DRAGON PRIEST

This is a Dragon Priests and Acolytes skin-outfit-armor texture overhaul. There is included a single modified Dragon Priest Mist mesh effect. The Dragon Priests was released with the base game while the Acolytes have been released by the DLC02; this doesn't means you need the dlc anyway. The Vanilla files whit the official HD texture pack installed were 1k the base Dragon Priest, 2K the Acolytes and 1k their reflectivity-map. I didn't add the masks, there are plenty mods around about. These are just textures files, they do not take any slot in your load order.

For reference these are the folders:

textures\actors\dragon priest\ (whole, two files)

textures\actors\dlc02\dragonpriestacolyte\ (whole, five files)

meshes\actors\dragonpriest\character assets\ (just one mesh used by the Dragon Priest only)

textures\actors\dragon priest\modifiedeffect\ (two file, it's a personalized path)

As usual, I worked almost each single detail. Being the Dragon Priest almost fleshless to rebuild the body, I added in separate layers, parts of bones, muscles, flesh/skin. I did the face of this creature a little different then the almost cloned vanilla textures used in this undead typology of monsters. Colors apart, the shape was indeed enough similar to the Draugr one, the body parts he show, looks almost the same. They are both bones and skin, after all.

The face comes out less frightening* maybe, but more likely to my taste. I gave to the armors a even more rugged look and tried to extract the 2D painted armor part back over the hood by painting them whole new. I made this in a very last session, so in some screenshot it could be the old retouched one. After the main textures were done, I had to clone and make three variants for the Acolytes.

Like for the Hagraven and Glenmoril, I have taken a "poetic license", this time by including a single modified mesh effect that I isolated from the links it contained to not being its textures shared with the ones used around in other effects in the game. In fact, this mesh is used for the bottom mist and the inhale effect of the Dragon Priest only, but the connected textures are loaded in other things in the game so, by isolating a copy of its connected edited textures they will not interfere with anything else then the Dragon Priest mist effect now. It's that I found the part of the air, he inhales, really too dark and painted under the nose and the mouth, it ruined his look, I found it really ugly and fake, did you ever notice it? Now it's more subtle, you almost don't see it near the face if you do not look at him closely enough. Thanks to Ramccoid[