Phantasy Star Online Episode I&II HD UI Project

[LutheeMajestic]

Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II High Resolution UI Project

License :

CC-BY-NC-SA

Project Goal :

- Recreate the look of the original UI but in High Resolution

Project Details :

- It is not an upscale.
- Made in Adobe Illustrator (a vector graphics software) which means "master-files" are resolution-independent.

Note :

- Good and bad news... Replacing all occurences of in-game font(s) is now possible on Dolphin development build 5.0-14445 and higher but PSO Ep. I&II is a SEGA-made game so of course there are quirks which makes replacing the main menu font buggy 
You might want to delete the following file so that original font (blurry) is restored : tex1_256x256_$_243e7c660b59e2ee_8

Changelog :

UI v0.5.0: (Show Spoiler)

HUD
- Made HP/TP Bar ends slightly rounder
- Made radial menu outer stroke bigger (Finally !)
- Slightly Tweaked radial menu "Chat" icon size and position.
- Player Panel Holder outer stroke thickness has been decreased by 0.5 unit.
- Actions Palette Holder outer stroke thickness has been increased by 0.5 unit, making it the same thickness as Player Panel Holder stroke.
- Darkened Player Panel shading slightly, especially near the outer stroke.
- Stretched Photon Blast Gauge outer stroke vertically to almost perfectly match the original.
- Small "L & R" icons have been made more faithful.
- Fixed very small issue with "Denied" icon. Two corners were not rounded when they should have been.

Inventory Icons
- Meseta Icon has been tweaked and can now considered Faithful
- Mate Icon has been reworked and now looks much closer to the original
- Mag Icon has seen shape improvements and can now be considered Faithful

Palette
- Made much-needed accurateness improvements and fixes to 'Damage Trap' icon.

Spell Palette
- Made changes to "Grants" icon according to official art work. Bigger light ray are pointy at the tip. Smaller light rays are pointy at both ends.
- "Leilla" and "Golla" photon blast icons have been improved slightly.
- "Zonde" and "Gizonde" icons can now be considered "faithful" thanks to improvements made after looking at official art.

UI v0.5.1: (Show Spoiler)

Inventory Icons
- Star-like icon on yellow background has been redrawn

Item 'Rarity' Stars
- Tweaked to more closely resemble the symbol-chat star icon shape

Palette / Spell Palette
- Fixed several vector paths some of which were visible

Red/Green/Yellow/Blue Gems (HUD)
- Tweaked / Accentuated glare

HUD Font v0.4.0: (Show Spoiler)

Added (Experimental):

- Start Menu + Main Font (both are based on Shingo Pro) [ Main Font REQUIRES Dolphin 5.0-14445 Or Newer ! ]

DMG/HUD Font:
- All capital letters have been slightly thickened to match the original font more closely
- Slight improvement to glyphs 'h' and '1', big improvements to 'a'
- Some slight liberties have been taken with the top part of leftmost vertical stroke of glyphs 'm' and 'n'
- Main stroke of glyph 't' has been widened from 5 units to 6 units
- Glyphs 't' and 'f' have had their horizontal bar revamped, compromises have been made (the original are weird and artifacty)
- Glyphs 'S Y Q' have been improved, 'q' and 'p' have also seen major improvements
- Glyph '$' was altered for the better
- Graphical issue on glyph 'Z' has been fixed
- Glyph 'y' has been redesigned with a curve instead of a hard angle
- Glyph '3' and '8' have been slightly tweaked

Downloads (DDS @ 4x) :

(Updated June 10 2020)

UI v0.5.1

HUD Font v0.4.0

Note : Get releases tagged "Compat" if your graphics card is older

About Me :

Born in the late eighties, not a professional artist, would label myself as a "vector graphics enthusiast".

Contact & Progress Updates :

Eleriaqueen's Twitter

Support the Project :

Eleriaqueen's Tip Jar

[Shonumi]

Moved this to the Custom Texture Projects forum. Looks really good so far!

[LutheeMajestic]

(01-20-2020, 03:16 AM)Shonumi Wrote: Moved this to the Custom Texture Projects forum. Looks really good so far!

Thanks for moving the post/thread and for the comment !
It means a lot, I've poured countless hours into making vector art related to PSO, Section ID icons, (not-yet released) fonts, ingame textures... but this has been, and still is my biggest undertaking.
Two years ago Vector Art / Digitial Art were a mystery to me and my paper-and-pencil drawing skills were only better-than-basic.

[Shonumi]

I bought PSO Ep. I&II years ago, and I've been meaning to play it in Dolphin since forever. Maybe now would be a good time with these HD UI textures out. I used to dabble in vector art myself back in college (editing SVG by hand and in Inkscape). Keep up the good work here, looking forward to seeing what comes next

[Habanero]

Ahh, good memories. I never tried the modern private servers on PC though.

[LutheeMajestic]

Hello, I've released an updated High Resolution HUD as well as the new work-in-progress HUD Font.
"Compatibility" packs which ensure compatibility with older graphics cards are now available as alternative downloads.

HUD v0.4.3 Beta
HUD Font v0.1.1 Beta

[Zombie]

your vector graphics are looking absolutely amazing... this gives me major nostalgia for my PSO days

between this pack and the impending NA release of PSO2, it's a good time to be a PSO fan

[LutheeMajestic]

(02-10-2020, 11:30 AM)Zombie Wrote: your vector graphics are looking absolutely amazing... this gives me major nostalgia for my PSO days

between this pack and the impending NA release of PSO2, it's a good time to be a PSO fan

Thank you for the nice comment ! I try to do my best, PSO is a game that oozes nostalgia for me.

[LutheeMajestic]

Hey, I have released PSO HighRes UI v0.5.0 and PSO HighRes Font v0.2.0 !

[Synakul]

Hello everyone I just joined because this is so incredible. I would love to learn. I see the admin is wonderful and has a ton of information and knows how to keep things legal. How can a rookie start his journey in transforming textures? I commented on this specific post because this is my favorite game. @LutheeMajestic what an incredible job bro. To the admin ill need your guidance sir I want to be apart of this community and learn I had no clue this was a thing and im beyond excited even if making a comment 4 years later haha.