FALMER

This is a Falmer's skin, both male and female, and female armor HD texture overhaul. It doesn't include the Vampire Falmer, just his normal and the teeth. Bethesda released the female and her armor, with the dlc01. Vanilla files whit the official HD texture pack installed were 2K the male skin and 1K the female skin. 1k the female armor.

For reference these are the folders I worked:

textures\actors\falmer (here are two files, the male skin)

textures\dlc01\actors\falmer (here are four files, the female skin and the armor)

textures\actors\dlc01\falmervampire (here are the Falmer Frozen vampire teeth)

The Falmers are blind. I couldn't understand how the eyes were made, they looked confusing in the screen and textures. Look like they doesn't had the slit of the eyelids but the eye wasn't defined and even that different from the rest as you can see from the screenshot comparison. I tried to put a little blind eyeball but didn't liked it. But they saw one time, before becoming blind. So I tried to give them a sense, hinting a slit closed eyelid, seen that they doesn't use the eyes anymore, simulating a sort of myopia expression in the male, but I'm not sure if this was the vanilla concept art: "Their eyes are tiny and useless. (...) Although blind, their senses of hearing, smell, and touch are attuned far beyond those of most other races".

I didn't worked the Falmer male armor (the one the player can equip), that is in another path (textures\armor\falmerarmor). So, to not having misunderstandings, the male armor you see in the screenshot are the vanilla one, not mine. Behind the base skirts, that i had to work because they residing in the same skin files (the male uses it little while in the female it is always visible), the only armor I had to work, included in this release, is the female one, that was in the same folder of the female skin with its own file. It's the armor she wear in the bust/shoulders, the bottom part instead reside in the skin files too. Confused? Me too. I had to make sure that they were complementary.

I saved the skins diffuse maps at DXT1 1bit alpha instead then the vanilla DXT3, saving half weight in all packages; this due to the fact that in my opinion the diffuse alpha channel of these files didn't need to be that detailed. I mean it could be better a smooth version, it's used to crop the teeth and the skirt, but sacrificing them worked good enough not to benefit of halving the weight.

I couldn't include the Frozen Falmer Vampire diffuse map. His vanilla meshes are a mess and the diffuse map too. Anyway they use the same normal ma