Thread 11962081

it's up

give me a quick rundown

>>11962081 (OP)
>HD
get this rancid shit out of here

>AI upscaling
utterly tasteless slop in every sense of the word

>>11962081 (OP)
who are these people

>>11962081 (OP)
literally what

>>11962081 (OP)
>seamless HD
Hahahaha

no

lol

lmao

>>11962498
>>11962503
it is still the same fucking upscales from when esrgan came out 6 years go.
Shit evolved during this time, but they are so lazy that not even another model or even a cracked topaz they used it.

>>11962109
>>11962498
>>11962503
Who the hell is this for? Those genuinely looks awful.
Crunchy looking Sourcenext ports are still the best way to experience Resident Evil 1/2/3 on PC

>>11962539
I'm pretty sure this project was started like 6 or 7 years ago, when we were just starting to hear about AI and stuff. I remember back then people (at least outside 4chan) found it pretty cool, and were amazed at the tech.
I guess the problem is they took so fucking long to finish it, that tech looks awful compared to what we have nowadays, and even people who liked it back then will just consider it shitty AI slop (because it does look like shit)

>>11962553
It is still the original esrgan attempts they made.
better models exist these days, and they didnt even care to edit to fix some errors.
Lazy and shoddy work.
Also those backgrounds can be fixed with some proper sharp filtering for their resolution

>>11962553
Any examples of pre-rendered backgrounds retouched with modern tools?

>>11962585
that's insane. there aren't even THAT many backgrounds. you could probably do everything with a newer model in a day or two's worth of work

>>11962498
>>11962503
What the actual fuck? How do you look at this and not see how genuinely awful it looks?

>>11962081 (OP)
>Mod
I sleep

>>11962498
>>11962503
Ignore the trolls and haters. Absolutely jawdropping to see this. The technology nowadays is unbelievable. Will be playing this ASAP. The original devs must be kicking themselves when they see this and how much people have improved upon their game.

>>11962503
RE4HD this is not

>>11962637
Too obvious. Shouldn't have included the bit about the devs.

link? googling shows tons of other older mods that are shit

Official tier ranking of how to play games with pre-rendered backgrounds.

Best Case Scenario:
>Playing on a CRT

[POWER GAP]

A Very Satisfactory Experience:
>Native res with a good, tasteful shader played from a couch/TV distance.
>Native res but on a handheld screen of approximately Vita size.
>Downsampled 3D (CRT shader optional)

Not Ideal But Still Okay:
>Playing at a desk with a large monitor and being able to see every little individual pixel of the 240p background.

You Disgust Me:
>Uprezzing 3D models to 4K while leaving the backgrounds pixelated.
>AI upscales of any kind (no exceptions0

>>11962503
>>11962504
the funny thing is, the result isn't much worse than random ai tools you can find online.

>>11962761
The artifacts of the original give it flavor. This is dull, it's like alone in the dark. Not trying to put down alone in the dark, but it definitely didn't have the environmental flare resident evil has. It's just sterile and doesn't work for resident evil.

>>11962782
>>11962761
The walls look shiny like plastic compared to the originals. There's obvious age marks and wear on the walls and the stairs are darker and less plastic. It's so glaringly worse wtf. Why would anybody put so much time into turning resident evil onto toy story? Even the characters look like toy story characters

>>11962793
Ok I'm done. This is literally andy if he femboi

>>11962503
>>11962761
In both images this is just sad. Upscaling won't fit this, it needs to be painted by a person.

>>11962782
>>11962793
oh yeah it's definitely awful. i'm just pointing out lazy and undeserving of praise the project is

>clearly a labor of love
>/vr/ shits on it without even trying it out
What else is new?

>>11962806
tsimfuckis' dick

>>11962810
People love this like chris chan loves his mom. Why do you think this is some kinda UNICEF charity pageant show? I'm not saying that to be mean, we are just judging by whats presented to us. There is a homebrew and hacking general with anons who are more talented than this. Anybody can replace the background textures in the pc version. Why someone would choose to do this is ridiculous. It doesn't look good by any stretch, I actually feel bad the devs put this out into the ether so eagerly. Do you think they're so autistic they really didn't know this isn't good?

wow! what a mansion!

