Anybody working on any of the lok games? if not i would like to
im asking because i dont want that we end up with 2 texturemods of the same game
im asking because i dont want that we end up with 2 texturemods of the same game
Thats great mateSomething slowing you down with this games for a long time...I am currently working on one game that will be a surprise and which will be the next one in my Mega Library, but after it...since you are not in a hurry, I will work on Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain Defiance.
P.S. But I will not work on Blood Omen 2. I don't like this game. So if you're still going to do something, you can do it. If you like.
yeah i had those errors in pal version tooI'm having problems with Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2. I started going through the game, collecting texture dumps and upscaling them in parallel, but after a couple of days, the game now refuses to start and the emulator crashes. The crash report gives something related to DLL libraries, but they are present in the System32 folder. So I don't know what's the matter, but it looks like Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2 was a bummer. Although, if someone sends me texture dumps of this game, I will upscale them.
All that I managed to upscale here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/9kuoel55uwazaz6/Legacy_of_Kain_Soul_Reaver_2_PS2_Upscale_Textures_%5BSLUS-20165%5D_Beta.rar/file
Update: I tried the Pal version. Works. So I'll keep working on Soul Reaver 2. Good thing I didn't get that far in the NTSC version.
The same problems started with the Pal version. So I will not be able to collect dumps of this game. We'll have to skip it and start collecting Defiance dumps.yeah i had those errors in pal version too
the only solution for me was to restart the emu and make heavy use of savestates
hmmm sounds like theres something wrong back when i worked on soul reaver 2 i could play with some of my ""upscalled" textures as soon as my gpu is here i will do some testI don't know why, but when I upscale the resulting texture dumps and put them in the replacement folder, when I run the game through the emulator, it crashes. Apparently the same thing happened with Soul Reaver 2. In general, I can collect dumps, I can upscale, but I can’t check the final result. So I don't even know what to do.
Update: It is possible that these games simply do not support texture upscaling? I don't know how it is connected, but other games that I upscaled, works fine. And the games of the Legacy of Kain series refuse to work after upscaling.
I found a solution to the problem not without the participation of zombies 167. After the upscale shooter "Black", I will return to the Legacy of Kain series.hmmm sounds like theres something wrong back when i worked on soul reaver 2 i could play with some of my ""upscalled" textures as soon as my gpu is here i will do some test
i thought @Bl4ckH4nd had allready done the complete series while im still waiting on my new gpuThe solution to the problem is quite simple. All you need is to reformat the final result of the upscaled textures not to the DDS format, but to the PNG format. I don't know how it works, but the PNG format does not crash the emulator and works quite well. Working on Soul Reaver 2.
Hey yeah I did the packs for them. I should be able to post soon. I've done a bunch more packs the last week or so. I'm going to drop a link to my whole PS2 folder here.i thought @Bl4ckH4nd had allready done the complete series while im still waiting on my new gpu
anyway yeah dds is a hellhole at the momemt probably needs a speecific dds type probably with correect mipmaps and bc3/bc5 compression but dont quote me at that
im still searchin for a good dds programm most of them will turn your highres textures back to low res
I finally managed to post my stuff here.Anybody working on any of the lok games? if not i would like to
im asking because i dont want that we end up with 2 texturemods of the same game
Anybody working on any of the lok games? if not i would like to
im asking because i dont want that we end up with 2 texturemods of the same game
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a very knowledgeable person when it comes to my favorite franchises: Silent Hill, Legacy of Kain, and Shadow of the Colossus (standalone), to the point that I have pieces of information about every franchise that the communities don't seem to have discovered yet. And those were the games I've used to learn about texture modification, which I've now moved onto complete texture remaking, so I know them well. I trust only Raina to mess with this franchise, but since she may not touch the other games (I've been waiting for two years now), I'm planning on doing it myself.
My ex girlfriend did a couple of simple upscales more than a year ago, which now she says they look very bad compared to what I am able to achieve with my skills, so maybe it's time to give it a try. I only hope that the devs of PCSX2 have fixed the mipmapping issues.
We even did experiment a little with ReShade to add some different color palettes and change the mood (more realistic, cinematic, vintage, etc.). Also correcting some continuity stuff like Raziel's skin color through the games.
So, eventually, if no one does a proper remaster of the PlayStation 2 games, I'll do it myself and I'll add details everywhere, you'll be able to see the disfigured remains of the fucking pores on Raziel's corroded skin.
You can test your luck by doing an upscale, I would love to have different options for these games since they are my childhood, but in case you want to help me out in the future with this project, I can let you know when I start and we'll figure out something. My skills are not yet up to par, but I try to improve them everyday. These are samples of my work: