What a beautiful retexture. I wish it would be upgraded to 2k but I seriously doubt it based on the upload date of this mod as well as the fact that it hasn't been updated since 2009.
I ended up installing Photoshop a few days ago and decided to take on a simple project that would help me get acquainted with the software. Using the textures from this mod (i.e. Hlaalu Retextured by AN Old Friend) together with textures from Hlaalu - Arkitektora of Vvardenfell by Teddy and Hlaalu Retexture v2.5 by Lougian I managed to produce the scenes shown in these pictures. I love the grungy feeling that the AOF retexture pack gave to the town of Balmora and as you can see, I used the wall textures from this pack essentially without alterations. I did however notice that Photoshop has the function to artificially upscale textures and so I used this to fake a 2k look for these textures, which resulted in a slight increase in their quality without introducing any noticeable noise. Also, and I may be mistaken here because I am a complete noob at PS, but I think the original textures were saved as .dds files without generating their correspondong mipmaps, which leads to texture glitches when observing these assets from far away. So, when I saved my "2k" versions of AOF wall textures with mipmaps I noticed a huge effect as previously discussed, with this upscaled version having none of these anomalies whatsoever. I hoped I managed to properly demonstrate each of the assets I had used from AOF, Teddy and Lougian in the pictures I had posted but I will post a rudimentary list for completeness: (Altered = made by cutting and pasting parts of textures generally from more than one source) Texture name - What I did - Source(s) - Creator
tx_hlaalu_ceiling - Made seamless - Hlaalu Retextured - Hlaalu Retextured
Would anyone have some feedback for me as I hope to get outsider's opinion on this work. Please do take into consideration that I am a noob to photoshop and I do not have a stylus (yet).
Finally a texture pack that does justice to the original artstyle. Every single other one I've seen alters it too much. Thanks for keeping the vanilla feel alive. Although the screenshots don't do this one justice. Endorsed.
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(Altered = made by cutting and pasting parts of textures generally from more than one source)
Texture name - What I did - Source(s) - Creator
Would anyone have some feedback for me as I hope to get outsider's opinion on this work. Please do take into consideration that I am a noob to photoshop and I do not have a stylus (yet).
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