[Phredreeke]

As with last month's upscale pack for Duke Nukem 3D these are created with ESRGAN and custom PSP scripts.

There are no palswaps, so all enemies will appear using their base colors.



https://files.fm/f/upt9x8jh

[pagb666]

Phredreeke, on 10 March 2019 - 10:46 AM, said:

As with last month's upscale pack for Duke Nukem 3D these are created with ESRGAN and custom PSP scripts.

There are no palswaps, so all enemies will appear using their base colors.



https://files.fm/f/upt9x8jh

Whoops! You upscaled the unused enemy xD

Good job!

[Phredreeke]

I wouldn't have a clue, I don't think I've gotten further than to the second level.

[pagb666]

Phredreeke, on 10 March 2019 - 04:40 PM, said:

I wouldn't have a clue, I don't think I've gotten further than to the second level.

Fair enough, it takes some guts to stand this one (and its bugs)

[Tea Monster]

I appreciate the work you've put into this Phredreeke, and not to knock what you are doing, but Witchaven is a game where things look better with fewer pixels!

[MrFlibble]

Actually I think the upscales came out very good and faithful to the low-res originals, and look like something that could've been created back in the day.

[skitey]

@Phredreeke
very nice, as always

why u haven't done a doom enemy sprite upscale project? there is no skilled project for brutaldoom done yet only shitty 3d models

[pagb666]

Tea Monster, on 12 March 2019 - 02:46 AM, said:

I appreciate the work you've put into this Phredreeke, and not to knock what you are doing, but Witchaven is a game where things look better with fewer pixels!

Yep, specially the wall textures, they really need an IA upscale. What a pixellated mess... But the game already ran like ass with 4mb of ram back in the day, so I guess sacrifices had to be made.

[Phredreeke]

I think Tea Monsters meant the opposite (lower res = better)

 whaven-280-sidebyside.png (65.1K)
Number of downloads: 51

[Phredreeke]

I'm attempting to make the palswaps for this pack. Here's one of the goblins.

Can someone more familiar with the game tell me what other enemies have different color variations?

 tile0917.png (12.09K)
Number of downloads: 18

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Phredreeke, on 29 March 2019 - 08:00 AM, said:

I'm attempting to make the palswaps for this pack. Here's one of the goblins.

Can someone more familiar with the game tell me what other enemies have different color variations?

tile0917.png

Here you can find the monsters with palette swaps pictured.
http://dukertcm.com/.../witchaven.html

The "Desert goblin" uses a pink-ish palette swap. The Green Ogre does not appear in the whole game, so don't bother with it. The Midian warriors also come with blue and purple cloak palette swaps.

[Phredreeke]

Ok, I always assumed the knight was the player character.

The colors look a bit off compared to my attempts at extracting and reassembling palettes - note the ogre's tusks.

 redogre.png (23.1K)
Number of downloads: 3

Can you tell me which one of these better matches the desert goblin?

 tile0952.png (11.83K)
Number of downloads: 6  tile0954.png (11.39K)
Number of downloads: 10

[pagb666]

Phredreeke, on 30 March 2019 - 08:30 AM, said:

Can you tell me which one of these better matches the desert goblin?

tile0952.png tile0954.png

I'd say it is somewhere in between the two. Check 3:05 here:

[Phredreeke]

Thank you! Turns out it's the one on the left

Attached File(s)

•  scr-map4-0005.png (707.76K)
  Number of downloads: 26

[Phredreeke]

I looked at the Knights... The palette swap/color choices are really sloppy. Dark portions remain red even in the palette swaps. Here it is next to a preliminary upscale.

Attached File(s)

•  tile2572-sidebyside.png (28.51K)
  Number of downloads: 32

[MrFlibble]

The Witchaven sprites come out really good in the upscale.

Phredreeke, on 10 April 2019 - 03:02 PM, said:

The palette swap/color choices are really sloppy. Dark portions remain red even in the palette swaps.

This reminded me of how many paperdoll clothes sprites in Daggerfall have a similar issue. The default colour is blue, but its darkest shade is almost indistinguishable from the darkest shade of greenish-blue in DF's palette, probably even less so on old CRTs, so these two would get mixed up pretty often.

[Phredreeke]

Palswaps are a pain in the ass. Duke3D is nice about it in that the sections being swapped out are distinct (blues will rarely be mixed up with other parts of the palette) but in Blood you got at least three different shades of brown which depending on the PLU you use are swapped out for different things. As for Witchaven... even the original game's palswaps don't make much sense to me. See palswap 6 for example

 witchaven palette.png (5.01K)
Number of downloads: 10

I'm not gonna try to make this "PLU compatible", I'll just process a separate series of images for this palette swap

[Devon]

Hmm..

I put both the .zip and the folder aswell in autoload.

But it does not seem to load.

Im using the latest 1.01 of buildgdx.

I got alot of addon in autoload for blood and it works fine.

[Phredreeke]

The autoload folder should be in the same folder as Witchaven.

[Devon]

Phredreeke, on 14 April 2019 - 08:20 AM, said:

The autoload folder should be in the same folder as Witchaven.

It is

Btw did you solve the palette swap on monsters?

[Phredreeke]

Yeah, the next version will have working palswaps as well as several new upscaled item pickups

Check the video setup in game and ensure True Color Textures is turned on.

[Phredreeke]

Screenshots displaying newly upscaled textures
 scr-map2-0000.png (1.14MB)
Number of downloads: 65
 scr-map2-0001.png (998.45K)
Number of downloads: 54

[Phredreeke]

Alright, this has been sitting stagnant on my harddrive for a month or so while I've been working on other upscale packs, so I might as well release what I have.

Palswaps have been added for enemies, and a lot of pickups and level decorations have been added as well. No wall/floor/ceiling textures due to palswap issues

https://files.fm/f/9rhs8st6

[JOHN007]

This looks bloody brilliant!

Every upscale pack is a work of art.

Thanks again.

[Phredreeke]

Phredreeke, on 14 April 2019 - 06:51 AM, said:

I'm not gonna try to make this "PLU compatible", I'll just process a separate series of images for this palette swap

Or so I thought...




Left: original sprite (obviously)
Middle: New version
Right: Old version for comparison

[Phredreeke]

Been a long time since I last updated this.

Here's the new version. It has enemies, background tiles, a lot of decorative sprites and pickups and palswaps for nearly everything. There's even a bit of future proofing for when M210 adds Witchaven 2 support.

Note that you will need to copy the ZIP files found inside the download to the BuildGDX autoload directory. This to make it easier to select which set of upscales you want. Only use the files for the game you're playing.

https://www.moddb.co...pscale-pack-210

[Phredreeke]

Yoswin alerted me that I had missed one of the goblin palswaps. I have uploaded the missing sprites here http://s000.tinyuplo...794619817267751

[Tea Monster]

Why are you doing this?

The Witchaven art is an abomination and actually looks better the more pixelated it is.

And if Tea Monster is wanting less pixels, then:

1. The artwork is pretty damn substandard to start with.
2. It's The End Times.

[Phredreeke]

Apparently the game still has fans. Plus there was the challenge of getting the game's palswaps to work with it.

Spoiler

Also I get to annoy Blood fans wanting me to release a texture pack for that by releasing a texture pack for Witchaven instead lol

[Tea Monster]

That isn't annoying, that's heresy!!!