Landscape LOD Texture Replacement Border regions

================================ Landscape LOD replacement textures for Oblivion Tamriel worldspace border regions Version 1. 1 ================================ by shaja Redistribution and/or repackaging of this texture package is expressly permitted, provided that this readme is not removed. These textures are based on the original Bethesda Softworks files, and copyright remains with them. History ======== Version 1. 1b: June 15, 2006 - Textures generated without mipmaps again. Including the mipmaps in version 1. 1 made the package useless for people running with medium or small texture size settings. ----------------------- Version 1. 1: June 11, 2006 = Update for Oblivion 1. 1 Changes: + Textures now have mipmaps included, avoiding a potential stutter problem. Change based on info from jikad @ nvnews.net, via CapNKill. + Brightness is increased slightly over version 1. 0 level. + File timestamps have been postdated to ensure that the replacement textures are loaded instead of textures in the .bsa archive. The texture generation process remains the same, there is no major visual difference over the 1. 0 textures. ---------------------- Version 1. 0: April 1, 2006 = Initial Release What does it do? =============== Replaces the original 1024x1024 landscape LOD textures with improved 2048x2048 textures. Makes the far-off terrain look much less blurry. This package includes the 24 textures of Tamriel worldspace not in the base package, covering the border regions that you can\'t normally travel to. It is possible to use these textures without having the base package installed, but that would be a bit pointless. Installation =========== Unzip the 7z file to your \"Oblivion\\Data\" directory, using folder names. The 24 dds files should end up in your \"Oblivion\\Data\\textures\\landscapelod\\generated\" folder. Note: This folder does not need to exist prior to installation. Uninstallation ============= Delete the 24 dds files from your \"Oblivion\\Data\\textures\\landscapelod\\generated\" folder. Note: If the \'generated\' folder includes dds files with names ending in _fn.dds, they are normal maps from a different texture package. How it was done =============== Each original 1024x1024 texture was opened in Photoshop. The texture was resized to 2048x2048 using the Bicubic sharper filter. Film grain filter was applied, with Grain: 3, Highlight Area: 0, Intensity: 0. Brightness was reduced with the Brightness/Contrast tool by -4 to compensate for the brightness added by the film grain. Texture was saved using the Nvidia DDS plugin with DXT1 compression, and generated mipmaps. Bugs & Limitations ================= Lighting does not affect the normal high-detail close landscape and the LOD terrain in exactly the same way, so the dividing line between them can be very visible at certain times. Initial game load times are slightly longer. No detai