TSL Textures Remastered

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

Peragus hanger final...

 

 

 

 

 

 

FYI: The below asteroids and star backdrop does look brighter in game and the asteroids less like 2D cardboard cutouts.

 

 

FYI: the long thin shadows in the below screens I believe to be generated by the weapon models I'm using. I'm hoping that they can be "fixed" via texturing in order to turn them off, possibly by using specular as the textures don't appear to be using any -- haven't really checked yet...

 

 

FYI: I did do a version of the Sith Commando tex that retains a steel sheen as the orginal only with better fine details. Personally I prefer the black as it seems more like what a commando would wear as apposed to bright shiny silver armor :/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Zhaboka 91]

Great work! You could see if you could incorporate Vasilii's Improved Peragus Asteroids into your mod - he's done a great job and it would really complement your textures well.

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

Was your brightness turned down? Screenshots look kinda dark.

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

@ VarsityPuppet:

 

No the graphics brightness setting is at its default.

 

How the screenshots are shown varies from program to program. For example if I view these screenshots within Windows Photo Viewer, then they are too bright, so much so that the blackness of the space backdrop becomes large discoloured pixels. If I view them via Paint.NET they look as they do as if I am viewing them here. All this via the same desktop yet each program has different color profiles it is using to base how to show the pic on screen. 

 

But as I said, it is brighter in game, even with the updated textures altering how the scene is rendered.

 

@ Zhaboka:

 

Things are brighter in game, the screenshots in particular when it comes to space, seems far more darker out of game. 

 

Anyway, I just got through updating the asteroid textures and I'm not keen on changing them as it means that I would have to work on them to fit the rest of the textures as Vasilii created his asteroid replacer to work with the vanilla textures. In that context they work well, in my updated textures they may not but rather stick out like a sore thumb.

 

If after a while I decide that the asteroid texture isn't good enough, then I'll try and update using Vasilii's texture instead .

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

Peragus external...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

Harbinger external set...

 

I spent additional time on the Harbinger tex, redoing it as a 2048x2048 texture using some new techniques to add additional detail to it. The ship is so big that the 1024x1024 version was struggling to make do. I think the space backdrop is also 2048x2048 on account of the Ebon Hawk tutorial section where one of the space textures is used at the wrong scale; meant I had to increase the size of others to get it to work which also diminished the brightness of the smaller stars. This then affects the perceived brightness of the screenshots below but it isn't as dark in-game.

 

Anyway, I also redid the Ebon Hawk tex to the larger size to increase detail; the result is shown in the previous screenshots posted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also created this version of one of the screenshots to use as my notebook's 1366x768 desktop:

 

 

 

 

 

[milestails 264]

Harbinger looks more decrepit!

 

Fantastic work sic!

[Fallen Guardian 27]

Peragus looks much more worn and realistic. Nice work.

[Zhaboka 91]

Things are brighter in game, the screenshots in particular when it comes to space, seems far more darker out of game. 

 

Anyway, I just got through updating the asteroid textures and I'm not keen on changing them as it means that I would have to work on them to fit the rest of the textures as Vasilii created his asteroid replacer to work with the vanilla textures. In that context they work well, in my updated textures they may not but rather stick out like a sore thumb.

 

If after a while I decide that the asteroid texture isn't good enough, then I'll try and update using Vasilii's texture instead .

 

I understand. Yours look awesome so far, too. Good luck either way!

 

That Harbinger looks much more beat-up now. Awesome!

 

[InSidious 237]

This looks... amazing. Please, keep up the fantastic work.

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

Well, thanks for all the positive comments folks.

 

I've been busy for a while with other things but thought I'd spend some time on the weekend to finish some things for the Ebon Hawk so as to make some before and after screens to show. The ones below are the Ebon Hawk on leaving Peragus -- I'll show the T3 tutorial wrecked version at a later date.

 

BTW: the after screens below have been brightened slightly as to make it more like how the textures appear in-game.

