Skyrim mod makes dragons 16K so you can see the tiny cracks in their scales

Skyrim 16K dragon mod
(Image credit: NexusMods)

A new Skyrim mod gives dragons 16K textures, just in case you fe🌜lt their scales weren't detaile𒐪d enough as you were being torched alive.

To be clear right off the bat, the mod doesn't require you to be playing on a 16K screen to notice the changes. The '' presents Skyrim's dragons "cleaned of compression artifacts and upscaled to a maximum of 8K r𒀰esolution." As creators wrig675, XilaMonstrr, and I2edShift explain, the mod essentially lets you view dragon textures at true 4K resolution 🌞up close, since the original assets needed to be downscaled for performance on consoles.

"All resolutions specified are the maximum resolution, and mos𓆏t of the text🅠ure files are twice as long as they are wide," the modders explain. "So the 16K version has files that are 8192x16384. Dragons are VERY large, and I would recommend that you think of this as two 8K files next to each other rather than full 8K.

"With 16K, a dragon wing is 7380x4020px, a he🔯ad is 3320x2480px, and the entire rear body and legs is only 6080x4580px. If you are fighting a dragon up c🌸lose and want to see it in 4K resolution, then you need the dragon to be in 16K." 

You can se🍬e what they're talking about in this zoo𝓰med-in image:

Skyrim 16k dragons

Just look at t🐼hose cracks in the scales! That's next-gen. (Image credit: NexusMods)

Before you go calling this Skyrim mod ridiculous, make sure you're aware that there's another mod that turns Bethesda's classic RPG in🎶to an episode of America's Got Talent.

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