Kerb's Mariokart re-texture

[PhantomsCarnage]

I'm including the dump of the original images, while anyone may download it's intended really just for kerber2k for his menu project. These images are not high res, just the original images as stated.

 

[Exodia11]

j/w but which layers do you use cause photoshop has a lot of layers

 

[Kerber2k]

Here are some progress pictures I thought I might share.

 

[Nin_10_Dough]

Nice work. I do think choco mountain needs to look a bit more 'choco' instead of solid rock. Also, maybe the new menu color stands out a little too much?

Don't take this the wrong way, just constructive criticism. Again, nice work .

 

[Kerber2k]

Constructive critism is usually welcome, but I dont think the Choco mountain was ever very "choco" This is pretty close to the original texture, I just added a higher resolution effect...I think the colors are even pretty damn close. It helps if you describe the texture with other words besides "choco" :flowers:

 

[Nin_10_Dough]

I think there is too much red in the textures on the side. In contrast with the ground texture you have created it looks even more red. The ground needs to give the illusion of a lumpy uneven surface instead of a flat paved look.

 

[[ROLO]]

Yeah I agree with Nin_10_Dough

 

[Kerber2k]

Like wet mud? hope this one suits you more.

 

[minkster]

Much better

 

[Weatherton]

I like your second effort much, much more. Is that texture you made less red (the side choco texture) done at 4X size? It still seems stretched thin... if it is 4X, I think that's a good argument for Rice to allow exceptions up to 16X original textures (but to discourage the use unless necessary).

 

[Nin_10_Dough]

Indeed, quite the improvement

 

[optimus$prime]

great work!

i have an idea about character textures:
i know editing them in photoshop makes no sense because there are too much of them. but how about some kind of batch processing? for example there is a executable from the hq4x filter. it shouldn't be hard work. i also think a better result for the character textures would bring a advmame4x scale filter. but i don't know if there is a executable out there.textures would stay in the original style but appear much sharper. what do you think?

 

[Kerber2k]

Yea I like the sound of pretty much pre-filtering the charecters I have thought about this aswell, simply because my videocard cant load high-res textures and have filtering on without serious slowdowns in-game.

 

[optimus$prime]

advmame scale filter examples
http://scale2x.sourceforge.net/snapshot1.html

in most cases i like hq4x more but some textures look much better with scale4x
and i think mario kart64 character-tex do so
just turn on hq4x filter enhancement to compare

 

[optimus$prime]

finally i found a executable for scale4x
now it looks like hq4x is the best option but i also like some details on scale4x

what do you think?

EDIT:
hq2x is working good for me because it's not that extreme like hq4x
resized for comparrison

 

[minkster]

That filter thing sounds like a good idea for the time being

(offtopic) Hey optimus..I havent seen you on emutalk in a while...by any chance are you still working on the SSB texture pack?

Well anyways keep up the good work guys...I'm liking how this project is turning out

 

[Kerber2k]

Filters look amazing. On a side note heres more progress.

 

[Leonardo20]

litle work on photoshop...if you like i can do all character textures on photoshop... its quite fast... just send me de dumps in the same quality as i give this one (resised and filter aplyed)

 

[[ROLO]]

Great job Kerb, The water looks really cool

 

[revl8er]

Work is looking excellent