Opulent Outfits Vanilla Texture Replacer SE

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Opulent Outfits by Babooncru / MangoMonkey (both the LE Original and updated SSE Version) introduce a lot of visual interest to Skyrim's mage robes, including adding distinctive colors and patterns for every school of magic. It's definitely an impressive and well-beloved mod.

But it's also a mod that does a lot of stuff. Sometimes, that stuff doesn't interact well with other mods. Sometimes, you just want cool looking robe textures, and that's it.

This is that.

What is it?

A loose-file replacer for vanilla game textures based on the original 2013 Opulent Outfits textures. It covers the textures and normal maps for apprentice robes, boots, and hood; journeyman robes and boots; necromancer robes, boots, and hood; and archmage robes, boots, and hood. Colors are selectable via the FOMOD installer. Downloads include a 2K version as well as a 4K version generated by AI upscaling (SSE version employs BC7 compression straight from 4K png for maximum smoothness). So many Ks, you won't know what to do with them all.

How does it work?

Install using your mod manager of choice. Select your preferred colors for each robe type. It's just that simple.

Conflicts/Compatibility

It's literally just a texture replacer. Doesn't even have an esp. It's compatible with basically everything. That's what makes it great.

Of course, if you have other robe texture replacers active, only one is going to work. So if you want this mod to take effect, be sure to load it up after any other clothing retextures you've got.

And if you have a mod that, for some reason, fully eliminates the vanilla robes (including, ironically, Opulent Outfits), then the replacer won't be very effective.

Note on normal maps and coloration

Skyrim actually has only two basic meshes for mage robes (Apprentice and Journeyman). It uses texture swaps to create variations of each of those, and gives them different names (Novice, Adept, etc.). However, the game doesn't actually use distinct normal maps for each variant. This means that the Opulent robe patterns for robe variants may not match up with their normals, creating a slight mismatch in the embossing patterns for the robes. A bit irksome, but there's no solution I can provide based only on the 2013 Opulent Outfits files.

This is really only an issue for the Journeyman robe variants. If the pattern mismatch bothers you, just choose a single color for the Journeyman robe set (eg. choosing green for Journeyman base as well as Journeyman variant 1, or whatever). This way, there won't be any mismatch with the set normals.