Modder ‘FaeSky’ has released an AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Version 3.3.5. According to the modder, this pack improves the quality of over 14,634 textures by using AI techniques.
Going into more details, this Texture Pack upscales the resolution of textures by two times. The modder used Video2x in order to upscale them. Moreover, FaeSky used the realsr_ncnn_vulkan driver to maintain detail.
Do note that this pack only improves the textures of environments. As such, it includes textures for dungeons, environments, tileset and the world. It does not feature any textures for creatures, NPC, spells, particles or items. Additionally, and in order to prevent any possible game crashes, the new textures are limited to 1024x resolution.
Now as with all AI-enhanced HD Texture Packs, this one retains the same art style as the vanilla game. Similarly, its visual improvements are not THAT great. I mean, the new textures are definitely better, but they are not THAT much better.
Still, I’m pretty sure that some WoW players will be interested in this pack. So go ahead and download it from here.
Below you can find a comparison screenshot between the improved and the vanilla textures (the carpet looks noticeably better now).
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8.6GB of nothingness tbh.. Is it supposed to be just for the WoTLK content? I honestly thought that textures werent allowed to mod in WoW, at least in the official game.
It sounds like it improves upon WotLK environment textures (they specifically mention the rug). And moding textures maybe questionable… I know they will and have banned people for modding models in the past, but I’m not sure about textures.
This is for hacked, private servers. Not retail.
Thanks for clearing that up.
“I mean, the new textures are definitely better”
I had expectations for this article but that’s one big waste of data. The only way I could see ANY difference was loading the two images in different tabs and clicking back and forth. Calling this mod an “overhaul” would in engine terms be akin to changing the spark plugs. Not an overhaul.
Definitely need more examples.
This is going to be severely limited by the 4GB maximum RAM 3.3.5a can use as a 32 bit client, but I’m eager to try it out.
Anyone have a another link to this since it was taken off of Nexus?
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