Entirely AI (edit: close to it).
New models for trees, bushes, mushrooms and more.

Direct comparison screens, original vs new: https://imgur.com/a/thief-2-comparison-screens-gSzv7W3

~1500 new textures.

To do:
1024 textures instead of 2048 since the game seems more prone to crashes.
Some models needs to be reworked
Fixes to some carpets that connects in an ugly way
Add more textures
+ more stuff, likely

The Catacomb family was carried over directly from Thief 1, where it was of course used primarily in Bonehoard. Since T2 doesn't have any undead-focused levels, I doubt there's a single level that uses most of it. The Mechanist crypt in Eavesdropping uses a few of them.

you can have multiple resource locations, and then override as necessary either by editing the cam_mod.ini modpaths, or managing with the modmanager.

probably a good idea to set things up with the modmanager in mind nowadays.

You might want to do... whatever it is you do with AIs... to get rid of that swirly hallucinated AI nightmare detail on the left of the cloak thing.

And maybe some manual touch-up where the red part touches her hair so it looks like it's going behind her head instead of merging with it.

the cheeks and jaw are a definite improvement though.

anything interesting in the editor console? does the texture have a power of two resolution? would be ideal to find out what the problem is, instead of just working around it.

Yes it has proper resolution for .dds and for the game.

I decided with .tga because i know that worked with my older overhaul for that texture.

So they shouldn't have mipmaps? I had no idea. I'll let chatgpt write a python script that checks all of them and removes them.
It is odd though because this .dds file is done in the exact same way as the others, same with the other doors.. so it seems like doors is something that absolutely can't have mipmaps, other stuff might be fine.
Thanks again.

edit: yeah, the script found them in almost all files
--- Summary ---
Total DDS files processed: 1100
Files with mipmaps removed: 1098
The water .dds files for my old overhaul also had them.


So it's the same for system shock 2 too right? pretty sure they have mipmaps in my mods. if i used .dds, but i usually do.

fixed my issue, it seems it works for some stuff, for doors (that you can open) it's a no-go.

"AI Remaster" to me makes this mod sound like an AI overhaul mod, akin to Scary Monsters.

so the conclusion is don't use mipmaps unless you are sure you need them?

That's not something a human really decides. IIRC Dark will auto generate mipmaps for terrain textures. I think NewDark will use mipmaps in DDS textures, but I'm not 100% sure.

Or "ESRGAN Upscaled" if that's what was used. "AI" is thrown around so much lately that it's become almost meaningless by itself.

well Vurt's something is a pretty established brand, so why not.

so the alpha stuff (like the foliage, which was not 1:1 so technically just a resource, not a ready to go mod) is getting slurped into this?