About this mod
High-resolution and brighter textures of visible Moon phases (updated 23 Nov 2008 to 0.2.0)
- Permissions and credits
krzymar HI-RES Moon 0.2.0
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(23 Nov 2008: updated to 0.2.0)
(21 Nov 2008: updated to 0.1.2, if you have 0.1.1-mip, you don't have to redownload)
(20 Nov 2008: added alternative with mipmaps, no version bump, no need to redownload)
(19 Nov 2008: updated to 0.1.1)
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DESCRIPTION
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This mod is a high-resolution texture replacement for in-game all visible Moon phases.
Replacement Moon is much brighter, more like real Moon, and uses 1024x1024 texture size instead of vanilla 512x512.
Images for textures were taken from open-source space simulation program - Celestia.
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INSTALLATION
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1. Unzip contents of the archive into Fallout 3 "Data" subfolder.
2. If you DON'T use Archive Invalidation Invalidated, step to point 3, else that's all.
3. If already not, change bInvalidateOlderFiles option in fallout.ini (found in Documents\My Games\Fallout3) from 0 to 1:
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
4. Add to ArchiveInvalidation.txt (file in installation folder of the game):
textures/sky/masser_full.dds
textures/sky/masser_half_wan.dds
textures/sky/masser_half_wax.dds
textures/sky/masser_one_wan.dds
textures/sky/masser_one_wax.dds
textures/sky/masser_three_wan.dds
textures/sky/masser_three_wax.dds
textures/sky/skymoonfull.dds
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UNINSTALLATION
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If you have added entries from INSTALLATION point 4, remove them now.
Remove below files from your Fallout 3 game "Data\Textures\sky" subfolder:
masser_full.dds
masser_half_wan.dds
masser_half_wax.dds
masser_one_wan.dds
masser_one_wax.dds
masser_three_wan.dds
masser_three_wax.dds
skymoonfull.dds
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VERSION HISTORY
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0.1.0 (18 Nov 2008):
- Initial release: bright 1024x1024 textures of Moon
0.1.1 (19 Nov 2008):
- Bug fix: removed white edge around dark portions of the moon
- Removed mipmaps from files - DDS size reduced from 1.3 MB to 1 MB (I didn't see any difference between Moon with textures using them or not)
0.1.2 (21 Nov 2008):
- Bug fix: added again mipmaps to textures (previously 0.1.1-mip) - this resolved problems on some machines
0.2.0 (23 Nov 2008):
- Decreased slightly contrast of bright moon textures
- Added alternative darker textures of moon as separate archive
- Changed mod installation folder from Fallout 3 main directory to Data
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NOTES
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Archive is compressed by 7-Zip open-source file archiver to ZIP format.
If there is any problem with uncompressing it by your decompressor, try it with 7-Zip before posting error.