Thank you so much for showcasing my retextures! I really like your content and am really happy to see you like my work too! Overall, I am extremely happy to see my work being enjoyed by so many people. It truly means a lot to me As some people mentioned already, I do plan on covering all vanilla and CC armors and weapons. Once all my individual retextures are out, I will create a vanilla All-in-one and a CC All-in-one. To make it easier to install. Thanks again and keep up the great work, I look forward to your next video!
Looking forward to every new piece of content from both of you - thank you for all your work and efforts increasing my game experience and I M M E R S I O N
As far as i know Xavio plans on retexturing all of the armours and weapons in the game including AE cc content so if you like their stuff they will eventually cover everything, They also cover alot of armour mods like Immersive armours. Vigilant and Bosmer armour. Great Vid!
Xavbio's textures are perfect for those who love AmidianBorn, but have been using the Book of Silence textures for a long time and want a bit of a fresh look while keeping the style. I love that he covers the CC alts and Xbows as well as the base armors, so it keeps a nice level of cohesion.
@@thomaskelley6521 If it is, I hope to the Tribunal that he releases it on moddb an not just Nexus. I'll have to keep my PC on for a week to get that downloaded with their throttle. >
New to your videos. I think the thing I'm most impressed by, which is best shown in the Rustic Clothing showcase at the end, is how SEAMLESSLY you transition between old texture and new: You MATCH THE SWAYING! NPCs sway back and forth a little bit, and you synch it up up perfectly. That's dedication and skill.
Always a good day when the Bard drops a new video! You have out done yourself with this video. The editing is top notch! Thank you so much for a great showcase :)
I've been trying to get back into modding and I've watched a ton of showcase videos, and out of every single video I've found I vibe with your taste in mods the most. Thank you so much for sharing!
I think that this channel is criminally underrated, considering that each video you make is better than the last one. Not to say that previous ones are bad in any way. Keep it up, you're definitely nailing it :)
Wooop thank you so much, that is such a nice thing to hear! I do feel like I progress very quickly with every new video, and feel quite the embarrasment about the old ones xD I guess that's normal! Cheers! 💚
I just wanted to let you know that I absolutely love your videos (and mod list). I keep coming back to your videos everytime I'm revamping my load order and textures, and this is coming from someone who is just starting to get into Skyrim modding. Thank you for the creative inspirations, and thank you for such wonderful videos!
I have been trying to remember what the visualize vanilla mod was called for weeks. Then I just stumbled across it here. Well, thank you for helping me end my search! Also, great video as always
Honestly, NordWarUA's Dwarven armour looks AMAZING!!! I do want to find a good Daedric armour to fit with Crazylion's daedric weapon replacer, I really like his take on them by making them look super foreign, they don't look like they were made in Skyrim. Real Moonstone Elven Armour and Weapons has a place in my heart, it looks like moonstone bars you can use and I think that is unique and interesting. It did look a bit odd at first but it has grown on me.
14:35 Thank God I'm not the only one who thinks that, I like realistic armor but to be honest I like them more when they are realistic but still retaining the original concept of the armor
Thank you very much for your hardwork! I really like your videos! Please keep on doing them, we can profit and get a lot of inspirations for new mods from you!
i always enjoyed the fur armor, it's one of the few armors that let you go around bare chested, but i've always used the skimpiest version since the cape looked a bit awkward even back in 2011. now it's got a good shampoo treatment with this lovely mod. I grew up with the GameCube, i looked at oblivion and thought "damn, that's a lot of graphics" i hardly bother with graphic mods, but that fur fluff is just so damn tempting.
Heh, it sounds like the fur is right up your alley then! I think it's an amazing mod and won't leave my modlist, so do indulge, I promise it's worth it!
i recently discovered your channel and i gotta say you really put in so much work in your videos. From the editing, the showcasing, and your voice is really easy to follow (im Vietnamese) and even have subtitles.... Thank you verymuch and i really looking forward to your future videos covering all categories
Welcome to the channel and thank you for your kind words! 💚🙏 So glad you appreciate the subtitles, I think it's so important to have them in videos (especially when the youtuber has an accent XD)
Hello! I really enjoy your videos :) What sets you apart from the other content creators is your style of showcasing, mainly due to your good scriptwriting and clear voice. I hope your channel grows big someday, and I hope your dreams come true ✨
Some of these mods make the armors look almost like ones from MonsterHunter, which imo has some of the best armor design 🤔 I really enjoy the details and shading on these mods.
