This is a great mod! Makes them much more alive. Just wish someone would recolor their outfits too because I think someone who was colorblind colored them x)
Thank you so much for making this mod! The female Angara look like someone actually cared about character design. A huge enhancement to MEA! Endorsed and Kudos!
Good work Ekurian. Seriously one of the biggest issues (for me) is using retextures that stray too far from the original and you have managed to not only make them look more detailed, but you managed to keep the look close to vanilla in terms of design. I'm impressed. What tools did you use for this if you don't mind me asking I'm just now getting started with retextures and am kind of overwhelmed.
i used photoshop to open the textures and edit them (tutorial on how to do that here), i cut some parts of the male texture out and overlayed them onto the female texture, and did a lot of clone tool tweaking. all of the brushes i used were the default photoshop ones.
Nice subtle details, makes you wonder why they didn't just bother to do it in the first place. Also the Asari are the same (except Peebee) they have no head.. carapace.. Tentacle thingy details.
The difference is subtle enough that you can't recall and tell if it's an improvement or not without either testing it yourself in game (on and off) or looking up images via google.
Also the fact it's a subtle improvement is a plus for me. I like that it isn't really changing the developers designs on the characters too much (unless it's the Asari since they aren't unique enough characters)
ah that's a good point! i forget that not everyone is used to eyeballing textures, so the difference may not be obvious. ive added some vanilla pics for comparing.
and yeah, the aim was to make what already exists look a bit better, not to make them look completely different! im glad you like it.
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i used photoshop to open the textures and edit them (tutorial on how to do that here), i cut some parts of the male texture out and overlayed them onto the female texture, and did a lot of clone tool tweaking. all of the brushes i used were the default photoshop ones.
Also the Asari are the same (except Peebee) they have no head.. carapace.. Tentacle thingy details.
For example:
Avela Kjar Vanilla vs Mod
Moshae Sjefa Vanilla vs Mod
The difference is subtle enough that you can't recall and tell if it's an improvement or not without either testing it yourself in game (on and off) or looking up images via google.
Also the fact it's a subtle improvement is a plus for me. I like that it isn't really changing the developers designs on the characters too much (unless it's the Asari since they aren't unique enough characters)
and yeah, the aim was to make what already exists look a bit better, not to make them look completely different! im glad you like it.