For instance the Oblivion mods. What exactly does it do gameplay and graphics wise?
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Oblivion with mods:
It totally changes what the game looks like.
Compare that to the boring regular Oblivion:
Wow, I actually like the original a lot better in that pic... The door and hinges look way too shiny and plastic-y, the textures look stretched over the face of the steps, and personally, I think the walls look pretty bad. The stones ought to be a lot smoother. A few really pitted ones mixed in maybe, but not all of them, and the gaps should be a little wider, and not so perfectly squared. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the guy that made that texture had never actually seen stone masonry before? The road is a little over-detailed as well. For a wide paved roadway, they'd use much larger pavers, the larger the stones, the less you have to lay. they might use some smaller ones to fill in cornes where the big ones don't fit just right. The new part looks more like loose gravel than it does a paved road. Really, the only thing that looks better in this pic to me, is less visible aliasing (whether that's due to the new textures hiding it, or more AA being used, I don't know).Here'a an example of a mod can do
04dcarraher
I'm not denying mods can make a game look better, but IMO, this particular one fails at that, at least in this pic.
Wow, I actually like the original a lot better in that pic... The door and hinges look way too shiny and plastic-y, the textures look stretched over the face of the steps, and personally, I think the walls look pretty bad. The stones ought to be a lot smoother. A few really pitted ones mixed in maybe, but not all of them, and the gaps should be a little wider, and not so perfectly squared. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the guy that made that texture had never actually seen stone masonry before? The road is a little over-detailed as well. For a wide paved roadway, they'd use much larger pavers, the larger the stones, the less you have to lay. they might use some smaller ones to fill in cornes where the big ones don't fit just right. The new part looks more like loose gravel than it does a paved road. Really, the only thing that looks better in this pic to me, is less visible aliasing (whether that's due to the new textures hiding it, or more AA being used, I don't know).[QUOTE="04dcarraher"]
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ianuilliam
I'm not denying mods can make a game look better, but IMO, this particular one fails at that, at least in this pic.
Somehow I managed to read all of that. That mod is just replacement textures, so i don't really get what you're complaining about. It's the same as the original but higher resolution. The stones are the same shape etc. I have that mod.Wow, I actually like the original a lot better in that pic... The door and hinges look way too shiny and plastic-y, the textures look stretched over the face of the steps, and personally, I think the walls look pretty bad. The stones ought to be a lot smoother. A few really pitted ones mixed in maybe, but not all of them, and the gaps should be a little wider, and not so perfectly squared. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the guy that made that texture had never actually seen stone masonry before? The road is a little over-detailed as well. For a wide paved roadway, they'd use much larger pavers, the larger the stones, the less you have to lay. they might use some smaller ones to fill in cornes where the big ones don't fit just right. The new part looks more like loose gravel than it does a paved road. Really, the only thing that looks better in this pic to me, is less visible aliasing (whether that's due to the new textures hiding it, or more AA being used, I don't know).[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]
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kraken2109
I'm not denying mods can make a game look better, but IMO, this particular one fails at that, at least in this pic.
Somehow I managed to read all of that. That mod is just replacement textures, so i don't really get what you're complaining about. It's the same as the original but higher resolution. The stones are the same shape etc. I have that mod.Yes. I realize it's just replacement textures. What I'm saying is the new textures, while higher res, are not as good artistically. When I was talking about size/shape of stones, I didn't mean the models, I meant in the textures. If they were the same, the mortar lines would all line up along the diagnal (well, the mortar lines in the original, and the thin black cracks in the mod, since they opted for the mortarless construction look).
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