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elishacloud / Silent-Hill-2-Enhancements

A project designed to enhance Silent Hill 2 (SH2) graphics and audio for the PC. It also includes scripts to build or modify SH2 audio files (SFX, BGM and Dialog).
http://www.enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/
zlib License
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Improved textures recompressed from the PS2 version #1066

Open the-gaybanana-corporation opened 2 weeks ago

the-gaybanana-corporation commented 2 weeks ago

(sorry if this doesn't comply with the usual formatting for posting issues on this page, pretty new to posting on github in general cuz i literally just made this acc)

This isn't inherently an issue with the actual mod itself but should bring this project a lil more up to par with the PS2 version (I know you guys had your final update but hear me out 🙏). In short, I've been playing around with the Silent Hill 2 Texture Explorer and realized that there were some large quality gaps between the textures found in the PC version and the PS2 version, especially with the PC's DXT3-compressed transparent textures. So for a good few months now (not done yet), I've been working on porting these textures over, re-compressing any transparent textures with DXT5, as well as removing the white backgrounds found in non-transparent textures from the PC version which sometimes messes with the DXT compression algorithm. I've attached some example screenshots of an old texture with a new one and a little sample mod that replaces the textures found in the starting restroom, motor home and neely's bar for anyone in or outside of the enhanced team to compare and contrast with the old sh2e textures. These should work from my testing and they don't affect their original texture archives's file sizes. I also adapted my new textures with the textures found in the final update so there shouldn't be much worry there. texture example 8 original texture example 8 new sh2e.zip

TommvinHuwaltzky commented 2 weeks ago

How about AI-upscaling them while you're at it...? :-333

the-gaybanana-corporation commented 1 week ago

How about AI-upscaling them while you're at it...? :-333

lmao i probably could but thats outside the scope of what im tryin to accomplish plus i heard theres a bunch of difficulties when it comes to replacing this game's textures, hell the game outright crashes when i replace a texture with a different data size value no matter if its smaller or larger (those values are hardcoded), so normal size it is!

TommvinHuwaltzky commented 1 week ago

Well, they managed to replace the ground-texture when James is digging for the key, soooo..... :-3

certainmorning commented 1 week ago

Numerous requests were made to add option to inject HD textures, but it seems EE Team simply doesn't care about it. Really sad.

the-gaybanana-corporation commented 4 days ago

Numerous requests were made to add option to inject HD textures, but it seems EE Team simply doesn't care about it. Really sad.

for me personally I dont mind having the ingame texture size unchanged that much though i do very much appreciate the upscaled ui elements

Polymega commented 4 days ago

Numerous requests were made to add option to inject HD textures, but it seems EE Team simply doesn't care about it. Really sad.

It is too much of an undertaking. If it could be my fulltime job and I got paid to do it, I'd do it in a heartbeat. As it stands, AI upscalers do not meet my level of standards for environment textures, and a large part of that issue is due to how the imagery within any given texture file is arranged:

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^ AI upscalers simply can't understand what's going on with all this nonsense to make something fruitful. To do this right, the textures would (nearly) all need to be remade by a human hand.

ProtonBlast commented 1 day ago

True. AI upscaled textures don't look great and would bloat the game's file size.