Red Faction fans, here is something for you today. Captain Dagon has just released an AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack for the first Red Faction game that upscales all textures by 4X using AI techniques. Moreover, Dagon shared with us some screenshots, showcasing the new upscaled textures, that you can find below.
Now I have to say that some textures look great, while others – like the terrain textures – look really blurry and low-res. I don’t know if the original terrain textures looked worse than what is being shown here, however I was expecting better results for the terrain.
Here is what Dagon told us about those blurry textures:
“Every single texture has been up scaled by 4x but the job of the original artists was a bit poor on some textures, those floor textures where almost a blur on the original game and because of that is not posible to get more detail out of them although compared to the original textures, they look better.”
Still, this HD Texture Pack is pretty much essential for all those who want to replay this classic title. Red Faction came out in 2001 and this Texture Pack will slightly improve overall image quality (while also retain its original atmosphere).
All you have to do in order to install this pack is unzip the pack (that you can download from here), drop the files on the Main Red Faction folder next to the game Executables and run the game. The modder also recommends downloading Pure Faction in order to play the game at higher resolutions on modern systems.
Have fun everyone!
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I always liked this game. Even with me once saving with Hendrix just about to get killed, failing the mission, even though he was supposed to die on the same level just a minute later. 😀
That mod looks very good!
Thanks John for sharing, the file system inside the game was a big mess in general, duplicated textures everywhere, there might be a few elusive textures that where not converted, but I cant find them!
Sure, But the original ones where Maximum Crap, someone has to be as thick as two short planks to not see any benefit compared to the vanilla textures. 😉
Here are some Before and after shots.
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Thanks for posting these! My workplace filters out the images in the original article (if they’re there).
AI making old games look great again. I remember the great destruction in this game, we used to play MP in the office where I worked and it was fun.
I wonder how long before developers run this program and feed it back as a remaster…
Regardless, I really like how well some of these turn out.
I personally think they look worlds better. They’re so much easier to “read” and determine smaller details.
If the matrix has better textures when they drop me in, bring them on. These human overlords are getting stale anyway.
I swear these “retina” displays in my eye sockets are only 4k
Damn I loved this game as a kid. A buddy and I used to make tunnels from the explosives in the test mission just to see how far we could get. Such a great game.
Too bad from what I remember RF2 was nowhere near as good and the modern titles went 3rd person which I did not care for.
Why not red faction 2
If you manage to unpack the game files so i can access the textures, I will.
Im streaming the game as I go through the campaign with the pack on, some parts like the Offices look quite sharp.
Check it out: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/387631150