Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
While Stormpeaks is being too aggressive on the opposite side, you're severely underestimating what modders have accomplished. The two most popular body mods literally remake your entire character. They aren't simply a texture update but a whole new body built off the base one. For specifics, just look up feet. Our default character doesn't have actual toes but drawn on black lines on stubs. Both body mods constructed a brand new foot that seamlessly meshes into the game. Clothing mods are on a whole different scale too. Of course, it should be noted it's far easier for modders to make improvements like this than the developers themselves as they don't have to factor in coding and making it all function server side. At the same time, it isn't a good look when they're still releasing hats Viera and Hrothgar can't wear but modders figured it out years ago.
I am not disputing their work I have already browsed mods and have seen them first hand with shaders. You can make the game look a lot better than it is now and your example with bodies and feet is a good example. However even if you took the most popular hair texture replacement mod the texture quality is still not as good compared to what they showed because the lighting and self shadow shaders are better than what reshade is capable of. Only so much you can do with something like reshade, they're essentially redoing how their engine renders materials, lighting points, texture quality, shadow quality and self shadows...a lot of this reshade can't entirely fix...diminish sure but fix? no. But this is me spitballing off an example without seeing how the environments look yet. They merely showed how examples work on their own let alone all combined so when fanfest rolls round I will be curious of the final product. If its not as good sure then well done to modders its a win win for the community as a whole.