~ DESPEREAUX Top20 Skies ~ (download at the bottom)My dear DESPEREAUX ,
I have reviewed many (all?) of the sky textures you published these past months, and while I appreciate the effort A LOT - the more options, the merrier - I am sorry to say many aren't up to (my) standards. Constructive criticism ahead, I know you can take it
1) Some textures just don't look good in-game: either because skies are too dramatic or too cartoonish, imho.
Sat images, seriously?
2) Many, and I mean way too many skies aren't seamless. This is a shame because many textures look pretty good but had to be discarded. Here are a couple of examples:
3) Some textures have artifacts and/or the source is of very low resolution, here is a sample:
We spend most of the time airborne looking for points of reference in the skies or scanning the skies for enemies and therefore sky textures must be almost perfect, otherwise immersion is gone the moment your detect and artifact or something that doesn't look good or right.
PS: st_DS_N_6.tga causes a CTD because of the wrong size.
HOWEVER.......DESPEREAUX produced lots of textures and some
look great and add interesting new layers to the set of textures we already have and I selected 20 DESPERAUX skies that should be part of every Random Skies install. Get them below!
DESPERAUX_Top20_Skies.zipThanks DESPERAUX for your work, I truly appreciate the effort!
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Topic: IL-2 Random Skies Mod v2.7 (Read 78130 times)
