NillaPlus Artillery Gun Howitzers.

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Main overview
This equips the vanilla howitzers with remastered textures in 4K or 2K, your choice.  With unique paint and wheel variations.
Currently the game has two different howitzer models so you can have two different (unique) sets of textures by only changing the .nifs and texture files.  The main mod gives you a more vanilla-like gun and wheels at the central Nellis location (at a Lagrange to the first large hangar and the control tower).  This gun also appears in a wilderness cell on the other side of the resident's tents.  Both of these are meant to respect the vanilla art style, with a slight shift in color palette more appropriate to the desert.

If you use NV Interiors remastered (not sure if also in vanilla, because I'm not sure why anyone wouldn't use NV interiors remastered) there is also a howitzer inside the garage/shop inside nellis control tower.  Just follow my parallaxed 2K garage door (included in the crate mod) and the gun should be right inside. This gun (and the remaining two outside) all use a new "tiger" camo variation with custom wheels.  From the right angle and distance, this camo really does "uflage" decently well.

There are also some optional bonus assets, because they were distracting me during play, so I did them, too.

Installation
Download whichever version you want, feed it to your mod manager.  Ommmnomnom.

Compatibility
Anything which doesn't replace the "modified assets" listed below.

Known issues
None, let me know if you find one.

Future plans

• Learn to love life again
• Maybe a FOMOD installer to choose the paint+resolution and wheels+resolution + any bonus assets you want as replacers-only
• Choice of scriptrunner or esp plugin to enable more than 2 different howitzer textures
• 2 more texture variants and 2 more sets of wheels are already done.  Just waiting on the above :3
  

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Modified assets (bonus assets in color)
meshes\

• vehicles\nvnellisartillery\nvnellisartillery.nif
• vehicles\nvnellisartillery\nvnellisartillery_static.nif
  

textures\

• architecture\urban\autowheel01.dds
• architecture\urban\autowheel01_n.dds
• clutter\junk\tires01.dds
• clutter\junk\tires01_n.dds
• furniture\table01.dds
• furniture\table01_n.dds
• furniture\table02.dds
• furniture\table02_n.dds
• vehicles\autochassis01.dds
• vehicles\autochassis01_n.dds
• vehicles\nvnellisartillery\nvnellisartillery_d.dds
• vehicles\nvnellisartillery\nvnellisartillery_n.dds
  

Bonus assets

• autowheel01 is a generic wheel used in the base game.  It has no lugnuts, just empty mounting holes, so it looks incorrect when used on vehicles (like the howitzer).  I upscaled and edited this to be as close as possible to the vanilla art, but then I gave the howitzers custom wheel textures (with lug nuts!) so this became a bonus asset.
• autochassis01 I only did this because I noticed my NillaPlus wheels weren't showing up on the big military trucks.  Turns out those trucks use a different texture (autochassis01, which contains an even smaller/lower resolution copy-paste of the already-existing autowheel01 texture.  Way to go Bethesda).  I upscaled the whole thing, did touch ups, then patched my updated wheels texture into the chassis texture.  I think the result speaks for itself.
• table01 and table02 are all over the place in this game.  And they looked like barf, right in front of my flipping howitzers.  Now they look like million dollar barf!
  

You thought we were done?  HECK NAW

New assets

Textures:
textures\nillaplus\architecture\urban\

• autowheel02.dds (& *_n.dds) dirty but not rusty, vanilla-like but shinier, with chrome lugnuts and exposed axle nut.  New default howie wheel
• autowheel03.dds (& *_n.dds) same as autowheel01 (vanilla) but with open lug nuts and a new axle cap
  

- DIFF NOT (YET) USED - MODDER'S RESOURCE? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (wait for the SR/ESP update!)

• autowheel04.dds - rustier variation of 03.  Uses 03's normal map. This is the wheel with the tiger camo guns
• autowheel05.dds - clean primed/painted rims with chrome lugs and exposed axle nut.  Uses 02's normal map.
  

- DIFF NOT (YET) USED - MODDER'S RESOURCE? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (wait for the SR/ESP update!)

By default, this mod uses autowheel02 and autowheel03.  The original autowheel01 is no longer used by the howitzers.  I think it is still elsewhere in the game, so there's a lug-less vanilla upscale with some light edits as a bonus asset.  Variations 04 and 05 are intended for future use.  Or you may swap them around by changing filenames.

• textures\nillaplus\vehicles\nvnellisartillery\nvnellisartillery02.dds - "tiger" camo used by this mod
  

You're free to use any of these files as a modder's resource, too.  If for some reason you want to use some of the assets but don't want to make this mod a requirement (like, to downscale them more than 2K, I won't but you can go nuts), you can include the files in your own mod.  Either way, just give me credit and link back to this mod page :3 Thanks!

<3 Luf