Official P99 Retexturing Thread

[paulgiamatti]

This is mainly a thread where I'll post A/B screenshots so people can get an idea of what the new textures will look like. I'll be getting everything screenshotted in similar fashion eventually, including all of the new weapon and held items that were done by me and Cucumbers, along with new stuff as it gets completed. To kick things off, here are before and afters for the completely redone textures that Nysus, Xevin, and Joyelle worked on - I'm not sure who did what, so feel free to post proper credit:

All human male textures redone:
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Dark elf male cloth and plate textures redone:
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[paulgiamatti]

Robe improvements are more subtle - mostly just more definition which is more noticeable close-up.

All robe textures redone:
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[paulgiamatti]

Four human male faces redone:
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And here are the others that were only upscaled - these ones were not redone by hand, just improved with software courtesy of Cucumbers:
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[paulgiamatti]

Wood elf male leather textures redone:
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Chain-wearing froglok textures redone:
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[paulgiamatti]

And lastly, one halfling male face redone:
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[Sorn]

These are a bit hit or miss for me...that last halfling face is definitely a miss. I don't know much about retexturing in EQ, unfortunately =\

[paulgiamatti]

Which ones do you like the most? Feedback is definitely good so we know what people prefer - I think the halfling face is awesome though haha

[Sorn]

Best: red robe, blue robe, robe with eyeballs on shoulders, froglok, human default shirt, human chain

The rest lost some detail (EX: the stuff down the middle of the DE plate) or changed completely (a new sash for human monk?!).

Also, I fixed your halfling face there to show you what I mean :P

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[paulgiamatti]

Whoa, that's awesome - want to do some texture work?!

And yeah, some of the remade textures either leave some small nuances out or add some things in, but the overall improvement in quality is really nice - much more noticeable in game and up-close.

[paulgiamatti]

Also, it's worth noting that the redone textures in these screenshots are of lesser quality than they were originally, since they've been significantly compressed down for file size purposes - we might still find a better way to compress stuff to preserve more detail and have less artifacting, etc. Will definitely repost these screenies if we do that. One of the biggest challenges so far has been finding a way to get all the new textures small enough for the client to handle, so some reduction in quality from the originals is probably unavoidable.