Another note about texture highlighting and shadowing:
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The original super low-resolution textures were designed for a client which didn't support a lot of fancy stuff we take for granted in the Titanium client - advanced lighting being the most important w/r/t highlighting & shadowing. The highlighting you see down the center of the human leather pieces, for example, is an artificial way of creating the illusion of depth and texture, which is something they had to compensate for in the original client because its 3D graphical features were sorely lacking. In today's client, with all of its beefy late-aughts improvements like shadows, vertex & pixel shaders and advanced lighting, the unnecessary highlighting on textures such as this doesn't really add anything and actually just makes the texture look cheesy and dated. This is probably why by the time the Titanium client was released they had ceased all support for the classic character models while they aggressively pushed the new (and horribly shitty) Luclin models in order to showcase the abilities of the updated client.
So the few updated character textures that will be in my package do indeed forego a completely to-the-pixel replication of the original classic textures, but in game and up close they look much better. The originals, even after being upscaled, look decent at a distance and begin to look shittier the closer you get - the remade textures look awesome at a distance and look even better when you get up close. My only regret about including them is that those in the OP are literally the only ones that were remade, other than Xevin's human female textures which have apparently been lost to the void. I value quality over classicness, though I realize some people are married to the lo-fi '99 look of the originals and wouldn't have it any other way. Those people will probably appreciate Cucumbers' package more than mine, or perhaps an upscaled-only package with nothing retouched by us. Otherwise, this is not a project to cater to people's obsessive standards for all things classic - if you don't like what we're doing, don't download our shit.
And to drive home my point, here are some more before and afters:
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