landscape-wise, Serious looks very similar to Realistic Overhaul, and is slightly more true to vanilla. I've been using 2k HD for the longest time since I didn't know there were any other texture mods, and barely ever noticed the textures. Skyrim 2k HD is by far the most realistic of the bunch, and looks great under ENB, but I think it looks really bad under vanilla color balance. Serious/SRO have textures that jump out at you more even in the desaturated vanilla skyrim because everything is bump mapped and the textures are shiny and portray large objects, rather than hundreds of small ones. So for someone sticking to vanilla until RL v4 comes out, would you recommend SRO/Serious? And has anyone had any experience with insanity? EDIT: A texture mod comparision:http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=14632 I don't feel it covers EVERYTHING, the main thing is that Serious has more bump mapped stuff than SRO, and portrays the biggest objects, while SRO goes for smaller, and 2kHD goes for even smaller. Edited May 12, 2012 by theuprising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nightfrost Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 I would also be very curious about this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonflarcos Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 (edited) Well I'm insane and installed all 3 but 2k as the last because its the most beautiful PS: My skyrim is 21gb big Edited May 11, 2012 by Dragonflarcos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daofu Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 I've read that SRO has better optimized textures compared to Skyrim 2K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murdilator Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Download the PDF "STEP v2-1-1b"http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11 Skyrim 2k HD does affect every texture, just a good number of them. I use it in addition with a number of other HD texture mods, and have overwritten some of the files from 2kHD for some that I felt were better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theuprising Posted May 12, 2012 Author Share Posted May 12, 2012 (edited) K after more testing, I think Serious stands out more than SRO, but sometimes its just unrealistic and ugly. One place where I HAD to overwrite Serious with something else were the pine forest textures, there's so many shiny dead leaves on the ground, in places that there are NO TREES. SRO is the much more truer than 2k HD when it comes to towns and structures, but sometimes, really, all they did was take the vanilla texture and up its resolution a tad bit, so it still looks blurry. But if you want a vanilla enhanced a bit, SRO is the way to go. I use the LITE version so sometimes the blurriness gets unbearable, so I may switch back. 2kHD makes better use of all its pixels. THIS is also incredibly helpful, its a texture mod comparison:http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=14632 Edited May 12, 2012 by theuprising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nafisbro Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 did any1 here try using TEXTURE PACK COMBINER to combine all textures of SRO,SHD AND HD2K??? if any1 have tried this then how is it compared to the stand-alone hd2k ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halendia Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 (edited) I handpick all my textures using this utility. Edited August 25, 2013 by Halendia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoSxorpio Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 did any1 here try using TEXTURE PACK COMBINER to combine all textures of SRO,SHD AND HD2K??? if any1 have tried this then how is it compared to the stand-alone hd2k ??? Texture replacers for games like this are a matter of taste and availability. You have to try them out and see for yourself. "The Best" isn't a good descriptive for search/suggestion. If you have something specific in mind someone might be able to point out. Think of it categorically, armor-weapons-hair-eyes-landscape-maps-effects. There are a myriad of textures, these three you ask about are sometimes good sometimes bad. Its all in the eyes of the beholder. With more than 40 THOUSAND mods on the nexus for Skyrim alone...there's just too much to avail anyone the right to claim this is that best mod. Search the top 100. Tag Search. Too many options for any one mod to be the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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