^ this
In my opinion I think the snow on my trunk/tree textures look good

Best work I've ever seen. The only texture mod that manages to look less flat. Say what you want about the resolution, but Bethesda usually manage to give depth to their textures far better than those authors that use a hi res photo of very 3d things like tall grass. Those look pain awful imho and was even worse when they were doing it before we had normal maps. That shot with the fallen leaves under the tree especially highlights your skill at doing this. Wish the leaves + footsteps weren't painted on though.

I think I might wait till you're finished to start playing.

Nope.

More excellent screenshots xD I love the new snow textures, they're kept subtle, but look better, even the road snow. A desolate road in skyrim will look more like your version than vanillas imo so i like the change.

Cant wait to see more, keep up the good work!!

All of those look great! The road makes much more sense (the old texture has too much traffic going through it, looks weird), and the trunk is a million times better, especially with the snow on top.

So yeah. I'll be downloading this the day it releases now. To be honest, I was a bit wary because of the very vanilla looking way of the textures (in terms of style), but that pic right there is enough to convince me.

Contrary to what Todd Howard said (shocking, I know), the game does not utilize DX11 in any shape or form. There are libraries for DX10, but even they are not utilized to my knowledge, as the game is full DX9.

Maybe SKGE (it it exists at some point) might be able to do to Skyrim what MGE did to Morrowind (basically change it from a DX8 game to a sort of DX9 game), but even then you'd have to consider the nightmare of creating tessellation maps for each texture that almost every texture modder (who would wish there textures to be compatible) would have to do. And as far as I know, creating a tessellation map is more complicated than creating a standard normal map.

Why are all the footprints going the wrong way on the road snow? D: Are people strafing sideways down the road? WHAT IS GOING ON?

It's a universally used road texture, so it will always look weird in some angles. You can see farther back as the road turns that the footprints make more sense. That's just one point where the road turns in such a way that the footprints look out of place.

Oh god that's going to annoy me. Couldn't it be made so that there are some footprints going one direction and others going other ways, so no matter which way the road is going at least some people were walking the right way?...

Well there is an ini setting to allow 3.0 shaders so i reckon all we would need is the shaders. So it would be from DX 9 to Dx10 but not DX11. DX11 users still benefit a great deal though because they can render DX9 much more efficiently but i doubt DX11 hardware features such as tessellation will ever be added to Skyrim.

new ash pile texture please! Im tired of the fallout ash pile texture!

3.0 shaders work on DX9 too, and that ini setting has been around since Oblivion and doesn't really work to my knowledge. Well, not unless you do some renaming and replacing of the shader packs.

But yes, I doubt we'll be getting support for things like tessellation, if we even find out how to implement a basic form of DX11 at all.

DX10 is Shader Model 4.0.
DX11 is Shader Model 5.0.

Thanks for all the comments guys More screens later on

Well I have no screens yet for today, I'll post some tomorrow

Might as well make a new thread for that, this one's about to get locked.

Wow, I love this

Finally a texture artist with some actual skill making higher resolution textures, instead of just some guy who just learned photoshop last week upscaling everything then addening a sharpen filter

No offense, but I personally think Bethesda's version looks better -- more realistic, but maybe that's just me...

Maybe it should look a bit closer to this?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sauceyjack/5289049870/

very nice work

It uses the same texture for the "less thick" trees and those look nicer than the original. (more realistic)
And it looks alot like this: http://www.frontiernet.net/~indiancreek/Bluebells/Broken%20Tree%20600X445.jpg
So I'm happy with it. There will always be something you don't like, so I can't please everyone

double post

Why would it get locked? ^^

Post limit.

Ah. roger that .

Part 2 : http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1286852-aageons-hq-texture-pack-wip-part-2/