I found these on artstation awhile back. Makes me wonder why some real, actual dedicated autists like the RE4 guy couldn't re-create all the backgrounds like this.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/el9r4J

>>11962854
Honestly we're better off rebuilding old environments than trying to upscale them, upscales always look tremendously fucky. But no one knows how to capture the ancient rendering techniques of 1996-7, so everybody makes things too clean as well. It's kind of a weird thing and perfectly highlights why many people bite off more than they can chew for mods and indie games.

>>11962946
Some posterization to 32 color limitations does do some cool work though.

High-Definition was the biggest technological misstep.

>>11962810
>an AI did all the work
>"a labour of love"

>>11962810
don't blindly suck down AI upscale projects, even those that do hand touches afterwards still generally let the upscaler resolve most things, and it always ends up retarded.

>>11962946
>>11962949
neh, fuck it, was bored
>un-HDs some dude's shit
256 color index, 320x240, slight hint of gaussian blur to kill the image compression ever so barely before fucking with it, and that's probably still more effort than most of these "HD projects" put by slapping their shit in some online image upscaler

>>11962810
You can "try it out" by looking at it with your eyes. It looks like shit.

>>11962796
>andy if he femboy
Man do you talk in memes to everyone you meet?

>>11963456
The word femboy isn't a meme, tardo. That said Leon there looks more like a hunky 90s actor or something (which is probably on purpose desu) and not a femboy.

I hate how these AI faggots pump this shit out and don't even put the effort into double checking how it looks. "Perfect! All thanks to AI. No need for me quality check this." I hope all of you are banned from video games one day.

>>11962081 (OP)
I have all the original trilogy for the PS1 and the 4th for the PS2 along with the gun game, outbreak code veronics etc and resident evil revelations and the rest of them for the 360 like 5.6 and operation racoon city . I tended to zoom in on a frachise and buy it all up when games were being throw out and I had 1/2/3 from the 90s and some of teh PS2 ones form the 00s. I own at least 10 of the fucking things. and have probably finished at least half of them. I even have all the movies on DVD If I wanted to replay them I'd replay the on a PS1 and PS2 as intended with a dual shock.. Although for novelty sake I'd upscale it to 1080p and do it on a big screen

I don;t do remakes or anything made in the last 9 years. My permanent cut off year is 2017. . Sorry, I find the infinite frachises and remakes thing to be annoying and it has been every since they remake hitchkocks psycho and started the MCU shit. The only pass I'll give is the half life two xen remake because the music is awesome.

I get this is a passion projecta and I'm passionate about making shit around old games as well so I'll wish you luck but won't be joining you. Make somethinng new stop remaking stuff

>>11963570
Thanks for the diary entry I guess. Very series appropriate.

>>11963570
>I have a cut off year and don't play anything recent
>make something new!
by your own admission you wouldn't play it or show it any respect anyways.

>>11963513
>if he
Do you actually say this?

>>11962761
Again, different models, different results.
Also RE1 background images are too low res to work with unless you edit everything after it, which they dont.
Second the fact that capcom lost the fucking originals high res backgrounds for RE2 and RE1, but since RE3 was the most recent, they had it in higher res for the sourcenext re-release

>>11963523
Most of these morons never picked up photoshop/GIMP to fix these details

AI upscaling is the modern equivalent of supersai/xbr filters for retards who say things like "if you can see the pixels that means it looks bad!"

>>11962081 (OP)
Fucking kino.

>>11963590
I guess a lot of people think video games were supposed to look like cartoons this whole time?

>>11962859
That guy was a one in a billion unicorn. Extremely talented and just happened to live in Spain where they captured all the reference textures, which he was able find himself.

>>11962081 (OP)
Diarrhea is fucking back

>>11962658
>Native res but on a handheld screen of approximately Vita size.
Handhelds are for bing bing wahoos, not for horror games. You disappoint me.

>>11962498
whoa, this room is dangerous

>>11962859
kudos to the guy for finding the same carpet texture, or at least something very close, and keeping the same weird squashing and stretching they did with it.