The Last Story HD Texture Pack

[linckandrea]

Information / Screenshots:
Hi all, The goal of the project is to create as many HD textures as possible while attempting to keep the integrity of the original textures.
This project uses some textures(in particular english text,gui and map textures) from the older project The Last Story HD GUI+ Texture Pack.

Requirements:
Since the pack is DDS BC7 format you must use a compatible dolphin version(usually latest Beta/Development or Dolphin Ishiiruka are suggested)
A DX11+ capable graphics card is required or the textures will not load.

Screenshots - Before  --> After: (Show Spoiler)

https://imgur.com/a/o3LTn76

Download


Instructions:

• Download the 7zip archive
• Extract it in you user/load folder
• rename the texture folder according to your game version
  

Status:
i think i covered 80% of the game textures(includings mipmaps) excluding armors

as for the armors probably 20% is a realistic value

Todo:

• rework facial/hairs textures
• rework textures with upscaling artifacts
  

Bugs:

• some textures have artifacts (like lava in gurak castle)
  

The armors problem: (Show Spoiler)

upscaling armor texture by dumping them is almost impossible
why?
let's make an example:
The following texture is the gloves/belt of the light armor and is composed by a primary color and an accent color

Taking in account that this game has a different texture for each combination of the 64 colors,
in order to cover all the combination i will have to dump all the 64^2  combinations just for this part of the armor

this situation is worse where (like the chest of hunter armor) is composed by more than 2 colors

Credits

• Cupscale devs
• Bsrgan devs
• Dolphin devs
• Bighead for his Custom Texture Tool
• Matrix2525 for The Last Story HD GUI+ Texture Pack
  

Bonus Section:

-  Callista white ball dress

if we take a look to callista concept arts we can see that the original inteded color for the ball dress was white

concept-art: (Show Spoiler)

These are simple retexures of the upscaled version contained in the main pack
There are 3 different version inside the optional pack.

• Total white
• White upper, Blast-Off Bronze lower
• White upper, Brown Coffee lower
  

download it and put your choosed version in armor/nobleDress (overwrite is needed)

Screenshot: (Show Spoiler)

[iwubcode]

Great work on this linckandrea!! Looks very nice. I appreciate you not deviating much from the original style on most of those textures (I think I see one for the city cobblestone and it's pretty close).

The color variations for the armor surprises me. I would have thought the game was using palette textures..

[linckandrea]

(01-15-2022, 09:38 AM)iwubcode Wrote: Great work on this linckandrea!!  Looks very nice.  I appreciate you not deviating much from the original style on most of those textures (I think I see one for the city cobblestone and it's pretty close).

The color variations for the armor surprises me.  I would have thought the game was using palette textures..

thank you, i didn't replaced any original textures except for the 2 city cobblestone textures(i wasn't able to find a decent upscaling model for them).


as for the armors mistwalker probably decided to opt in for that solution to save some cpu/gpu power and this would also explain why the game weights 7.91GB

[linckandrea]

New Update


Changelog:
Grass textures retexured(taken from Xenoblade Chronicles HD Texture Pack) (so thank you again BigHead)
Upscaled Armors textures cutted from the main pack as their now optionals
Made a lite png pack for Android(half size x2)(it requires 2,3gb to be prefetched)(2,3gb was the best i can do since any android(Adreno,Mali,etc.) soc except tegra don't have hw dds decoding, and dolphin doesn't support astc texture format)

Download PC(full size)

Download Upscaled armors

Download Android(Half size)

Notes: i can't update the first post so sorry if the thread will become confusing

[iwubcode]

(01-19-2022, 03:25 AM)linckandrea Wrote: as for the armors mistwalker probably decided to opt in for that solution to save some cpu/gpu power and this would also explain why the game weights 7.91GB

What is interesting, is an aspiring artist could actually use that to create different costumes for each color slot.

(01-24-2022, 07:43 AM)linckandrea Wrote: New Update


Changelog:
Grass textures retexured(taken from Xenoblade Chronicles HD Texture Pack) (so thank you again BigHead)
Upscaled Armors textures cutted from the main pack as their now optionals
Made a lite png pack for Android(half size x2)(it requires 2,3gb to be prefetched)(2,3gb was the best i can do since any android(Adreno,Mali,etc.) soc except tegra don't have hw dds decoding, and dolphin doesn't support astc texture format)

Download PC(full size)

Download Upscaled armors

Download Android(Half size)

Notes: i can't update the first post so sorry if the thread will become confusing

Thank you for the update! I'm a little uncertain about pulling in Xenoblade textures (I'm assuming those weren't source textures but rather generic grass textures?). Do you have any comparisons of that?

Outside of the armors, would you say you're close to completion?

I really need to give this game another playthrough

[linckandrea]

(01-24-2022, 09:14 AM)iwubcode Wrote: Thank you for the update!  I'm a little uncertain about pulling in Xenoblade textures (I'm assuming those weren't source textures but rather generic grass textures?).  Do you have any comparisons of that?

i think so, as you can see they quite match https://imgur.com/a/zOjl8p3

(01-24-2022, 09:14 AM)iwubcode Wrote: Outside of the armors, would you say you're close to completion?

hmm... i still need adjust some textures with artifacts and
i would like to retexure some lazulis city textures such as

• some brick walls(in particular walls in central plaza)
• dirty city cobblestone(i wasn't able to find something similiar enought and i didn't find a decent upscaling model) this one https://imgur.com/a/8AXp8jd
  

[iwubcode]

(01-24-2022, 10:31 AM)linckandrea Wrote: i think so, as you can see they quite match https://imgur.com/a/zOjl8p3

Full disclosure, I'm very particular about my packs adhering to the original style. So with that being said, I actually feel like those don't match. The tones are different for those textures and one even has rocks compared to the original. No worries though, I can replace those with upscales of the original.

[michaelpegaso]

Great work

[linckandrea]

(01-24-2022, 01:49 PM)iwubcode Wrote: Full disclosure, I'm very particular about my packs adhering to the original style.  So with that being said, I actually feel like those don't match.  The tones are different for those textures and one even has rocks compared to the original.  No worries though, I can replace those with upscales of the original.

understood but i can guarantee you that in game you will feel no difference

(01-26-2022, 08:42 AM)michaelpegaso Wrote: Great work    

 
thank you


News:
i've been working on clean up some textures and i was finally able to clean and upscale decently lazulis city ground textures
https://imgur.com/a/SIBIkb7

[linckandrea]

New update


changelog:
lazulis city floor textures cleaned and upscaled(added a bump effect where needed)

many other textures with upscaling artifacts have been cleaned
added upscaled textures(weapons, gurak ship)
added more upscaled armor textures

Download PC

Download UpscaledArmors