New level of autism: Modders are using AI to enhance Morrowind original textures, result is amazing

[Stainless Veteran]

Environment looks quite nice, but the models, like Siveon said, don't support such level of fidelity, they are too low-poly for that to work. They need to rework meshes for HD textures to look good. Also, that dunmer's hair texture looks weird as fuck in contrast with more detailed face.

 

[deama]

Works pretty well for stuff like this:

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Sadly it relies on GPU VRam, so if you have a 4GB GPU then you'll only be able to rescale* images that are like 800x500 or so. Also, it's CUDA, so Nvidia only.

 

[aweigh]

They put Doom thru the AI NeuralNetwork blender as well:

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/99021-v-0-95-doom-neural-upscale-2x/

 

[bataille]

Graphics don't matter!

 

[V_K]

 

[deama]

Here's another comparison:
https://imgur.com/a/JNOhgyp
First one is original upscaled via paint.
Second one is the ESRGAN one.
Third one is the PSNR one which is like ESRGAN but with alpha 0, basically a bit more blurry.

It seems to spass a bit around complex parts (reflections) if they're low pixel, probably cause it doesn't have enough information to properly scale it.

 

[ADL]

I'll give it three months for modders to make further adjustment to the meshes and whatnot but I'm very interested to see what people do with Daggerfall assets using this method.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Juxtapose: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxt...html?uid=daf78716-031a-11e9-9dba-0edaf8f81e27

They should be using a separate training model for organic textures than hard surface textures. The rug and faces look quite nice though.
Look at the side of the wooden table, it brought out detail that was barely apparently before.

Some of the texture simply can't be saved(IMO) and need redone by hand. I assume the dunmer is supposed to be wearing some kind of fur?

 

[Latro]

have an AI make morrowind fun first

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Honestly surprised some turbo-autist hasn't extracted the models & textures from ESO and imported them to OpenMW yet.

 

[luj1]

Props for the effort but Morrowind doesn't need 2k textures for most things. Especially if the meshes are unchanged, it often looks just weird, and the lack of normal mapping makes it worse. 1k is usually more than enough.

 

[luj1]

I'll give it three months for modders to make further adjustment to the meshes...

Vanilla-style body replacer

No more whining anymore, here is the Vanilla Style Body Replacer. Almost 2 years of inconsistent development, 2 full iterations of textures and meshes only to bring you the original joy of diversity in AAA-pipeline. 2k handpainted textures, vanilla-style underwear.

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/45993

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the lack of normal mapping makes it worse

OpenMW

 

[luj1]

Not my thing. Anyway, you can have normal maps without OpenMW (via MGE XE).

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Juxtapose: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxt...html?uid=daf78716-031a-11e9-9dba-0edaf8f81e27

They should be using a separate training model for organic textures than hard surface textures. The rug and faces look quite nice though.
Look at the side of the wooden table, it brought out detail that was barely apparently before.

Some of the texture simply can't be saved(IMO) and need redone by hand. I assume the dunmer is supposed to be wearing some kind of fur?

looks like the tool shit itself so I put the juxtapose on codepen
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/vvyGNN

 

[bataille]

Here's another comparison:
https://imgur.com/a/JNOhgyp
First one is original upscaled via paint.
Second one is the ESRGAN one.
Third one is the PSNR one which is like ESRGAN but with alpha 0, basically a bit more blurry.

It seems to spass a bit around complex parts (reflections) if they're low pixel, probably cause it doesn't have enough information to properly scale it.

Hooooly shiet, I never noticed Edwin's fabulous fingernails before!!

 

[deama]

Butthurt in HD:

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Juxtapose: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxt...html?uid=daf78716-031a-11e9-9dba-0edaf8f81e27

They should be using a separate training model for organic textures than hard surface textures. The rug and faces look quite nice though.
Look at the side of the wooden table, it brought out detail that was barely apparently before.

Some of the texture simply can't be saved(IMO) and need redone by hand. I assume the dunmer is supposed to be wearing some kind of fur?

looks like the tool shit itself so I put the juxtapose on codepen
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/vvyGNN

Did they use the PSNR one or the ESRGAN one for the fur? The latter tends to sometimes go a bit crazy with more cartoony/unrealistic images.

 

[udm]

They put Doom thru the AI NeuralNetwork blender as well:

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/99021-v-0-95-doom-neural-upscale-2x/

Ok, this looks good.

 

[Makabb]

They put Doom thru the AI NeuralNetwork blender as well:

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/99021-v-0-95-doom-neural-upscale-2x/

Ok, this looks good.

The daggerfall unity project realy needs this

 

[agentorange]

Looks like typical airbrush filtered garbage. The human brain and eye are able to mix those colored pixels at a distance with a far greater range of subtlety than a fucking machine can mix and blur them. But yeah please continue to let these machine algorithms "improve" classic visuals. And soon we can let machines "improve" us outdated humans by giving us all lobotomies, and those idiots who prefer visuals not generated by an AI can be converted into dogfood.

 

[Makabb]

The point is that you can improve all textures from a game with a few button clicks instead of spending thousands of hours re-drawing or making new models.

 

[luj1]

They put Doom thru the AI NeuralNetwork blender as well:

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/99021-v-0-95-doom-neural-upscale-2x/

Ok, this looks good.

The daggerfall unity project realy needs this

Arent they using something like that already

 

[Haba]

For faegs w/o Ubuntu.

https://kingdomakrillic.tumblr.com/post/178254875891/i-figured-out-how-to-get-esrgan-running-on

Bonus:

 

[Makabb]

Someone make Diablo 1 HD now WOA

 

[Haba]

Way too much detail lost. Textures, colour.

You shouldn't use this model for pixel art, it needs to be trained separately.

Even waifu2x can't do "all anime", it seems to work best with certain colour palettes, while others it screw up (even if subtly, but still noticeably).

But give those things a few years of training and improvement... we'll see some things.