PBR textures for The Great Cities Collection
🟠 Updated over a year ago⚠️ Install Order · 6 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.1% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #366 of 401 Models and Textures mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
PBR (physically based rendering) approximates how real materials react to light and is used in most modern games. PBR is a part of Community Shaders that has several benefits which includes more realistic lighting than in vanilla and complex material. To achieve this I have unbaked shadows from diffuse maps, upscaled them using an AI model, created separate Ambient Occlusion maps, and roughness maps and also parallax maps.
Installation:
- []Install like any other mod and make sure that you have version 1. 0 or above of Community Shaders installed
- []Overwrite The Great Cities - Resources with this mod. Make sure no other mod overwrites this one (except ParallaxGen output later).
- Rerun ParallaxGen
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This mod reworks the textures from The Great Cities Collection to support Physical Based Rendering (PBR), enhancing visual fidelity for Skyrim Special Edition. With 223 endorsements and over 152,000 downloads, it's a popular choice for players using PBR-compatible setups. Last updated in December 2024, it remains relevant for current modding.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved with 223 endorsements and over 152k downloads—clearly a go-to for PBR fans.
- Breathes new life into city textures with PBR, making surfaces look more realistic under lighting.
- Regularly updated (last December 2024), so it's kept in step with current modding trends.
⚠️ Cons
- Requires a PBR-enabled setup (like ENB or reshade with PBR support) to see the benefits—without that, it's just a texture swap.
- Only affects The Great Cities Collection, so if you don't use those mods, this is useless.
- Potential compatibility issues with other texture overhauls that modify the same files—load order matters.
For Skyrim SE players who use The Great Cities Collection and have a PBR-capable ENB or reshade, this is a must-have to make those cities pop. If you're not into PBR or don't use those city mods, skip it—it's purely a visual upgrade for a specific setup.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have a PBR-enabled ENB or reshade preset, otherwise the textures won't look any different.
- Load this mod after The Great Cities Collection in your mod manager to ensure the textures overwrite correctly.
- If you use other texture mods for cities, place this one last to avoid conflicts.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- jepster
- Version
- 4.2
- Downloads
- 152,046
- Endorsements
- 223
- Category
- Models and Textures
- Created
- 12/7/2024
- Updated
- 12/11/2024
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