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

[frozenwings]

Yeah, honestly I'm not sure about letting random people do the retexturing themselves. I'm afraid of someone messing up the batching process. At least if we end up with some funky mess, we know that it was probably you or I that screwed something up. But, yeah, the dumping and submitting to be retextured thing sounds really good. Besides making mistakes, someone could also troll us on purpose with misnamed files. Hell, I guess people could even do that with just dumps.

And that script sounds really complicated to me. But if you can make it work, there's no point in making two different downloads if someone could just run a script to organize it for them. This sucker is going to be huge, uploading/hosting two of them could be annoying.

(04-27-2014, 02:38 PM)Echoes Wrote: Yeah, I plan on doing... pretty much all I can, unless something comes up.

This one was easy enough to make, especially after doing that last one. This is the Quick travel... map title bar thing. LOL

Edit: Maybe changing the saturation of those textures would help make them match the game... Seems unlikely, but who knows.

Awesome, Echoes. You're really cranking these out today. I'm going to have to find more stuff for you to do :p

Haha, anyway. Looks really good as usual. And don't worry about the names, I just name them whatever. Like the "I don't even know" texture, LOL.

So, did we decide to go with the smaller "darker" version of that one bar?

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(04-27-2014, 02:53 PM)Bighead Wrote: Edit one more time: I've also been keeping track of all new textures since v4.5U, and made a sort of collage of them. When you see how many there are so far all at once, it's impressive.
http://i.imgur.com/W4xjTn0.png

Haha. Going to have to use up an entire page for all of Echoes' borders and various UI additions. You actually did a lot too, now that I'm looking at it. Not that I didn't already know it, but you're right that it's impressive when it's all just there for you to see at once. I like the collage idea.

Also, that collage made me remember something... I was doing a heart 2 heart, and the big single heart that pops up was weird. I had a screenshot of it but I might have deleted it on accident with a few other screenshots I got rid of. It was sort of short and wide, kind of like it was stretched out horizontally. I don't know if you can replicate it in your game, but when I get some time I'll try for some comparison shots. I'm not sure if it's even your texture that is doing it, or if it's supposed to be like that, or if it's a problem on my end.

[Bighead]

(04-27-2014, 03:31 PM)frozenwings Wrote: Yeah, honestly I'm not sure about letting random people do the retexturing themselves. I'm afraid of someone messing up the batching process. At least if we end up with some funky mess, we know that it was probably you or I that screwed something up. But, yeah, the dumping and submitting to be retextured thing sounds really good. Besides making mistakes, someone could also troll us on purpose with misnamed files. Hell, I guess people could even do that with just dumps.

You make a good point there, best to keep this mass renaming script out of public hands lol. If someone really wants to do it, they can figure it out or ask one of us for it. And yeah I see no way the filtering one could cause any harm.

(04-27-2014, 03:31 PM)frozenwings Wrote: And that script sounds really complicated to me. But if you can make it work, there's no point in making two different downloads if someone could just run a script to organize it for them. This sucker is going to be huge, uploading/hosting two of them could be annoying.

It won't be too complicated, actually simpler than the renaming/moving to folders one. It will just be really really really really long. There's a program to convert it to EXE and give it an icon so people can't mess with or see the long ugly code.

Also, I think the "Large" texture is what we should use as suggested by Echoes. On my 27inch 1080p monitor it looks great, and I'm sure higher resolutions will prefer the bigger one as well.

Also, here's a remake of the first gem crafting bar I did. I like this one much better, I used the same techniques as the latter 2.

Edit: And of course, what post of mine would be complete without taking down my original attachment and replacing it with another....
Two of the three bars in action: http://i.imgur.com/CDAPV3Z.png

[narcku]

(04-27-2014, 06:32 AM)poweredbykimchi Wrote:

(04-26-2014, 06:55 PM)narcku Wrote: Edit: Man.. just installed 4.5U pack. Who made that ugly grass..? Now I can't even "undo" the grass change because I have no idea which file it is among 19k+ textures -_-.
Edit 2: Nvm.. found it. leonseer's grass is the culprit.

Yeah. The grass and water textures need to go. They don't fit XB's artstyle. I take the blame for not filtering it out.

Yeah, I mean the grass already looked fine before. The new one just doesn't really suit the environment.
And sorry if I sounded a bit edgy(well I was kinda frustrated). Didn't mean to blame anyone.

Anyways, here's Mumkhar. Not final yet, but maybe someone can test it out.
+Mumuca (Hair+Face) - Preview - Texture

Spoiler: (Show Spoiler)

"My beard is better than yours, Dunban."

"Hot babe spotted"

It's hard to get a decent shot of him.
http://minus.com/mbaaxgn2peeFjz
I'll add in-game comparison shots later(after I hack him again to the party).

