Modder ‘slowpard’ has released a new 4K mod for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, aiming to improve the quality of 2300 textures. This Texture Pack is based on the Better Cities Mod, which overhauls and enhances all the cities from the original game adding new buildings, new NPCs, and new quests.
Going into more details, the modder has cleaned and decompressed all of the original textures. He then batch-upscaled them at 4X with around 15 different models (RGB/alpha separately, color-matched to the original). After upscaling them, he chose the best results to include to the pack. Moreover, in many cases, different upscales were blended, edited or redone from downscaled samples. Normals were either upscaled (RG channels, then unit vector normalized with the B channel) or regenerated from the upscaled diffuse maps. And finally, slowpard recompressed them to dds with NVIDIA Texture Exporter.
Those interested can go ahead and download this new 4K mod from this link. Do note, though, that it might not be compatible with the previous 4K Texture Packs we’ve shared for Oblivion. At the end of the article, you can also find some comparison screenshots. These screenshots will give you an idea of what you can expect from it.
Speaking of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, we also suggest taking a look at these two other mods. The first one is called Prism of Hammerfell and is a new standalone fan expansion. The second mod we recommend downloading is Shroud Over Stalrous Manor. Shroud Over Stalrous Manor is a quest mod, spanning 9 chapters of “dark mystique, mystery and psychogenic horror.”
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