Imperial Roads - Detailed road textures

When you roam Cyrodiil there's a group of textures that you see practically all the time - roads.

There have been a few attempts at making these textures look better, but personally I wasn't very happy with either of them. Some of them were simply rescaled vanilla textures, others didn't look realistic enough. None of them blended nicely with terrain textures. Therefore I set off remaking all roads from scratch and decided to make use of fantastic shaders made by ChainsawXIV - Detailed Terrain which allows for transparency in diffuse maps, which makes them naturally blend with surrounding types of ground.

Bevilex in her modding guide suggests you can skip DT shaders because OR will take care of terrain shading. Well, after some experimentation it seems these two do two different things, and roads with transparencies will look best WITH BOTH - Oblivion Reloaded shaders, and DT. If you don't use DT shaders you could just as well have simple (and lightweight) DX1 textures that overlap by placing semitransparent layers on top of one another. DT make use of designed transparencies coded in texture's alpha channel (present in DX3 and absent from DX1).

Please, forgive my low resolution images - my old laptop can't run modded Oblivion in higher quality. Any better images from you are more than welcome.

All textures are rather large - 2048x2048 pixels (both diffuse and normal maps) which offer good details without being terribly heavy on the system. (Really - if I can use them on my 512 integrated GPU, 2. 3 MHz CPU, and 4GB RAM laptop, then about anyone can run them easily.)  DX3 compression format is intentional! Don't compress them to DX1 - you may get an ugly mess!

I tried to make them look as natural and believable as possible. There's no bumpiness fiesta (hey, they didn't make those roads to break their legs), but I hand-crafted normal maps paying special attention to their accuracy - so that bumps are where bumps are due, and hollows where there are holes, etc. (rather than bumpy where diffuse map is brighter, and depressions wherever it's darker)  My other priorities were that they are perfectly seamless, proportional in scale to the rest of the world, and non-tiling. Please, let me know if I've failed anywhere.

I've tested them with ENB and OR and on my computer they look good in all weather conditions. (Although you may be of different opinion - let me know.)

IMPORTANT

You'll need Detailed Terrain to make the best of Imperial Roads. Download these shaders as omod from the mod's page - shaders+sample textures based on QTP3. For those who prefer other methods of installation I included two packages in optional downloads in 7zip format - one is complete Detailed Terrain mod (shaders+textures) repacked for such mod managers as Wrye Bash or for manual installatio