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Realtime 3D was a mistake

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>>5005987
Yes it was

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Desi Devar Bhabhi Full Fuck Movie Sex Video
http://topfreex.com/desi-devar-bhabhi-full-fuck-movie-sex-video/

>> No.5006012

>>5006009
Fuck you

>> No.5006014

>>5006009
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not... but I’m not clicking that link!

>> No.5006020

Someone should post some Legend of Dragoon

>> No.5006036

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>> No.5006052

>>5006020
No u

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Wish I could go to balamb garden

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>> No.5006185

so the entirety of Digimon World and FF7 then

>> No.5006198

So now that as part of the general pop culture 80s nostalgia trend 2D/sprite games are making a niche/indie comeback, how long before the same happens for games with low-poly/prerendered backgrounds?

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Last one.

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>try to use neural networks to upscale FF7 and Chrono Cross' art
>looks like ass, because they were never trained on pics with low color depths
>try to train it myself using posterized, downscaled images to imitate that 90s look
>out of memory error

They're capable of mindblowing results on ordinary images, but the backgrounds of 90s games don't have enough color data to work with.

And it wouldn't even be necessary to upscale shit if SE hadn't thrown away the original assets.

>> No.5006315

>>5006198
Now, minus the pre-rendered backgrounds because that involves making actual high quality 3d art which takes more time and skill, and then turning it into a jpeg, then having fixed camera angles, which is probably like nails on a chalkboard feeling like a waste. Source: me trying to do it

>> No.5006362

>>5006293
You need like 40GB+ RAM to do serious NN training :( Someone will be able to pull it off eventually

>> No.5006380

>>5006020
>>5005985

>> No.5006495

>>5006293
do you have any more

>> No.5006675

>>5005987
what game is this? looks comfortable af

>> No.5006681

>>5006675
Final Fantasy IX

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>>5006495

I dumped what I had here so I'm not spamming the thread with bad upscales. https://imgur.com/a/TcHsowF You can see where the color depth is creating artifacts, especially the Golden Saucer pic.

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>>5006495

I dumped what I had here so I'm not spamming the thread with bad upscales. https://imgur.com/a/TcHsowF You can see where the color depth is creating artifacts, especially the Golden Saucer pic.

What I'm using is the same as what https://letsenhance.io/ is using, if you want to try it out.

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>> No.5007052

>>5006738
>10/10 would smelt there

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max comfy

>> No.5007252

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>> No.5007493

good thread.

>> No.5007494

>>5005975
I'm playing FF7 for the first time.

This game is what I call comfy.

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>>5007494
maximum comf

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>>5005975

>> No.5007715

Still haven't been topped. Why are they so comfy?

>> No.5007767

>>5007689
it has a somewhat cartoonish world but it feels so real at the same time.

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>> No.5008013

Holy shit this thread just gets better and better.

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>>5007058
hell yeah agreed!!

>> No.5008381

>>5006362
That's not really a big deal, I've got a few "hand me down" servers that are sitting on ~144GB RAM because they were virtual machine hosts. I think you're still going to need a lot more processing power than most PCs can put out though.

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>>5008381

It's GPU memory that's the limit, neural networks are almost never trained on CPUs because of how long it takes. There are websites that let you rent GPUs for deep learning, but retraining the network (SRGAN, in this case) on low color depth images was just desperation on my part, I'm 90% sure it wouldn't help.

I think Riven's backgrounds are high-quality enough to work with SRGAN's pre-trained network, but the game itself is hardcoded at 640x480.

>> No.5008608

>>5008127
>>5008142
>>5008170
>>5008124
I remember playing games with pre-rendered backgrounds and wishing that someday they would have the technology to make them explorable in 3D. Is it true most of these have been lost?

>> No.5009010

FInal Fantasy 7 gets me very nostalgic. So comfy.

>> No.5009254

>>5008608
Stupid japanese companies trash their assets after the games are released

>> No.5009258

>>5009254
Otherwise we could had an ff7 with higher resolution backgrounds on PC by now

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Some of ocarina of times back grounds are comfy

>> No.5009297

>>5009295
Oh shit that's the 3ds version nvm

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The amount of detail will never be matched again

>> No.5009543

>>5009010
I want to play final fantasy 7 on heroin

>> No.5009757

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>> No.5009759

>>5009543
Hell, who doesn't.

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>> No.5010013

>>5006293
is there a dump of the background CG from CC?
or an app like snailrush had for ff7 and ff8?

