Xenoblade Chronicles HD Texture Pack v8.52 - (August 21, 2018)

[Echoes]

(12-15-2014, 02:31 PM)robmarko Wrote: Wow, that was it! Thank you so much

I'm glad you got it to work! Enjoy

(12-16-2014, 03:46 AM)BrunoFBK Wrote: First of all, I apologize for my English, which is bad, I am Brazilian, I am a designer and want to contribute to the project, I started a few days to test some other textures of my work, and I liked the results, I will provide slowly changes for I am working alone and with the highest possible levels because I have started this way, then I ask you to accept my changes because they will be a little exaggerated, but can please only the characters, I would ask, can sé which is put some images in first page to the public forum analysis is really the admins like it, so I can analyze changes, I will also work with the ground, grass and stones, always at the same level but without so many contrasts as the chars, which in the original are caricatured and I am changing a little this.

again apologize for my English, and for any word misunderstood, or at my request, and also apologize for anything that I have said wrongly.

Soon post photos of textures

Thank you

Since this is kind of a community project, we have no problem with anyone posting their textures here. In fact, we welcome it since we aren't very good when it comes to realistic textures. Feel free to do whatever you can and take your time.

[BrunoFBK]

Echoes Hello, thank you

I'm posting the first char model, Fiora with the partial images to give a preview and create curiosity, if properly accepted the proposal and like it put more pictures of progression, as I said, I would exaggerate a little turned into a real character in a real person, I calculated the textures and symmetry to generate a proportional scheme to Fiora design, but using virtual 3D textures with pigmentation and human countenance, somewhat resembles the idea of thorskan with extreme textures, but very simple, applied textures another character already assembled but with the original symmetry, thought of using oriental features, but did not like the result, also worked the armor, which would be the metal textures with all reflections and curves, was more difficult than the face, very difficult, but it was quiet, unfortunately I am still doing legs and white, I hope you're good.

I hope to contribute
Thank you

[Bighead]

All and any textures are welcome , no matter what you contribute it will be added to the pack in some form. If it's close enough to the original art, it will be added to the "main" part of the pack. This was decided even before my time so in respect to those before me I would like to keep it that way. Complete retextures that do not resemble the original art will be offered as optional textures. Environment textures I'd probably just include with the current environment pack because they are already optional and don't match with the original art (at least the colors somewhat do ).

[BrunoFBK]

Yes I thought about it, an optional package of the game if people like it, to more realistically, but as I said I will build ground, stones, grass and others, with the same quality, to contribute that is my intention, I can add something to look more real, some things can be contrasting and would have to be changed to not be totally different with a more realistic texture so obviously I will ask opnion of all of the textures of the world.

thx Bighead
sorry for my bad english :)

[Echoes]

I'm looking forward to seeing environment textures specifically!

And hey Bighead, since you already went through this, what were the "symptoms" your old HDD went through when it was dying? I've been hearing these clicks coming from my computer, followed by temporary freezes. Is my HDD down for the count? I scanned and fixed bad sectors, etc. which seem to have helped somewhat, but I'm really thinking this is it. I already saved all my textures and .psds to my portable HDD to avoid a heart attack and a terrible Christmas, just in case. It'll be a shame if it died, but I need to save up for a proper gaming PC anyway.

I'll see if my HDD wants to cooperate and re-install Photoshop (got corrupted, presumably because of the bad HDD) so I can continue doing stuff. Hopefully it works.

[BrunoFBK]

Between work with the characters'm editing a grass texture that I had, I do not remember where I got it, but it will do to the ground in places with tall grass, the fiora is not over, yet with many errors, so I'll post pictures of grass and also some rocks.

It's good you just copy the files in the HDD, it may stop suddenly

thx

[Bighead]

Yep Echoes those were the exact symptoms I experienced. Generally hearing a clicking sound is a very bad thing, means the head is bouncing back and forth failing to read the platter. Symptoms started with really long boot times, mouse occasionally freezing up when the hard drive was accessed, long delays when launching some programs, etc.. Same symptoms that can happen when a CD-ROM tries to read a beat up disc. When the drive failed to boot, I reinstalled Windows on my new drive and when trying to access the old one, it kept spitting out CRC redundancy errors. I recovered very little data off of it, so my suggestion is replace it ASAP! If you catch it quick enough you might even still be able to clone it if you wanted. I highly suggest going with an SSD for your OS drive as it feels like the biggest upgrade I've seen in years in terms of speed. You can get a 240GB crucial m500 (I bought this) or intel 520 series for around $100. If you want to drop the cash for more capacity or faster read/write speeds then go nuts. If capacity is a bigger concern, then Seagate (maybe others) makes some interesting hybrid drives (a.k.a. SSHD). Faster than a HDD but not quite as fast as a full blown SSD. My brother picked up a 4TB for $170 and uses it for mostly game installations.

