Comments - WhiteDove_101

Such an awesome relevant comment! And yes... also wondering if we are waiting for Christmas?

Hi there... I've actually never been gone. Constantly keeping an eye on the Duke community :) I am doing okay thank you.

Goodyness! This came out of nowhere! Awesome!!! Thank you guys so much. Downloading as I type.

In the older articles I had the original sprites but upscaled quite a lot (wit added generated normals and specular). In the screenshots they look nice but up close playing in 1080p you can really see how the ai struggled to upscale the original sprites. I am actually finished with all the original monster sprites upscaled to HD. They will be included in the download files of DN3HD. You'll just have to manually replace them over the new HRP sprites. Basic copy and paste. Same goes with the firtperson sprites. You'll have the choice to play with the original upscaled sprites.

Thank you so very much!

Hi there... this article was just a little teaser. I will be releasing some more news and media end of this month with high resolution images for you to enjoy :)

Exactly. I import the HRP models (.md3) into Blender. Then I re-edit the skins to more accurately match the original sprites. In most cases I re-rigged the entire model to manually pose them with the original sprite also imported into Blender as reference. It will never be 100% obviously but I try to get as close as possible. I am going to do this for basically every sprite and not just the enemies. Almost finished with the firstperson weapon sprites. The HRP models are actually quite beautiful, high quality and well made. Polymer just never did it justice in game and the animations just felt awkward to me.

And oh yeah... I actually still use upscaling as well to achieve a more cartoony look but the upscale looks amazing because of the higher quality sprites it can now work with.

Thank you very much! Glad you are looking forward to it!

Very happy that you are looking forward to playing it. :)

Thank you very much!

Thank you for the advice. Yeah I thought it would not be something easy to locate.

Thank you very much!

Thank you so very much! Laughed at your "GmanLive's ***".

Anyway the first person weapon sprites mainly look so good because of the fatality upscale model I used. I used phredreeke's upscaled sprites from the ERP, cleaned the edges of the sprites and then upscaled again. It's still not perfect and some post editing has to be done before I'll be completely happy with it.

Thank you so much!

Amazing work and congratulations!

Glad you like it! Hope you enjoy it as well when I release it.

Thanky you!

Thank you!

Sorry for taking so long to reply. Thank you for the compliments. I might add a guide on how to create normal and specular maps in the near future.

Select it in your HUD menu and then press "F" to toggle it.

This looks AMAZING guys! Well done. I have some FPS issues though, on my RTX2060. It keeps dipping below 35fps in some scenes. That's on D9 which I wish to play on. On OpenGL it's a bit better bit still have some serious frame dips.