Mesh Improvement Project

Version: 1.3

http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1610-mesh-improvement-project/

http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/44501/?

Description:

Oblivion has some really great fantasy designs for it's models and textures and is a beautiful world. The problem is while the artists have spent a lot of time creating the world and all the assets required to fill it, they've ran into problems getting it all done and have taken shortcuts. While this is expected with a game this large, it starts to become a problem when it's noticeable while playing.

This project is a large undertaking with the aim of (slowly) fixing or replacing broken/ugly meshes found throughout the game's world.

M.I.P Contents:

http://insanecreations.co.uk/mip/changelog.html

Version: 1.3

• Fix: NecromancerAlter.Nif - Improved UV Map, Fixed Vertex Paint, Smoothed Cloth
• Fix: RockOblivion_Seat01.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: MageGuildDesk01.Nif - Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material Setting
• Fix: UpperBench01.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: UpperBench02.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: StoneStepwayForAlter.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeSteps01.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeCurve15lin.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeCurve15lout.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeCurve15rin.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeCurve15rout.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeCurve45RinSmall.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeCurve90Small01.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeCurveR75Tiny01.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeCurve90Tiny.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeFlat01.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: BrumaLedgeFlat01Half.Nif - Improved UV Map
• Fix: [Silver] AmelionCeremonialSword.Nif - Fixed Scabbard UV Map
• Fix: [Silver] Arrow.Nif - Fixed UV Map
• Fix: [Silver] Dagger.Nif - Fixed Scabbard UV Map
• Fix: [Silver] Shortsword.Nif - Fixed Scabbard UV Map
• Fix: [Silver] Longsword.Nif - Fixed Scabbard UV Map
• Fix: [Silver] MS13Thornblade.Nif - Fixed Scabbard UV Map
• Fix: [Silver] SilverChorrol.Nif - Fixed Scabbard UV Map
• Fix: [Silver] SilverBow.dds - Fixed dark red/black section of the Texture
• Fix: [Silver] SilverQuiver.dds - Fixed dark red/black section of the Texture
• New Mesh: DisplayCaseWedgeRed02.Nif - Improved UV Map, Smoother Mesh

Installation:

1. Extract the contents of the ZIP folder into your Data folder

Un-Installation:

1. Delete the files/folders associated with the mod

Contact:

InsanitySorrow @ TES Alliance

Credits:

Thanks to Bethesda for creating Oblivion.

Tools Used:

Insanity's ReadMe Generator
Photoshop CS5
Blender
Marmoset Toolbag

Licensing/Legal:

You may use this as you wish as long as you don't charge money for it and you credit me for any work used.

Please do not re-host this file without my explicit permission.

Modder's Will:

If I am offline for six months or longer and do not respond to any attempts made at contacting me, I give full Ownership of my Projects to TES Alliance.

TES Alliance are free to modify/redistribute/remove as they see fit.

Will this include optimisation efforts for meshes with a high poly count which could be reduced without affecting their appearance, so to improve FPS? Such as with the ship meshes?

I'm wondering, what is the difference between vanilla meshes and your improved meshes? Visual-wise

Yes, I'll optimise meshes that need it.

Mostly just UV map textures, with the Anvil Docks the textures won't looked stretched any more, should be a nice improvement especially with higher resolution textures.

With the sleeping mats, there are UV fixes and also more polys in the model to improve the look. Which means less jagged edges for example.

First: Wooohooo! About time someone took this on.

Second: Will it be compatible with stuff like QTP? I know they'll mesh (no pun intended) up with the UOP...

Exciting! Alas, I can't log on to Alliance any more. (Not sure what's up with that.) Will this eventually make its way to Nexus?

It'll work with all texture packs and I'll check with UOP to make sure any meshes I edit here include fixes from it to make them compatible.

It's on nexus now.

You really should do before and after shots.

Still, very nice. Keep going.

Awesome. Weird as it sounds, Brumbek's SMIM is more or less my favourite mod for Skyrim, so it's great to have an equivalent for Oblivion It's amazing the difference that a few judicious tweaks and changes to some key meshes can make to the overall feel of a game, I guess because regardless of how aware you are as a player of the resources in question, you will end up looking at them pretty much all the time....

Thanks very much!

Thank you for tackling this. I can`t wait to install it later.

Definitely checking this out.

Although not exactly the same, it is reminiscent of Brumbek's SMIM for Skyrim, which is fantastic. And that aside; InsanitySorrow is known for doing good work.

Thanks IS for this. It has some conflicts with UOP - should this overwrite the UOP, or vice versa?

This should overwrite UOP.

Those looking for a bit more information on what was changed https://www.dropbox.com/s/e8ofmeftriwo2qd/MIP%20Change%20Log.html

Oh my gosh. You are my new modding hero (again!)

I have been wanting such a mod since... well, since I first became aware that mods existed. In my opinion, it is one of the most needed mods (beyond, of course, bug-fixing/stability mods, modding tools and the like.)

Updated to 1.1:

List of changes:

• Fix:AnvilBoardwalkStair01.Nif - Fixed Texture Path
• New Mesh: LowerClassBowlTan01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassBowlTan02.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassBowlTan03.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassBowl01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassBowl02.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassBowl03.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassCup01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassCup02.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassCup03.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassStool01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: LowerClassChair01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: Easel01.nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map
• New Mesh: FabricRack01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, New CathedralLightMetal01.dds Texture
• Improvement: LowerClassBed01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Optimised
• Improvement: LowerClassBed02.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Optimised
• Improvement: LowerClassBed03.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Optimised
• Improvement: BroomLower01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, New BroomBristles.dds Texture

Thanks for the update. I'm off to check all the new improvements in-game.

I've added Before/After images on TESNexus for most of the changes thus far, if anyone wants to compare before 'buying'

Updated to 1.2:

• New Texture: Textures\Clutter\IronRusted01.dds- Higher resolution [1024x1024]
• New Texture: Textures\Clutter\FightersGuild\BarkMapleEnd01.dds- Higher resolution [1024x1024]
• New Texture: Textures\Clutter\FightersGuild\BarkMaple01.dds- Higher resolution [1024x512]
• New Mesh: Kennel01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: Kennel02.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: Kennel03.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: Kennel04.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: KennelDoor01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: KennelDoor02.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: KennelDoor03.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: TargetHay01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: HayBail01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: ClothBolt01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: ClothBolt02.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: ClothBolt03.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: ClothBolt04.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: ClothBolt05.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: ArmorDumby.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: NDArmorStand01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint
• New Mesh: TamikaVineyards01.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: SurilieBorhterVineyards.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: SignPostCity.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, Improved Vertex Paint, Fixed Collision Material setting
• New Mesh: Stamper.Nif - Smoother Mesh, Improved UV Map, New Texture

Woot, thanks! Another automatic install.

Nexus comparisons look good. I'm off to download.

Thank you. This is one of the few mods I regularly check for updates. Downloaded, installed, but endorsed long ago.

Whoo! I didn't realize that I was still using 1.0. Time to update - thanks!

if you could make a percentual on the work left to made and the work already done, what would these two be?

Anyway, nice job