DRAUGR

This is a Draugr bodies and a Draugr armors re-texture. I started to work on vanilla files (with the High Texture Pack installed) that were 2k (512 the hair). This mod consist in textures it doesn't take any slot in your load order.

For references the files were taken here:

textures\actors\draugr (12 file)

textures\actors\dlc02\hulkingdraugr (4 file)

textures\dlc01\clutter\vampireremains (1 file)

I tried more to improve then to change. The skins have been revisited, they appear more slimy. Everything has been redone, the teeth, ears, lips. Still the fact that the vanilla draugr meshes are really cornered, they have fewer polygons to be a sort of human bodies and the lights reflecting over those heavy corners make things worst, showing, in some occasions, sort of seams caused right by this. Meshes also, clips one with another, stretching, there is nothing that can be done about in my opinion, if not to create new models.

The draugr armors (Ancient Nord) in the same draugr folder (both female and male) have been worked too, they appear now more rugged, the fur and pelt inserts have been redone too. Do notice, these armor are used also by the Skeleton Warriors and they are not shared with the player. The ancient north armor that the player can wear it is indeed in another folder that is not included. The female veil contained in the same female draugr skin file has been enhanced, within the skin itself of course, the fabric should appear more detailed now.

Meshes haven't been touched and they are not inside the packages, those of mine are not models, just textures. To let you know, glowing eyes effect have separated meshes and texture, I could adjust the textures, but really they were not visible in the game, so I left it, also because the glowing eyes are essentially made by the meshes and some light setting over them, and they are very squared as well. Texture are secondary in this case.  Hair and their color have been changed as

well, the male version is whitish now.

Textures aren't always easy, in fact, if you make a little change to a diffuse map, you have to bring the same change at least to other (more or less) three layers in two files: the alpha channel contained in the diffuse map if it has one (and they had all one...), the normal map file and its own alpha channel.

Just to say, I'm never satisfied while working on the graphic, so I had to pack this thing and release it, or I could never do it, that's because every time I see something of mine I think I could always make it better and it's true in most cases. So, there is a moment when I have to say to myself to stop. Some .psd files had hundred layers.

That's it. I did what I could right now, just for fun, you can see the result from