Texture pack for Harvest Moon: A(nother) Wonderful Life v1.1

[Kupo]

Harvest Moon: A(nother) Wonderful Life

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Hello and welcome to my own texture pack version of Harvest Moon: A(nother) Wonderful Life

When I saw HM: A Wonderful Life for the first time, I loved the look of this game. Just the textures could be a little bit sharper. And instantly I had to think of some upscale models which could be a perfect fit for this kind of textures. So I started this project and I think it turned out really good

Goals of this texture pack:
- Providing the best possible texture quality while keeping the integrity of the original textures
- Supporting my native language (german), english language + extra versions like Another Wonderful Life aswell
- Being as complete as possible

I played the game from start to end, tried to trigger different cutscenes and events, unlocked all items and content that I was aware of, chose different wifes to get access to different decoration and different kids.
Even if the world itself is quite small in this game, it took me a lot of time to explore all this stuff and hopefully it's so complete that nobody encounters unreplaced textures.
But if you do or in general if you find something looks weird, feel free to contact me and I will take a look.

Screenshots: Comparison between Original and Upscale

Download: v1.1 (17.04.22), available as PNG or DDS (BC7)

How to install: See post #6

Note about compatibility: I played and dumped textures from the regular "A Wonderful Life" version. After that I dumped the UI textures from "Another Wonderful Life" and from the mods "A Proud Life" and "Another Proud Life". Since I'm not so familiar with these versions and because I just made a quick test there could be textures that I forgot. Also I do not know if the file structure is 100% the same so that some textures may have different file names.

Credits:
- The Gameupscale community for their great upscale models and tools
- Venomalia for the Dynamic Input Textures
- Bighead for his super helpful Custom Texture Tool
- All other devs who worked on Dolphin and made this possible

[Snowblind]

Thank you for sharing your hard work with us, Kupo.

[SpectraNocturne]

Thank you, I'm currently playing this game and very much appreciate this.

[Kupo]

Hey, glad you like it

[Warkeel]

(12-27-2021, 10:03 PM)Kupo Wrote: Hey, glad you like it

Hello can u tell me how to play HM AWL with the HD graphics[color=#000000] like the one u [color=#000000]show up plea[color=#000000]se contact me if u read thi[color=#000000]s[/color][/color][/color][/color]

[Kupo]

(02-09-2022, 02:38 PM)Warkeel Wrote: Hello can u tell me how to play HM AWL with the HD graphics[color=#000000] like the one u [color=#000000]show up plea[color=#000000]se contact me if u read thi[color=#000000]s[/color][/color][/color][/color]

Hi, sure.

Open the download link to get the texture pack, either in PNG or in DDS format. You only need one of them. I recommend using the DDS pack for better performance and only use the PNG pack, if the DDS textures do not work for you.
Once you downloaded the pack, you unzip it via 7zip, winrar or similar. The pack includes a "Load" folder, which you also find in your dolphin user folder.
The dolphin user folder on windows should be found in C:\Users\(Your name)\Documents\
The load folder in my pack has the same structure as the load folder in the Dolphin user folder.

There you have
a) "DynamicInputTextures": This folder includes button textures for different gamepads. So, if you use a dualshock or xbox controller, you can make it show the buttons of your gamepad instead of the original gamecube buttons.
b) "Textures": This is the folder where you put all your different texturepacks. The texturepack folders are usually named after the game ID of the game which they represent. In my case I just named the folder "GameID" though, because the pack supports different game versions and you have to select the one you need. You have to rename the GameID folder to
 
"GYWEE9" if you play A wonderful Life (USA)
"GYWPE9" if you play A wonderful Life (Europe)
"GYWDE9" if you play A wonderful Life (Germany)
"G4GEE9" if you play Another wonderful Life (USA)
"CYWEE9" if you play A proud Life (USA)
"CYWPE9" if you play A proud Life (Europe)
"C4GEE9" if you play Another proud Life (USA)

Next if you open the GameID folder you will find the folders "All" and "Region specific".
The "All" folder includes textures which all versions share. You definitely need these textures. The "Region specific" folder includes the different game version folders. Here you only keep the folder for the version you play and delete the others.
So in the end you should have your GameID folder (e.g. GYWEE9 if you play the USA version of AWL), which includes the "All" folder + the dedicated region folder.

So to stick with the USA example, your folder structure would look like that:



Finally you just have to make the settings in Dolphin itself. Enable "Load Custom Textures" in the Graphic Settings (Advanced) and increase the internal resolution (also in Graphic Settings) from Native to x2 or higher to see a difference.

[stan21]

(11-28-2021, 10:50 PM)Kupo Wrote:

Harvest Moon: A(nother) Wonderful Life

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Hello and welcome to my personal texture pack version of Harvest Moon: A(nother) Wonderful Life

When I saw HM: A Wonderful Life for the first time, I loved the look of this game. Just the textures could be a little bit sharper. And instantly I had to think of some upscale models which could be a perfect fit for this kind of textures. So I started this project and I think it turned out really good

Goals of this texture pack:
- Providing the best possible texture quality while keeping the natural art of the textures
- Supporting my native language (german), english language + extra versions like Another Wonderful Life aswell
- Being as complete as possible

I played the game from start to end, tried to trigger different cutscenes and events, unlocked all items and content that I was aware of, chose different wifes to get access to different decoration and different kids.
Even if the world itself is quite small in this game, it took me a lot of time to explore all this stuff and hopefully it's so complete that nobody encounters unreplaced textures.
But if you do or in general if you find something looks weird, feel free to contact me and I will take a look.

Screenshots: Comparison between Original and Upscale

Download: v1.0 (28.11.21), available as PNG or DDS (BC7)

How to install: See post #6

Note about compatibility: I played and dumped textures from the regular "A Wonderful Life" version. After that I dumped the UI textures from "Another Wonderful Life" and from the mods "A Proud Life" and "Another Proud Life". Since I'm not so familiar with these versions and because I just made a quick test there could be textures that I forgot. Also I do not know if the file structure is 100% the same so that some textures may have different file names.

Credits:
- The Gameupscale community for their great upscale models
- Venomalia for the dynamic input textures
- Bighead for his super helpful Custom Texture Tool
- All other devs who worked on Dolphin and made this possible

very! cool! its excellent to have both a female perspective as well as the male perspective on this wonderful romantic game! Well done Kupo! very exciting.

[Kupo]

(02-10-2022, 02:15 PM)stan21 Wrote: very! cool! its excellent to have both a female perspective as well as the male perspective on this wonderful romantic game! Well done Kupo! very exciting.

thanks, but that's the developers achievement, not mine

[stan21]

(02-11-2022, 10:20 PM)Kupo Wrote: thanks, but that's the developers achievement, not mine

hahahah yes very true lol ill rephrase i meant your addition HD upscale to an already perfect game, is just awesome!    

[Kupo]

17.04.2022: Updated to v1.1

- Kitchen floor denoised (compared to others this one fell out of the line)
- Visible seams around the fields removed
- Clean-ups on the television
- A few textures with font like the "welcome" doormat have been remade
- Dynamic Input Textures updated