Qarls Texture Pack II - QTP2 and Parallaxed Qarl

Qarl's Texture Pack 2

Description

The purpose of this package is to make TES IV: Oblivion look even better than when you bought it. To do this I've created new textures and normal maps to replace a large number of those in the game with ones which are higher resolution and more photorealistic, while at the same time, still very close to the original feel of Bethesda's intentions. However, due to the increased resolution, machines with lower-end graphics cards may see a slight decrease in performance, but usually no more than a few frames per second.

Requirements

If you're running Oblivion on the lowest settings this mod is not for you. You're going to need some pretty good hardware to take advantage of this mod.

Credits

dev_akm - for writing up the intrustructions for the archive invalidation for this readme (and helping me understand the whole thing), and beta testing the mod, and also he fixed Bethesda's cave entrance mesh which is included in this pack, so it's no longer translucent. (For more details, I've included his readme.)

RazorBladder - for teaching me a TON of things about normal mapping!

Parallaxed_qarl

Description

This pack enable parallax shader on most architecture and fortruins models. The result is an improved mid-range sharpness,and a displacement 3d effect at close range. Castles, houses,fortruins will benefit from this enhanced effect. The mod is partially based on Qarl texture pack 2 and Rulz parallax cities,

altough it can be used as a stand-alone replacement.

Version History

V1. 0 First version featuring all cities, apart from Imperial city, Fortruins and castles.

Hints and tweaks

This big package is a mixture of parallaxed textures coming from Qarl texture pack 2, Rulz Parallax cities giga pack, and vanilla Oblivion.

Adding a parallax displacement map in most cases doubles color map texture size. In order to compensate for this I halved  resolution of almost all normal maps. If your system is quite high-end you can restore original size  normals by retrieving them from Qarl texture pack 2. If you don't like parallax effect on all textures of a singular mesh, simply delete it from Oblivion/data directory. Oblivion engine will load original mesh without parallax shader. If you don't like parallax effect on a singular texture follow this procedure:

If in Qarl texture Pack 2 there's a replacement, install it.

Otherwise remove the texture.

File requirements/Compatibility/Issues

There are no file requirements for this pack howewer I recommend combining it with:

Qarl texture pack 2

Better Tiling textures for Qarl Pack

Compatibility

This package