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AI Neural Networks being used to generate HQ textures for older games (You can do it yourself!)
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It's amazing. If you're serious about contacting them then check out their IRC.
I'd love to see some Xenoblade Chronicles 1 pictures with this. I tried taking screenshots on Dolphin and the resolution of the picture one not the one of the emulator, and I don't know how I can take a screenshot of my wii. Anyone have a picture and wants to see how it goes ?
The correct way to do with for 3D games would be to dump the textures, resize each of them individually, then run the game in Dolphin with the new textures, not just upscaling a screenshot. That's how the OoT screenshot in the OP was done and it'll look way better.
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ehhh doesn't really work like that, best results for 3D games is to dump the textures then do it like the ocarina gif and morrowind screenshots in the OP
i'll get on it tho
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Tried upscaling some textures in Sonic Adventure as a quick-ish test:
Second using abload over imgur.
Did you change settings? Those newer screenshots look much better than the earlier ones you posted, like Indiana Jones.
This is honestly ridiculous at this point
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Yeah, messed around with the interp and I've got it in a good spot now.
Here's what you asked for btw.
Thanks a lot! Even though I guess it seems to be important that the source file is 1:1 the original resolution for it to work best.Yeah, messed around with the interp and I've got it in a good spot now.
Here's what you asked for btw.
Not picking on this specifically, but after the OP impressed me a ton I checked this thread again today and it's like..urgh? Most of them on this last page have made me lose faith. This looks bad. It reminds me way too much of a regular ass smear filter you get with bad HD remakes. Definitely unnatural in terms of how it applies shapes to things and most every image on this page looks like a real bummer to me :(Yeah, messed around with the interp and I've got it in a good spot now.
Here's what you asked for btw.
It seems it definately has to be used with care and depend on the style of the original art. Monkey Island 3 looks phenomenal, for example. Check that out on the previous page. For more realistic games, other AI will have to be used. I am sure after a while those problems will be ironed out.
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That's kind of the point though? I am using the Manga109 model which is meant for illustrations more than anything. It's intentionally a lot softer. The model that comes with ESRGAN just doesn't compare especially when it comes to backgrounds of LucasArts adventure games. If you want me to get back to using what I was using before then by all means I will but I just wanted to mess around with this new model a bit.
Still though, if this isn't impressive then I don't know what is.
Yeah it seems like it was restored with love and care, which is really creepy if you think about it.
Woops sorry, didn't know about it, that looks quite different haha. Thanks !
looks like something out of valkyria chronicles
WHEW!
So I got this set up one my computer, the process of which wasn't bad or long, HOWEVER due to my CPU OC it kept causing the voltage to jump up too high when all four of my cores hit 100% load, so my computer would shut itself off immediately because of overvolting protection.
I turned my OC off and now it works though. But whenever I run it the images comeout looking like oversharpened garbanzo beans. Any help? I tried ESRGAN model as well as interp_04. I don't really know what else I can change/run.
prarts What is the model/command you run and are there other variables I should change for running pixel art though it? Thanks!
So I got this set up one my computer, the process of which wasn't bad or long, HOWEVER due to my CPU OC it kept causing the voltage to jump up too high when all four of my cores hit 100% load, so my computer would shut itself off immediately because of overvolting protection.
I turned my OC off and now it works though. But whenever I run it the images comeout looking like oversharpened garbanzo beans. Any help? I tried ESRGAN model as well as interp_04. I don't really know what else I can change/run.
prarts What is the model/command you run and are there other variables I should change for running pixel art though it? Thanks!
Use the model from this post, that's what people have been using lately:
Thanks for the reply! I'll give that a shot
Worked much better!! Awesome.
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For people scaling up Monkey Island and other Lucasarts stuff
I wonder how feasible it would be to build a custom version of ESRGAN where you factor in high quality scans of the original artwork in to the algorithm so it can more accurately replicate that style in background art we don't have the originals for
I wonder how feasible it would be to build a custom version of ESRGAN where you factor in high quality scans of the original artwork in to the algorithm so it can more accurately replicate that style in background art we don't have the originals for
Nevermind. For now I'm just making the image I want to convert smaller :P
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That'a actually what I want to know, except for the Resident Evil renders. You could train the algorithm to make use of the Zero HD renders to make better upscales of the REmake ones. Same thing with the 640x480 RE3 PC renders for upscaling the PSX RE2 320x240 renders.
I'm not sure how much data you need to properly train it. For instance, the manga109 model was trained by using thousands of images.
It won't, because it only works well for assets that have already been sourced from higher resolution material.
Anything which was natively low resolution tends to produce bad results.
Are there any tools that make it easy to train your own neural network simply by providing sets of before/after images?
I can think of quite a few ways that I'd like to use it, and the volume of source material required seems like it probably would not be an issue - at least for some of them.