[Mod-announce] Qarl's Texture Pack 3 - Redimized for Oblivion has been listed on elricm.com

[Elric Melnibone and the Elder Scrolls Web Portal]

The download: 'Qarl's Texture Pack 3 - Redimized'
in category Oblivion/Models and Textures
by Bomret, dev_akm has been listed on elricm.com.

The page link for this individual mod/file is: 

http://www.elricm.com/mods.php?mod=4210 

Mod Descripton: 

With the third version of his texture pack for
Oblivion, Qarl set very high standards for the
visual quality of games using high resolution
textures. He showed possibilities that inspire
other texture artists and even professional game
designers can learn from just looking at his work.
But his pack also set high demands on PC hardware.
Even high-end systems still stutter with the
enourmous load it demands. 

That's why dev_akm and me, Bomret, decided to try
lowering the system requirements while still
maintaining the unique, high-resolution, very
detailed look of Qarl's textures. We have put
almost every QTP3 texture through a very
complicated and time-consuming process to archieve
this goal -- all by hand (no automated scripts).
We chose to make our decisions on a per-texture
base while keeping the overall look and
performance in mind at the same time. 

Most of the time was spent on the normal maps --
to regenerate them, edit them, and decide wether
they should be reduced or not. We tried to keep
all of Qarl's unique features, such as tweaked
mipmaps, etc. 

We think that we were able to get this thing
right. It runs much smoother now, with only a very
minimal loss in visual quality.

The name "Redimized" means Reduced and Optimized.

You don't need the original package, this version
includes all the textures and meshes. The fixed
meshes from the latest UOP-Compatibility Patch are
already included.