Qarl's Texture Pack

[bambini]

Not sure if this is the right forum to put this in, but has anyone yet considered the possibility of using Qarl's Texture Pack (originally designed for TES4: Oblivion) in TDM? I'm not sure if they are directly compatible, but if they're useable (and if we have Qarl's permission), we could potentially have hundreds of high quality textures at our disposal. I mean, I think we can agree that most of the Oblivion textures would look right at home in TDM.

 

Take a look:

 

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=2363

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?id=3813&view=OblivionMods.Detail (this is an optimised version of the same pack)

 

I don't know much about textures though, so could be talking out of my arse. Feel free to shoot me down in smoke and flames if necessary.

 

 

[Melan]

Looking at the sample images, they look rather "fantasyish", and, although that may be the light, sort of "washed out" and too bright. I am not sure this would be such a good idea, but again, initial impression and personal opinion.

[Springheel]

It's hard to tell, but the textures themselves don't look very high res to me. It looks like there is some kind of parallax effect or something on them, however. Hard to tell from those kind of screenshots though...it could have more to do with the ambient light than the textures. (now the models, on the other hand...)

 

As always, it can't hurt to ask.

[STiFU]

I guess it's rather hard to judge from the screenshots, as there's HDR in Oblivion, which induces the overbright effect that makes it look so "fantasyish" as Melan puts it. I used that package too when I played Oblivion together with all other available graphic tweaks and I can tell you, those textures aren't lowres... Only one of the screenshots posted does show the before/after comparison. All others apparently are just "before"-images. Parallax-mapping is used occasionally, but the normalmaps are still available for every texture, so that doesn't pose a problem.

Edited February 2, 2010 by STiFU

[bambini]

I'm with STiFU. These are definitely hi-res textures, and they are VERY well made. Here's a good image to look at to give you a flavour:

 

http://planeteldersc...ge.php?id=37447

 

I also agree that Oblivion does have a weird overbrightness and softness to the textures as a result of HDR/Bloom, but even if there is a problem with the textures looking a bit too washed out for TDM, I'd be happy to go through the textures with GIMP and tone down the brightness. That is, as long as it's the relatively simple task I think it is.

Edited February 2, 2010 by bambini