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= Koldorn Ayleid Imperial City Retexture =
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Created By : Ryu Doppler


Textures from Bethesda and Koldron Respectively.


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= Details : Ryu Doppler =
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To me in my game, the textures used for the Imperial City's always looked a out of place for a former Ayleid city. In my imagination for my game, since the Imperial City was supposed to have once been the capital of the Ayleids, I expected it's textures to reflect it somewhat. I wished this sort of texture similarity to exist in my game, and as I use Koldorn's Ayleid textures I decided I would make a merge. Taking one of Koldorn's textures, I worked to blend it with the Normal IC textures to make a mix that was still the Imperial City, but made it seem more Ayleid gritty to match the Ayleid ruins.

My first attempt had a loss of detail, but I was able to restore lost detail with a few simple overlay techniques. And what I got was a retexture that suited my purposes perfectly.

Essentially, the purpose of this mod is to make the IC match the textures of the Koldorn Ayleid Ruin retexture. Based on my current preference for it to be so. It is provided for others in the case that they would wish the same, or just want a IC texture replacer.

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= Background Notes =
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This is a texture replacer, which has the potential to conflict with other texture replacers that affect the same files. It will overwrite files located within the following folder paths from your Oblivion Data folder: textures\architecture\godstatues\, textures\architecture\imperialcity\, and textures\architecture\statue\.

So as a precaution, it advised that before installing the texture replacer to back up these three folders in case you wish to revert back to before.

Also, these textures don't come with any normals, so they won't conflict with any normalmaps edits that may be present. Personally, I find that Bomrets normals complement the mod very nicely, but it's really up to you what normals edits you want to use with it.


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= Installation =
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Simply unpack the archive, then copy and paste the textures folder into your Oblivion Data folder.

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= Uninstallation =
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To remove this, you will need to manually delete the files that came with this mod. The list of all the files is as follows:

In "textures\architecture\godstatues\"
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godakatosh.dds
godarkay.dds
goddibella.dds
godjulianos01.dds
godkynareth.dds
godmara.dds
godseptim.dds
godstendarr.dds
godzenithar.dds


In "textures\architecture\statue\"
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icdragonstatue01.dds
statueimperial2.dds
statueimperial03.dds
statueimperial04.dds
statueimperial05.dds
statueimperial.dds
statueimperialdestroyed.dds


In "textures\architecture\imperialcity\"
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icbridgelod01.dds
iccobblestones01.dds
iccol01.dds
iccol02.dds
iccol03.dds
ichcol01.dds
ichcol02.dds
ichcol03.dds
ichcol04.dds
ichdomestrip01.dds
ichdomewall01.dds
ichstonewall01.dds
ichstonewall02.dds
ichwall01.dds
ichwallbottom01.dds
ichwallbottom02.dds
ichwallbottom03.dds
ichwallstrip01.dds
ichwalltrim01.dds
icmausoleummq01.dds
icobelisk01.dds
icroof01.dds
icsidewalk01.dds
icsidewalk02.dds
ictemplewall01.dds
ictombstone01.dds
ictombstone02.dds
ictombstone03.dds
ictombstone04.dds
ictombstone05.dds
ictombstone06.dds
ictombstonebase01.dds
ictombstonebase02.dds
ictombstonebroken01.dds
ictowerlod01.dds
ictracery01.dds
icwall02.dds
icwall03.dds
icwall04.dds
icwallblock01.dds
icwallblock02.dds
icwallbuttress01.dds
icwallbuttress02.dds
icwallbuttress03.dds
icwallbuttress04.dds
icwallbuttress05.dds
icwallbuttress06.dds
icwallbuttress07.dds
icwallinset01.dds
icwallinset02.dds
icwallinset03.dds
icwallinset04.dds
icwallinset05.dds
icwalllod01.dds
icwalllod02.dds
icwallstrip01.dds
icwallstrip02.dds
icwalltowerlod01.dds
wayshrinealtar01.dds
wayshrinestep01.dds


In "textures\architecture\imperialcity\icbasementset"
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icbbottomtile01.dds
icbcol04.dds
icbfloor01.dds
icbstoneedge01.dds
icbwallblank01.dds
icbwallbottom01.dds


In "textures\architecture\imperialcity\icinterior"
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icbottomtile01.dds
icfloor01.dds
ichceiling01.dds
ichcol04.dds
ichcol04a.dds
ichcol05.dds
ichcol06.dds
ichwallblank01.dds
icpalacecol01.dds
icpalacecol02.dds
icpalacefloor01.dds
icpalacegate01.dds
icpalacerug01.dds
icpalacetablestrip01.dds
ictemplealtar01.dds
ictemplecoffers01.dds
ictemplefloor01.dds
ictemplestep01.dds
ictoptile01.dds

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= History =
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1.0 - Koldorn Texture over standard Oblivion IC textures done

0.1/0.9 - Tests

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= Credits =
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Thanks to Koldorn for creating his Ayleid Retexture textures.
Thanks to Me, Ryu Doppler for creating this IC retexture.
Thanks to Bethesda for creating Oblivion.
Thanks to TESNexus.com for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players.