#this is by no means gospel: if you have a beloved piece of clutter you want to spice up go for it

[dawns-beauty]

Went on a tag rant earlier, but I'll also post it:

Not everything in Skyrim needs a 4k+ texture mod (or a super high poly version, tbh.)

All those 4k clutter mods are eating into your VRAM and for little benefit. For small objects, 2k is practically identical to 4k, and 1k is usually sufficient if you're not zooming in on every apple (which... Are you honestly doing that during regular play?)

4k shines more on big objects where the texture is stretched over a larger mesh (dragons, for example) or for stuff like armors, horses, etc in screenarchery when you're doing close up shots.

2k is great for trees, landscape, bigger objects where you won't necessarily be zooming in.

Really small objects (ants, eyes, etc) look fine using 512x512 (again... How often do you zoom in to look at ants??)

Additionally: even modern 'realistic' games don't go 4k high poly on everything all the time! Smaller objects are often lower quality compared to characters because it's not as important. Modern games have better methods of reducing texture qualities dynamically that even modded Skyrim can't even touch.

Anyways, Cathedral Assets Optimizer is a great tool to tune down any textures that are too big.

#skyrim #skyrim mods #not trying to be controversal but like... there is an 8k apple mod. apples do not need 8 k's. trust me. #but it's not something i think the average user knows so i feel like i need to say something #like... pay attention to stuff even in the new GoW or Horizon and you can see some polygons and lower quality on shit that isnt important #one of my hobbies is looking at all the clutter up close in games #because its fun and theres often easter eggs #this is by no means gospel: if you have a beloved piece of clutter you want to spice up go for it #i wouldnt recommend it with items where theres a lot of them in one place often (like apples) but unique stuff should be fine