Improved Facial Textures

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Author:	Shady Tradesman
Version:	2.1
Last Updated:	September 4th, 2006
Download(s):	TES Nexus, PES

Contents 1 Description 2 Screenshots 3 Compatibility 4 Changelog 4.1 2.1 4.2 2.0 4.3 1.9 4.4 1.8 4.5 1.7 4.6 1.6 4.7 1.5 4.8 1.4 4.9 1.3 4.10 1.2 4.11 1.1 4.12 1.0

[edit] Description

This increases the resolution of all facial textures through a complete facial texture overhaul. No longer will you notice discolored squares on people's faces or jaggedy wrinkles. While this may change the way the faces look, rather than just making them look sharper, I believe it will look much more natural.

The screenshots do a moderate job of showing how much the facial textures are improved. I could not picture all of my textures, though. When you install this mod you can expect improved facial textures most of the time. It is recommended that you have are running DirectX 9.0 or greater. If you have a low version of DirectX, your video card will automatically reduce textures size, no matter what.

[edit] Screenshots

Nord	Dark Elf	Breton	Orc
Dremora

[edit] Compatibility

This mod is compatible with any mods except those that replace facial textures, such as retextured orcs or dremora mods. I suggest you install IFT first, then extract those mods into your data folder replacing files when necessary.

[edit] Changelog

[edit] 2.1

September 4th, 2006
This version adds much improved eyebrows. There are updated age textures, and new normal maps. There is a new compression meathod which will allow you to use the mod with increased preformance and no quality loss. Much research into beast races has been done. In the future you may expect better beast race textures.

[edit] 2.0

July 18th, 2006
Many improvements have been made to IFT since 1.9. I basically took everything that I didn't like, and re-did it. For instance, I never liked the couple oldest age textures for human males and females. They have been re-done. I also added many new textures as well. For instance, the orc female age textures are complete. W00t. Now every person who you seen in Oblivion, unless you are using a custom race or it’s an argonian, will be using my new facial textures. Grimdeath approached me with some upgraded base textures. I tweaked them and included them in the mod. Very special thanks to him for making faces look more lifelike than ever. Dark elf textures have been re-done as well. I took the khajiit texture and downsized it. To compensate I upsized the normal map. The dremora textures have been pinched in certain places to make the lava cracks look less like big orange streaks and more like lava cracks on the skin. I wanted this mod to be worthy of the 2.0 version number, and it very much is.

[edit] 1.9

June 18th, 2006
Getting back in the groove now! This version will add the rest of the male orc age difference textures. Also the mod will now have better base textures. That will make the youngest age group look better than it does already. Parts of the readme have been re-written, and the entire thing has been spell-checked. 5 new screenshots have been added with little descriptions.

[edit] 1.8

June 12th, 2006
Long time no update! In this new version I re-did the eyebrows again, and re-colored the lips of dunmer. My friend came over and helped me by giving his opinion on how they looked and we worked out a version that we both like. I experemented with orc age textures. The last two male orc age textures are included in this update, and I think they look great! Look for more orc textures in the future. I also fixed a glitch that would cause super-shiney faces when using the lowest age slider setting with certain mods.

[edit] 1.7

May 30th, 2006
Re-worked age maps, updated dark elf age maps, re-did dark elf base texture, re-did female 50-yearold age maps. Narrowed eyeborws.

[edit] 1.6

May 26th, 2006
Wow, a hard week this week. Didn't get too much done. Many tweaks on the textures, but no real new content. Got rid of the esp file. All new screenshots.

[edit] 1.5

May 20th, 2006
Re-did eyebrows and made youngest age textures look younger for females. I added a non-essensial ESP file that makes the redgaurd's eyebrows look even. It also lightens the eyebrows of imperials.

[edit] 1.4

May 18th, 2006
Completed all age difference textures for Bretons, High elves, Wood elves, Redgaurds, nords, and imperials. Now all of those races' faces are modified to almost as high of quality as they are going to get. Improved readme.

[edit] 1.3

May 17th, 2006
Re-did all the female age textures with completely new ones, at least for the Bretons, High elves, Wood elves, Redgaurds, nords, and imperials. Tweaked the base texture so redgaurds don't have such green/white lips anymore. Added default male textures to help with archive invalidation.

[edit] 1.2

May 16th, 2006
Replaced Khajiit normal map with the old one. Completely re-did the orc's base texture. Completely replaced the last two age textures on female Bretons, High elves, Wood elves, Redgaurds, nords, and imperials. Improved readme slightly.

[edit] 1.1

May 14th, 2006
Fixed a big glitch that may have caused a strange texture made of multi-colored squares instead of my textures. Reworked age texture 1 on Breton, Dunmer, High elf, Wood elf, Redgaurd, nord, and imperial textures. Completely re-did Breton, Dunmer, High elf, Wood elf, Redgaurd, nord, and imperial base texture. Added Dremora texture. Made readme better.

[edit] 1.0

May 13th, 2006
Initial release. Reworked base textures by resizing them to 512x512 and adding a sandstone filter in photoshop.