Your list almost matches my active list. But I also love the Resurgence series by IconicDeath. I think it's worth mix and matching some of the Resurgence series in.
For imperial armours, I prefer "Perfect Legionary". This new armor design also makes more sense in the cold lands of Skyrim, and in my opinion looks way cooler than the original.
Here I sit, looking at the vast collection of amazing updates and reimaginings of each and every part of the game, whilst I can't get any big mods to wok because they crash when they try to "give weapons realistic collision".
Another fine showcase presented here, it decided for me to choose a few mods that I had looked at before when they first hit the Nexus, but I made the choice to not download them then. I'm not a 'glowy-boy' but I did like the cut of the glowing ebony armor, so I've downloaded that one (non-glowy-version), and since I'm an Imperial, I went with the Imperial overhaul, and the Elven re-textures look great, but I, nor my followers, will ever use them, but it will make the npc's look better. Most of the vanilla armors were awful from the start as far as the textures Bethesda used, but I'm sure they had to go that route because of the varying differences in system performance/platform limitations the end-user might endure. Not everybody owns a super-computer capable of whatever limit graphics cards can handle for stability and framerates, nor can console players afford the space needed to use higher levels of textures, hence the modders stepped up. As far as what vanilla NPC's wear I really don't care that much how it looks, but for my character and followers/companions I do, because I have to look at them the most.
+1 like and subscribe with bell, this is the first video I'm watching in your channel and look forward to see more. Really liked the ideia of this series and hope you continue this project, I always wanted a good compendium of textures to follow when modding my game and I really think I found it. Thank you very much!
Hello again! I know this is a long shot but do you remember the hair pack you used for your character at 18:37 ? That looks so cool. I also had to retype this sentence like ten times because man I cannot type today. What the heck man
For Dragon Priest armor, I'd recommend DragonPriest Retexture - SE by PraedythXVI. It retextures all of the robes, the masks, the weapons, and the NPCs themselves.
Hey I am new in Skyrim so can you tell me If I mod the graphics of the game and make it ultra realistic then this modded textures of armours will look much better than shown in the video? Please Reply I am watching your videos and really enjoying 👍
Btw heres are some translations for the Runes present on the swords in Sons of Skyrim. 1. Solitude Wolf 2. Berserker 3. Northern (The Rest is gibberish)
The horror of being a noob modder is when every mod require a mod that require another mod, looks like the fur shader mood need me to get a new female body mod and now I don't know if it will break other clothing mods. Thanks for showing off all these cool armors.
BCG: "We are steering away from large texture packs." Also BCG 30 seconds later: "R U S T I C C L O T H I N G" I know the implication was modding aspects of armor one by one instead of an all encompassing overhaul, but the wording was kind of funny. x) The highlight for me here is Fur Shader Armors, can't believe I hadn't found that mod before and it matches Fluffworks perfectly! The rest, I'm happy (and surprised) to say this time I had most of them already! Really like how most enhance the vanilla look instead of completely replacing it, with the exception of Sons of Skyrim of course, that one is just pure immersion.
Ahahah, I didn't think of that... Yes, and Xavbio's also going to have the mods in a large AIO, so yes, the video's going to be full of large texture packs. Oh well! Fur Shader Armors is truly a gem, so happy you found it!
See I enjoy seeing all these retextures. I do not enjoy downloading every single piece of armor. I personally do not download piece by piece until it's an AIO or very close. Personal opinion of course.
