MM7 ESRGAN attempt

[Dragonfly]

Hi, i'm working on upscaling the textures using ESRGAN.

Things done:
- downloaded python, models, etc from ESRGAN
- upscaled BITMAPS.LOD images
- created a visual c++ proj to update the BITMAPS.HWL byte to byte with these images

Next steps:
- water (transparency missing from water tiles)
- d3d sprites
- icons?

Screenshots (I'm using GrayFace Patch 2.2) (thanks GrayFace for keeping the mm flame alive).

[unknownone]

congratulations for your effort, it seems to work well!

[Dragonfly]

Well, I finished with the d3dbitmap.hwl. I upscaled the textures with ESRGAN (0.6 ratio). And then modified the tiles that have transparency to 32 bits with alpha to fix water & lava tiles.

You can download it here:
https://mega.nz/#!rnJiwKiS!hmTRAHaR_EW4 ... pZJzVDfxok
480mb

You have to use d3d randering and when using the GrayFace patch you have to edit mm7.ini
NoD3DBitmapHwl=0
If you don't do that, MM will use BITMAPS.LOD (no d3d).

[Pixoala]

Nice work ! Obviously didn't work with the mm678 merge but the result is very cool !

[Dragonfly]

Screenshots using Grayface patch 2.3 new UI!!! Great work GrayFace!!!

[uljira]

Wow, are all the textures done? I'll give it a shot tonight. I was looking for exactly something like this, this is amazing!! Thank you.

[Dragonfly]

All the ground and building textures. Not yet the sprites (NPCs, monsters, trees, 2d things that appear on the 3d world). There's a limitation for the sprites: when upscaling them, they get bigger on the 3d world and on the UI (identify monster). The 3d engine needs to be patched.

[uljira]

All the ground and building textures. Not yet the sprites (NPCs, monsters, trees, 2d things that appear on the 3d world). There's a limitation for the sprites: when upscaling them, they get bigger on the 3d world and on the UI (identify monster). The 3d engine needs to be patched.

How about upscaling them and then lowering them back to the original resolution? Kinda like supersampling, there should be a way to have the same resolution while also benefiting of the upscaling in the first place, no?

[Kraust]

hello. i am try upscale texture too. it is my work. what do you think about it? Should I continue?

[GrayFace]

New MMArchive version supports bitmaps.hwl, which can have 24-bit HD bitmaps in it. Color correction is automatically applied by the patch.

[DaveHer]

New MMArchive version supports bitmaps.hwl, which can have 24-bit HD bitmaps in it. Color correction is automatically applied by the patch.

Will The MM7 Engine support 24 HD bitmaps? Thanks For the new Tools.
David

[Kraust]

how you see - yes

[Dragonfly]

New MMArchive version supports bitmaps.hwl, which can have 24-bit HD bitmaps in it. Color correction is automatically applied by the patch.

Great Grayface!!!
It'd would be heaven if we can put hd sprites on sprites.lod or d3dbitmap.hwl. Do you think it would be possible some day?

[GrayFace]

Aand here's a conversion I made with Topaz A.I. Gigapixel: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tXWQS ... xvZjn4QBZB
Some tiles need manual editing, also Hhp2* textures weren't included at all, because they contain a texture crudely resized by NWC, which becomes all blocky after Topaz.

It'd would be heaven if we can put hd sprites on sprites.lod or d3dbitmap.hwl. Do you think it would be possible some day?

HD paletted sprites are already possible. Kraust is working on them. I do want to add support for 32-bit sprites with transparency one day.

[Kraust]

[Kraust]

[tomchen1989]

Excellent!
I'm not sure if the UI/items/character portraits are able to be remastered?

[unknownone]

Wow, that's impressive!! Great work!

[Kraust]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Xc8OL ... w0HzA1Xi2c

without ground !!! 990mb size ))

[Kraust]

some texture need edit manual. but it's increase more little details.