Dungeon Siege - high resolution textures (ESRGAN)

[AntonioR]

UPDATE (February 16, 2020):

I have released the final version. This texture pack now contains 3929 updated textures and is 5.97 GB large (compared to original textures that are 700 MB). All terrain textures have been updated, 750 world objects, as well as bosses and some larger enemies and NPCs.

You can watch the new comparison video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8WMZhyBg7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8F0Tdh_YY
You can download it on ModDB (there is also an alternative download link in description):
https://www.moddb.com/games/dungeon-siege/addons/dungeon-siege-high-resolution-textures

[Marcus Astronomius]

It's subtle but noticeable. Pretty good.

[Illimitus]

Good man!

[AntonioR]

Originally posted by Marcus Aurelius:

It's subtle but noticeable. Pretty good.

Thanks. The results vary, but the more you zoom in the more noticeable it gets.

Below are several direct comparisons of the textures themselves. In top-left corner is the original texture in its original size, they are 128x128 or 256x256 pixels. Then left is that texture upscaled 4 times using linear filtering like in the game and on right is the new ESRGAN texture. You can see individual leaves of grass now and dirt is much more detailed. Wood gets a lot of fine detail. I took special care that stone and bricks keep the grain and roughness of the surface.

Grass and dirt
https://i.imgur.com/YdKZh3H.png

Wood floor
https://i.imgur.com/orDjGFJ.png

Stone floor
https://i.imgur.com/w86w3Uj.png

Bricks
https://i.imgur.com/YP2OHOl.png

[Marcus Astronomius]

I definitely think this is a good contribution. This game deserves some love, it's a great classic.

[The Gatekeeper]

Awesome job! I love that this amazing game still has such big fans to this day!

[neophus]

very good work ! awesome !

[Selarah]

I started this game today. It will be even better now will your mod, thanks!

[AntonioR]

Thanks everybody for the positive comments.

I have uploaded Part 2, it is available on Moddb in description. It contains Glacern and snow terrain, Castle Ehb dungeon and three other dungeons and Cliffs Of Fire. It is half of what I planned to do, because original textures were blurry, some were pixelated and had some errors and all these flaws would get even more noticeable when upscaled, so I had to fix and upscale everything again until results were good.

Here are some comparison screenshots:
https://i.imgur.com/yUu66hY.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/mwgBddt.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/KFCdJGj.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/uYVFoE2.jpg

[Menandre]

God job, big thx !

[General Titmouse]

Been using this for the past day and it is very nice. Thanks much!!

[DjArcas]

I feel like I'm being very stupid; I copied the 2 large .dsres files into the Resources folder (where 6 .dsres files already existed) aaand... it looks identical. Am I being stupid?

[AntonioR]

Originally posted by DjArcas:

I feel like I'm being very stupid; I copied the 2 large .dsres files into the Resources folder (where 6 .dsres files already existed) aaand... it looks identical. Am I being stupid?

Weird, that could happen only if you are in an area that I didn't update yet.

[DjArcas]

Originally posted by AntonioR:

Originally posted by DjArcas:

I feel like I'm being very stupid; I copied the 2 large .dsres files into the Resources folder (where 6 .dsres files already existed) aaand... it looks identical. Am I being stupid?

Weird, that could happen only if you are in an area that I didn't update yet.

Is there a way to check it's picking up the extra resources? I was hoping a log file would show the overrides.

https://i.gyazo.com/21f4bb0861096bc64393f16096fffd00.png

[DjArcas]

(I'm beginning to wonder if Dungeon Siege is grabbing data from an odd location - just tried altering shadow_tex_size from 64 to 512 in the system_detail.gas and it's not making any changes at all in game)

[DjArcas]

My mistake - it's working great (apart from this missing texture shown here)

I'd honestly for gotten how *bad* the textures were you haven't touched. Bravo sir!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1921038005