Legacy of the Dragonborn 4K-2K - Cleaned and Upscaled Textures for LotD SSE

When I first started upscaling textures nearly a year ago, my big goal was to do DLC mods. I have so much respect and honor for these big projects that folks made happen, with dozens of mod authors contributing hundreds of hours to bringing entirely new experiences into Skyrim. To be able to contribute to this effort by modernizing the textures and helping mods stay relevant for more years to come was a dream.

Of course, the dream was also a significant challenge, so I wanted to wait until I had more skill and experience behind me. DLC mods have a really wide variety of object types, which means a lot more can go wrong.  A month and a half ago, after improving my technique for armor and weapon textures, I finally tackled cleaning and upscaling the textures for my first DLC mod, Clockwork. Emboldened by this, I started working on the magnum opus, Legacy of the Dragonborn.

Original textures were mostly in old BC1 and BC3 compression in a variety of resolutions, mostly 1K or below, with a few 2K. I cleaned them of compression artifacts and upscaled them using chaiNNer and ESRGAN models to a maximum of 4K, and re-compressed in modern BC7 format.

Performance options are available for potato PCs.

I have packed the mod into BSAs for reduced loading time, due to the incredibly large number of texture files. All plugins are flagged as ESL with the LotD plugin flagged as a master, to make sure they will load afterwards.

I left facegen textures separate so you can choose your resolution for those separately (see this mod for info).

Requires the Original Mod

Thank you to icecreamassassin and for all the original mod authors who contributed to the original mod, which you can see in the full credits article here.

Thank you to Cofi for the screenshots

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