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Nothing on RE level, but I found it cozy

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>> No.5010345

Which of these backgrounds aren’t from a Squaresoft PS1 game?

>> No.5010352

>>5006020
thought that myself lad

>> No.5010378

>>5010013

I found the backgrounds here. https://imgur.com/a/7E4oK#0

>> No.5010389

>>5010345
The Riven ones are pretty good. Not as comfy, but pretty impressive.

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>> No.5011135

>>5008608
>>5009254
They were rendered on SGI onyx computers, the likelihood of migrating the assets to modern computer to be fucked with in Blender is 0

>> No.5011143

>>5005982
>Texas
D E E P E S T L O R E

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>>5006053
Damn, that looks nice.

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>>5011149
I think these two games have some fantastic and immersive background art, sound, music, etc.

You can browse most of the backgrounds (not quite the same feeling as seeing them in-game with the music and so forth) from Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus in a post about 2/3 down the page (it has a bunch of links):

http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=24191

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>>5011143
>Top 10 "It was Earth all along" moments

>> No.5011228

>>5010334
hard edge was comfy in an entirely different way than RE

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>>5011158
it was way cool how you keep getting closer to the fortress.

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>>5011239
Yeah, the progressions were great! I remember being blown away as a kid when you are escaping Rupture Farms, and the background progresses through a hazy sunset into the dark night, step by step (though unfortunately the above link doesn't present them as so).

>> No.5011387

god final fantasy 8 is so fucking ugly. ugly backgrounds, ugly characters, ugly story, ugly battle system. 8 fans are truly delusional.

>> No.5011413

>>5011387
ur wrong

>> No.5011415

>>5005975
Maximum comfy.
>>5005995
Nothing comfy about a shanty town.

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>>5011387
If you think the backgrounds in VIII are "ugly" then you need to get your head checked.

>> No.5012132

>>5010378
thank you

>> No.5012876

>>5010596
FF9 might not be the best Final Fantasy, but they sure nailed it in the comfy department.

>> No.5012893

>>5012876
Thankfully it is the best final fantasy though

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>>5012980
VIII has some amazing techno-european architecture.

>> No.5013009

>>5005995
Mideel always reminded me of Brazil, along the amazonian river. Comfy, but the heat and mosquitos are a lot. I've visited while I was in college.

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>> No.5013883

>>5013009
Thank you

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Still my favorite location in the whole house.

>> No.5014115

>>5005975
nigga that is fucking NICE

>> No.5014165

>>5011575
why would you ever respond to it

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>> No.5014334

>>5014297

everytime I play this level it reminds me of the ewok village in return of the jedi

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>>5014449

>> No.5014720

>>5014493
More ff8

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I love Dryfield from Parasite Eve 2. It'd be cool to visit a sleepy little desert town like it.

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>> No.5016308

>>5015995
>>5016002
What games?

>> No.5016474

>>5015398
Never got into pe2, is it worth it?

>> No.5016635

>>5016308
FF8 for both

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>>5016638

>> No.5016659

>>5015995
That fucking atmosphere.
I remember watching my friend playing FFVIII.

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Why do artists create such wonderful and beautiful worlds and architecture for movies and videogames, but somehow, in real life we have to live with modern eyesore architecture and depressing urbanism devoid of personality? Doesn't make any sense.

>> No.5016725

>>5016718
Unique architecture is making a comeback though. But I agree, especially in the us where everything is boring brutalism. Although there's a charm to old soviet apartment blocks in places like Ukraine and Russia.

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It was on a pirate CD collection in a completely cut down form (no music, no videos), but still made an impression. I didn't know about the movie then.

>> No.5016740

>>5016725
Yeah, brutalism can be done in some fascinating ways that you just couldn't achieve with any other material/style, as some USSR buildings show. But most of the time it's just used to make boring square apartment blocks that look hideous and give brutalism a bad name :(

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>>5016725
I'd say brutalism is the less of our problems now, as it's pretty much abandonded. But, the architecture that replaced it is even worse in a lot of ways. I mean, what the hell?

>> No.5016775

>>5009297
Kek I was about to say, I don't remember the prerendered backgrounds looking THAT good. That frame almost looks REmake quality

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>>5011387
>ugly characters
Not compared to 7. 8's characters make me laugh because they go out of their way to be so hot right now. Like their resting animation is a glam pose. That mixed with squall's "...whatever" demeanor is so cringe it's hilarious

>> No.5016979

>>5016718
The fuck is that

>> No.5017171

>>5016979
It's like a bad rejected proposal for a Final Fantasy evil corporation. Neverthless, we're not worthy of beauty anymore, as far as modern architects goes.