So I tried to find some alternatives to xavbio's mods, as I didn't exactly like certain details they add or remove from vanilla designs, and how all of their retextures are darker than vanilla, especially didn't like how orcish retexture makes it loose the green tint, making it look as if it's made from steel, so I wanted to find something more Vanilla-like. Didn't really find anything aside from a texture pack called "aMidianBorn Book of Silence SE" (good luck finding it if you don't know how it's called, lol) Well, after installing it I've noticed that most textures in this pack are xavbio's, except that this pack doesn't include glass and elvish weapons that standalone mods contain, last time this mod pack has been updated is in 2020, while xavbio only started uploading standalone packs this year, so i guess that explains how they've been putting out so much so quickly. I guess I'll have to settle for their retextures, =( Game is sooo old, really strange that there's so few retextures, maybe I just can't find them, nexus search engine is really not all that usefull. Looking at it further Some of those texture are from Oldrim days, ebony armor textures, for example, were first uploaded as far back as 2013, seems like aMidianBorn is xavbio's previous nickname. Strange that someone else have always been uploading for them.
At the moment I've fallen all the way back to Project Clarity for armors. I don't need extra artistic vision (which tends to darken and remove distinctive colors) I just need the blurriness removed.
Might there be a video on player/character overhauling in the cards? I find that process a bit tricky when it comes to eliminating wrist and ankle seams, and I'm interested in how you go about that.
Staying away from large texture packs. I guess that would include Cathedral Armory but I would still say at least the pictures look good. Granted I haven't seen it in game because I'm building my mod list but just about done.
And if I had 16 GB of VRAM instead of 8 I would probably use a bunch of cathedral stuff, like their weather and seasons with landscapes combined. Cathedral series in generally looks really well done.
for nightingale armor theres a mod called "foxy nightingale armor" and it looks insane quality, I tried frankly's HD but it still looked blurry even at 4k.
I really like your Skyrim and the way you stage it :) I have a technical question. could you create a guide, How To install BHUNP Body Physiks :D lovely Greets to Finland, from Germany ;)
Danke schön! I'm sorry, but I'm not one for technical tutorials, and surely would get something wrong 😬 but good luck with that, I hope you'll get it working!
Hello, may i ask here if i need to use an ENB for Rudy HQ - More lights for ENB SE - Daedric Weapons and Armor ? I am still scared that an ENB would burn my graphic card. In the option of the Fomod there is the glow option but also lights, so i wonder if the glow will work without ENB. Also Xavbio retextures ROCKS ! If an AiO is to come, Book of Silence will be absolete since it doesn't cover the CC armors. His retextures on Immersive Armors are damn good too. Anyway, these videos really help me modding my Skyrim, i wish you well !
This is wayyyy off topic as far as armors go, but would you ever consider being the voice of a custom follower? Really dig your videos, but your voice and the way you speak could be an awesome asset in the world of elder scrolls. Just kind of belongs. At any rate, keep up the groovy videos.
Haha, no problem! It would certainly be fun to try, though I'm no actor so not sure about the end result... 😂 but maybe some day! And thanks, I will!! 💪
That was the armors and weapons reskin mod I was looking for! c:< Bandit armors are so fluffy and the nightingale armor is perfect now. Sorry, but light armors are the best. However, I must admit that the daedric armor is... OOF (I think i used it a long time ago playing an edgy death knigth character) xDD
18:00 У Торвара слишком длинные волосы, прям женские... Такие волосы хороши для Изольды, она рыжая... Фаркас хорош, с бородищей, с космами которые он расчёсывает пятерней... Прям волчара, р-р-р... Ему бы на полголовы выше и было бы отлично... Это какой-то мод ? Какой именно и где можно скачать ?
Ive tried for fur armors your combination, and gloves looks exactly like yours but skirts just stay default , ive been baning my head around and changin mod rules but nothing seems to fix it :C
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Thank you so much for showcasing my retextures! I really like your content and am really happy to see you like my work too! Overall, I am extremely happy to see my work being enjoyed by so many people. It truly means a lot to me
As some people mentioned already, I do plan on covering all vanilla and CC armors and weapons. Once all my individual retextures are out, I will create a vanilla All-in-one and a CC All-in-one. To make it easier to install.
Thanks again and keep up the great work, I look forward to your next video!
