Skyrim Special Edition

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skytinerant

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disitinerant

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High quality normals for vanilla diffuse textures for creatures. Use with any vanilla textures, even cleaned or upscaled textures. Overwrite with retextures that you like better than vanilla, unless the retexture is just vanilla with tweaks. Then these might still work.

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I've been holding off on making these, because the best way to do it is to get good AI upscaled diffuse textures to use as a base, and I don't like that chore. I like the making normals chore.

Luckily, TREBoy made some AI upscaled vanilla textures, and has permissions to use the assets, so I used them to make these. TREBoy's mod, UpScaler - AI Upscaled Textures 2x 4x Creatures, is not necessary to use these normals. They work great with vanilla textures out of the box, as well as with upscaled vanilla textures and cleaned vanilla textures, including TREBoy's.
Recommendation

Fixed Mesh Lighting
UpScaler - AI Upscaled Textures 2x 4x Creatures

Thank You

Bethesda for the vanilla assets
TREBoy for the AI upscaled diffuse textures I used to produce these normals
Materialize
GIMP
paint.NET

Installation

Textures only - install as usual with Mod Organizer 2 or a lesser such tool. Install order (left pane in MO2) should be after (below) any vanilla upscaled or cleaned textures, and before (above) any retextures that aren't just recolored vanilla.

Final note

These can make some vanilla textures way more competitive with some of the retextures out there, so you may be able to get rid of some retextures you already have.

Enjoy!