[frozenwings]

(04-27-2014, 03:59 PM)Bighead Wrote:

(04-27-2014, 03:31 PM)frozenwings Wrote: Yeah, honestly I'm not sure about letting random people do the retexturing themselves. I'm afraid of someone messing up the batching process. At least if we end up with some funky mess, we know that it was probably you or I that screwed something up. But, yeah, the dumping and submitting to be retextured thing sounds really good. Besides making mistakes, someone could also troll us on purpose with misnamed files. Hell, I guess people could even do that with just dumps.

You make a good point there, best to keep this mass renaming script out of public hands lol. If someone really wants to do it, they can figure it out or ask one of us for it. And yeah I see no way the filtering one could cause any harm.

(04-27-2014, 03:31 PM)frozenwings Wrote: And that script sounds really complicated to me. But if you can make it work, there's no point in making two different downloads if someone could just run a script to organize it for them. This sucker is going to be huge, uploading/hosting two of them could be annoying.

It won't be too complicated, actually simpler than the renaming/moving to folders one. It will just be really really really really long. There's a program to convert it to EXE and give it an icon so people can't mess with or see the long ugly code.

Also, I think the "Large" texture is what we should use as suggested by Echoes. On my 27inch 1080p monitor it looks great, and I'm sure higher resolutions will prefer the bigger one as well.

Also, here's a remake of the first gem crafting bar I did. I like this one much better, I used the same techniques as the latter 2.

Edit: And of course, what post of mine would be complete without taking down my original attachment and replacing it with another....
Two of the three bars in action: http://i.imgur.com/CDAPV3Z.png

Edit: K, got your new edition of your first gem bar. Looks fantastic, nice work.

Okay, I went back and looked at them again. I got mixed up between my screenshots. I have a 27in 1440p monitor, and the larger one does look better. More sharp and clear, I don't know why I thought it was the smaller one. It makes no sense anyway, I'm totally spent and still up trying to dump files.

Small texture:



Big texture:



You can really see it in the golden circles. It's hard to see from the pics, but in game is sort of noticeable. You have to really look though. So yeah, stick with the bigger, darker one then.

(04-27-2014, 04:00 PM)narcku Wrote:

(04-27-2014, 06:32 AM)poweredbykimchi Wrote:

(04-26-2014, 06:55 PM)narcku Wrote: Edit: Man.. just installed 4.5U pack. Who made that ugly grass..? Now I can't even "undo" the grass change because I have no idea which file it is among 19k+ textures -_-.
Edit 2: Nvm.. found it. leonseer's grass is the culprit.

Yeah. The grass and water textures need to go. They don't fit XB's artstyle. I take the blame for not filtering it out.

Yeah, I mean the grass already looked fine before. The new one just doesn't really suit the environment.
And sorry if I sounded a bit edgy(well I was kinda frustrated). Didn't mean to blame anyone.

Anyways, here's Mumkhar. Not final yet, but maybe someone can test it out.
+Mumuca (Hair+Face) - Preview - Texture

Hair Close-up
http://i.minus.com/iPCOsGwIGb6xt.png
Dixon:"Hot babe spotted"
http://i4.minus.com/ibqenLJh03Gfs.png
It's hard to get a decent shot of him.
http://minus.com/mbaaxgn2peeFjz
I'll add in-game comparison shots later(after I hack him again to the party).

Download

Edit: Wrong eyes ID >_<. Hope no one tried them out yet. I'll go eyes hunting again.

I'll roll with it in my game, see how it looks. That one shot of him from the front looks weird, but the other ones look good. (I got the DL before you took it down, I'll just take out the eyes for now.)

Also, I need a silver monado II texture ASAP. :p I've been running with your silver texture and it's going to be sad when I finally have to go back to red.

Another thing: did you ever see if that one hair/bandana texture I added as a thumbnail was in fact Dixon's hair? I'm about to run into him shortly here, but I haven't progressed very far in my game lately due to backtracking for dumps.

[narcku]

(04-27-2014, 04:54 PM)frozenwings Wrote: I'll roll with it in my game, see how it looks. That one shot of him from the front looks weird, but the other ones look good. (I got the DL before you took it down, I'll just take out the eyes for now.)

Also, I need a silver monado II texture ASAP. :p I've been running with your silver texture and it's going to be sad when I finally have to go back to red.

Another thing: did you ever see if that one hair/bandana texture I added as a thumbnail was in fact Dixon's hair? I'm about to run into him shortly here, but I haven't progressed very far in my game lately due to backtracking for dumps.

Which one? The one not in cutscene?
Yeah, I accidentally saved the eyes into Fiora's ID.
Better take that one out, and replace it back again with Red_Schism's.