Looking forward to every new piece of content from both of you - thank you for all your work and efforts increasing my game experience and I M M E R S I O N
Can't wait for the AIO 💚 Superb work again and this video would've been so much worse without your mods XD - so thank you! 💪💪
Nice! Can't wait for Silver Armor and Steel Soldier's Armor. Those are my favorite new ones.
You are a artist man!!
Very much looking forward to the AIOs! Really love your work, for the vanilla and vigilant gear alike!
As far as i know Xavio plans on retexturing all of the armours and weapons in the game including AE cc content so if you like their stuff they will eventually cover everything, They also cover alot of armour mods like Immersive armours. Vigilant and Bosmer armour. Great Vid!
Ah yes, and can't wait for the AIO! And thank you! 💚
Xavbio's textures are perfect for those who love AmidianBorn, but have been using the Book of Silence textures for a long time and want a bit of a fresh look while keeping the style. I love that he covers the CC alts and Xbows as well as the base armors, so it keeps a nice level of cohesion.
@@BardsCollegeGraduate Oh Lord I could imagine the AIO being 10GB😂
@@thomaskelley6521 If it is, I hope to the Tribunal that he releases it on moddb an not just Nexus. I'll have to keep my PC on for a week to get that downloaded with their throttle. >
New to your videos. I think the thing I'm most impressed by, which is best shown in the Rustic Clothing showcase at the end, is how SEAMLESSLY you transition between old texture and new: You MATCH THE SWAYING! NPCs sway back and forth a little bit, and you synch it up up perfectly. That's dedication and skill.
Thank you, so glad you noticed that! :D It takes a good chunk of time syncing the animations, but if the result is good, it is so satisfying.
These armor mods and textures are getting crazy! I can't believe there's so many of these for game this old!
Right you are!
Bards college graduate is quickly becoming my favorite youtuber. Few other channels make me so excited to see a new video! :)
I love that! Thanks for the support 🙏💚
xavbio's retexture are such a easy way to bring up the quality level of vanilla armors
Yes, and it will be even easier when the all-in-one mod comes out! They're such good quality.
Wow, very nice! I especially love the transitions that you have with new/old showcases!
It's a triple dip!
i can not believe i found this channel only today, after over ten years of playing and modding skyrim, but i am glad i did now.
Hey, welcome to the channel my friend! Better later than never :)
Always a good day when the Bard drops a new video! You have out done yourself with this video. The editing is top notch! Thank you so much for a great showcase :)
Thank you so much Jon! I did challenge myself with this one, so happy to hear it paid out :)
I've been trying to get back into modding and I've watched a ton of showcase videos, and out of every single video I've found I vibe with your taste in mods the most. Thank you so much for sharing!
Ahh, that makes me so happy :D thanks for watching!
Fur in video games that looks realistic makes me so amazed! Also, I’ve been looking for good armor replacers for so long, so ty for helping me out!
So glad, and yesss same with the fur! Love it
I think that this channel is criminally underrated, considering that each video you make is better than the last one. Not to say that previous ones are bad in any way. Keep it up, you're definitely nailing it :)
Wooop thank you so much, that is such a nice thing to hear! I do feel like I progress very quickly with every new video, and feel quite the embarrasment about the old ones xD I guess that's normal! Cheers! 💚
Ok, this is the BEST armor mods video that I have seen. Amazing channel!!!!
Hey, thank you, so much!! :D
I just wanted to let you know that I absolutely love your videos (and mod list). I keep coming back to your videos everytime I'm revamping my load order and textures, and this is coming from someone who is just starting to get into Skyrim modding. Thank you for the creative inspirations, and thank you for such wonderful videos!
Aww you're so kind! :D Thank you so much!! I appreciate that so much, have fun modding!
I don't even play Skyrim anymore, but listening to your voice, talking about my fav game, perfect match c:
That's the highest honor! Thank you 💚🙏
Watching your videos feel like watching a vlog. It's so nicely edited.
