A question about texture resolution in Skyrim

[Vandrath]

I am relatively new to texturing in general and I had a question regarding texture size, such as 512, 1024, 2048, and so on. Since Skyrim uses 512x512 images, how does one Shrink a texture to get it into Skyrim? Say im using a 2048x2048 image, does the texture shrink happen in photoshop (or whatever image program used) by just changing the image size or is it something a more complex?

[Oubliette]

:huh: In most cases Skyrim will use a texture at it's native size. So if you save a texture at 2048, it will run just fine in game. I think the only exceptions to that are some face complexion textures.

[Vandrath]

Thanks, for some reason i couldn't find a straight answer to the question when I researched it.