I was using What's Your Brand until I decided to start modding the game myself. Now I'm pretty much using only my own food and item mods. I love WYB but all of the textures are only 512x512 if I'm not mistaken and it just changes the textures but doesn't touch the item names or attributes. Plus all of the smokes in WYB are dingy and dirty where as I prefer a new shiny HD look. WYB is a great mod but obviously I prefer my mod and feel it's superior in terms of texture quality.
It is true that WYB doesnt change the names of the cig items, but doing so forces the user to add an .esp file to the download, and you are correct that the WYB mod doesnt have the new/ clean texture version included and your mod does introduce higher resolution textures too. But the mod is super old (posted 200 and hasnt been touched in 4 years.
I'm part of the returning bandwagon. LOL With FO4 on the way what a perfect time to replay and mod 3 and New Vegas. I'm sure a lot of us returning guys will be posting new mods and updating old abandoned mods preparing for 4. The mod is no good IMO if it doesn't change the names and modify/correct the items too. That's like only doing 1/2 the work. Users are always welcome to just use my textures if they don't want to add an extra ESP. I'm using the default paths, meshes, and texture names for now so people are good there. The in game items textures will still change without the name changes and modifications I have made. A few of the items would still use the generic junk Pipboy icon too though. In the future I may change to my own paths just to simplify un-installation.
Should someone add a whole bunch of different cigarette packs/boxes in an .esp, they need to add them into the leveled lists for the trash/ scavenge items so that they will appear in the wasteland, along with the name changes too, otherwise people cant tell the difference which of the items are in their inventory.
Maybe other brands are possible in the future. I thought about adding Camels and Newports but that's on the back burner for now. I'm working on a few miscellaneous items currently. I have to start working on custom meshes at some point too because the default ones make it nearly impossible to 100% accurately recreate the items I'm changing. I mean just look at the carton of smokes...It looks like a shoe box.
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