X-Men Legends II HD

[Zombie]

During my last playthrough of X-Men Legends II, I decided to play around with upscaling the textures.  The results are pretty nice and have been cleaned up considerably, so it's finally time to release the pack publicly.  The pack is a 4x DDS upscale with tons of manual edits and fixes for the UI textures.

Please note that the pack does not modify the controller buttons.  The Xbox One buttons you see in the comparison screenshots were created by Phazon UI.  Phazon can be used to create button prompts for pretty much any controller & keyboard/mouse bindings you can think up.  It currently supports X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse and about 30 other Gamecube & Wii games.

Download Links

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4x DDS [Google Drive]
4x DDS [Mega]

Comparisons
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Revision History

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v1.2 06/01/2020
• Created 20 new environmental textures that included text -- they are located in the "new" folder for easy removal if you'd prefer the original textures
• Created 2 new tile textures -- they are located in the "new" folder for easy removal if you'd prefer the original textures
• Color correction/noise pass on most textures
• Replaced Gamecube buttons with a new, cleaner set

v1.1 05/09/2020
• Improved 36 environmental textures that included text
• Improved a menu screen splash

v1.0 05/04/2020
• Initial release

Credits

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Stone tiles by the3rdSequence, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Stone tiles have been postprocessed and modified to better match the texture being replaced
https://www.the3rdsequence.com/texturedb/texture/76/stone+tiles/

Gamecube controller button prompts derived from assets made by Toomai for https://www.ssbwiki.com/, and have been authorized for use.
https://www.ssbwiki.com/User_talk:Toomai

Phazon UI used to construct the modified controller UI
https://discord.gg/UQTyjra

[ewzzy]

Fantastic work here! Looks great!

[Zombie]

Found some time to clean up some of the environmental textures with text in them, so v1.1 is up with minor improvements to a few dozen textures + a menu splash. You can see a quick comparison below



This comparison also includes the one remaining texture I'm not particularly happy with: the tiles (there's actually a few of those tile textures, but that's neither here nor there). I'm currently in the process of playing with a few different ways to clean up that texture to improve it. It's the only upscaled level texture that I've found with the potential for significant improvement. Hopefully I'll have something better for the tiles soon.

(05-06-2020, 10:32 PM)ewzzy Wrote: Fantastic work here! Looks great!

Thanks! Appreciate it

[Zombie]

v1.2 is now up. Most textures had another post-processing pass to clean them up where appropriate. 20 textures with text have been redrawn. 2 tile textures have been replaced. New textures are located in their own folder for easy removal, if desired. Gamecube buttons have also been replaced by a cleaner set

[michaelpegaso]

Thanks

[Chester1994]

The upscale looks great with the style of the game. Nice!

[Zombie]

(06-02-2020, 12:20 PM)Chester1994 Wrote: The upscale looks great with the style of the game. Nice!

Thanks!

And I absolutely agree, the original artists did a great job with the textures and the results turned out very nice, imo

[toby109tt]

Looking good.
Some textures look a bit crunchy but that's alright =D

[Zombie]

(06-22-2020, 01:33 AM)toby109tt Wrote: Looking good.
Some textures look a bit crunchy but that's alright =D

Thanks.  Unfortunately, upscaling isn't a perfect science.  I looked through the textures a few times to try to clean up the major problem textures, but if there's anything else you come across that's especially gross you can let me know and I'll look into it.