@BrunoFDK: Well that's certainly an interesting approach, and it looks very good, very realistic. But now that I see it, it raises a small concern. Depending on what textures you do, how many textures you do, and because your art style deviates extremely far from the original art/this pack, I'm not entirely sure how to go about incorporating them in the long run, because your work is too good to just divide up across the pack and optional folders. Mixing the current "cartoonish" HD textures with "realistic" HD textures may look a little strange, but I suppose that fully depends on which textures are which style at any given point in the game. I also don't want to judge your work and say "let's use this, but not this" or "make this optional, and make this mandatory" since all your work will be in that style. Plus since you are doing environments too, it could mean splitting your work up between "main pack" and "environment pack", which might not be a problem, but maybe. Another possible option, your textures can be in their own pack to keep your work together, it depends on what you would want. But, I guess all of this is something we can worry about for later. Keep up the good work!

[Echoes]

(12-17-2014, 07:24 PM)Bighead Wrote: Yep Echoes those were the exact symptoms I experienced. Generally hearing a clicking sound is a very bad thing, means the head is bouncing back and forth failing to read the platter. Symptoms started with really long boot times, mouse occasionally freezing up when the hard drive was accessed, long delays when launching some programs, etc.. Same symptoms that can happen when a CD-ROM tries to read a beat up disc. When the drive failed to boot, I reinstalled Windows on my new drive and when trying to access the old one, it kept spitting out CRC redundancy errors. I recovered very little data off of it, so my suggestion is replace it ASAP! If you catch it quick enough you might even still be able to clone it if you wanted. I highly suggest going with an SSD for your OS drive as it feels like the biggest upgrade I've seen in years in terms of speed. You can get a 240GB crucial m500 (I bought this) or intel 520 series for around $100. If you want to drop the cash for more capacity or faster read/write speeds then go nuts. If capacity is a bigger concern, then Seagate (maybe others) makes some interesting hybrid drives (a.k.a. SSHD). Faster than a HDD but not quite as fast as a full blown SSD. My brother picked up a 4TB for $170 and uses it for mostly game installations.

Oooh boy. For now, I'm not having any issues when booting up. I get the freezing when accessing stuff sometimes, though it usually just "clicks"  and everything stops. I can move the mouse around and click/drag things when this happens, but If I try accessing something with it, it freezes. I haven't experienced the clicks yet since my last attempt at fixing sectors, and errors, but I know there's no fixing it. I managed to re-install Photoshop at least, hahaha. Since I only recently got a job and am kinda strapped for cash at the moment, and I do need the storage, I think I'll go with that SSHD (didn't even know those were a thing!), and I'll get an SSD down the line. Thanks for the recommendations, it really helped!

[BrunoFBK]

Use the ssd to main installed windows, and purchase normal external HDD, you will not always use the external HDD, prolonging its life, use only when necessary and when editing or playing games, in my case use the external games, emulators, programs (portable) and files in general, freeze the main, and I have never had problems so obviously use portable programs installed on the outside, so when I do not need, do not use.


Good luck friend

[BrunoFBK]

Bighead Thanks for the compliment, it's okay, I commented that the rest of the environment, although very detailed, and I want to make the most real and beautiful possible (is what I want, I hope to get) this will not be so far from the game, because the game has the real characteristics, but little worked in the video game, will only seem more real I hope, from what I understand the producers divided the designers environment and characters look different but after some time did not realize, I'll try not to modify some things, I promise, so it can be used and contribute, I'm short on time so I will slowly, my plan is this: go to places at a time, extract the textures and start working one by one, I can not establish a style without seeing the whole, then I will create beauty standards always connected to the real nature, and put the previews to know what you think, I hope to please, anything I change something. All works were many great, I'm afraid to create something that has been done, I'm creating a new library for private use but everything will post and make available, without intent to override anything, hope you like it, can be divided into two packages: characters and environment, I believe that the environment will not be so different, just more real (I hope to do a good job) I am available for comments.


thx