Skyrim Special Edition

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KaienHash - XilaMonstrr

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High-res and performance textures, cleaned of compression artifacts and optimized for SSE, plus potato resolutions, for the wondrous House of the Dragons Mod

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These are cleaned and upscaled textures ONLY for the four added by "House of the Dragons".
Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion are already available here.

The original textures for these gorgeous dragons by KaienHash were in a mix of BC1 and BC7 compression, with a maximum of 4K resolution (pretty small on a giant dragon).
I have cleaned the files of compression artifacts, upscaled them all by 4x using chaiNNer and ESRGAN models to a max of 16K resolution, and re-compressed in modern BC7 format with full mipmaps. I have also downscaled the textures to provide different resolution options.


Why 16K Dragons??
All resolutions specified are the maximum resolution. Dragons are VERY large, so think about how you want your dragons to look when you are fighting them up close.
The original dragon bodies were in 4K resolution, meaning the dragon head itself was only about 1500x1200 pixels. If you like 1K apples then you definitely want 8K dragons or higher.



Requires meshes from the Original Mod ("Standalone" files), the texture files are not necessary.





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