Skyrim Special Edition

About this mod

This mod and its future iterations try to provide a complete set of AI upscaled textures for 4k-running Skyrim LE/SE. It was created for those who seek high resolution textures but want their game to look as vanilla as possible, as otherwise you should pick any magnificent custom pack. See the detailed description for more informations.

Permissions and credits
[THIS IS THE SE VERSION. FOR LE : https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/112674]


AI UPSCALED TEXTURES 4x (4k textures)

Check the video tab for a short demo.

This mod was only made for Skyrim running at high resolution. Any low resolution will result in a grainy, overdetailed look. I recommend anything above 1440p (included).

VORTEX OR NMM INSTALL: use Vortex or any mod manager. Load order : BEFORE any graphics mod.

MANUAL INSTALL : drop the BSAs and ESPs in your Skyrim "Data" folder. Delete the BSAs and ESPs (only these) to uninstall, that's it. If your game crashes, it is probably running out of VRAM.

Upscale done through ESRGAN, big thanks to Kim2091 for his 4x-SkyrimTexV2.1, V2_Fabric and UltraSharp models (the
thing used by ESRGAN), and to Alsa for his Skyrim Armory model. Thanks to Mutin_Choler for x_BCGone_Smooth_110000_G and 1x_BCGone-DetailedV2_40-60_115000_G, also to tldr_coder for the amazing Ground model. The models used for architecture and dungeons are usually mine :)
(wood model, stone models, and some others)
Packing done through CAO.

All textures come from the official HD dlc, or the base game if they don't exist in a higher resolution.

It DOES NOT include normal maps, glow maps... as it would be way too big otherwise. Textures correctly compressed.
4x upscale means all textures were upscaled to 16 time their original size
(4x4). Biggest one were then cut by half. Example : a 512x512 texture from the HD dlc is now 2048x2048.