Yesterday we informed you about a new HD Texture Pack for Max Payne. And today, I’m happy to report that modders are currently working on AI-enhanced HD texture packs for two classic games; Final Fantasy 7 and Hexen.
Let’s start with the Final Fantasy 7 HD Texture Pack. This pack will be created by CaptRobau, will be using Gigapixel and after some initial tests CaptRobau was able to upscale FF7’s low-res pre-rendered field backgrounds by 400%.
On the other hand, the Hexen HD Texture Pack is created by grandgreed and will be Neural Upscaling techniques, similar to those that were used for the HD Texture Pack for Doom. According to the modder, the main purpose of this pack will be the “preservation of details and lack of third-party modifications, only close view of what was conceived by designers since the beginning.”
There isn’t currently any ETA on when these HD Texture Packs will be released but we’ll be sure to keep you posted. Until then you can find below some comparison screenshots between the vanilla and the modded versions of Final Fantasy 7 and Hexen.
Here are some additional screenshots from the modded versions of these two games.
Final Fantasy 7
Hexen
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I loved Hexen and Haxan is my favorite Halloween movie.
No interest in the Final Fruitery games but Hexen looks good. I missed playing that one back in the day. Was it good? The reviews say it was pretty bad but it may have been patched since then.
Well, imagine having weak ineffective weapons mostly melee, imagine all enemies being taller than you and take alot of hits, imagine all maps being dark corridors where you have to find some switches in order to unlock 1/5 of the puzzle, imagine having to look around to find those switches, but wait there is more, those switches could open up something in some other level so you have to go back through multiple levels to figure out if something opened and look for switches there that were visible before.
In other words its the dark souls of finding switches and where to go…..not to mention everything looks alike.
Sounds like a no-play for me from what you say and what I read about it today. Thanks for the input.
It’s a nice game. Give it a try if possible.
If you can somehow grab a HEXEN.wad file from the Internet, and then install the “Doomsday” engine, and place the above .wad file under it’s directory, then you should be able to play the game/demo (if you want to try it)
Off Topic.
@JOHN, even AMD has announced 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Mobile Processors.
2nd Gen Ryzen Mobile Processors: Featuring world’s fastest processor for ultrathin laptops. Have a peek::
https://www.techpowerup.com/251243/amd-kicks-off-2019-offering-complete-mobile-portfolio-with-ryzen-athlon-and-a-series-processors-for-notebooks-and-chromebooks
Final fantasy 7 definitely needed that those background looks bad on high resolutions
Blood Omen 1 and Soul Reaver 1 would also benefit tremendously from higher rez textures. Same with System Shock 1.
GOD YES!!! I love Blood Omen 1, super underrated game, and a pain to run on newer systems. Too bad it never released on GOG or Steam.
in cold blood would benefit tremendously
Hexen 2 would be awesome!
there is a hd mod for hexen 2
Link please
someone thought “lets improve the textures of a game that all characters look like they run on a different graphics engine” Surely that wont make it look weird.
Also someone else thought “you know what needs texture upping? None of those classisc old school fps, but the one no one plays and has the least amount of videos and mods.
Give me this for Thief 1 and 2
“There isn’t currently any ETA”
These look amazing btw.
On the forum, it says that the initial release should see the light of day in a week or two if I`m not mistaken.
Originally said “is” but it’s been changed. Incorrect or not, it didn’t read right.
Good info though.
how can i use esegran? (this tipe of upscaling)
HEXEN?????????? Damn, this brings back memories…
Final Fantasy 9 too please!
Already happening: https://imgur.com/gallery/K1R3wJZ
This. Would absolutely love it.
The nice thing with FFIX if I remember correctly. SE said they actually made the assets in 1080p. Shouldn’t be too hard
Those assets are mostly lost. Square didn’t made a backup of them and the HDD they were stored on got destroyed. That’s why the remaster just uses upscaled PS1 assets.
So what happens when you do this with a modern game?
Indeed. It’s a very good dark fantasy old-school shooter though. I played this game few months back, but I would love to try this new “HD Texture Pack”, provided it is finished and released to the public. *nostalgia*
i tried so many times to finish it and i always get bored of looking for switches in mazes and give up.
Yeah, I agree on that part though…It becomes monotonous and repetitive, since we have to traverse through different levels, and keep on finding switches to progress further.
I sincerely hope they do the same for Blade OF Darkness.
blood 1 duke nukem 3d and heretic please 🙂
Waiting someone working texture mods for NOLF1…and final fantasy 8 and old resident evil too and dino crisis…
NOLF1!! Hell yess!!
Please FF7 now oh god.
@John, some off topic news: Hitman HD Enhanced Collection confirmed
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/64352/hitman-hd-enhanced-collection-confirmed-4k-60fps/index.html
https://twitter.com/Hitman/status/1081188502237339650/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1081188502237339650&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tweaktown.com%2Fnews%2F64352%2Fhitman-hd-enhanced-collection-confirmed-4k-60fps%2Findex.html
It’s only for PS4/Xbox One 😉
AH yes, my bad….I didn’t read that article properly.
Wow, thanks for the video. Not sure how you found my comment though, because this a 1 MONTH OLD topic, lol !
**surprised**
The result is awesome
@john….More off Topic news. INTEL is also leaking a lot of info on their upcoming processors at CES 2019.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13774/intels-keynote-at-ces-2019-10nm-ice-lake-lakefield-snow-ridge-cascade-lake
https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/655981/intel-reveals-its-10nm-ice-lake-core-stacked-lakefield-cpus-project-athena-laptops/
https://www.techpowerup.com/251301/intel-expands-its-9th-gen-core-desktop-processor-lineup-with-core-i5-9400-and-i5-9400f
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-lakefield-cpu-combines-fast-and-economical-cores.html
https://wccftech.com/intel-10nm-hvm-ice-lake-soc-mobility/
Hexen’s neural texture project is here.
Download already available.