Akven on 20/9/2019 at 17:58
1.4 Fix beta changelog:
-Improved fam/CHURCH/HAMMER1.png texture
-Added missing obj/txt/ GUARDFC1, GUARDFC2, GUARDHLM, MED3, SERARM, SERBACK, SERCHEST, SERFACE, SERFOOT, SERHAND, SERHAT, SERSOCK1, SERSOCK2, SHIRT textures
-Improved obj/txt/ HEADMET, MUSH1, MUSH2, MUSH3 textures
-Fixed transparency for 46 textures in obj
-Added missing mesh/txt16/ CHAINBEL and LEATHER textures
-Fixed EP1 2 or 3 transparent textures
-Fixed some non-authentical textures in EP1 with authentical Thief 2 textures
-EP1 redone in two ways in two packs - authentical with altered or deleted textures for better vanilla Thief look and non-authentical with just upscaled EP1 textures
-Refiltered carry images added to /obj/. Made by Corsair
-Replaced texture obj/txt/DOOROR3A with higher resolution version
-Replaced texture obj/txt/Dooror2a with higher resolution version
-Replaced texture obj/txt/Doorol1a with higher resolution version
-fam/rescore/doorwy2 texture was updated with better door from obj/txt/DoorOrn2 texture
-fam/rescore/doorwy1 and doorwy1a textures were updated with better door from obj/txt/Doorol1 texture
-mesh/Txt16/Gar01 in TFix addon pack. Hand braclet was changed from green to brown
-sky and water fam folders were completely moved to addons to eliminate any possible bugs
Akven on 21/9/2019 at 10:27
I decided what to do with EP1. I will split textures for it in two parts. One with authentical Thief textures, where I manually choose which texture should be taken from EP and which from upscaled vanilla.
And second part will be with remaining non-authentical upscaled textures. So if you combine them - you will get just upscaled EP1. If you use only first part, you will get more authentical Thief with changes from EP which are closer to vanilla style
Akven on 4/10/2019 at 03:24
1.4 version completedTo be used with installed TFix patch. Unpack files to USERMODS directory. You better delete previous version of upscaled ESRGAN textures mod.
Changelog:
-Improved fam/CHURCH/HAMMER1.png texture
-Added missing obj/txt/ GUARDFC1, GUARDFC2, GUARDHLM, MED3, SERARM, SERBACK, SERCHEST, SERFACE, SERFOOT, SERHAND, SERHAT, SERSOCK1, SERSOCK2, SHIRT textures
-Improved obj/txt/ HEADMET, MUSH1, MUSH2, MUSH3 textures
-Fixed transparency for 46 textures in obj
-Added missing mesh/txt16/ CHAINBEL and LEATHER textures
-Fixed EP1 2 or 3 transparent textures
-Fixed some non-authentical textures in EP1 with authentical Thief 2 textures
-EP1 redone in two ways in two packs - authentical with altered or deleted textures for better vanilla Thief look and non-authentical with just upscaled EP1 textures
-Refiltered carry images added to /obj/. Made by Corsair
-Replaced texture obj/txt/DOOROR3A with higher resolution version
-Replaced texture obj/txt/Dooror2a with higher resolution version
-Replaced texture obj/txt/Doorol1a with higher resolution version
-fam/rescore/doorwy2 texture was updated with better door from obj/txt/DoorOrn2 texture
-fam/rescore/doorwy1 and doorwy1a textures were updated with better door from obj/txt/Doorol1 texture
-mesh/Txt16/Gar01 in TFix addon pack. Hand braclet was changed from green to brown
-sky and water fam folders were completely moved to addons to eliminate any possible bugs
Thief Gold ESRGAN 1.4 Base files:
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https://mega.nz/#!X8snFICC!AnsETdMwP9G2AkBB5MJkWefx7uwdpcIrQYd9BhWpQP8)
Thief Gold ESRGAN 1.4 TFix addon (unpack after base files):
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https://mega.nz/#!ak0X1Y6J!QpxKquaFc8CoV7N_sR9LraGoKg7f0bCB4GTjzOROxn4)
EP1 addon pack was redone. Now it's universal and works on both Thief Gold and Thief 2. And there are two versions of the pack: authentical with some of the textures replaced with upscaled vanilla, and non-authentical with just upscaled EP1 textures.
