Soulgem Replacer

v.0.9.1
02/2016

by PeterBitt

link: http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/44117?




Description:
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This is a mesh and texture replacer for the soulgems.
Comes with full PBR support for the MGE XE Physically Based Rendering Prototype.


MGE XE PBR Prototype: http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/26348/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fmorrowind%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D26348&pUp=1

Quote Hrnchamd: "PBR is an advancement in lighting and texturing that allows your computer to render a greater variety of more complex and beautiful materials. The physics allows them to be consistently interesting in all lighting conditions."


If you don't use PBR you can still use this mod without problems, there is a seperate diffuse texture which is only overwritten by the PBR textures when you activate PBR in MGE XE. Read the MGE XE documentation on how to do that.

The model und texture where made from scratch using ZBrush, 3d Max, xNormal and Photoshop. I have no idea yet on what I want to do with the grand soulgem and it might take while until I have. For now this mod only includes fitting PBR materials for the vanilla soulgem, make sure you have no other replacer installed.
I will update this mod to version 1.0 once I made a proper model for the grand soulgem.




Installation:
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1. copy the content of this archive in your Morrowind folder




Known Issues:
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A few little seams here and there, the models are a bit older and I dont want to rework them.
Some wasted polies on the greater soulgem.
Not sure about the PBR materials, they will look much better when MGEXE provides environment reflection.




Credit:
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Thanks to WH-Reaper for making the icons!




Usage:
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Please respect the efford that went into this and the fact that I freely share it - Please don't upload this anywhere else. Please don't edit texture or model. Please don't include this in any compilation mods.
Please simply don't do anything with it without asking me, except using it in your game. Thanks!