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The new textures look great! What's next on the checklist?
Thanks! You are right about earth and grass, I made a lot of tests before final release raising and lowering color saturation, but the true is that Shenmue I has always had muted colors unlike Shenmue II which has more vivid colors:The scenery and various objects look really nice, although I would add more color to the earth and grass.
But Im not a fan of the jacket, it look woolly when the passport or s2 look brushed.
Can't you use the ryo passport or s2 texture as template, kind of like what you did with landi ?
Thanks! There are a lot of remaining textures that needs a remake like the Dojo, Ryo's House, the harbour, Dobuita and a lot of interiors, npcs... After that, who knows? Maybe Shenmue II But for now, I am taking a break. I am going to be very busy with little free time in the next months and I won't have time for retexturing a lot.The new textures look great! What's next on the checklist?
I am happy you are enjoying it! My intention is to retexture more areas of course (maybe the dojo will be the next area to be retextured) but at the moment until next year I won't be able to do more stuff because I am very busy lately. No free time at all!Is it possible to convert texture mods that require SpecialK to native mods like yours? SpecialK causes all kinds of issues for me. Too bad since using mods like the New Coke Vending Machines, HD Notebook etc. would be awesome.
I really enjoy using your native mod, so I am looking forward to updates for this mod.
wudecon.exe --tacfullv "D:\Games\Shenmue\sm1\archives\dx11\data\disk_5be2c578.tad" "D:\EXT" "D:\MODELS" mt5
Thanks! Yes, Shenmue II is on the list, but first Shenmue I needs some more time. There are a lot of areas like the dojo, the harbour or the interiors remaining.I love your project. Seems to be the best one now and the one with most potential.
Do you plan to do the same for Shenmue II?
Shenmue II seems to be very lacking in mods which is sad.
I've the mod installed in my pc and all I can say is that this retexture work is amazing, this is what we should have gotten with the Shenmue 1& 2 re-releases, a full HD retexturing of both games. Hope some day it comes true. Great work.Better Textures 2.0 is now ready to download: https://www.nexusmods.com/shenmue/mods/30
More Progress updates and comparison screenshots in my blog: https://shenmuehdretextured.wordpress.com/
This new version adds:
-HD Ryo's clothes
- HD Timex Watch
-HD Landi clothes from Shenmue 3 demo (thanks to Esppiral for sending me the files)
-More Sakuragaoka textures
-HD Blue roofs
-Dobuita Textures
Thanks a lot for your kind words! Yes, these months I have made some progress retexturing the entire Hazuki Dojo and its surroundings. Floor, ceiling, walls and even the paper scrolls have now HD textures. Floor has been a bit tedious to remake replacing each wood plank one by one keeping same placement, size, colour and lighting of each plank:@Streamer Curious about any progress? Obviously wild times came up a couple months after your hiatus began!
If I may throw my .02 cents/request: The foliage are the most beneficial upgrades--most architecture save a couple Dobuita buildings near Sakuragaoka borders and South Carmain Qr are already fantastic. My request: focus on Guilin next for finishing your retexturing? Even then, Guilin definitely has better forestry than Yokosuka, so perhaps your work has finished! The monumental task of also doing all interiors/urban textures will be understandably daunting.
Been a huge fan of your project, thank you once again for the hard work!
That's some amazing work. It looks super realistic.Thanks a lot for your kind words! Yes, these months I have made some progress retexturing the entire Hazuki Dojo and its surroundings. Floor, ceiling, walls and even the paper scrolls have now HD textures. Floor has been a bit tedious to remake replacing each wood plank one by one keeping same placement, size, colour and lighting of each plank:
Yeah! I had the same thought. Maybe for Shenmue 2 it would be a good idea to start with Guilin. In fact, I retextured Shenhua's intro from Shenmue I which is part of Guilin, so those textures may be reused for Shenmue 2:Holy crap! More power to you! I considered the foliage of Yokosuka alone good enough! Guilin forestry definitely was a better step up, although if you tackle disc 4 after finishing interior/exteriors of Ch1, I won't complain!
Thanks a lot for your kind words! Yes, these months I have made some progress retexturing the entire Hazuki Dojo and its surroundings. Floor, ceiling, walls and even the paper scrolls have now HD textures. Floor has been a bit tedious to remake replacing each wood plank one by one keeping same placement, size, colour and lighting of each plank:
Test the mod and all I can say is that you are doing an amazing job with the textures and bringing to life the TRUE SHENMUE HD REMASTERS. I've also made a small donnation; I hope it encourages you to keep going with this amazing project.Better Textures 3.0 is now ready to Download: https://www.nexusmods.com/shenmue/mods/30
There are tons of updates in this new version:
-Added Dojo interior and basement, Bar Yokosuka and tattoo Parlor interiors.
-Added more HD textures to Hazuki garden.
-Restored trademarks: Coca-cola, Fanta, Sprite, Georgia Coffee, Timex clock, Glenfiddich (replaces Golden Whisky), Old Camel Bourbon (replaces Dromedary branding), GONG HE XXI Filter Cigarettes (Source).
-Added HD Coca-cola vending machines, HD alcohol bottles in all Bar/Pubs.
- Added HD Potato chips bag texture, Super Goal Poster, Out of order Vending machine in front of Abe Store with Segata Sanshiro advertising Real Gold drink (Source).
- Added HD trash cans and garbage bags.
- Added HD scrolls in Dojo and Hazuki's house.
- Added HD texture in Liu Barber's showcase.
- Upscaled previous HD Dobuita brick texture to 7000x7000 pixels due to blurriness in v2.0.
- HD Ryo's Jacket now looks less woolly (Old HD Jacket / New HD Jacket) (suggestion made by @sbkodama in post 22)
Special thanks to @ifhazardous for helping me with this new version of Better Textures.