@Garteal: Thanks for moving the thread. Like I mentioned in the opening thread, I ended up doing a lot of upscaling instead of redrawing from scratch. I'm pretty sure not all of it is up to release standards, either, especially compared to, say, the guys working on the Xenoblade pack. However, no one else has posted any retextures before this (aside from the 360 buttons), so I thought it might be a nice starting point. I also know I haven't covered every single GUI element because, after dumping the textures, there are literally tons of separate elements that make up each part of the interface and menus. So, I did what I could for the more noticeable elements. Most of the text files I just upscaled and sharpened, though I replaced some, like the lowest resolution text, which was used heavily in the options menu and inventory screens. I think I'm happiest with the various battle portraits for the main characters, though. It took some searching, but I found some really nice high resolution art from the art book and released media to use.
Aside from the GUI, I included some other random textures I played around with a little, like all the main character face textures, eyes, various signs from around the city. Upscaling them may not make a huge improvement, but they certainly don't hurt how anything looks, so I included them for anyone interested, hence the "plus" part of the pack. I tried to organize all the textures as best I could in sub folders so it's pretty easy to sort through as well. I'm not sure if I'll put out any major updates to what I posted due to time constraints, life, the usual, but who knows. If there are any glaring issues or omissions, I'm sure I can find some time to update them.
I actually looked into the character armors a bit, because the pixelated wraps, straps, etc bothered me, heh. Unfortunately, what I found makes it seem like doing a proper retexture for them is a pain, to put it lightly. Every time you change a color on an armor piece, dolphin dumps a new texture with a unique hash. If there were only three or four colors, it would almost be manageable. But, as anyone who's played the game knows, there are a "lot" of colors and combinations. It seems like retexturing all of the resulting texture files would be near impossible. But that was just what I could figure out. Maybe someone else might have better luck. Anyway, I've gotten to rambling for way too long, so I'll end things here.
Aside from the GUI, I included some other random textures I played around with a little, like all the main character face textures, eyes, various signs from around the city. Upscaling them may not make a huge improvement, but they certainly don't hurt how anything looks, so I included them for anyone interested, hence the "plus" part of the pack. I tried to organize all the textures as best I could in sub folders so it's pretty easy to sort through as well. I'm not sure if I'll put out any major updates to what I posted due to time constraints, life, the usual, but who knows. If there are any glaring issues or omissions, I'm sure I can find some time to update them.
I actually looked into the character armors a bit, because the pixelated wraps, straps, etc bothered me, heh. Unfortunately, what I found makes it seem like doing a proper retexture for them is a pain, to put it lightly. Every time you change a color on an armor piece, dolphin dumps a new texture with a unique hash. If there were only three or four colors, it would almost be manageable. But, as anyone who's played the game knows, there are a "lot" of colors and combinations. It seems like retexturing all of the resulting texture files would be near impossible. But that was just what I could figure out. Maybe someone else might have better luck. Anyway, I've gotten to rambling for way too long, so I'll end things here.