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

[Safirion]

(04-30-2017, 09:22 AM)Bighead Wrote: That someone was me, I created that pack to test that PR with. And yes I'm going to redo/reup the DDS pack. That pack you linked has some problems because of some things I've long overlooked with my script. Textures with uncommon dimensions (like 704x704) have 1 too many internal mipmaps. Some of the dynamic mipmaps (lower levels with different images) use the top level to generate the missing end of the chain when it should be using the last mipmap in the chain. Here's a sneak peek that explains the issue better using hypatia's WW pack as an example: http://i.imgur.com/hSts3aM.jpg A smaller issue is opaque textures compressed with DXT1 can have significantly lesser quality than textures compressed with DXT5 (which I can only assume is a bug with DDS Utilities), so there will be an alternative to use Compressonator by AMD which creates higher quality DXT1 textures, and is pretty much on par with "nvdxt.exe" when it comes to the quality of DXT5 textures. Compressonator won't completely replace DDS Utilities, as its still needed for "stitch.exe" and "detach.exe" to work with and create custom internal mipmaps. I have yet to find another program with this functionality.

I've been working on a new version for the past few months that will address these issues + generate slightly higher quality mipmaps, and I was hoping to finish it so it's release lines up with the merge of this PR, but unfortunately its not ready yet. In the meantime this pack can be used which fixes most issues, but I still need to go through and make sure all dynamic mips are correct with the PNG pack before I know for sure that the mips in the DDS pack are correct.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2qp7fec8wv40rk3/SX4-Internal-mipmaps+%28%2Bfixes%29.7z

Oh ! Thank you so much ! I expect that it will reduce the amount of ram consomation because my PC not have so much :p 

Thank you for this project and this maintenance through the years