Posts from Upscaling of creatures and heroes.

Yes, dear colleague. I won't hide the fact that your actions inspired me to do the same. I should note that in my NVS, many units (and heroes too) have received reworked textures. I hardly have any default textures left. Either way, if I don't do it now, I'll do it later. Because I know my audience well enough: someone will want to write to me about the fact that you, for example, or someone else, did an upscaling of the creatures. And they will ask me if I will do it for NVS. And yes, now I will. If this is not a subtle criticism from you, then thank you. If it is criticism, then in my defense, I will say that the idea of upscaling textures of objects and units from the fifth game is not new. Yes, I see that you wanted to do it your way. And that's great. I will do it my way.

In general, thank you. Thank you for also following my project.

This isn't meant as a jab or criticism. I just noticed a subtle compliment about my mod.

Now, about the unpleasant part.
I really messed up when I posted the comparison screenshots of the three mods, specifically with the screenshots from the Retexture.pak mod. I apologize to justzmp and to everyone I misled.
Due to my carelessness, I put the mod with the .pak extension in the UserMODs folder, which caused it not to work, and the screenshots were of the original. I've replaced the screenshots.

Undoubtedly, there are some textures that have slightly higher detail in places, for example, the cuts on the free cyclops. But it's 2K and without mipmaps, which causes everything to shimmer and shine. And there are some 2K textures that are just inflated. It's just a recolor that looks like soap.

Small comparison

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I figured all this out when I decided to check the memory usage and run a small test.

I ran the "In Search of Beauty" map, which opens several random creatures of level 6-7 in the center, and timed a minute without doing anything. And I ran a duel arena with an Orc and a Dwarf on auto-battle, also for a minute.

Clean game
Map and Battle

My mod
Map and Battle

Griffin Eternal HD Mod
Map and Battle

Retexture.pak
Map and Battle


I don't know if this is useful, for general understanding, considering the game consumes up to 2 GB of memory.

The textures seem a bit questionable. They're too polished and soapy. It would be better to move away from this style. Maybe you shouldn't rush this work and take your time? I'm not saying this because of potential competition, but because I want you to end up with a high-quality product. I'm sure you want that too.

In reality, 1920x1080 is 2k, but it hasn't been officially recognized as such. On 4k, my textures slightly blur the details.

Part 3

Rangers and fan objects

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There's not much to see in the screenshot with the UFO, but it also received an upscale.

P.S. On Friday, I'll post the last batch of screenshots and leave you alone.

Added 20 hours 30 minutes ago
I thought about it and decided to upload the mod for upscaling the Heroes, even if it's not for all of them. I didn't want to wait until Friday.

I updated the mod and the description on the main page. All the details are there.
I also replaced the textures for the Horror Dragon with 1024x1024. I was stingy before and gave him 512x512.

P.S. I ask the moderators to change the title of the topic to "Upscaling creatures and heroes" (without quotes).

Why does Tieru have such a light-colored "shirt"?