Oh, that's a first! :D thanks, I'm trying to get better at editing one video at a time! 😁
18:32 I LOVE the way you pronounced the weapon names :D
it's all about the R's 😉
@@BardsCollegeGraduate Music to my eaRs
hating glass armour and adoring aldmer armour.... interesting take
@RickJoystick its literally just better elven armour in every way from colour pallet to not causing glaucoma with its design
Ah the Dark Brotherhood armor from Oblivion, one of my favorite mods!
The editing on these is great!
Thank you! The syncing of the animations is a pain in the ass but rewarding at the same time 😅
I have been trying to remember what the visualize vanilla mod was called for weeks. Then I just stumbled across it here. Well, thank you for helping me end my search! Also, great video as always
Haha! I'm glad! :D And thank you!
Honestly, NordWarUA's Dwarven armour looks AMAZING!!!
I do want to find a good Daedric armour to fit with Crazylion's daedric weapon replacer, I really like his take on them by making them look super foreign, they don't look like they were made in Skyrim.
Real Moonstone Elven Armour and Weapons has a place in my heart, it looks like moonstone bars you can use and I think that is unique and interesting. It did look a bit odd at first but it has grown on me.
Always looking out for your videos!
Yay!!
14:35 Thank God I'm not the only one who thinks that, I like realistic armor but to be honest I like them more when they are realistic but still retaining the original concept of the armor
Thank you very much for your hardwork! I really like your videos! Please keep on doing them, we can profit and get a lot of inspirations for new mods from you!
Cheers! 💚🙏 I will keep on creating, feeling actually very inspired right now for editing 😅 thanks for watching!
i always enjoyed the fur armor, it's one of the few armors that let you go around bare chested, but i've always used the skimpiest version since the cape looked a bit awkward even back in 2011. now it's got a good shampoo treatment with this lovely mod. I grew up with the GameCube, i looked at oblivion and thought "damn, that's a lot of graphics" i hardly bother with graphic mods, but that fur fluff is just so damn tempting.
Heh, it sounds like the fur is right up your alley then! I think it's an amazing mod and won't leave my modlist, so do indulge, I promise it's worth it!
Great content as always! Definitely a vastly under-appreciated Skyrim Community Channel.🙌🏻✌🏻👌🏻🔥
Thank you so much for your kind words and support! 💚
Amazing video as always!
Thank you!
I replayed 11:38 too much makes me smile every single time
i recently discovered your channel and i gotta say you really put in so much work in your videos. From the editing, the showcasing, and your voice is really easy to follow (im Vietnamese) and even have subtitles.... Thank you verymuch and i really looking forward to your future videos covering all categories
Welcome to the channel and thank you for your kind words! 💚🙏 So glad you appreciate the subtitles, I think it's so important to have them in videos (especially when the youtuber has an accent XD)
That fur armor shader is super nice looking going to try that out tomorrow if I remember.
It is!
Hello! I really enjoy your videos :) What sets you apart from the other content creators is your style of showcasing, mainly due to your good scriptwriting and clear voice. I hope your channel grows big someday, and I hope your dreams come true ✨
Im a big fan of Vanilla Armor Replacer by NordwarUA as a base, very beautiful textures with mipmaps that make it look shiny and detailed.
good choice!
Not gonna lie, I really like the way you pronounce Wuthraad and Vittoria Vici. The proper hard R is just the best lol
Oh thanks! It's the way it comes naturally, sometimes it's nice to embrace it 😆
Xavbio's retextures are all phenomenal! I personally prefer their retextures over the FranklyHD ones, especially the new Thieves Guild retexture.
Agreed- they're really nice, about time someone recreates all the textures of the armors. Xavbio's work is great.
Some of these mods make the armors look almost like ones from MonsterHunter, which imo has some of the best armor design 🤔 I really enjoy the details and shading on these mods.
Amazing video as always 😌🙏🖤 I can't wait for the next part
Appreciate that! 🙏💚 I'll try to get on that quickly, but knowing me, it'll take some time again xD
@@BardsCollegeGraduate greatness takes time 😌🖤 we can be patient 🤭
@@lyrictdk love that
Excellent video. So informative and entertaining. Love your work.