 

 

 

 

FYI: the hyperspace texture is brighter and has more detail as it were, in-game. I based it off of the only reference I'm aware of for what hyperspace is supposed to look like, the original Star Wars film. As far as I know that is the only one that bothers to show what hyperspace is supposed to be like and it wasn't bright neon blue in any way .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

Ebon Hawk internal continued...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

Final of this set.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FYI: There are multiple version for the after as I did multiple versions of the scaffolding texture as I figured it would bother some people. The first one is the current one I'm going for, though the second one is also good in my opinion. The idea is that there the mining robots set to repair the Ebon Hawk repaired the outer hull ok, but when it came to the inside they had to erect temporary walls instead of proper wall, ceiling and floor cladding for the repaired areas. The temporary walls have structural supports along with wiring and foil insulation to protect against the coldness of space. The last one doesn't have this and is closest to the original texture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FYI: the hyperdrive texture looks a lot better in-game, has more of a specular sheen to it along with being black. I figured that the Ebon Hawk had to be called that for a reason, so I decided to give it a black heart (hyperdrive) .

 

 

 

[Sith Holocron 2,473]

^{I know you've tried to stay as close to the original textures in your previous work. Why change around the deck plating in your current shots?}

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

Because whoever at Obsidian did the texture work should have realised less is more. And that's my nice answer .

 

Plus, I couldn't get the other texture with the holes to look good and match everything else.

[MrPhil 58]

These deck plating and wall platings too makes much more sense to me. They get a much more uniform feel, as the grates and strange colored walls felt out of place to me. Not to keen on these scaffoldings, however. I'll have to see for myself in game to see if they bother me lol. Your explanation makes sense though.

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

The original darker floor and wall textures are meant to be newer "patch" pieces installed by the robots for repairs. It might be a bit harder to spot via the screens, but they're still present as it were in my updates. I've gone with a different wall patch texture, as it also gets used on the floor in places -- the newer one makes more sense to me. But, it and the floor texture are actually less worn, darker and have more of a specular gloss to them compared to the other floor and wall textures -- which you can see from some of the shots (not all) depending on the lighting in the area.

 

Honestly though, there were just too many different styles of textures in use in particular for the floor. I know they were trying to go for a certain feel with it, in that the Ebon Hawk is supposed to of seen better days; but, it was just taken a step too far. If I could, I would still make use of the other floor texture with the holes, just in other ways. Actually, would love to switch / replace what textures are used and how for certain things. For example, I really don't like how the new patch floor texture is used at he wrong scale in places and on the wall in one area. I would really like to change the scale and replace that wall tex with something else more appropriate.

 

But I think this is how it is going to be for now.

[milestails 264]

Very impressive sic!

[Zhaboka 91]

It took me seven years and what must be twenty playthroughs of TSL to just now realize that that scaffolding is where the ship was damaged in the Prologue. Wow. Mind blown.

 

Great work! I prefer Alternative #2 for the scaffolding, but your main-concept one looks really good!

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

So, I've been busy with my texture work, currently focused on doing NPCs -- aliens. But, to have a break I switched over to doing some of the effect textures; one of which was the Sith Lightning...

 

 

 

 

Feel the full power of the dark-side of the force! 

 

 

 

 

I think so far it's turned out pretty good considering this was a quick mockup test I did to see how it initially looks in-game.

 

And yes, that is Nar Shaddaa in the background .

[sELFiNDUCEDcOMA 98]

Before I start showing before and after of alien textures, I thought I'd show my early test-case in way of (human) characters...

 

 

 

 

The following before and after have the same background textures used to better highlight the difference, as the effect can be subtle -- I especially don't want to be too heavy handed with human faces; FYI: this is of Jana Lorso the Cerka executive at Telos Citadel station.

 

 

 

This set best shows off the subtle specular applied to the face to give some dynamic definition -- you won't see it that well in the side by side shots, but the hair actually has a sheen to it that changes depending upon how you look at it.

 

 

 

 

 

In case anyone is interested how my Sith Lightning effect ended up... FYI: the screens also show the new Quarren and Gamorrean textures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

With each passing moment you become more my favorite modder!

 

(The phrasing is inspired from the Sith Lightning)

[Fallen Guardian 27]

Looking good. I especially like the work you've done with the statues and the sign behind Lorso.

[MrPhil 58]

Can you change the lightning "around the characters"? Right now, everything looks crazy hi-def and then we see the white-ish/blue-ish blob around the NPC's. Kind of breaks the spell...

Edited August 27, 2013 by MrPhil

[Vriff 21]

Love it, absolutely love it. One thing though, are you releasing all of those alternate scaffolding?  If so, would you be opposed to making a version with it invincible? I always play through the game with a mod that does this because I like the feeling of a newer hawk, one closer to the K1 version.