Oblivion gets a 4.5GB mod, overhauls all its textures to 4K & 8K using AI techniques

DSOGaming writes: "Modder ‘SilverScrublord’ has released a must-have mod for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. This mod, that weights around 4.5GB in size, overhauls almost all of its textures by using AI Gigapixel. Since this mod is using AI techniques, the improved textures retain the original art design and direction, thus making it essential for all those that want to re-play this RPG."

[Hungryalpaca]

Garbage.

[nucky64]

people still play oblivion?

[TheFirstClassic]

Morrowind Oblivion and Skyrim will always be revisited over the years, especially with mods

[Nintentional]

People still play great games?? You see how stupid your sentence sounds, brah?

[TeamIcoFan]

Eh, a couple of these look a tiny bit better but honestly I can't see much of a difference.
I miss the days when modders would work their asses off to make some truly gorgeous texture packs, now they're letting some AI do a half assed job.

[IanTH]

There are still plenty of modders who are doing intense work on texture packs. I assume those who use AI are learning how to use it or already use it in their work in some fashion and are applying those techniques in the hobby they love. It's just going to be an option. I don't think the existence of these AI packs is actually being done by those who do full texture work themselves, so it isn't an either/or scenario.

And brighter side could be if enough work gets done with these AI scripts to make the work noticeably better than the original (even if not as good as what is done by hand), then a lot of older games that don't get as much love could get upgrades since it wouldn't take a team of dedicated people to lovingly craft new textures for each and every object in the world. Or perhaps allow them to focus their efforts on the important ones, while leaving the AI to do less important ones (small objects like fruits, or detritus, etc).

I think they can co-exist.

[Michiel1989]

Cause fully modding a game only takes a couple hours...
Especially games like Oblivion, skyrim etc take years to fully overhaul properly
People need to make a living and in 99% of all the mods they don't.
Games are also many times bigger in scope nowadays and every texture that gets modded takes much more work than several years before. Maybe be a bit more respectful to the people who actually do something for the community of a game, unlike some keyboard warriors over here.

[RealOldGamer]

This actually looks pretty good. I may have to give it a shot.
Certainly crisper and sharper.