Upscaled 4k Textures

[StixsmasterHD4k]

Hey all,

So I desided since I can...I would bring the game to the modern era.

True 4k.

I upscaled all textures in the game to true 4k with gigapixel AI. Sry but all those free AI like ESRGAN just arent as good. For 1 they cant maintain transparency in textures/images. Two they tend to make things imho more cartoony looking or in many others opinion too painty looking.

Not only did I do work on the textures but I also upscaled the Intro cutscene to true 4k60FPS for the game as well.

You may access all this for free via my moddb page here[stixsworldhd.com]

[PixelPusher]

Did you do any manual cleanup? These maps have a lot of funky upscaling artefacts.

[Flano]

yeah the sharpening (I think) Is insane, its the same effect you see when a sharpening slider is maxxed.

[StixsmasterHD4k]

im actually atm putting together a true 16k texture pack for this game atm.

Those curious you may download and view 1 of the many textures in 16k via here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12P7HjEBctTpOExeKHEw1KT3w4niHTDDm/view?usp=sharing

NOTE: The texture alone is 768MB...so yeah....and I have tested it myself...it works in the game

[Ding]

Just finished downloading...you did the updated textures as mods. Maybe that's why you could make your your textures so big. I didn't find out how to do that. Anyway looks great.

There are some hand made HD textures from projectx I put in my pack (the opening screen and the spacea to d bmps). I think these look better than the AI upscale. You might like to roll them into yours too.

Like you, I don't have a 4k monitor...please can you make a 1080p pack too? It would be a smaller download and would also load better on older graphics cards.

[Ding]

Originally posted by PixelPusher:

Did you do any manual cleanup? These maps have a lot of funky upscaling artefacts.

Why don't you fix the upscaling artifacts? It would be a great service to the community.

[PixelPusher]

Originally posted by Ding:

Why don't you fix the upscaling artifacts? It would be a great service to the community.

I have no interest in upscaled textures alone. I would like to have support for custom shaders with different texture components like diffuse/spec/normal/emission/displacement/etc(might vary with how shader model is implemented, PBR/non-PBR).

All maps/components are ready since 2015. They have been tested in different offline renderers(legacy Lightwave, 3ds, Octane) as well as in a realtime renderer(UE).

[StixsmasterHD4k]

Originally posted by Ding:

Just finished downloading...you did the updated textures as mods. Maybe that's why you could make your your textures so big. I didn't find out how to do that. Anyway looks great.

There are some hand made HD textures from projectx I put in my pack (the opening screen and the spacea to d bmps). I think these look better than the AI upscale. You might like to roll them into yours too.

Like you, I don't have a 4k monitor...please can you make a 1080p pack too? It would be a smaller download and would also load better on older graphics cards.

technically yes I can make a 1080p pack buuuut...kinda gone in the opposite direction as im now making a 16k pack...yes the game sumhow is capable of it...

[tlhunter]

Is that what you meant to link to? https://www.moddb.com/mods/upscaled-forsaken-textures

[StixsmasterHD4k]

Updated the url in the main post here to redirect you to my domain where I host all the latest versions of my work including my texture pack work for this game.

I did so as I technically have abandoned using moddb and nexusmods since I hate asking fans to make an account to access my work and then givem by default dial up download speeds.

At my domain you dont need to make an account to access my work and you dont get dial up download speeds and you dont need to compensate/pay me or anyone for any of this.

enjoi!

P.S. youll find I released a v2 of my texture pack for this game at my domain.