(unpack after TFix addon files)
Thief Gold/Thief 2 EP1 Authentical ESRGAN addon
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https://mega.nz/#!f48FxCgb!mPZoUSl9NIA5FDvaDm2cCt7TU1gWQ89DvHyVhJbXnao)
or
Thief Gold/Thief 2 EP1 Non-Authentical ESRGAN addon
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https://mega.nz/#!io1X0QqD!QIVe2L39MpZCVv5dCOe6vOwlA6ZYBmSb36nyI69AZsc)
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And upscaled skies and water. Don't use them if your are installing full TFix with modded skies and water. I can't say if there would any bugs if you will use non-moded version of the game with this packs. I don't have time to check everything out, and NewDark engine behave very strange with this images.
Sky addon:
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https://mega.nz/#!G98BzQ4Q!KyTGyX8oaD5WoGYjuI6aacv9Dqb42xPiEU4z6j3as8c)
Water addon:
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https://mega.nz/#!300lRIYB!MAkUv7OZxfYHgaRMclCShtyjYsWj84jGiyV2BrnOUm8)
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Thief Gold ESRGAN video pack for upscaled movies to be used ingame
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https://mega.nz/#!WwNDXACD!-gN3Ce87ZZ6LHXhHD91QY55wPEm_vegFeW2BZemXFyE)
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I will move links to first page tomorrow.
Akven on 4/11/2019 at 14:29
Slightly improved two textures in fam/temple
Example of improvement
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https://imgsli.com/Nzg2OQ)
If I will not find anything more - I would upload small fix soon.
Just rechecking stuff because of ongoing T2X upscaling. Want to improve some T2X textures too.
Taffingtaffer on 4/11/2019 at 20:14
Quote Posted by Akven
Slightly improved two textures in fam/temple
Example of improvement
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https://imgsli.com/Nzg2OQ)
If I will not find anything more - I would upload small fix soon.
Just rechecking stuff because of ongoing T2X upscaling. Want to improve some T2X textures too.
Wow, that's like night and day. Have you tried doing whatever you did to that texture with the paintings? The old door has the same garbled look to it.
I also just reinstalled the game and TFix to see if that fixed the messed up character textures. Everything looks normal now, so the problem was on my end. ^^"
Akven on 5/11/2019 at 05:00
I can only improve those textures, for which there is higher resolution image is available.
For example, this doors (only doors themselves) were in full-size image somewhere in mesh folder, I just rearranged squares with heraldics.
And this picture with doorarc is the same size, but the doors on the picture much smaller.
So I just took full-size doors with higher quality and placed them too door arc, downsizing to mach scale.
If there is no high quality images, I can't improve anything.
So if you know of such coincidences - I will look into them. Found two so far and several in previous version of the mod.
Akven on 5/11/2019 at 05:03
The very first ideology of the mod was just to ESRGAN upscale textures without manual intervention. But since I'm capable of little improvements here and there - why not.
Akven on 7/11/2019 at 03:17
Quote Posted by Udo
As much as I appreciate the work, I don´t like it that the upscaling process seems to have desaturated a lot of colours.
The carpets now look like if they have been washed with too muich bleach.
It can already be seen in the linked samples:
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https://imgsli.com/MzgyMg/16/17)
I hope this will be fixed? Thanks.
It was already fixed several months ago)
I will update screenshots soon. Just a little bit confused in time between fixing Thief Gold textures, Thief 2 textures, creating T2X upscale project, learning Thief 3 texture properties and creating screenshots for Thief Gold and Thief 2. Also there are ongoing Thief Gold ESRGAN video pack update and Thief 2 ESRGAN video pack fixing.
Godlike on 10/11/2019 at 10:05
Greetings. ESRGAN for Thief TDP is great idea, definately better than HD surgeries which breaks Thief's visuals. In my opinion ESRGAN works for some textures, not all. Some textures looks cartoonish and need to be redrawn again to higher sesolution, based on original saturation and color palette. Adobe Ilustrator will be good I think, it can paint using vectors instead of pixels. An skilled 2D artist could make it.