No More Muddy Dog - A Dogmeat Retexture - 4k and 2k Options

No More Muddy Dog - A Dogmeat "Retexture"

WIP - 4k/2k/1k Body and Head "Retextures" and Material Edits

Also, an Eye "Retexture"

Also working on a Fallout 3 Dogmeat version as well. VERY WIP at the moment.

Note: This mod may not be for you, but will give Dogmeat an updated look.

Description:

The mod simply edits Dogmeat's Head and Body Vanilla Textures, to be a bit more colorful/sandy/peppery/noisy. The hair will appear to pop more than Vanilla, with some better coloring and contrast. All the hair is there in the Vanilla Textures, It's just not utilized all that well in my opinion. These edits have been made in the Diffuse, Normal, and Specular Maps.

I've often disliked the super muddy Vanilla Textures for Dogmeat, but loved his art direction and style. So over the years I've tried some various edits (e.g. color, contrast, noise, overlays, layer styles, etc.) with the Vanilla 2k Textures in Photoshop. The only textures used to create this mod are those provided by the base game and the HDDLC (same texture size as base game, just different look for the Diffuse, and improper channel set up for Normal and Specular Maps.)

Additionally, I made edits to the Material Files for Dogmeat, Dogmeat's eyes now reflect an environment, a slight eye texture edit, and his fur casts shadows on his body like they should! These are all settings that were turned off by default for some reason.

1. Just do the thing. Preferably with a Mod Manager like Vortex or MO2.

2. Download and install the Retexture Main File v01. 71, which includes better shadows and eyes.

1. Download and install your preferred texture size via the Optional Files, if you're a stickler about what size textures you want mods to use.

2. Download and install the Material Edits Update File 1. 7a

3. Download and install the Eye Retexture Update File 1. 7b

Download Options:

Main File:

- Recommended Full Version - 4k Diffuse and 2k everything else + Eye Edit + Material Edit for Shadows.

Combined the v01. 7a + v01. 7b updates into this version. No other difference compared to v01. 7.

Misc. Files - To be used with any choice of Optional Files (Not Needed if using v01. 71 Main File):

- Material Edits - Dogmeat's eyes now reflect an environment, and his fur casts shadows on his body.

- Eye Retexture - All maps have added detail/variation, but same overall shape compared to Vanilla.

Optional Files:

- 4k Retexture - This is overkill and a waste of memory, but the maximum texture size with the working project.

- 2k Retexture - Reco