Oblivion

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Bomret

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Because many people wanted a texture replacer for Shivering Isles and I always wanted to try my own texture pack, I deceided to just do it. I kept close to Bethesdas original textures and tried to make it visually compatible with QTP3. After months of hard work in which I\'ve gained a lot of experience (and some grey hairs) I really hope that you l

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Bomret's Texture Pack: Shivering Isles

Version 1.0


Introduction:

Because many people wanted a texture replacer for Shivering Isles and I always wanted to try my own texture pack, I deceided to just do it. I kept close to Bethesdas original textures and tried to make it visually compatible with QTP3. After months of hard work in which I've gained a lot of experience (and some grey hairs) I really hope that you like the result. This pack replaces many of the textures of the Shivering Isles with new, higher res ones.

Special Features:

- altered MipMaps to reduce tiling, make the textures look sharper in the distance, power up the parallax effect andsome other fancy stuff.
- altered meshes to take advantage of the engines parallax shader where the texture benefits from it.
- advanced normal map techniques to make the landscape look more 3D.
- Detiled Normal Maps (Thanks to Chainsaw XIV.)
- Uploader's Note: It appears that I uploaded my PyFFI'd versions of these files rather than the original files. I have gone through all the textures in the game world to verify that the PyFFI process did not cause any issues, but if anyone does find a problem please let me know and I will change out the original file.

What has been changed:

New Sheoth (Crucible, Bliss, Palace, Arden Sul etc.)
Landscapes
Statues
Ruins
Rootcaves
Rocks
Obelisks
Clutter (Stuff like rugs, tombstones etc.)


Installation:

I STRONGLY RECOMMEND MAKING AN OMOD BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY FILES INCLUDED!

How to create an OMOD: http://lhammonds.game-host.org/obmm/tutorial_create_omod.asp

Extract the included "textures" and "meshes" folders to Oblivion/Data and use one of the various archive invalidation methods. If you just want to test this package, I recommend creating an Omod with the Oblivion Mod Manager!

Play!


Un-Installation:

If you have created an Omod, just delete it. Otherwise there'll be a lot of work. You have to compare the files from this acrhive with the ones in your Data folder and delete them one by one. You can do it faster by making an OMOD, activating and deactivating and deleting it. Next time you start Oblivion, it will use the stock textures again.


Known Issues/Bugs:

In some places there are visible seams where one texture meets another. That's mainly because of the meshes. Because I lack the skills to solve this myself, put all your hope into the USIP Team ;)


Incompatabilities:

All mods that alter the textures of Shivering Isles except they only alter the colors of my textures.


Final words:

If you encounter a bug contact me so I can fix it.


Contact:

You can find me on the official forums at www.elderscrolls.com under the name Bomret or on the german forums of www.scharesoft.de or www.ei-der-zeit.com, also Bomret.

Or send me an E-Mail under [email protected]


Credits:

Special Thanks to dev_akm who tested the textures in prealpha stage and ThrottleKitty for his KeepDetails Plugins.
Thanks to the USIP Team for their fixed meshes.
Thanks to Chainsaw XIV. for his detiling normal map layer.
Credits also go out to the people that gave me feedback, so propably you :)
And of course Bethesda for the game itself.


Have fun :)

Bomret

Uploader's Note:

As the link from http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=4161 no longer works, I have uploaded this to TES Nexus. If bomret does not want this file located here, please PM me!