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1200 images done. it makes no sense really. on average each image takes ≈20s to complete, i can even watch it in real-time how it finishes each image (so its not a calculation error if i just look at what it says for each image and how long it took to complete it, it seems correct.) if the average is ≈20s (some images takes 5 seconds, some images takes 40s), it should have taken around 11h, yet it has taken far more hours and far more hours are left. Edit: looked over it a bit more, a few takes 1 minute, so maybe the average is a little above 20s actually, but even if the average is 30s it should have been done already.

i use TGA2TPC, highest quality. it hasnt seem to slowed down, its the same speed as it was in the start.

i'll have the first version up on Nexus Mods tomorrow evening i suspect. Wasn't expecting converting to tpc to be so slow, i'm on a recent CPU and it has taken me the whole day to convert, so far, 800 tga files to tpc, so it'll likely take me 2 days to convert all 2000. I've converted mods to other formats like .tex and whatnot before, usually this is done in 3 minutes for 2000-2500 'ish textures.

around 1950 textures are mostly done, gonna go over some of the skyboxes again though, make them 2048x2048 since it just looked quite a lot better.

nvm, it needed the textures as .tpc, loads fine! Edit: apart from some of the really large files it works.

Looks great. If you need any kind of texture work, let me know and i'll help you out.

Is it possible to get textures to load with the .mdl with kotorblender? if so how? I have set the path to the textures (.png) in Preferences. I have also copied the swpc_tex_tpa.erf to the folder of the unpacked models since kotorblender seems to reference it in its settings. i also made folder called /textures with the .png files, also in the mdl folder. I tried Missing Files too, but it doesnt seem to load anything. Thanks

There were around 215 of these super tiny textures for implants etc, all done! Wasnt going to do these ultra small textures since i thought it would be too difficult to get anything decent out of them, but i think it turned out pretty good. And it is noticeable in game, especially anything that goes on your head.

That's true, it's a big mesh, i'd say it still looks more detailed than my previous 4K texture for it. So its not only about resolution but the quality of the texture. For Morrowind this was very evident where my 2K textures looked around 2x as detailed as the 4K upscales people had made for certain larger things like large walls etc. This is a really good 4K upscale vs my 2K image: 56037-1740009478-1968189747.gif (1280×1280) I also tried a 512x512 version of this mod, and the quality increase, even if it was now often the same resolution as the original textures, was quite big.

it's currently 2048x2048

yes this is not an AI upscale, it's AI that recreates the textures, that's why textures like clothing which were previously drawn/painted can instead have realistic materials applied, like leather and realistic fabric etc. Re-modelling is beyond the scope of the mod. I am aware that some meshes has seams etc, like most games from early 2000.. Not a huge issue, at least not to me. The skin tones might need a little bit more red, i'll try that. As for download size, for most people i dont think this should be an issue in 2025 where game sizes are easily over 100GB.. My other mods are 2-3GB, this might be similar in size (haven't really looked), should take 1-2 minutes to download, even if you don't have the best possible internet (i certainly dont have the worst, but not the best connection either, for me my Morrowind mod which is 2.3GB takes less than 1 minute). To split it up is a bad idea because of how cumbersome it will be to update all packages and keep track of it etc, and i often do frequent updates to my mods, especially after release. I can do a 1024x1024 version though. Edit: right, this is TGA so it will be larger due to that. I might look into conversion into the original format with DXT compression. Though that will be at a later stage when i feel that the mod wont get more updates.

Carth and general improvement of crates, walls, damage decals

they're pretty much 1:1. but if you have a more specific idea of how to improve them i can give it a shot for sure.

Some more in-game screens

I know i started a topic like 2 years ago or something about doing a remaster / retexture, but i never got far into it. So I recently started over again using the new AI model i have been working on for the last 2'ish years on and off, the recent update made it really good at doing clothing. This retexture will be similar to my other remasters i've made in the last years (Jedi Knight 2, Thief 2,Morrowind and Gothic 2). So basically the full game retextured, maybe apart from the smallest stuff which doesnt make sense to retexture. I'm maybe 70% done or so. 1600+ textures so far, but some needs to be remade again or needs fixes. Some examples attached

ah yes, could be fixed in photoshop perhaps, or i will remake it. something new just came out called ControlNet which will make things a bit different from now on when it comes to replicating.

that's why i like it, the whole randomness of it, of course the result is not always what i want but it's so easy to just try again i'm also not sure i'm too interest in creating 1:1 copies of artwork, i find it immensely boring to just do the same, though i do think it must be within reason and that it has to be done with good taste. i've never done any mod for any game that tries to recreate the original content 1:1...

yeah, color isn't really an issue, just the noise. i denoised the hell out of the original images haha. how it works is that it uses noise in images to "dream" from, pretty much like how when you close your eyes and you are getting sleepy/dreamy, eventually dreams will start to form from the noise under your eyelids. if you just feed it shapes it will see the shapes and start adding details to it, you can draw a very crude figure and turn it into Tom Cruise or a supermodel, you can guide it in text too.

yes, that's how these are done, i feed it the original image (well my upscaled and denoised version), then i render over (a selectable change from 0-100% i tend to stay at around 30-55%) over it with my model. Your texture can be used to add details, absolutely it looks great! edit: it's 2048x2048 which makes it harder + very "noisy" texture, it's possible though, would have to be denoised.. i will probably mostly work with 1024x1024 for these textures, maybe do 2048 for some specific ones, or do upscaling with denoise/sharpening A.I. AI doesn't do alpha at all.

this was in similar bad shape.. not finished but: some examples of what my AI model can do Imgur: The magic of the Internet

smoothed, as in blurred? Not sure i understand still working on improving the model.

Some examples did my own AI model that can make doors and wall panels, spaceship hulls, consoles etc, within the press of a prompt. here are a few (not all will be used for KOTOR) [/img]

Excellent! Many thanks