If anyone is overwhelmed with joy about these tools, has some time on their hands, and knows their PS and GIMP stuff, I would love to know of any details about a) conversion to work in particular Photoshop/Illustrator versions, and b) conversion or other steps to use in GIMP (or other tools, for that matter, that are capable of using PS and Ill. plugins).
These plugs are really old, and I'm skeptical they work perfectly right out of the box in every setup, so I would like to update the documentation.
This is incredible! For years I've searched for these, or anything even remotely similar, but have always hit dead ends. You are seriously soooo amazing for doing this! A life saver, even. This will save me an incredible amount of time and improve my textures significantly in the future.
All for the greater glory of mods! (And hopefully more realistic, non-monochrome, more varied bushes in particular. The available pickings are so very poor in most cases.)
Thank you so much for this! And for doing this! I have carefully preserved my downloaded collection of them from PC to PC over the years. I wish I'd known you were doing this somehow but that would have been impossible. Regardless, I STILL haven't learnt how to use them all. I also didn't actually have them ALL. So I'm amazingly excited to find them here! I'm going through some of the links you added and it's absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for your hard work and effort!
My pleasure. I found it pretty upsetting that these were almost all unavailable other than to archive-digging experts (and even then only to Mac users with tools that could deal with ancient .SIT files). Seemed like the proper thing to do!
If I need to add anything about converting some of them (or if people have made conversions), for any that actually need some kind of conversion to work with 2018 versions of the software, let me know.
Glad everyone's digging them. Took about 17 hours in total to dig them all up, extract them from SIT files, and catalogue them together with screenshots.
I put them here under Skyrim, since that seems to be the most popular category, but I'm hoping some Oblivion and Morrowind modders use them, too. I would love to see more naturalistic body hair, for one thing. It's weird to me to see all these medieval-world NPCs running around with "Brazilians" that make them look pre-pubescent, Really makes me cringe. I also figure some of these males need chest hair and such. I want Orcs in particular to be way-hairy.Much of the existing body texture work I've run into so far is very crude. Just today I saw a new mod for fur/pelt armor, and it basically looks like cotton cloth. "Greetings, I am Sir Poopsalot of the Diaper Knights." Some of Nagel's brushes could make it look much like real fur (and better than the vanilla fur armor in any of these games, for that matter).
I'd been working on a few retextures, and the difficulty of doing bodyhair well and by hand (though I'm one hell of a pixel-level tweaker) is what got me looking for these brushes. It turned into kind of a quest, since so many forums had recommended Nagel's brushes yet so few of them were still available from any known sites. Will take a while to figure out how to use them. My Photoshop experience is mostly using it as a photo editor, not a paint program. Fortunately, Nagel's materials include tutorial stuff, so I'm good to go!
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These plugs are really old, and I'm skeptical they work perfectly right out of the box in every setup, so I would like to update the documentation.
I put them here under Skyrim, since that seems to be the most popular category, but I'm hoping some Oblivion and Morrowind modders use them, too. I would love to see more naturalistic body hair, for one thing. It's weird to me to see all these medieval-world NPCs running around with "Brazilians" that make them look pre-pubescent, Really makes me cringe. I also figure some of these males need chest hair and such. I want Orcs in particular to be way-hairy.Much of the existing body texture work I've run into so far is very crude. Just today I saw a new mod for fur/pelt armor, and it basically looks like cotton cloth. "Greetings, I am Sir Poopsalot of the Diaper Knights." Some of Nagel's brushes could make it look much like real fur (and better than the vanilla fur armor in any of these games, for that matter).
I'd been working on a few retextures, and the difficulty of doing bodyhair well and by hand (though I'm one hell of a pixel-level tweaker) is what got me looking for these brushes. It turned into kind of a quest, since so many forums had recommended Nagel's brushes yet so few of them were still available from any known sites. Will take a while to figure out how to use them. My Photoshop experience is mostly using it as a photo editor, not a paint program. Fortunately, Nagel's materials include tutorial stuff, so I'm good to go!