EC in HD textures. demo - Page 15

Quylein · #1 01-17-2020, 12:23 AM

Working on Mistmoore and steamfont, Crushbone then unrest today. Might get to Antonica zones tomorrow. I've yet to see anything in Gimp that has more then one transparency. But I'll keep an eye out. I've been testing all my zones before i post, I don't go every where but if there are issues I'll fix them if someone posts it here.

abbelyn · #2 01-19-2020, 10:50 AM

Checked your link and saw you got to freeport, looks more detailed than Psycher's freeport done a while back. Looking forward to a fully upscaled Norrath down the road =)

You may want to start your own thread so as to not completely hijack this one as well, incase they come back to finish theirs.

Quylein · #3 01-20-2020, 12:16 AM

I'm doing it all like that. I did use some older files in lowres then upscale where it looked more natural.

This project is fun and I'm glad you like the work. I spent 3 days on Gfay and 3 on Freeport just to get them as perfect as I could.

Working on neriak now and it's a pita because there is a file threshold in each zone. And some files in both low and highres don't look right.

ir0nfist · #4 01-20-2020, 07:39 PM

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This project is fun and I'm glad you like the work. I spent 3 days on Gfay and 3 on Freeport just to get them as perfect as I could.

Thank you for putting in the time to do that. A lot of people will have interest and find enjoyment from it.

modestlaw · #5 01-20-2020, 04:45 PM

I've been working on something similar, That being said... I'm doing a bit of photoshopping afterward processing, polishing up the look further

Some comparison shots of my work. I'm considering calling it "Rose HD" since im trying really hard not to change the original game's art.

Comparison for Ak'Anon
http://www.framecompare.com/screensh...rison/JM2BMNNU
http://www.framecompare.com/screensh...rison/JM2JJNNU

Basically Done with all Original NPCs (Only tweaking whenever i find an issue)
https://imgur.com/a/i9q7KIP

Quylein · #6 01-20-2020, 10:50 PM

They are all tested in most areas that are in Dropbox yes. Just its more of a pain open the download everquest folder then open the zone folder copy then paste into main P99 directory overwrite. If issues with area or npc monster I'll look into it. Once I'm done with classic zones I'll have it all in one zip.

I fixed the pink triangle use from the last lava storm last night.
I fixed butcher block shimmer at dock.
ALOT of the transparency Issues in the files to include the ones in highres and some in lowres.

This is only zone, objects and some characters per area in that zone. I use
Eqhd as well and this doesn't mess with those files.

eurekaent · #7 01-20-2020, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Quylein [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They are all tested in most areas that are in Dropbox yes. Just its more of a pain open the download everquest folder then open the zone folder copy then paste into main P99 directory overwrite. If issues with area or npc monster I'll look into it. Once I'm done with classic zones I'll have it all in one zip.

I fixed the pink triangle use from the last lava storm last night.
I fixed butcher block shimmer at dock.
ALOT of the transparency Issues in the files to include the ones in highres and some in lowres.

This is only zone, objects and some characters per area in that zone. I use
Eqhd as well and this doesn't mess with those files.

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modestlaw · #8 01-21-2020, 12:03 AM

Oh man!

I did a neat thing with the water and experimented with a "mip trick"
by changing the water color, shifting the texture and timing for each mip map stage, you can eliminate the repeating texture and greatly improve water without breaking from the vanilla art style

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Quylein · #9 01-21-2020, 12:20 AM

Modestlaw

I've been doing water upgrades in all my zones but that is well be a separate download. I've finished almost all of classic zones but haven't uploaded them yet. I've also changed river water to give more of a flowing effect. The blues in water in keeping if it's blue, but less of a dark blue and more of a natural blue. Green stays green and so on.

Quylein · #10 01-21-2020, 03:37 PM

My updates have gone past what I can post to dropbox so I moved Zip files to my Google Drive.

I have also added a blue water exchange in all Classic zones, those are to be extracted to the main Project 1999 folder after the Highres_s3d 4k Files.

Hires_s3d 4K v1 Install this first it's 3GB unpacked into P99

Blue water exchange v1 Install this after 4K file it will exchange all blue water in zones posted so far. 300 mb file

I'm working on Solsek zones then i'll move to Ro Desert and keep moving west until Erud. I've attempted to keep most of the files intact from Highres_s3d but some files have had major issues. Either with upgrades or the files were problematic from the start. So I've used a few lowres_s3d files upscaled and touched up in gimp. If the Highres files took away an atmosphere the lowres files were used. i.e. Neriak was way less purple and many files were broken. I spent 3 days on Neriak a,b and c just to repair the atmosphere and files that were called incorrectly.

The Water files were exchanged because the blue and nauseating cycle hurts my eyes physically and mentally so OOT would of been a no go for me as I don't want to puke IRL. This is mostly not a joke.

before

after

I'd post better pictures but it's late and my brain hurts. Hope some of you get some enjoyment from the work. I'll keep updates as I go.