Great little mod! I always wished we could have some way of restoring the burnt comics and magazines to their pre-War glory and be readable! Skyrim had so much readable material, but in FO4, we're so unreasonably constricted to notes and holotapes - while we have overdue books that are still perfectly fine! Even after 200 years, people would have sought out books and magazines to preserve them. Hell, we can even find technical documents - why not books? D:
Thanks to sakura9 for a nice mod. For some (2 comics are a tad too saturated) I'd prefer a colour level in between the regular and the faded (the faded is so faded as to not be worth bothering with, imho). And I'd tweak them myself but they use a compression my GIMP software can't read (maybe BC7 - I can't go beyond BC5). Even so, the regular ones are a big improvement over vanilla. Thus = Endorsed.
Edit: I was belatedly able to open and edit the BC7-compressed files using some freeware called Paint.net (it is sort-of possible in Gimp if you force-fit other software plugins and python scripting, but it has quirks...). However, in Paint.Net I noticed the names of the files are reversed (the mags file has comic textures, the comics one has the mag textures). Maybe it's deliberate or doesn't matter (I don't have a burnt mag to check) - so I'm alerting folks just in case. One interesting side note - after installing Paint.net I was also able to view the BC7 dds files in Irfanview (which couldn't beforehand).
@Muffloid, it wasn't literally the 1950s, it was a retro-1950s style when WW3 started. So it's her granddaughter, or could be a 2020s mag, or perhaps a 2070s eulogy looking back over her career and showing her as she looked in her prime...
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Edit: I was belatedly able to open and edit the BC7-compressed files using some freeware called Paint.net (it is sort-of possible in Gimp if you force-fit other software plugins and python scripting, but it has quirks...). However, in Paint.Net I noticed the names of the files are reversed (the mags file has comic textures, the comics one has the mag textures). Maybe it's deliberate or doesn't matter (I don't have a burnt mag to check) - so I'm alerting folks just in case. One interesting side note - after installing Paint.net I was also able to view the BC7 dds files in Irfanview (which couldn't beforehand).
PS: latest Paint.Net offline installers here: https://github.com/paintdotnet/release/releases
And website (and on-line installers) here: https://www.getpaint.net/index.html
And note that they don't need any plugins to open BC7 compressed dds files (though there's plugins available for various other things).
This retexture adds a lillte more detail to the wastes.
Thank you.