Vurt's Thief 2 Graphics Overhaul

[67b96ba59c08cvurt]

np, let me know if there's something else.

[67b96ba59c253voodoo47]

was just about to say this should be it for now, but yeah, the airlock texture, lets maybe get that one up to scratch too.
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[67b96ba59c387vurt]

This is as close as i can get with that one.

well, i can get closer but the quality will suffer a lot, the metal will look pixelated etc. These textures are hard because of how it interprets the pixelated metal, so to get a smooth metal surface without it adding rivets and whatnot isn't easy. Low-res wood is much easier.
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[67b96ba59c4c6voodoo47]

hmm.. that one will have to be adjusted, it somehow got brownish at certain places, and there is an extra thin grey line on the left and right side that shouldn't be there. few lines are missing in the corners if you check my screenshot, and those that are still there got curved.

maybe one more pass, and then we'll just pick one that's better, and maybe I can adjust it slightly myself (I actually can do a little bit of texture work if it's not too complicated).

[67b96ba59c5f9vurt]

it was the best of around 40 images. but i can try to smooth the original image, maybe that gets rid of the pixelation artifacts. i'll do a test later.

since it's not a color texture you can always change saturation to get rid of the red/brown pixels btw.

edit:

way more blurry though.. i prefer the former personally. just make sure you reduce the saturation.
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[67b96ba59c6e1voodoo47]

wonder why it just deletes the few lines that are connecting the circle to the corners. ah well, this will have to do then, I guess - thanks.

[67b96ba59c80bvurt]

...depends on how hard you go with the img-img generation. this is "tracing" the image to around 45%.. i can trace it to 60-70% and they will appear for sure, but the quality will be awful, much worse than the blurry version above.
AI is unfortunately tedious to work with, every image has to be generated usually 5-100 times, depending on what it is, usually one image comes out that looks decent. the prompt has to be descriptive enough, and this is perhaps where i am lacking the most since English isn't my first language.

[67b96ba59c90evoodoo47]

interesting - one would think the broken wall would be much more difficult to generate, but it came out pretty much perfect on the second try.

oh well, not going to look a gift horse in the mouth too much - thanks either way.

[67b96ba59ca38vurt]

it's great at very detailed stuff such as something broken, not so good at cleaner stuff.

buuut... you can obviously train a model on really clean stuff which has very little detail, that would've worked well for that clean valve door.
i don't have such a model though. my models are now very old, i made most of them last year and a few in early 2024. i'll get back to doing them at some point i guess, it's extremely time consuming.

[67b96ba59cb41vurt]

what's the file size limit on here btw?

I was messing around with some of my older AI models and one of them is really good at creating Sci-fi doors/walls/crates. I can do a SS2 inspired texture pack as a modder's resource and put it up here... but it's going to be big.. i can use nexus mods otherwise.

[67b96ba59cc38voodoo47]

mod/admin account does not have a limit, but I'm thinking if it's more than 200MB, then we probably should host it elsewhere - Nexus if you like that, and maybe a ModDB mirror for people who can't be bothered to create accounts.

[67b96ba59cd1cvurt]

ok, i put up a small resource pack under General. 

[67b96ba59cfd5Olfred]

I had to modify the leafes a bit for it to work properly without too much clipping. Also I made the plant a bit smaller so the eye position is more in line with the original one. It still looks bigger because of the leafes on the top.
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[67b96ba59d10cvoodoo47]

definitely better, but not 100% what I had in mind (masking the base of the stalk completely so it would look less weird when rotating). one can still see it going into the ground, and rotating oddly (not centered - maybe that is what's throwing me off).

but if this is what it is, then I would say it's ok, no such thing as perfection in this world.

[67b96ba59d213Olfred]

I thought I had it centered. Don't have like a really good way to test it out. I'll take another look at it.