Thank you Brandi! Always appreciate you
Omg your voice ! this channel is really good ! greetings from south america
Haha thanks! I'd love to visit someday :)
Your list almost matches my active list. But I also love the Resurgence series by IconicDeath. I think it's worth mix and matching some of the Resurgence series in.
I'll be sure to check it out, thanks for the suggestion!
For imperial armours, I prefer "Perfect Legionary". This new armor design also makes more sense in the cold lands of Skyrim, and in my opinion looks way cooler than the original.
Oh yeah, those do look pretty cool :D
Here I sit, looking at the vast collection of amazing updates and reimaginings of each and every part of the game, whilst I can't get any big mods to wok because they crash when they try to "give weapons realistic collision".
Aww :(
Holy moly what a video!
holy moly!! 😳😳
Another fine showcase presented here, it decided for me to choose a few mods that I had looked at before when they first hit the Nexus, but I made the choice to not download them then. I'm not a 'glowy-boy' but I did like the cut of the glowing ebony armor, so I've downloaded that one (non-glowy-version), and since I'm an Imperial, I went with the Imperial overhaul, and the Elven re-textures look great, but I, nor my followers, will ever use them, but it will make the npc's look better. Most of the vanilla armors were awful from the start as far as the textures Bethesda used, but I'm sure they had to go that route because of the varying differences in system performance/platform limitations the end-user might endure. Not everybody owns a super-computer capable of whatever limit graphics cards can handle for stability and framerates, nor can console players afford the space needed to use higher levels of textures, hence the modders stepped up. As far as what vanilla NPC's wear I really don't care that much how it looks, but for my character and followers/companions I do, because I have to look at them the most.
I'd love to see some more reimagined armors alongside the ones that just retexture them for the people (myself included) that want to change them up
Agreed!
"Better shrouded armor" is the best one cus it's the only one that... doesn't look like footie pajamas.
lmao now that's a mental image xD
Great video,thank you❤
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
+1 like and subscribe with bell, this is the first video I'm watching in your channel and look forward to see more. Really liked the ideia of this series and hope you continue this project, I always wanted a good compendium of textures to follow when modding my game and I really think I found it. Thank you very much!
Hey, thanks so much for taking the time to write up this comment, I'm so glad! Thanks for watching, and welcome aboard 💚
Hello again! I know this is a long shot but do you remember the hair pack you used for your character at 18:37 ? That looks so cool. I also had to retype this sentence like ten times because man I cannot type today. What the heck man
Hi! Of course- it's from the Dint hairpack. :D No problem!
Thank you so much!@@BardsCollegeGraduate
For Dragon Priest armor, I'd recommend DragonPriest Retexture - SE by PraedythXVI. It retextures all of the robes, the masks, the weapons, and the NPCs themselves.
Hey I am new in Skyrim so can you tell me If I mod the graphics of the game and make it ultra realistic then this modded textures of armours will look much better than shown in the video? Please Reply
I am watching your videos and really enjoying 👍
Hey, the chosen weather and ENB/CS affect everything and might make even the armors look more realistic or "better", so for sure :D have fun!
a glorious video, this one thinks.
BusyG at it again!
Yessir! 👉😎👉
whats the female armor at 20:13? :O
Hi, it's the Highlander Armor!
What’s the retexture mod on the forsworn woman (2:48) tattoos,feather and hair it looks great.
7:37 Is that.... an elf. *Heavy Breathing*
Yessir
@@BardsCollegeGraduate I hate all elves. (Except for Dagoth Ur, Auryen, and Auri).
@@TheBasedDepartment. wheww not all elves
Btw heres are some translations for the Runes present on the swords in Sons of Skyrim.
1. Solitude Wolf
2. Berserker
3. Northern (The Rest is gibberish)
I see, interesting! Thanks for that :)
I recommend along with elven retexture arma thalmoris.
Awesome video
Thanks so much! Had fun making it :D
The horror of being a noob modder is when every mod require a mod that require another mod, looks like the fur shader mood need me to get a new female body mod and now I don't know if it will break other clothing mods.
