Finally got around to livening up my ingots

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Finally got around to livening up my ingots. Being completely OCD though, I found most ingot mods had a mesh error that included a strange triangle at the top of the ingot, likely a bad vertex.

I ended up using https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/56538? but forgoing the mesh files and simply used the textures without the normals. However, the gold, dwarven, and orichalcum I replaced with the textures over at https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/9912 because the textures for these specific ingots from the Ingots mod don't work with the vanilla meshes. Actually I'm not sure about orichalcum but the texture from HD Ore and Ingots looked nicer.

As for iron and silver, the vanilla game hilariously used the wrong texture files. Sooo, I renamed the silver to iron and iron to silver. I kept the normal for the silver texture though, renamed to ingotiron01_n.dds, because the vanilla normal texture had a red hue to simulate rust.

All in all, they came out pretty well. My final folder has these files located in textures/clutter...
ingotcorundum01.dds
*ingotdwarven01.dds
ingotebony01.dds
*ingotgold01.dds
**ingotiron01.dds
**ingotiron01_n.dds
ingotmoonstone01.dds
ingotobsidian01.dds
*ingotorichalcum01.dds
ingotquicksilver01.dds
**ingotsilver01.dds
ingotsteel01.dds

* From HD Ore and Ingots mod.
** Swapped names because vanilla Skyrim made a boo-boo.

I'd say they turned out well enough.

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  1. Yfr
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    Those really are some lively looking ingots, lols.