How do I set texture resolutions?

[Biohazard186]

Perhaps the question isn't accurate so let me explain. I downloaded a weapon and armor mod recently where the textures do no appear properly on texture settings below the highest possible. Instead the items appear covered in green and magenta pixels. The mod author seems unwilling or unable to deal with this so I'd like to take the opportunity to learn something new. So, how should I go about fixing this?

 

This is how it should look:

http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/images/34764-1-1365925852.jpg

 

And this is how it looks if you're not running texture quality on high:

http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p443/ImmortalNobody/ScreenShot57_zps0f4cf264.png

Edited April 16, 2013 by Biohazard186

[krisjay]

The texture sounds like it has been over-enlarged in PS (or gimp don't know what they used), and has pixelated.

Could also be it was sharpened too much.

 

What mod is it?

Can you post a pic?

Edited April 16, 2013 by krisjay

[Biohazard186]

  On 4/16/2013 at 8:38 PM, krisjay said:

The texture sounds like it has been over-enlarged in PS (or gimp don't know what they used), and has pixelated.

Could also be it was sharpened too much.

 

What mod is it?

Can you post a pic?

Pic posted. I was in the middle of uploading images and editing the first post when you posted. xD

The mod is this one:

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/34764/

[krisjay]

It looks like the image compression is too much for it to handle, and it pixelates.

 

If this is just for your own personal use, I suggest opening up the BSA (if it has one), or 'Data' folder (if it's not a BSA), find the high quality image (the one that looks right on high graphics), and re-compress it to a different format. Try DXT 1, DXT 3 and DXT 5 compression.

 

It's most likely going to be a trial and error game until you figure out the proper compression level for the image.

[Biohazard186]

Okay. Would I be editing the _d, _m, or _n file, or all of the above?

[krisjay]

_d most likely. You can use PS or Gimp to compress, although Gimp compression isn't as good as PS.

 

I'm going to take a look at the images in that mod to see what's going on also.

Edited April 16, 2013 by krisjay

[Biohazard186]

Re-compressing at DXT5 did it on the quiver. I'll do it on the rest and see how it goes. :3

 

Edit: Confirmed compressing at DXT5 fixed everything. Thanks for your help. ^^

Edited April 16, 2013 by Biohazard186

[krisjay]

No problem at all.

[hylskrik]

I had a look at the textures and the problem wasn't compression, they were already compressed properly -- the issue is that several of them were missing mip-maps completely. When you recompressed them, whatever application you used probably generated new mip-maps and that solved it for you :) DXT5 is unnecessary as the diffuse textures don't have alpha channels.

 

 

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http://i.imgur.com/c6mrxrB.jpg

 

Edited April 17, 2013 by hylskrik