So, I've gotten to a point that I wanted to let people play test.
Now, before you get this and use it be warned that there are places the new art looks better than before but still not great. Places like the Oja central roads look a little off but there is nothing I can do about that unless someone edits the maps as they look just as bad in the default game.
Instructions.
There are two versions, a '1K' and '2K' version. This is the resolution of the new textures I made. If you have an older computer then you might find the 2K version adversely affects your FPS. When I have been using it I've seen a ~5fps drop, and I've had some play testers and they have reported a very limited drop in FPS. But there will likely be cases when people find these much larger textures drop FPS more.
1a - Download this zip
unofficial texture updates 1K V1.11b - Download this zip
unofficial texture updates 2K V1.12 - extract it somewhere.
3 - locate C:\Program Files (x86)\PlaneShift\art\materials.zip
4 - Copy the materials.zip file to somewhere like the desktop (you could then rename the original file to maintain a default copy).
5 - Copy the files from the extracted download file into materials.zip.
6 - Copy and replace the original materials.zip file (unless you renamed it when it will just copy it).
****You should now have changed the official art for my unofficial edits.
7 - load PlaneShift and play as normal.
I look forward to hearing comments.