Comments - Calinou2

Works great, although the `textures.pac` file was called `textures.dat` in my GOG installation in the `anoxdata/` folder. Just a note in case someone can't find the textures file to remove/rename.

Also, if anyone wants to run the patcher program on non-Windows platforms, it's a .NET Core 3.1 application. The DLL is platform-independent, so you can run it on any other OS supported by .NET Core. I can confirm these steps work on Fedora 37:

- Download .NET Core 3.1 from Dotnet.microsoft.com. It must be 3.1, not a newer version.
- Pass the DLL file to the dotnet executable. I recommend using `cd` to reach the directory containing the DLL file, then drag-and-drop the dotnet executable into the command prompt to paste its absolute path. Specify "anoxpactchcsharp.dll" as an argument to the command, then press Enter.
- If you get an error about missing ICU support, you can disable it by replacing `anoxpactchcsharp.runtimeconfig.json`'s contents with the following:

{
"runtimeOptions": {
"tfm": "netcoreapp3.1",
"framework": {
"name": "Microsoft.NETCore.App",
"version": "3.1.0"
},
"configProperties": {
"System.Globalization.Invariant": true
}
}
}

1.1 works, thanks :)

I ended up here from a search engine, so here's the 1.1 version if anyone else needs the link: Moddb.com

I've tried this pack on Raze 1.5.0, but I can't get any new textures to show up. Both HUD elements and sprites/world textures use the original textures instead.

I can confirm the autoload behavior itself is working (by editing raze.ini accordingly), as I've installed a HD sounds pack the same way and it works fine. Both ZIPs appear in the command line output:

adding /home/hugo/.config/raze/sw/Autoload/swupscale.zip, 17838 lumps
adding /home/hugo/.config/raze/sw/Autoload/ShadowWarriorHDSounds.2.zip, 621 lumps

Your Duke3D upscale pack also works great on this Raze version, so I'm not sure what went wrong. I'm using the original ZIP downloaded from ModDB as-is – I didn't extract and repackage anything from it.

Does the base file 1.16 include the TFix texture pack? The TFix texture pack is listed as a separate download on the TTLG forum thread: Ttlg.com

This is in the middle of the Volcano level (the first level in the game), after you pass the falling rocks section: I.imgur.com
Notice the opaque plate on the right of the image.

I also got there with the default texture pack when trying out the game for the first time, but I don't remember seeing this missing transparency. Maybe I'm not remembering it right though…

Looks good so far, but I noticed an issue in the first level in the lava pits section. Under the turrets that spawn are some metal plate decals with a round shape. These should have alpha transparency, but it looks like the transparency was lost when upscaling (which means these plates now have a black square background).

I recommend using this ESRGAN script which supports transparency: Github.com

I'd like to add missionpack textures one day, but I can't give an ETA for it.

I could try upscaling world textures to 8× and downsample them back to 4× to make them less grainy. It should hopefully get rid of some of the noise.

For the weapon textures, I upscaled them by 4×, downsampled them to 2× then upscaled them again (so the final scale is 8× the original*). I then applied a denoising filter in GIMP and manually edited the brightness/color temperature. It gives a pretty good result, but it took a fair amount of time to do this for each weapon texture. I need something less effort-intensive for world textures, given how many of them there are :P

*: It seems Q2PRO (and possibly others) can't load textures larger than 2048×2048, so I had to downsample some of them to fit within that resolution.

This looks pretty good, nice work! It really helps with the overall visuals. Source's various effects no longer look so out of place due to Half-Life's low-resolution textures :)