Thanks for showing off all these cool armors.
4:16 that is an act of war you know.
😤😤
sick video!
tyyy 👉😎👉
BCG: "We are steering away from large texture packs."
Also BCG 30 seconds later: "R U S T I C C L O T H I N G"
I know the implication was modding aspects of armor one by one instead of an all encompassing overhaul, but the wording was kind of funny. x)
The highlight for me here is Fur Shader Armors, can't believe I hadn't found that mod before and it matches Fluffworks perfectly! The rest, I'm happy (and surprised) to say this time I had most of them already! Really like how most enhance the vanilla look instead of completely replacing it, with the exception of Sons of Skyrim of course, that one is just pure immersion.
Ahahah, I didn't think of that... Yes, and Xavbio's also going to have the mods in a large AIO, so yes, the video's going to be full of large texture packs. Oh well!
Fur Shader Armors is truly a gem, so happy you found it!
See I enjoy seeing all these retextures. I do not enjoy downloading every single piece of armor. I personally do not download piece by piece until it's an AIO or very close.
Personal opinion of course.
I respect that :D
So I tried to find some alternatives to xavbio's mods, as I didn't exactly like certain details they add or remove from vanilla designs, and how all of their retextures are darker than vanilla, especially didn't like how orcish retexture makes it loose the green tint, making it look as if it's made from steel, so I wanted to find something more Vanilla-like.
Didn't really find anything aside from a texture pack called "aMidianBorn Book of Silence SE" (good luck finding it if you don't know how it's called, lol)
Well, after installing it I've noticed that most textures in this pack are xavbio's, except that this pack doesn't include glass and elvish weapons that standalone mods contain, last time this mod pack has been updated is in 2020, while xavbio only started uploading standalone packs this year, so i guess that explains how they've been putting out so much so quickly.
I guess I'll have to settle for their retextures, =(
Game is sooo old, really strange that there's so few retextures, maybe I just can't find them, nexus search engine is really not all that usefull.
Looking at it further
Some of those texture are from Oldrim days, ebony armor textures, for example, were first uploaded as far back as 2013, seems like aMidianBorn is xavbio's previous nickname.
Strange that someone else have always been uploading for them.
At the moment I've fallen all the way back to Project Clarity for armors. I don't need extra artistic vision (which tends to darken and remove distinctive colors) I just need the blurriness removed.
@@dragonscoils8149 Oh, for some reason Project Clarity wasn't coming up when I was searching, but it is exactly what I'm searching for, thank you.
1:32 blud is bussin fr on god no cap
Might there be a video on player/character overhauling in the cards? I find that process a bit tricky when it comes to eliminating wrist and ankle seams, and I'm interested in how you go about that.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm definitely not an expert on character creation, so at this time, probably not. 😩 But it's not completely ruled out!
Xavbio retex + Vanilla Armor body slides are a god send. For female armors I use "Somewhere in between."
That sounds good!
@@BardsCollegeGraduateYou can use all the textures from Xavbio on Somewhere in between meshes.
U have a very soft clear voice ;)
Thanks!
I personally use divergence as an all in one... although one thing I dislike is how excessively shiny it makes steel weapons.
Staying away from large texture packs. I guess that would include Cathedral Armory but I would still say at least the pictures look good. Granted I haven't seen it in game because I'm building my mod list but just about done.
And if I had 16 GB of VRAM instead of 8 I would probably use a bunch of cathedral stuff, like their weather and seasons with landscapes combined. Cathedral series in generally looks really well done.
I loving heavy armor's too
Still stuck on BookOfUUNP (normal version, not the lewd one).
Never seen better Iron Armor Ornaments anywhere else..
These mods look tempting tho 😅
The mods will wait for you when you're ready 😏
I’ve never encountered the robes at 23:01 where is that from?
Nocturnal's robes
The best way to make the nightingale armor better is to take it off and put it in a chest.
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Great video
Thank you!
for nightingale armor theres a mod called "foxy nightingale armor" and it looks insane quality, I tried frankly's HD but it still looked blurry even at 4k.
