Resident Evil 4 HD Project - Progress Thread
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Yeap. Too often HD-texture projects change the art style in random ways.
The way how you guys are maintaining the heart of RE4 while making it look modern? Commendable.
Seriously, fantastic work.
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I will be replaying this game once you are finished with your work, no matter how long it takes. Great work!
Soleil rouge
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I didn't expect the original textures to look that bad, or for your own textures to look that good. Excellent work.
â Narayan
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How have I never seen this before? Beyond hilarious.
This is definitely one of the most impressive retexturing efforts I've seen in awhile.
GuitarAtomik
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Maybe this has been asked before, but how the hell are you guys finding the original texture sources? That's so bonkers to me.
corrosivefrost
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This is amazing. Subbed so I can use it when I go back to finish my umpteenth playthrough.
MrPing1000
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Incredible stuff. Truely is amazing how close to the original textures you guys are being (even when you don't find them in real life)
Barrow Roll
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Bumping this thread without any new WIP shots is cruel. 
crisdecuba
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Albert's reached the castle (in terms of environmental textures) and posted a big update!
All is WIP and represents a "first pass" at redoing these textures.
Many more shots up at the site: www.re4hd.com
And feel free to follow the project on twitter: @re4hdproject
1. Searching through stock photo sites, (I think some Chinese stock photo sites and a few Russian sites) yielded a good amount of ground / wall textures
2. Searching through photo sharing sites, especially Flickr, for photos from certain areas in Spain and Wales, yielded good images from which to recreate a lot of the decorative textures (especially for the Castle and Village areas) (Capcom sourced (i.e. photographed) a good number of their textures from specific cities in Spain and from Wales)
3. Living in Spain has led to many instances of coming across doors and monuments which he has photographed and used.
All is WIP and represents a "first pass" at redoing these textures.
Many more shots up at the site: www.re4hd.com
And feel free to follow the project on twitter: @re4hdproject
Couple of ways (and this is all Albert's doing):GuitarAtomik said:
1. Searching through stock photo sites, (I think some Chinese stock photo sites and a few Russian sites) yielded a good amount of ground / wall textures
2. Searching through photo sharing sites, especially Flickr, for photos from certain areas in Spain and Wales, yielded good images from which to recreate a lot of the decorative textures (especially for the Castle and Village areas) (Capcom sourced (i.e. photographed) a good number of their textures from specific cities in Spain and from Wales)
3. Living in Spain has led to many instances of coming across doors and monuments which he has photographed and used.
Barrow Roll
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Outstanding work, the project seems to be moving a lot faster than your 2 year estimate! 
SketchTheArtist
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Been following on and off this project. You're doing a very good job sir. Also, the fact that there are only diffuse textures in the game without normals or spec maps really makes it a do-able project with such a small team.
Continue guys, I'll get the PC version just to play the complete project of yours.
Continue guys, I'll get the PC version just to play the complete project of yours.
Fried Food
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If you are having fun then continue. The finish project will look good in a portfolio and you will assuadly learn much in the process
Krusenstern
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I love how every inch of the new HD textures stays true to the original look.
FormerShirts
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Great work. This is definitely not a waste of time as long as you stick to your timeframe.
At the end of your timeframe, leave it behind and move onto a different project with different workflows and/or contributing to a project with additional modders working together.
However, and I may be contradicting myself, finish this project no matter how long it takes. Both are viable paths to improvement.
Best.
At the end of your timeframe, leave it behind and move onto a different project with different workflows and/or contributing to a project with additional modders working together.
However, and I may be contradicting myself, finish this project no matter how long it takes. Both are viable paths to improvement.
Best.
GrotesqueBeauty
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It's been said many times, but it bears repeating- the fidelity of the textures, attention to detail, and all around faithfulness to the source material is incredible. I'm convinced you guys are creating the definitive texture pack, and on behalf of all RE fans I'd like to say thanks for your dedication. Oh, how I wish Capcom would pick these up for an official re-release. Astounding work.
Ottoni_Bastos
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Fantastic work guys! I was waiting albert's texture patch 3.0 for years.I remember he hinting this "source" textures for years in the old invisionfree's forum.Finally!
Congrats for both of you!
Congrats for both of you!
TetraGenesis
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Is there a way to mod tessalation? I know nothing about programming, hahaha. If those sharp edges were smoothed over it'd look so nice.
Banana Aeon
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This is so amazing. I honestly can't believe what's happening here is actually happening.
Playing RE4 again is going to be amazing.
Playing RE4 again is going to be amazing.
crisdecuba
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Unfortunately not as far we know. :-/
crisdecuba
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Well lookie here:
Well lookie here:
That's just crazy lol
Never in a million years would I have noticed that.
Texture pack for Xenoblade? No shit?!
What the flipping hell?Well lookie here:
How on earth would anybody ever find that? Absolutely insane.
JJDinomite
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Wow, I remember seeing this thread when there was just one texture done. The work that has been accomplished is insane! Keep it up
Uncle Rupee
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Wow
Well lookie here:
At this point I think both Capcom and Albert have just been taking pictures of every single wall, door, floor, and piece of art throughout all of Spain in order to use for textures.
Stratostar
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Well lookie here:
Rentahamster
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Well lookie here:
This.. this... is just too much.. I'm speechless man.
Well lookie here:
Truly amazing.
crisdecuba
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Realized we never posted comparison shots from the "farm" section of the village (where you first encounter the blue medallions):
Crimsonclaw111
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Absolutely killing it, guys.
It is legitimately comical how much better that hay pile looks with your textures. Great work.
It should be an actual impossibility for decade-old geometry to look this good.
That haystack blows my mind. Did you really "only" change the texture there? It's unbelieveable how much better it looks.
crisdecuba
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Haha yeah, it's basically a texture with an alpha channel that gets layers on top of itself a couple of times to form the haystack.
And here's the latest in Albert's "Look familiar" series, which we post on our Twitter account (@re4hdproject):
