Now with no compression! We've passed a big hurdle in figuring out how to properly pack everything into S3D archives in DDS format, which is a lossless conversion process - no more quality degradation.
This is mainly a thread where I'll post A/B screenshots so people can get an idea of what the new textures will look like. I'll be getting everything screenshotted in similar fashion eventually, including all of the new weapon and held items that were done by me and Cucumbers, along with new stuff as it gets completed. To kick things off, here are before and afters for the completely redone textures that Nysus, Xevin, and Joyelle worked on - I'm not sure who did what, so feel free to post proper credit. Also, I did some work on the redone SMR texture to make it look less bad.
All human male textures redone:
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Dark elf male cloth and plate textures redone:
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