That's only for female characters I guess :D
What mod are you using for hair? Your characters look incredible with those hair styles.
Thank you! Some are from KS Hairdos, some are from Dint Hairpack :)
I always remove the nightingale cape, the set looks better with a flowy cape not the static vanilla one
You know what, that's actually solid reasoning :D
Nordwarua armors are Peak sadly the late Game armors havent gotten the Same Treatment yet
I really like your Skyrim and the way you stage it :) I have a technical question. could you create a guide, How To install BHUNP Body Physiks :D lovely Greets to Finland, from Germany ;)
Danke schön! I'm sorry, but I'm not one for technical tutorials, and surely would get something wrong 😬 but good luck with that, I hope you'll get it working!
@@BardsCollegeGraduate That is okay ;) I will try my best :D
What kind of animation mods do you happen to use ? Or do you prefer vanilla animations?
SonderBrain's! www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/users/140700623?tab=user+files
Dawnguard armor is as iconic as the ncr ranger armor in fallout new vegas imo
Hello, may i ask here if i need to use an ENB for Rudy HQ - More lights for ENB SE - Daedric Weapons and Armor ? I am still scared that an ENB would burn my graphic card. In the option of the Fomod there is the glow option but also lights, so i wonder if the glow will work without ENB.
Also Xavbio retextures ROCKS ! If an AiO is to come, Book of Silence will be absolete since it doesn't cover the CC armors. His retextures on Immersive Armors are damn good too.
Anyway, these videos really help me modding my Skyrim, i wish you well !
This is wayyyy off topic as far as armors go, but would you ever consider being the voice of a custom follower? Really dig your videos, but your voice and the way you speak could be an awesome asset in the world of elder scrolls. Just kind of belongs. At any rate, keep up the groovy videos.
Haha, no problem! It would certainly be fun to try, though I'm no actor so not sure about the end result... 😂 but maybe some day! And thanks, I will!! 💪
What's that hair mod on 11:40?
Hi, it's dint999 hairpack02!
@@BardsCollegeGraduate thank you 🤍
great video like always and how long it took to make this video miss bard??
Thank you! This one took me many hours a day for a month 😄
That was the armors and weapons reskin mod I was looking for! c:<
Bandit armors are so fluffy and the nightingale armor is perfect now. Sorry, but light armors are the best. However, I must admit that the daedric armor is... OOF (I think i used it a long time ago playing an edgy death knigth character) xDD
Hahah yes I mean an edgy death knight sounds fun though :D happy you've found some useful mods for yourself!
18:00 У Торвара слишком длинные волосы, прям женские... Такие волосы хороши для Изольды, она рыжая... Фаркас хорош, с бородищей, с космами которые он расчёсывает пятерней... Прям волчара, р-р-р... Ему бы на полголовы выше и было бы отлично... Это какой-то мод ? Какой именно и где можно скачать ?
Nightingale armor is the best one.
A fine opinion! 🤠👌
what hair mods are you using for your males ?
Dint hairpack!
Finally a armour review thats not a exploded boobs and buts in womans character, tks!!
Babe wakeup, new Bards College Graduate video just dropped. Great content, what mod is that fluffy male hair from at 10:57 ?
Hehe thank you! It's from the dint999 hairpack02 💚
what hair mods are you using?
Hi, KS Hairdos and Dint hairpack :)
In your show-case you showed a male character with curly hair. I just want to know what mod that's from. I think the time stamp is around 11:44.
Dint Hairpack!
Ive tried for fur armors your combination, and gloves looks exactly like yours but skirts just stay default , ive been baning my head around and changin mod rules but nothing seems to fix it :C
thats a lot of mods.
what is the actual mod order to use here for armor remodels?
Subscribed. 😊
Hey, welcome 💚
i've tried every mod you've mentioned.
that being said, no amidianborn or cathedral?
and not frankly hd for the imperials?
whahtt?
These are just my picks. And Xavbio armor retextures basically are amidianborn
you are a 10/10!
No, u!
@@BardsCollegeGraduate Noo, U!