Lol ok. I'll see what I can do.

About that texture you added, I thought that was for someone else XD, 'coz I'm sure that's not Dixon's hair/any part of him.

[Echoes]

(04-27-2014, 03:31 PM)frozenwings Wrote: Awesome, Echoes. You're really cranking these out today. I'm going to have to find more stuff for you to do :p

Haha, anyway. Looks really good as usual. And don't worry about the names, I just name them whatever. Like the "I don't even know" texture, LOL.

So, did we decide to go with the smaller "darker" version of that one bar?

LOL I'll see if I can help with more stuff after I'm done.

Fair enough, hahaha!

The darker, higher res one, actually. When it comes to resolution, higher is usually better for future proof.

[frozenwings]

(04-27-2014, 05:02 PM)narcku Wrote:

(04-27-2014, 04:54 PM)frozenwings Wrote: I'll roll with it in my game, see how it looks. That one shot of him from the front looks weird, but the other ones look good. (I got the DL before you took it down, I'll just take out the eyes for now.)

Also, I need a silver monado II texture ASAP. :p I've been running with your silver texture and it's going to be sad when I finally have to go back to red.

Another thing: did you ever see if that one hair/bandana texture I added as a thumbnail was in fact Dixon's hair? I'm about to run into him shortly here, but I haven't progressed very far in my game lately due to backtracking for dumps.

Which one? The one not in cutscene?
Yeah, I accidentally saved the eyes into Fiora's ID.
Better take that one out, and replace it back again with Red_Schism's.

Lol ok. I'll see what I can do.

About that texture you added, I thought that was for someone else XD, 'coz I'm sure that's not Dixon's hair/any part of him.

Yeah, I didn't even put the textures in my folder yet. So no, worries. Thanks for the heads up.

I'm pretty sure Dixon has another hair piece somewhere. Last time I saw him it appeared as if some of his hair wasn't textured. I don't know, maybe it was a repeat ID. I'll pay more attention when he pops back in my game as well as any dumps. I've gotten a little better at watching my dumps as the game loads stuff.

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(04-27-2014, 05:03 PM)Echoes Wrote:

(04-27-2014, 03:31 PM)frozenwings Wrote: Awesome, Echoes. You're really cranking these out today. I'm going to have to find more stuff for you to do :p

Haha, anyway. Looks really good as usual. And don't worry about the names, I just name them whatever. Like the "I don't even know" texture, LOL.

So, did we decide to go with the smaller "darker" version of that one bar?

LOL I'll see if I can help with more stuff after I'm done.

Fair enough, hahaha!

The darker, higher res one, actually. When it comes to resolution, higher is usually better for future proof.

Haha, honestly I don't know if I even have anything else for you to do. I would really like the minimap/clock frame to be redone to brown to match the original UI better, as opposed to the metal look the retextures use now. After that, yeah. Out of UI stuff. (Which is good! Yay!)

And, yeah. I know. I had a derp moment. I actually included (edited a previous post) some screenshots comparing them in 1440p and you can see the bigger texture is a little more sharp and clear.

For bighead:

Talonyth = SX4P01_b54cb15f_9.png
Ma'Crish = SX4P01_0e5237f5_9.png

[Bighead]

(04-27-2014, 05:06 PM)frozenwings Wrote: For bighead:

Talonyth = SX4P01_b54cb15f_9.png
Ma'Crish = SX4P01_0e5237f5_9.png

Thanks! I'll try to get to making icons for them sometime soon. I'm trying to learn how to use PS atm, it's pretty overwhelming. But I'm starting to see how Echoes creates some of those insanely awesome textures.

[frozenwings]

(04-27-2014, 05:57 PM)Bighead Wrote:

(04-27-2014, 05:06 PM)frozenwings Wrote: For bighead:

Talonyth = SX4P01_b54cb15f_9.png
Ma'Crish = SX4P01_0e5237f5_9.png

Thanks! I'll try to get to making icons for them sometime soon. I'm trying to learn how to use PS atm, it's pretty overwhelming. But I'm starting to see how Echoes creates some of those insanely awesome textures.

No problem!

Good luck! I need a lot practice with both, haha. I mostly have used GIMP, but I have some friends who have been telling me to get photoshop forever. Maybe I'll experiment a bit after we get v5.0 out.

[Bighead]

I'm starting to get the hang of some stuff, but honestly... I feel like they went out of their way to make some of this stuff difficult and frustrating to figure out. Like, just to manipulate the paths in this it takes all kinds of combinations of shift, alt, and control. It's like trying to remember the fatalities in mortal kombat (...so to fill in this area, press up, up, left, right, left, right, down, right a+b while holding x and y).