Hi Res Body Texture: Seam Problem (with Screenshots)

[Daguy]

Hey LL

 

I'm really annoyed by this problem i've got with the Hi Res Textures for HGEC I found on Nexus. In the General thread it was suggested that it was the lghting effects used, but i'm pretty sure the texture doesn't line up properly. And even if that is the problem, I don't want to disable my lighting.

 

One thigh looks abso-lutely fine, but the other is horrific. I actually didn't notice it on the 'human' skin until I looked really close. It was my Dunmer Test-Character that I really saw it on, and lets face it, the inner thigh is the worst place to have a nude body texture problem.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't suppose anyone has had the same things, has managed to fix it, and could share their textures could they? And do the next-quality-down versions share the problem? I'm loathe to downgrade, but they are the only textures i've seen that don't add 'extras' like patterns, changed skintones, oilyness, and what the like. Though I wouldn't mind my Dunmer a little more grey and less blue, haha.

 

Halp?

 

[Jerbsinator]

Try this out. I had a bad seam on my characters back and this removed it. http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=19738

[GrimReaper]

There is actually a newer version of ozmo's textures. It's under the files tab labeled BaseTexture_v1_2a. This one has no seam whatsoever, but id doesn't include textures for the hands. The hand texture from the older pack has a slightly different color so you get seams on the hands. I fixed that for myself, however.

 

And it only includes the footfemale.dds for imperials. I don't know why he never bothered to update all his textures. Oh well.

 

 

[Daguy]

Try this out. I had a bad seam on my characters back and this removed it. http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=19738

 

Ohhh' date=' thanks. I'll give that a go. Heh, I thnk it was reccomended to me before, but I thought it was just one of those necklaces to cover neck seams. Will teach me to actually click and read.

 

Hopefully it will work.

 

There is actually a newer version of ozmo's textures. It's under the files tab labeled BaseTexture_v1_2a. This one has no seam whatsoever, but id doesn't include textures for the hands. The hand texture from the older pack has a slightly different color so you get seams on the hands. I fixed that for myself, however.

 

And it only includes the footfemale.dds for imperials. I don't know why he never bothered to update all his textures. Oh well.

 

Hm, thanks Grim, wasn't aware of an update. Don't suppose you'd be willing to share you fixed ahnds? Then I might download the update. Hopefully a combo with the above seam remover would be practically seamless all over.

 

 

-Edit: Additonal-

 

Ugh, going from 4000x4000 down to 2000x2000 is really fugly, to the point i might just make do with the seam if there is nothing that can be done. Trying that 1.2a file Grim, but it seems to be a tattoo back, and very small in size.

 

 

-Update-

 

Hm. The Seam Reducer helped, the seam wasn't as horrific, but was still pretty bad. I used the textures included, the 2000x2000 ones and the downgrade wasn't peasant. Blurry nipples lol.

 

As for the 1.2a, its just a photoshop file of the tattooed human texture.

 

Appreciate the advice so far. For now i'll reinstall the seam-hell yet Hi-Res textures, and hope somethign helps. =(

[GrimReaper]

The .psd file contains everything, actually. Different nipples, pubic hairs and tattoes. You can remove the layer that contains the tattoo if you don't want it. Choose a pubic hair (if you want one) and a nipple variant and delete all the other layers. Combine the layers and save as a .dds file, done.

 

I could upload my hand and foot texture but the problem is that gimp always screws up the compression for me so that the footfemale.dds is 64MB. If I use any compression method I get ugly artifacts in that texture.

[Daguy]

How exactly do you turn into to the Dunmer skintone though? Admittedly I didn'y look too deeply, but it seemed to be just the default skin.

 

I'm not too bothered about the size to be honest, as logn as it doesn't make it a problem for you to upload. Is the seam as bad as in my screenshots with the foot otherwise? I don't mind minor seams. Just the terrible ones like my screeny.

[Sephariel]

Thank you GrimReaper for letting me know about the Ozmo texture update, I never would've known about it otherwise

[Jerbsinator]

Actually that Base Texture file the seams aren't removed....at least not when I used them.

[GrimReaper]

How exactly do you turn into to the Dunmer skintone though? Admittedly I didn'y look too deeply' date=' but it seemed to be just the default skin.

 

I'm not too bothered about the size to be honest, as logn as it doesn't make it a problem for you to upload. Is the seam as bad as in my screenshots with the foot otherwise? I don't mind minor seams. Just the terrible ones like my screeny.

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There are no seams with these textures. If you want a skin for Dunmer, you'd have to recolor them yourself. It's fairly easy to do, though. Just play around with the brightness/saturation and you should get some nice results, just remember to use the same values for every texture, i.e.: Foot, Hand, ears, face. If you for example change the brightness to -120 you have to change it for that value on every texture (sounds logic, right?).

 

Anyway, uploading my stuff now.

[Daguy]

Hm, as simple as that huh.

 

In that case I can likely do it myself, I just figured there was more to it than that. So, technically, if I just greyscale everything, I can make a proper grey Dunmer rather than the smurfs you tend to get otherwise? Or is there something inherent in the game makes em blue?

[GrimReaper]

Actually that Base Texture file the seams aren't removed....at least not when I used them.

 

Must be some kind of magic then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?m4984mj8rmxlw56

[Daguy]

Thanks for the upload^^

 

I'm playing around in photoshop seeing what can be made. =D

 

-Update-

 

Thank you Grim, due to your advice and information I now have a Dunmer skin i'm happy with, blue tinged, but more ash than smurf.

 

-Update2-

 

Thought i'd just upload an example of what my finished product turned out like.

 

 

[EvenstarGW]

Tog get rid of the seam, I copied the good half of the body, flipped it and pasted it exactly over the bad half (in a new layer). Then I took the rubber tool and erased around the middle mostly to prevent screwing up the vagina area and the belly button. Just make sure you keep the parts over that nasty dark spot. Makes it as perfectly seamless as can be expected as both halves are exactly the same then.

[Daguy]

Thank you Evanstar. If I ever revert back to the orignal textures I will likely try that method again, though I have to admit I did try it and not frustrated with aligning before. It ended up being easier making my own skin with the files Grim mentioned.

[Nihaoma]

Just a reminder:

 

Once you get a set of default skin textures that you are happy with... make a backup copy of them and put the copy somewhere else (apart from the original) on your computer. Because you never know when you might install a mod that will overwrite your favorite files with inferior junk.

 

The same applies to default body meshes, too. Make a backup copy.

[EvenstarGW]

Thank you Evanstar. If I ever revert back to the orignal textures I will likely try that method again' date=' though I have to admit I did try it and not frustrated with aligning before. It ended up being easier making my own skin with the files Grim mentioned.

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I made it half transparent and used the nipple as a nice guide point.

 

Just a reminder:

 

Once you get a set of default skin textures that you are happy with... make a backup copy of them and put the copy somewhere else (apart from the original) on your computer. Because you never know when you might install a mod that will overwrite your favorite files with inferior junk.

 

The same applies to default body meshes' date=' too. Make a backup copy.

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Don't forget the skeleton