• NEW FEATURE: Overhauled sign: Moorside Inn - brought back vanilla art design, rendered HD with a unique wooden display board underneath the artwork with visible nail heads at the edges. Rendered to give impression of 3D depth. • NEW FEATURE: Overhauled sign: Nightgate Inn - brought back vanilla font type and made new HD design more natural looking and weathered by reducing the opacity and adding a grain merge filter. Removed black and white border around the wolf and moon to look more simple and stylish.
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It seems that texture size of the Braidwood Inn's sign is incorrect: 2051x2050 instead of 2048x2048. And all textures are in uncompressed DDS format. It is better to compress all textures without transparency to DXT1 and all textures with transparency to DXT5 to significantly reduce it's size in megabytes.
Yup, I can confirm this is still an issue. Unfortunate, as the signs are quite nice and give a different appeal than the other options for inn signs.
Thanks for reminding me of the resolution issue, I will get that fixed soon, easy enough. Regarding the compression and format of the textures, you are correct that your method would reduce the file size, however there is a significant loss in quality as a result of any compression, which is really noticed in game (many obvious visual artifacts and blockiness) - I have tried and tested it but I was not satisfied with the quality at all.
I browsed through the comments. Whooo! My ears are blistering. Some angry commercial artists out there. I have to throw my two bits in. One thing that comes to mind is that wood grain is subjective. Modern wood from f a r m i n g is not the same as wood cut from a forest. We don't have the same wood available to us that Skyrim people do. This is a real thing. Modern wood is grown too fast to develop a tight grain that is dense smooth and useable. 'Real' wood doesn't soak up water or paint in the same way f a r m e d wood does. Another thing, people did have access to paint that would cover wood grain, it is modern day real people who don't. Unfortunately they used lead. If we were really clever we could think up a substitute that didn't kill us if it weren't for modern patent stealing, copyright overlords and other assorted modern day problems. Also, thinking cross culturally, there is lacquered wood, that could be made with varnish or shellac. Many layers. The combination of usable forest hard wood kiln dried or otherwise with a suitable paint product is entirely feasible for any Skyrim inhabitant. Nords may be over muscled and seasonally challenged but I don't think they should be demoted to low abilities. What we know about the world is vastly different from what the world has been. I learn this regularly. I have wondered why in a forested nation not more wood carvers are in evidence. It is one of the few resources they have in great abundance. Wood carving should be a national past time. Master wood carvers should be in every town, village and city. Just my opinion.
Which leads me to this request if you should bet back to this. I have seen old English pub signs that are probably hundreds of years old. They were carved and had a pleasant paint applied. One I remember specifically was of a wild boar carved 3 dimensionally and painted. The wood grain did not leak through the paint presumably because the wood was fine grained and dense enough not to raise grain with humidity. Either a hard wood or pine grown naturally and either seasoned appropriately. Your signs that look like they are wood stained instead of painted are beautiful as well. If you had the time to study history or antiques or just collectibles you might be able to see many examples of this yourself from many different eras. One thing to remember is that most people could not read. They had to figure out what the sign meant from it's appearance. So ubiquitous moons and frothing mead flagons were sure to abound along with a local icon. No letters or few, which makes type face or font choice in Skyrim a matter of artists preference. Thank you for your wonderful work, I'll look forward to trying this mod in the future and giving it an endorsement.
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• NEW FEATURE: Overhauled sign: Moorside Inn - brought back vanilla art design, rendered HD with a unique wooden display board underneath the artwork with visible nail heads at the edges. Rendered to give impression of 3D depth.
• NEW FEATURE: Overhauled sign: Nightgate Inn - brought back vanilla font type and made new HD design more natural looking and weathered by reducing the opacity and adding a grain merge filter. Removed black and white border around the wolf and moon to look more simple and stylish.
Stay tuned for more SkyFix mods and updates and keep up with your suggestions for SkyFix!
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Keep up the awesome work, Covert!
Yup, I can confirm this is still an issue. Unfortunate, as the signs are quite nice and give a different appeal than the other options for inn signs.
Which leads me to this request if you should bet back to this. I have seen old English pub signs that are probably hundreds of years old. They were carved and had a pleasant paint applied. One I remember specifically was of a wild boar carved 3 dimensionally and painted. The wood grain did not leak through the paint presumably because the wood was fine grained and dense enough not to raise grain with humidity. Either a hard wood or pine grown naturally and either seasoned appropriately. Your signs that look like they are wood stained instead of painted are beautiful as well. If you had the time to study history or antiques or just collectibles you might be able to see many examples of this yourself from many different eras. One thing to remember is that most people could not read. They had to figure out what the sign meant from it's appearance. So ubiquitous moons and frothing mead flagons were sure to abound along with a local icon. No letters or few, which makes type face or font choice in Skyrim a matter of artists preference. Thank you for your wonderful work, I'll look forward to trying this mod in the future and giving it an endorsement.