Upscaled Armour and Clothes Textures

Q> Does this mod still work?

A> Yes, but it may have more errors. Errors in this case refer to texture issues (See comments sticky). This mod can't break your game as far as I'm aware. You can look at some of the bug reports to see some of the textures issues. There are people who still use this mod today and are perfectly happy, but you have to decide if the trade offs are worth it.

Q> Would you consider updating it?

A> I'm not playing BG3 or modding it, so I don't really want to update this. If I was to do it again I would be packing everything as new virtual textures entries to take advantage of the shaders and to avoid any UUID collisions with other modders or with any larian update. That's a lot of work.

As always if someone wants to update this or modify it any form they are more than welcome to.

TL;DR:

Upscales all the armour and clothes I could find (anything your character equips except weapons) by a factor of x2 to better match the quality level of the faces. (WIP)

WHAT:

Covers anything I could find* that contains the string "ARM" for armour and "CLT"  + (some others I found manually) which includes:

• []Head slot (helmet, circlet, hood, etc.)

  []Chest slot (armour, robes, etc.)

  []Feet slot (boots, shoes)

  []Camp Clothing slot (camps clothes)

  []Camp Feet slot  (camp shoes)

  Furthermore, anything that was already 4k (4096x4096), I don't want to increase to 8k (8096x8096), as it is waste of space

  WHY:

  For the most part I don't think BG3 needs an upscale due to having top-down gameplay, but you get close-ups with the characters quite often and it is jarring to see the HD heads with LD armour. This is a pretty easy fix with presumably low impact on the game (See FAQ for specifics).

  This is an example of the dye mapping as that was the most egregious (This controls the color of armour and was similar to pixel art).

  fig 1.  MSK texture map comparison

  fig 2. in-game comparison of MSK difference.

  INSTALL:

  • []Open Zipped folder downloaded from this nexus, which will have "Generated" folder inside.

    []Place "Generated" folder inside "Baldurs Gate 3\Data\" folder. For steam this is "SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Baldurs Gate 3\Data".

  • Profit.

    why BC1/BC3 not BC7?

    Despite being a DX11/DX12 game, a lot of the shaders don't accept BC7. Leaving it uncompressed bloats the fi