Because I started up Oblivion again, and I need to get all those picture posts off the front page, we’re going to have an Oblivion post. In which there will be shiny pictures. Because I need to get all the pictures off the…yeah.

IT ALL MAKES SENSE. STOP LAUGHING.

…anyway. So I finally decided that I wanted to take shiny pictures like Samson does, and since I put a ginormous video card in this thing during the last upgrade, I can pretty much do that thing. After a sojurn reading the helpful advice at TOTO, I finally ended up with this assortment of things:

- Oblivion, SI, and all the DLCs;

- The Unofficial Oblivion Patch and its various SI and DLC spawn;

- That most excellent Oblivion mod, AFK_Weye;

- The Lost Spires, a most excellent quest mod;

- AFK_Blades_EQ, which is a little mod I whipped up to increase the selection of Blades armor and weapons so you can keep using them at higher levels;

- Faregyl and Vergayun, because I enjoy Samson’s village mods.

But the texture stuff, you ask. Well:

- BTMod, which I’ve had installed since roughly the time it came out, and which is still my preferred UI enhancer. Game is unplayable without it.

- QTP3 Redimized and Bomret’s Texture Pack for SI for my world textures. QTP has various things that annoy the crap out of me, but it’s still my favorite.

- Really Almost Everything Visible While Distant which does what it says on the box. It’s astonishing how great this makes the world look just by itself.

- Weather – All Natural, which overhauls the weather in new and appealing ways. I didn’t really think I needed a weather overhaul until I put this in, then I realized I was a huge fool.

- Animated Window Lighting System, which gives me lighted windows and smoking chimneys.

- A host of lesser mods, including basically all of the mods listed here, such as the book jackets mods, improved fruits and vegetables, Kafei’s amulets and rings, Kalikut’s glass, and rusty and fine items, I’d use MEAT, too, if it wasn’t an omod. In particular, it’s amazing what a difference the book jacket mods make. Likely I will end up throwing a few more of these in as I get bored, because they make much more of a difference than I expected them to.

Anyway, you came for pictures, so let there be pictures!

Taken off the IC-Weye bridge looking north. That’s Frostcrag Spire in the top right. Note the new sky texture. Yes, walking over that bridge is now awesome, all the time.

As I say. That’s looking back towards the bridge at sunset. You can see Weye visible in the distance, too.

Sunset from a random spot on the road between the IC and Chorrol.

There’s this hill going towards the IC from Chorrol where you can peek up and get a really stunning view of the IC. It looks good at any hour, but especially so at sunset, as you can see.

And, since giving you only a 495×371 version of that shot would be a crime against Argoniankind, humankind, and rabbits, you may find a full-sized version here.

There. Enjoy the shiny. I sure am.