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 and Inkscape (vector graphics software) which means "master-files" are resolution-independent.

Note :

- Replacing all occurences of a certain texture is 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 

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 v0.5.0: (Show Spoiler)

- Updated HD Start Menu Text (looks more faithful)

Downloads (DDS @ 4x) :

(Updated June 18 2022)

UI v0.5.1

HUD Font v0.5.0

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

Eleriaqueen's Ko-Fi Page

[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.