[HD Texture Project] Xenoblade Chronicles (v5.0U - May 17, 2014)

[frozenwings]

(05-08-2014, 05:59 AM)narcku Wrote:
What terrible ears? Are you referring to the shape?
All the characters in this game have that same shape. It's only a few vertices for one ear, 5-6 I guess.
I can't do anything about that.
Only thing that might be possible, is if they use a mask on those ears, only then can I adjust the shape better.

Edit: Actually, I'm sure it's five, you can tell from my screenshots . It's a trapezoid shape.

Yeah, I know it's not your fault. Bad character design for Gadolt.

Just that because of his neck/chin guard thing, his ears don't line up right. It looks like his ears are just glued on to his mechanical parts and his hair. Like, he would almost look better with no ears.

[narcku]

Yeah, weird. It looks odd up close.
But from another angle it looks fine.

[frozenwings]

Oh yeah, that shot looks way better. Must just be that angle.

Either way, great work as usual. I understand that you're working with what you've got here; the way the face textures are (by default, not yours) is pretty basic. Not a lot of room to fix weird looking stuff like that since that's just how the game is.

[Bighead]

I modified the stars.

I only used 7 frames for the GIF, but it covers most of the animation.

EDIT: Just realized I forgot to refresh my LOAD folder so its still using the old glow.
EDIT2: Now a GIF with 10 frames and the proper glow effect. Also re-upping the glow effect in case anyone missed it. No change from before.

[frozenwings]

(05-08-2014, 06:52 AM)Bighead Wrote: I modified the stars.
I only used 7 frames for the GIF, but it covers most of the animation.

EDIT: Just realized I forgot to refresh my LOAD folder so its still using the old glow.
EDIT2: Now a GIF with 10 frames and the proper glow effect.

Nice! Looks awesome. Yoink.

I've been working on this way longer than I should have. I can't get it PERFECT. But I think it's still better than the default:

Spoiler: (Show Spoiler)

May need a touch up, there's one spot I just can't get right. I don't know why or how it's off. I suck at blending is the likely answer.

Edit: Did you fix the gif? Or was it just not loading before?

[Bighead]

Looks great so far, is the part you are saying you can't get perfect the top part?

Edit: I replaced it with a better GIF.

[frozenwings]

Yeah, now that I look there are actually two.

I was talking about the top (just can't get it to look right without making it look totally different.)

And then theres also a missed blended spot on the right side, near the edge. You have to look at the screenshot and closely, you can't really see it in the texture itself. I can't get either one to look right :p

And, yes, I see the new GIF. That looks completely amazing.

[Bighead]

Blending alpha levels is tricky, especially when you're blending a spectrum of black and white. I'd say you did pretty damn good for how tough it is to get something like this to look perfect. I'll mess with it a bit and see if I can fix those spots, but not making any promises because I suck at this as well.

[frozenwings]

Yeah it was way harder than the sword was. I'm sure you can get it to look a little better at least. I give up on it. I've spent like 4 hours (off and on) on it, and I need to finish central factory. I think it still looks better as is, but I know it's not a finished product.

It doesn't need to be PERFECT, just better quality than the original and HD :p

Edit: Now, if you dont' mind, I'm off to uncover some hidden landmarks things

[Bighead]

Not sure if this is any better or worse, I'm guessing it's probaly worse because I'm horrible with this stuff. I tried to touch up the top part, and I didn't even bother with the right. I just cut it in half flipped a copy of the left side for the right lol.