That's how it works: http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1328647139.jpg

Here you go.

BEFORE:
http://i.imgur.com/ntzeQ.jpg

AFTER:
http://i.imgur.com/Ab4Lh.jpg

The wood textures have certainly improved! And thanks for going after that graveyard. Appreciate it.

Nice. It's definitely not HD, far from... but it's a pretty big improvement over the otherwise super blurry ones.

Thanks. The tombs look a bit better now. But the water/mud still looks blocky/pixelated though...

here its a drastically lighting change aswell... hmmm

in overall, nice update.. but getting close to the textures, still looks awfull

The normal maps are the textures hidden under the textures that add detail to the models to give them proper surface texture materials. Like the grains in the wood for example or if you look at the cracks etc in the brickwork in that earlier picture. These maps require the origonal high polygon models to create, some of the models will be in the millions of polygon bracket and most PCs would cry, piss thier pants, then fall over dead if they had to produce a scene with all the models unoptimised in it.
The Normal maps can give detail to lower polygon models to reduce the load.
Like in a shooter game for example a gun barrel can obviously have hexagonal model (lower poly) but the surface itself looks completly rounded, you can only see the model is hexagonal by looking right at the end of the barrel though.
These normal maps are created, baked is the process name, from the origonal high polygon models and then used on the low polygon models.

Hope that helps.

Guys. The vanilla textures were terrible, worse as they had to be. But the high res textures are more detailed, not sharper, more detailed and not blurred at all. And that makes a big difference I think.

Urgh that word again, HD.

The textures are massively improved.
Cheers beth.

Enprox, they ARE sharper. 1024x1024 instead of 512x512 is my guess? Texture modders, am I right?

They look like double resolution yes, for the textures that need it.

thanks....But how light gets affected by this?

Thats the only thing a normal map effects. It effects how light falls on a surface to 'fake' polygons.

Because it's the normal model which defines how light interacts with the object in question. As the man said, it's the polygon model that defines the object's shape, and the original high-polygon model is used to generate a normal map or normal model. Then they generate a lower-count polygon model which is easy to render, while retaining the high-detail normal model, and allow light effects to make the low-polygon count poly model look higher-detail than it really is.

They fixed all the crappy low res equipment.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/Reise/highres.jpg

Wasn't Doom 3 the first game that used this technique?

I can confirm that the Bethesda HD texture pack improves on the default textures, but I can also confirm that the available HD texture mods are still far superior to the Bethesda pack. I also want to note that the large texture pack mods will not appear in the steam workshop since they are over 1GB in size; you'll have to get them from the Nexus or elsewhere.

This HD Texture pack is meh!
But that's much worse is how it also disables all other texture mods!

Looks fantastic, I cant wait

Wow, was it really that bad? Are you sure you didn't use the low-res textures setting on the right?

Really?? My landscape texture mod seems to work fine even now with the hires textures...

And that is my question

Well my PC won`t be screaming then. But I never get excited over graphics anyway. They looked good enough and I said so before release, but I`ll keep them.

Terrain textures maybe.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/Reise/2012-02-07_00025.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/Reise/TESV2012-02-0714-59-57-94.jpg - This one has a minor sharpen filter mod active.

Even a lot of building textures are improved.


No that's the highest it goes on vanilla. That was one of the problem textures the game had. Several other clothing textures were like that.

No they dont, it can help though (baking is usually used for faces), but it really just needs a hi-res texture and you create the normal map from it.