I've been trying to rebuild my collection of mods to play through Oblivion with, but it's been years since I've paid attention to what Oblivion mods were available. The one area in particular I was focusing on was environment improvment mods, and I came across the wonderful http://www.gamesas.com/topic/960829-environment-mod-list/, which helped in selecting several mods to use. However, when looking for texture replacers, I couldn't find any remotely comprehensive guides explaining the differences between all the texture packs/graphical improvements that have popped up in the time since devakm's http://devnull.sweetdanger.net/obliviontextureoverhaul.html was last updated. It looks like there are a lot of cool mods that are available for this, but info on them seems a bit scarce. Searching for existing recent posts on the forums provided plenty of suggestions for texture packs, but not much explanation as to why you would choose one over another, or even what roles they fill and where they would overlap.

Can anyone give me a shove in the right direction? Is there a webpage or thread somewhere I missed? Or are the other texture/normal/LOD options that have come out, like Lush and Gaudy, or Really Textured Normals, just not worth it over the older options like QTP3 and Better Tiling LOD? If there actually are a few different really good options to choose from now, and no source which explains the differences, would someone mind taking the time to provide a bit of information on this for mod-scene noobs like me?

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1213147-oblivion-the-beautiful/

The first 3 posts pretty much list everything there is

QTP3
http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=oblivionmods.detail&id=2363

CloudRulerTemple, Arena, and Kvatch
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=40333

Oblivion realm
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27887

OBGE water
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=37825

Alive Water
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6914

All Natural
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=18305

ImprovedAmuletsAndRings
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=17147

Book_Jackets_Oblivion_High_Res
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5570

Grimbots_Spell_Tomes
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16247

Improved_Fires_and_Flames
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38061

High_Resolution_Hay_Bail_Textures
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=27138

High-Res_Varla_and_Welkynd_Texture_Replacer
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=36814

Improved_Fruits_Vegetables_and_Meats
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=10487

Improved_Signs
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=9498

Improved_Sky_Textures
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=7694

Improved_Soulgems
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4611

Improved_Trees_and_Flora
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8298
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8500
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=11891

Intoxicant_Improvement
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5297

Realistic_Horse_Eyes
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=6252

Shining_Creatures
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=29735

Soolies_Better_Enchantment_Effects
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=30489

Visually_Improved_Staffs
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=38438

Animated_Window_Lighting_System
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=19628

Darooz artsupplies
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=41122

Darooz Trees
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=41109

Darooz Upperclass clutter
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=41108

AmpolX's Texture Packs
http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1095-ampolx-textures/




Vanilla Race Deluxe
http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=39823