Creation Club Anniversary Cleaned and Upscaled

So here's another cleaning upscale, I decided to do the whole thing for you guys.

I cleaned all the CC textures from all 75 addons. I upscaled all the diffuse textures from the armor and weapons by a factor of 2x which makes the body textures 4k. It even comes with a FOMOD installer. Only 5. 7GB. Come to Kartoffel's van there's free textures inside!

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INSTALL:

Just run the file through your mod manager.

Pick the cleaned version or upscaled version, w/e you prefer.

What is cleaning?

Bethesda still compresses their images with BC1 DDS, whichmakes it look like those toasted jpegs if the images are small. I don't know why they are still using deprecated BC1 DDS, but they do. So I use machine learning magic to remove the "toasty jpeg" look and compress to the modern BC7 format which makes things not look like they've gone through a toaster.

(The effect is amplified the smaller the image is, so the damage is negligible on 4k images, but if an image is 256....)

What is upscaled?

I upscaled only the diffuse texture of the armors and weapons by a factor of 2x. THIS BRINGS ALL WEAPONS AND ARMOR SETS TO 4K.

Example of the change in resolution of an armor set:

1x RES: body, hands, feet, head --> 2k, 1k, 1k, 1k. (original resolution)

2x RES: body, hands, feet, head --> 4k, 2k, 2k, 2k. (recommended)

4x RES: body, hands, feet, head --> 8k, 4k, 4k, 4k. (stupidly large filesize, unnoticeable detail)

So you can see why I use the scale factor of 2x.

Kartoffel what is a diffuse texture?

Here's a cryengine page about map types

Diffuse texture: The texture used to define the main model color. Can also contain greyscale Alpha channel for alpha transparency. Specular texture: The texture representing the specular intensity and color of material highlights defined as the "shininess" and color of specular reflections. Normal texture: The texture defining the direction of normals on the surface. A normal direction for each pixel of the texture is stored in the RGB color normal map.

Basically, the diffuse is the most important map. "A Diffuse map is the most common kind of texture map. It defines the color and pattern of the object. Mapping the diffuse color is like painting an image on the surface of the object."

Why didn't you upscale x, y, z?

Most stuff in the creation club is actually reasonably high resolution or unnoteworthy, as such upscaling it would make the filesize too large for no reason. I also don't upscale speculars, normals, or other miscellaneous textures.

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