Natural Faces

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Author:	MaboroshiDaikon
Version:	0.95
Last Updated:	June 8th, 2006
Download(s):	TESNexus, Planet Elder Scrolls

[edit] Description

The original Bethesda texture for the face textures was 128x128. Hard to believe it was so low res, especially with the normal maps being 256x256. Anyway, I bumped the rez to 512x512 and detailed up the textures. Normal maps have been upconverted to 512x512 and adjusted slightly by hand. The difference maps have been recreated with a tool I wrote that takes the Base Texture and another colored texture and makes a new file based on the difference. These were then resized down to 512x512 for the game.

The result? You can get some fairly nice looking characters in the youngest age brackets. The older ages will also look better, but they still retain their wrinkled appearance.

There's a couple of oddities with the eyebrows... Because Oblivion does some weird stuff in the face maker, really low eyebrows will show up kinda funny. Not much can be done with it if you want to keep the detail in the 'brows, though. It's not bad, so I don't think it'll be a big problem.

Oh, because I know people will ask - This mod no longer interferes with other race changing mods as it is now esp-less.

[edit] What does it do?

Adds a 512x512 resolution base texture for the following races (up from 128x128):

Breton, High Elf, Imperial, Nord, Redguard and Wood Elf, Dark Elf and Orc.

Improves the Normal maps at 512x512 for the following races (up from 256x256):

Breton, High Elf, Imperial, Nord, Redguard and Wood Elf, Dark Elf and Orc.

Improves the diff maps at 512x512 for the following races (up from 256x256):

Breton, High Elf, Imperial, Nord, Redguard and Wood Elf, Dark Elf and Orc.

[edit] Changelog

Version 0.95: 07 June 2006

• Fixed "pasty lips" problem with male characters.
• Fixed "lip ring" problems (mostly found on Dark Elves).
• Cleaned up male lip color to match original colors.
• Cleaned up female lip colors.

Note: Lips will look bigger to fix a previous bug in this version.

Version 0.9: 23 April 2006

• Downrezzed base textures to 512x512 to fix lipsyncing issue.
• Created new Base texture for Dark Elf and Orc.
• Created new diff maps for male Dark Elf and all Orcs.

Version 0.8: 23 April 2006

• Upped base texture res for Imperial to 1024x1024
• Created new diff maps for f10,f16,f17,f18,f20,f30,f60
• backed specular map off by 7% (less shiny)
• Uprezzed Beth diff maps for males
• Converted working normal maps to 16 bit greyscale.
• Smoothed specular map for f10_n.

Version 0.7: 03 April 2006

• Added enlarged and corrected Normal and Specular maps for all ages on females
• Removed upper body texture
• Changed into override type mod and removed .esp file

Version 0.6: 01 April 2006

• Added enlarged and corrected Normal and Specular maps
• Added new larger upper body texture and Normal map.
• Made some corrections to this file.

Version 0.5: 28 March 2006

• Initial Release

[edit] Reviews

[edit] Review by Danny Kim

Another hour, another graphics related review I make. Beth decided to be lazy and include ultra low res 128x128 facial texture. Well, no more! This mod replaces the defaults with 512x512 textures. It has more polish, and makes faces look less aliased.