snobel on 13/7/2020 at 10:35
Quote Posted by Akven
Developers for the PC version of the game just upscaled this XBOX textures x2 with the simplest algorithm so there is literally no difference between XBOX 256x256 texture and PC 512x512 texture.
There ought to be a law against that. :(
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So the idea of Light mod is to downscale x2 this ESRGANed 1024x1024 back to 512x512. But: it would be the real restored 512x512 size not fake 512x512 like original textures. With DXT compression done with the best settings. With restoration of normal maps and all the Matlib editings.
Sounds like this could be an excellent compromise indeed.
Akven on 14/7/2020 at 05:44
I tried this option to no effect
For now I'm experimenting with different versions of light mod. I reduced size to about 300 Mb, but loading is still a little issue.
I am trying to found a compromise in size of the mod and quality.
I am leaving some textures upscaled (for example, all the 64x64, 32x32, 128x128 textures and so on)
The real issue in light version is a huge amount of squareness, introduced in normal maps upon downscaling. DXT compression began to destroy normal maps quality starting out with 512x512 size. It depends on specific normals, not every normal affected the same way.
One of the ideas is to remove upscaled menu screens completely (it saves about 90Mb) and by this left some normal maps untouched from the big version.
From my tests is seems the game began to run just fine with the size of the mod in about 250Mb.
And the screenshot comparisons between vanilla and light mod still show some improvements in visuals.
Akven on 16/7/2020 at 17:12
Ok, try this
Thief 3 ESRGAN Pack v3 Light version(
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/Fytx/4yjE1hDVw)
Unpack everything to:
c:\ProgramData\Thief 3 Sneaky Upgrade\Installed Mods\Collective Texture Pack\
I will do screenshots later. Its loads fast and looks slightly better than the original game
lowenz on 16/7/2020 at 19:35
Quote Posted by Akven
Ok, try this
Thief 3 ESRGAN Pack v3 Light version(
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/Fytx/4yjE1hDVw)
Unpack everything to:
c:\ProgramData\Thief 3 Sneaky Upgrade\Installed Mods\Collective Texture Pack\
I will do screenshots later. Its loads fast and looks slightly better than the original game
Really *slightly* better than the original look, comparing with the full resolution pack :p
The normals make some differences.
lowenz on 18/7/2020 at 07:01
Good!
Akven on 18/7/2020 at 07:08
I improved one more texture, and I think that is all for now. I still don't see any bugs in my playthrough and I don't see any ways to improve textures any further (maybe just the keeper statue textures).
So I think it is time to release to ModDB. Anyone has any issues with mod?
