Clive Barker's Undying ESRGAN Pack mod

Clive Barker's Undying ESRGAN Upscale Pack

Installation procedure for best visual experience

1. Download and Install Texture Updater 128x128 to enable detail maps for textures
2. Download and install Undying Subtitle Patch v2.1
3. (Optional, but highly recommended) Install Undying Renewal mod. It had some gameplay improvements/enhancements, but you can use it just to fix some bugs and improve perfomance.
4. (Optional) If you are not using Renewal, you can download widescreen patch
5. Now you have two different options:
   1. Install Unreal DirectX11 renderer for this upscale pack to work
      • Download Normal & Height maps for DX11
      • Download DX11 fix and put it in the game's System folder. It fixes the coronas, weapon fov and journal
   2. (You need Renewal for this to work) Install Vulkan renderer with support for external textures from l0m for this upscale pack to work. Link is temporary until he upload latest version himself.
6. Install Clive Barker's Undying ESRGAN Pack by unpacking the archive into the game folder.
7. (Optional, if you are using Renewal) Install Undying ESRGAN Renewal compatibility upscale by unpacking the archive into the game/Textures folder. It will upscale specific HUD textures, added in Renewal

You could also use alternative upscale pack Clive Barker's Undying hidef by y2keeth. It should work with both renderers.

Renderers comparison

DX11 have normal and height maps which improve visual a lot, and also SSAO and reflections. But it stutters a lot and have issues with quality of lightning/illumination

Vulkan is much faster and illuminations/lightning is better. And I think you could force SSAO and reflections using Reshade

Compatibility

Mod is compatible with near anything Clive Barker's Undying related. It is fully compatible with Undying Renewal mod in the latest version.

Possible Bugs

Coronas misalignment with widescreen mod and DX11
If you are not using DX11 fix, you should disable coronas in System/System.ini file

Coronas=False

Jaggy polygons, dancing/moving on camera angle change in DX11
This is because of tesselation in DX11, which works somewhat funny in this game. You could try to leave it on, but I didn't noticed any huge improvements. Try it for yourself. In case you want stable picture, disable it in System/System.ini file

Tesselation=False

Paintings Reference List

Here are all the references I found for the ingame painting textures. I used them to enhance upscaled textures even more

central-gpainti; Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare
central-paintin; Artemisia Gentileschi - Judith Slaying Holofernes
patrickpic; Antonio del Pollaiolo - Hercules And The Hydra, slightly repainted by the developers
GlassW04MtH; Devil from the medieval book Codex Gigas (Folio 290 recto), repainted by the developers
GlassW05MtH; Stained glass inside the baptistery of the Christ church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland
WoodCrvMtH; The wooden door, detail. Church Santa Maria im Kapitol, Cologne (Romanesque period), taken part of the image
EwTap01H; The Lady and the Unicorn: À mon seul désir (Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris)
Amb_Rug01_EWing, Amb_Rug02_EWing, Amb_Rug03_EWing, Amb_Rug04_EWing; Chakrasamvara Mandala
AmbDivFurn02_EW, AmbDivFurn03_EW, AmbDivFurn_EWin; Six fold screen depicting arrival of a Portuguese Ship, maker unknown, 1600 – 30, Japan
Painting01EwH; Antwerp 16th Century (Possibly Matthys Cock)
HtrmBook01H; The Romance of Zion Chapel by Richard Le Gallienne; recolored book cover
HtrmBook02H; The Story of Ab: A Tale Of The Time Of The Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo; recolored book cover
HtrmBook03H; Pippa Passes by Robert Browning; redrawn title to Poe - Tales of Mystery
HtrmPic01H; Milaire André - Le Mont Saint-Michel - Chemins de fer de l'État
GHGoliathPnt_Hs; Raphael - David and Goliath
GHDavidPnt_HsWw; Caravaggio - David with the Head of Goliath
Int_BloodGirl; Giovan Moroni - Portrait of a child of the house of Redetti
Int_Painting60W; cover for Sandman A Game of You Part Three No. 34 Jan. 1992
stucco5; Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights
jeremiah'spictu; Jan Fyt - Diana with Her Hunting Dogs beside Kill
jerpicture2; Philippe-Augustin Immenraet - The Wolf Hunt
AaronScryBefore; Brian Horton - Aaron Corporeal game concept art
AaronScryAfterH; Brian Horton - Aaron Revenant game concept art
BethScryBeforeH; Family game wallpaper
BethScryAfterH; Brian Horton - Bethany HR Fltn game concept art and Family game wallpaper
CreepKid01H; Hans Holbein the Younger - Edward VI as a Child, horizontally inverted and with mirrored hat
CreepKid02H; Hans Holbein the Younger - Edward VI as a Child, horizontally inverted and heavily edited
EtrnAut01H; Jonathan Gregerson - Black Tower (Clara's Realm)
EtrnAut02H; Jonathan Gregerson - Cliff Dwellings (Clara's Realm)
LizRmMedusa; Edward Burne-Jones - The Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor
LandScpe02H; Hieronymus Bosch - Visions of the Hereafter (Hell)
Oneiros01H; Brian Horton - Oneiros concept art
UglyAfterH; The Dead Lovers (circa 1470)
KieScryeAfterH; Brian Horton - Kiesinger concept art
KieScryeBeforeH; Brian Horton - Kiesinger concept art
painting0 - painting4; photo of Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, England
r18-frpaint; Luca Giordano - The Fall of the Rebel Angels
StoneTopMtH; The Fight between David and Goliath, circa 1123, church of Santa Maria at Tahull
GHshield_HsWwG; Ancient Warrior Shield with Carthago Battle Pattern
Int_RcptnFloor0; Sword-bearer beheads young boy St Martin’s Church in Zilli

Credits

ESRGAN models used for textures (mostly from ESRGAN wiki or ESRGAN discord server):

Manga109Attempt by Kingdomakrillic
mymanga109_250000 by patrikspacek
ESRGAN_Skyrim_NonTiled_RGB_Catrom_128_32_110000
ESRGAN_Skyrim_NonTiled_RGB_Catrom_128_32_110000_interp_05
ESRGAN_Skyrim_NonTiled_RGB_Catrom_128_32_110000_interp_05(Manga109Attempt)
ESRGAN_Skyrim_WeaponsAndArmorNonTiled_RGB_Catrom_128_32_80000
JPG (40-60%) A by Alsa
JPG (60-80%) A by Alsa
BC1 smooth 2.0 by BlueAmulet
rocks_100000 by I don't know who (It is not a nickname)
FSBox by Pandalism
Trixie_Star Wars by LyonHrt
cartoonpainted_400000 by Kingdomakrillic
DeviantPixelHD by Raulsangonzalo
DigiPaint by TheAtheistGod
FSDedither_Riven
NMKD-Siax_200k
NMKD-Superscale-SP_178000_G
pinocchio_35000
NMKD-UltraYandere_300k
ThiefGold by me (based on EP2 textures)
ThiefGoldMod by me (based on EP2 textures)

Also big thanks to UE Viewer by Glidor. It's the only exporter I found that correctly export alpha layers from textures