That's great news. Will have to wait for its release then.

Yes that was taken NE of cheydinhal around noon IIRC, and it has the city on that small DLOD. Maybe I'll update you with coordinates on that when I visit the spot again. The glitch in its reflectivity is visible from all angles, and that bright area does not vary at whatever angle I'm looking. I only have bloom lighting enabled, and I also notice that snow-covered rocks and road spots shine when light is present. Does the intensity of the surface's shinyness depend upon the lighting used (bloom vs hdr)?

From your screenshot, I notice an abrupt change in the shiny parts of the surface as can be seen by the line that separates the parts that shine and those that not, somehow like the one from my screenie. Is that normal? I was thinking that there would be some smooth transition to shiny parts and not have that noticeable demarcation line.

That looks fantastic, and no where out of place. It should make a great addition to vibrant textures.

Downloaded no problem this morning quite quickly, must have been too many users, just in the process of making a new BAIN out of the whole vibrant collection.

+1 agree those roads look very nice

Thanks for this great update, the new textures look awesome, looking forward to that road replacer, looks amazing, although Ampolx road textures are very nice.

I have some several reports regarding some vibrant textures.

The first report concerns visible seams on textures.

Is it possible that the vibrant textures depicted in the screenies could be causing them? For your reference: http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6648/screenshot8jq.jpg, http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7444/screenshot11wz.jpg, http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/6054/screenshot13ah.jpg

The second report concerns some textures that IMO are not as vibrant as the others.

On this http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/424/screenshot14e.jpg, the wood texture on the right is not as detailed as compared to the center and left, but could the three still be sharpened up a little or perhaps are they stretched when displayed?

This http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8291/screenshot15tz.jpg shows that the stone texture on the stairs is not as detailed as the others. Perhaps this is by design? Also, as I only forgot to take a picture, that same stone texture is used on several ceilings of the Rosethorn Hall (My Skingrad Manor), still by design too?

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9364/screenshot16yy.jpg is one of the Skingrad city gates, showing blurry metal texture whereas the other textures in the same picture are sharper.

There are other areas that show some blurry textures, and I can provide some screenies for them as needed.

Hey!


I'm not sure what's causing this.



These are all UV map problems. They are not caused by Vibrant Textures but by the mesh the texture is placed upon. Because of this, no matter what texture pack you use, if it doesn't correct these mapping errors, then it will appear the same.

Hope this clarifies some issues.

Cheers!

cc

Thank you crimson.cosmos for providing some insights.


Hmm. They aren't game-breaking glitches, but I was just wondering if there's something that can be done about those.


I'm not really versed in graphic modelling. Perhaps that is the case, unless Corepc has a different say otherwise. Because they might be caused by the underlying mesh, to follow up on my report, could it have something to do with PyFFI? I have recently PyFFI-ed the vanilla meshes with 2.1.6.

Those appear to be separations between the meshes, not issues with the textures themselves. Is your game running the UOP?

Yes I have UOPS on top of UOP 3.2.0. Also, while still on UOP, is it fine to re-PyFFI meshes that are already optimized? UOP 3.2.0 was released more than two years ago, and I'm wondering if there would be no conflict to re-PyFFI its meshes anew.

Updating on signs that did not get vibrant treatment, it seems http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/2574/screenshot23jg.jpg too didn't get any treatment at all, so it looks like the Anvil sign. Regarding the Leyawiin sign, indeed it only got one filter pass upon close inspection, also shown in the screenshot I provided.

EDIT: Along with Leyawiin sign post, the Imperial city sign post too only got one pass filter.

Those are Imperial Government workers painting those signs, what do you expect?

Looks like they could be missing the alpha channel detail or the texture's do not match closely with normal itself will take a look at the Wood Textures..Else mesh related has stated..

Sorry been away getting my new machine up and running and learning windows 7 and getting everything reinstalled..

Nice PC. So you should be cranking out the mods superfast now!

So you'll go by the name QuadcorePC from now?

:rofl: That made my day!

Well that depends on what type of mod they are

Has some of my tools that I used no longer work under Windows Seven 64bit, UAC..like DDS Convertor 2.1 which I used heavliy to Batch convert DDS images it no longer work's correclty, all images are locked and cannot be opened or edited even if run under Admin Account. It is either a UAC Issue or Something with how the program work itself that prevent it form working anymore, or it just may not work with Windows Seven 64 Bit.

I will have to resort to using Photopshop Batch Processing which is like 4 or 5 times has slow has DDS Convertor was in order to batch process textures now..Sigh Joys of New Operating System having find software that work's ..






No that is reseverd for the Computer itself - QuadCorePc -

Plus I really do not want to have to Rebuild all those star's under my name..I am almost caught up to Buddah who has 17,961 post, Me 17,175 post..only 800+ more ..

I wouldn't want to start that over either! :ahhh: Anyways, I've derailed a thread enough today. ^_^

CorePC could it be a file permissions problem - I remember during testing various versions of the Wrye Bash beta installer between win 7 and win XP machines and multiple users, the files I wanted to manipulate were awkward when they had been copied via a drive with ntfs ....

Solution for me found here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/162786

acls can cause problems even for full admin accounts.

well it could be a permisson problem has not only DDS Convertor not wanting to work, but,

also Oblivion Mod Manager any file that is created has a omod and then extract to c:\bethesda\oblivion\data\ has a file lock symbol on it...Permission Problem for Sure has some of my Files say Adminstrator and other's say QuarCorepc/Corepc on them..What I have to do is extract the omod and then install it manually over everything..What a pain in ass to do..Because I about to do RAEVWD , AWLS, ..ughh..

May have to pull out my 250gb and Reinstall Good old Trusy Xp on it just for Oblivion and Modding and Let Window Seven do all the DX10 Games..

thought it might be worth looking into, give it a study anyway before firing up an administrator command line, especially be careful with wildcards if you intend hitting a batch of files

If I go to properties on each file and then details tab and select remove Properties and Personal Information and the select option to make a copy it fixes the problem, okay for just a few files, but, for a batch no way. Because I would have to end up renaming them..

.Maybe I should just turn off UAC and see if that fixes the problem and disconnect from the net etc..and see if that get's around the problem..

messing around with command cacls is not something that I want to do..

And BAIN saves the day :goodjob:

problem solved just have to install everything with BAIN now :biggrin:

oh yes, theres that too :whistling: :facepalm:

Sorry I forgot about its recent capabilities. Now that your using it, could this possibly prompt bain wizards for Vibrant? Personally I just use http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=6948875Untitled.jpg as sub-packages in one bain, but I know you provide greater flexibility in your omod scripts for the individual packages and finer control for users installing it that way.

Corepc:

I do not use UAC. It is a nice feature for those who don't know about computers or security, but it is a pain in the you know what for those who do. As long as you have a good firewall, turn off file and print sharing, and know what to do and not to do, you should be OK and not have problems.

As for internet, I only browse in a virtual machine, NEVER using my PC OS.

VMplayer is FREE and I use it exclusively for browsing. Easy to transfer downloads to PC OS. If anything gets messed up I just recopy the base image. Safest way to browse the Internet. Also, great for having OB on it to test installs and such without messing your basic install.

I will most likely keep things like this for Future Release for BAIN/Obmm Install..



Corepc

Looks like a good plan, with 3 or 4 files being both BAIN and OMOD ready and giving the users choice where it may be required looks really nice. The one I put together with all of your files using 7-zip default settings is 437mb (and thats with a bit of duplication going on because the last sub-package included in there is the 1.6 update, I have not weeded out the individual files which that overwrites), so your finalised split should collectively not only be smaller but more manageable for updating too.