Earlier this month, we informed you about an ESRGAN mod for the first Half-Life that used AI-enhanced techniques in order to improve the game’s environmental textures. And today, we are presenting you another AI-enhanced texture pack that aims to overhaul the textures of NPCs.
Modder ‘LeonelC’ ran the NPC textures through various Neural Upscaling programs, mixed the best results, and made the final touches himself in order to get the most sharp-looking textures without ruining the original material.
Unfortunately the modder did not release any screenshots or videos to showcase the improved textures (other than this promo image). Still, Half-Life fans can use this pack alongside the ESRGAN textures for the environments in order to play an authentic and remastered version of this classic first-person shooter.
Those interested can download the Half-Life NPCs Texture Pack from here.
Enjoy!
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Shows how much effort these ‘modders’ put into ‘their own’ stuff
“Unfortunately the modder did not release any screenshots or videos to showcase the improved textures”
How about you take the time to make a mod then. Jesus how entitled are you?
Even these mods take time and effort to clean up the weirdness and noise created by the process. Or are you just a garbage person? You seem like a garbage person.
I never knew screenshotting models in-game and making comparison was harder than running the texture maps through someone else’s creations and then sharpening the finalised product through photoshop. Oh how entitled I am, sorry!
You seem like a garbage moron.
“entitled”? This is not Reddit.
Why even put this article out if you’re not going to bother downloading the Mod and showing it off on screenshots, and all we do have provided for us is some potentially photoshopped promo-shot?
I never noticed the zombie headcrab has a skull imprint on it. Thanks Neural Upscaling!
AI Neutral Up Scaling? This abbr. amuses me :D.
All NPCs need neural upscaling.
Both Neural upscale packs combined. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/22050bcbd0ceb91990f2e97196538b71d4e8d62b41a16b857bdbe0d8ef29e0bf.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/54d311a132a755c82c7ce028908600d8836ca1ad14006cb4194f9d9fdbd30c74.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e6494535ca3663c22fab9dcb2d68209b7c438c8210b1f4fc13829d73fbaa9936.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/35a868ab6b875553f8a0528362aa22ea176a2475b77e8ed7259809c0516e74c9.png
For some reason the previously released texture pack doesn’t work for me 🙁
you must run it as a mod, place the folder inside halflife game folder and run it as a mod.
https://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/174/173041/Untitled-1231.png
But in this particular case, how come this is JOHN’s fault, when the modder himself has not released any screen shots or videos for this, in the first place ?
well posting news should be more than just copy pasting
This looks better and better. A new nostalgic golden age is upon us lmao
Dude! Seriously, stop being so fckn lazy, upload some screnshots or don’t fckn post your rubbish news.