I had an idea today !

If you want to make a mod with multiple games, I have an idea.

I will take Freelancer and Freespace 2 as example.

In fact the concept take shields as feature. This feature will force the player to use ships and weapons of the same game univers. Freelancer with Freelancer and Freespace 2 with Freespace 2.

Combined with specific weapon classes and type according to the game univers we can create shield and weapon types for each univers.

Freelancer weaps will have no effects on Freespace 2 shields.
Freespace 2 weaps will have no effects on Freelancer shields.

The result, if you want to fight against Freespace 2 ships with a Freelancer ship, you will not be able to do it, forcing you to buy a Freespace 2 ship with allocated weapon classes and shield type/classes. For example class 1 to 5 will be Freelancer weaps ans class 6 to 10 will be Freespace 2 weaps. It must be applied to the shield classes too to be consistant.

Freelancer's weap classes :
Class 1 = FL Class 1 and 2
Class 2 = FL Class 3 and 4
[...]
Class 5 = FL Class 9 and 10

Freespace 2's weap classes :
Class 6 = FS2 Class 1 and 2
Class 7 = FS2 Class 3 and 4
[...]
Class 10 = FS2 Class 9 and 10

Same with shields.

In terme of ship coding, just allocate class 1 to 5 shields and weaps for FL and class 6 to 10 for FS2.

The only thing that remains to do is to rename the weapon and shield classes.

This can be applied for other univers but I think there is a theorical limit of the number of univers you can add to your mod. Due to the fact there is a limit of 10 classes in FL.
The limit is 5 game/movie/series univers per mod.

For example
Class 1 shield = Fighter shield
Class 2 shield = Capital Ship Shields
Etc.

If you want to level the shield for specific ship classes just us the cargo hold size to limit the use of a specific shield.

For gunboats' shield a specific cargo hold.
For cruiser's shield a specific cargo hold that is too big for gunboats.
Etc.

You understood well ! I'm just doing the kitbash and I will se how it look ingame after. You're write though, puting it in the 3D models is good. I will try to see if it's good enough.

Khed is far better than MS3D as you have complex polygone creation, pipe tool and lathe tool.

I would like to see your progress. Did you managed to remove bevels on texture or is it too hard ? I know how to remove lightings in textures but removing bevel is tough as High Pass alway does some ringing artifacts and make the textures blurrier at the same time of removing bevel. I tried to use selective gaussian blur and so on but it is hard. And also the settings aren't always the same. The shadows are also difficult to remove.

Simultaneously I do some HD UI textures. My computer has crashed at the end of 2019 and my CMP/3DS files are corrupted so I need to import all the current files I did before the crash. I did some mips to be used at different resolution. -_-

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In fact, its grEEbles, not gribles as I wrote... It's small 3D details, like pipes, etc. Like this or this.

What you did is promising ! I wait to see where you can go with your algorithm. Will there be some batch processing in it ?

Sorry for double post but WOW ! Just WOW !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=548sCh0mMRc&feature=emb_title

I have an idea too. Removing all bevel and shading.

Here is the principle :

Take a 3D model creator.
Create a plane.
Put a random normal map on the plane where some shapes are put, squares, triangles, etc.
Put a camera above the plane.
Add a light source.
Animate the light source to discribe a circle around the plane at different light elevation for exemple light elevation 0° then 10° and so on.
Take an uncompressed video of each light elevation.
After decompose the video(s) in PNG pictures.
Then with the same camera take a video of the same length without the normal map and decompose it in series of PNG pictures.
Put all normal map pics in lowres folder of AI upscale and put the not normal map pics in reference images of AI upscaler.
Finally, train and see the result on real images.

If it works, it would be nice. Because it could be applied to every game textures that has prerendered texture effects.

I have a fun fact about BC1 compression artifact removal.

When you use BC1_smooth2 and use misc the result is not that detailed, but when you use another BC1 removal then misc, it's over detailed.

BC1_smooth2 + Misc

BC1_take2 + Misc

It's rather strange.

Edit : Mixed BC1_smooth opacity 128 + BC1_take2 Background

Edit 2 : Fixed URL of "Edit"

Is it ESRGAN, PPON, or your own model ?

I tried Misc x4 pretrained model for ESRGAN and the result was kinda good. Then I tried PPON and for some details it's better than Misc x4. PPON can't support alpha channel so I need to extract alpha channel with GIMP.

On the one hand edit is better than upscale but on the other hand upscale helps a lot if you want the best accuracy as possible.

Here is a sample of liberty AI upscale I did. I warn you that I had to do 128x128 parts from 256x256 textures cause my computer isn't using CUDA cores and, as always, has outdated components... The window part has been done with PPON. liberty_256 is the original and 1024 is the Misc 4x one.

I just used the color palette of the original texture but now I improved it. In fact the blurry texture come from the anisotropic filtering deactivated or the original model's UV, I think it's more UV related. I can send you the maps via PM. I used a 1024X1024 and I was very close to the model, I think the blur wouldn't be so visible ingame as the camera is more far than in the screenshot. Do you recommend to increase or decrease brightness on my spec map ?

@ Everybody : When I said "What do you think ?", I wanted some feedback of all the community not only Schmackbolzen because it's a good way to improve or confirm things.