Hellgate HD Textures (updated version) / Visual Effects restore

Steam version of Hellgate London uses low quality textures, disabled visual effects and low quality cinematics and these are higher quality textures, re-enabled visual effects and HD version of cinematics.

Before using any of the modification make a backup from your character saves and game files. Modifications should not effect game other than visually, but you never know.

Btw. If you go to C:\Users\Sompero\Documents\My Games\Hellgate\Settings and open it in notepad search <fGammaPower>1.00</fGammaPower> and change it to 1.00. Original game used 1.00 by default, but in this game it was changed some reason 1.15. Higher gamma value makes the game washed out.


HD texture (updated version):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TjlaizRzMn-McIrpuDA_LmEQl5XIU4cg

I have updated HD textures compared to my old release.

Download file, extract and copy to C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\HELLGATE_London\data folder,
but first make copy of our own files just in case.

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Visual effects restore (experimental):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=14xp-E5GjJbSCCe2p62vfu-6RzMyoqDHq

Download file, extract and copy to C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\HELLGATE_London\data folder,
but first make copy of our own files just in case.


This time is not a replacement instead its a small "patch". If you want remove Visual Effects restore just delete sp_hellgate_1000_5.0.0.dat and sp_hellgate_1000_5.0.0.idx.

Dont ask me how many different visual stuff it will restore because i dont have a clue (at least summoner minions have more effects). Modification can also break few visual effects. Its impossible to tell what is broken already without modification and with modification. To be honest i am not happy with visual effect modification, but the game is different enough from original version so more i do modifications that invols .xlm or excel (folder) stuff there is higher chance that i break something and those files has "snowball effect" to everything else.

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Added comparison video for Visual effects restore and screenshots for HD textures:

Visual effects restore:
https://youtu.be/QYVmP6t2aco

(video is just a example of one the effects)


HD textures:

Character screen: (ground texture little less blurry)

After:
https://postimg.cc/WdZ3d244

Before:
https://postimg.cc/G8X3WtXX


Tutorial area: (because random lvl desing its hard to get same level to load)

After:
https://postimg.cc/dDStn7k1

Before:
https://postimg.cc/nCjVWHB1

After:
https://postimg.cc/qN2Jkjmh

Before:
https://postimg.cc/hhGt98G6

[Mr wyrmwood]

The download worked fine for me but I had to resume it twice (was reporting network problem). Texture's look great now, thank you.

[Delta]

The HD texture file seems broken , can´t downlaod it

[BlackNinjaJesus]

The TokyoBGv50HIGHv100.zip keeps asking me for a password.

[Immortal2563]

Is there any other site where I can get this file broken into smaller parts? 4GB in one file?

[SigynX1]

Thank you!

[Knightwalker]

Thanks for posting these! Much better than the game's default "HD", still works in March 2021 :)

[Rivnat]

Just want to thank you for posting these textures! I installed them and my game looks way much better!

[grimwold]

Is this the one that fixes the armours?

[Determined Dugal]

Thanks a lot for your hard work, it makes a world of difference

[Atech66]

I loved this game back when it released but seeing the graphics on here killed me.. they were deplorable.
You stopped me from refunding it with this HD Fix.
Thank You I can once again enjoy my trip down memory lane.