>> No.5017302

>>5011387
>Be me
>Be FFVII hardcore fanboy
>Eternally jealous of FFVIII's overworld character models though.

Fuck these popeye arms, I swear.

>> No.5017731

>>5016639
need sauce on ff9 gifs like this. i want to make some .

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>>5017809

>> No.5017968

>>5008381
Just use AWS or Google Cloud Compute.

>> No.5018323

>>5017809
Maximum comfy, I wish this game had more prerendered backgrounds

>> No.5018358

>>5016725
You don't seem to know what brutalism is. That just isn't a thing in current or recent mainstream architecture.

>> No.5018360

>>5006738
>https://imgur.com/a/TcHsowF
That's pretty fucking neat.

>> No.5018362

>>5007715
Because you associate it with warm memories when you were younger.

>> No.5019487

>>5018362
So

>> No.5020327

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>> No.5020806

>>5020523
Burger kong

>> No.5022142

>>5020521
Who names these stores?

>> No.5022168

>>5020523
boobs.jpg

>> No.5022367

>>5005975
Loved Icicle Inn

>> No.5022451

>>5005982
Why was it called 7th heaven if that wasn't its name on the front?

>> No.5022501 [DELETED] 

>>5008124

Costa del Sol is just like the city i used to live. Goddamn... Shit were so peaceful, then the niggers start moving in and 15 years later everything is just a big messy slum

There were that big house in the corner, near the beach, that place had the best fish in town. and, in the side of that house, there were an arcade that i used to play alien vs predator. Those monkeys came in and invaded the place... they burned it to the ground...

Jesus, blacks were a mistake. Why they behave like that...

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>>5022501
>>/pol/>>>>>>

>> No.5022830 [DELETED] 

>>5022507
Report this shit for racism, just don't respond. It's simple.

>> No.5023102

>>5005982
Texas on gaia

>> No.5023152

>>5005987
Is this the HD remake? It looks a little off to me.

>> No.5023252

>>5006053
Chrono Cross, like other square games had AMAZING pre-rendered backgrounds. I had to play through it again after a nearly 2 decade break, and it is as good as I remember.

>> No.5023263

>>5016725
>Although there's a charm to old soviet apartment blocks in places like Ukraine and Russia.
I disagree with you. I feel that all apartments are somewhat soulless...."commie-blocks" are the worst of it. Reinforced concrete core designed to do nothing more then house many. Apartments are a bad sign....If you see them move away. Yes, I have lived in apartments, No I won't ever again.

>> No.5023265 [DELETED] 

>>5022501

I feel you, anon.

>> No.5023808 [DELETED] 

>>5022830

>/pol/
I hope that one day some political correct better-than-thou princess make you swallow every drop of ressent that you couldnt express and make you appologize for that.
Im not white and i live in a 3rd world shithole. I grew among many different ethinices, but "those people" (not civilized poc) are different. I know what those savages are capable. My hometown now is a giant slaughterhouse runned by druglords and the memories of my childhood lies in a retro non-explorable pre-rendered background that i will never able to visit again.

Fuck you, you bag of shit

>> No.5024021

>>5010192
so many memories walking down there trying to be slow so that they wouldn't swim away...

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>>5006053
Chrono Cross had the best prerenders IMO. It hand drawn pastel which was really cool.

And then you got that alternate plane that was like being in a painting. Was so cool

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>>5006675

>> No.5024734

>>5024021
What

>> No.5025087

>>5024558
It was a legit question

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>> No.5025894

>>5025087
Its ff9 m8

>> No.5025904

>>5024558
Wait, is that a JoJo reference?

>> No.5026827

>>5025904
Yep

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Ff7 thailand

>> No.5026959

>>5026839
there's a guy from kotaku on youtube doing a playthrough of vii in english and japanese to compare and contrast the differences. he said the wall market is very similar to what the red light districts of tokyo were like back in the 90s. he lived there for some time too.

>> No.5027480

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Yeah sure Sleeping Giant Inn was cool [spoilers] Khuldahar will always be comfier [/spoilers]

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Yeah Sleeping Giant Inn was great but Kuldahar will always be GOAT

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>>5008443
>>5010138
>>5010336
>>5010343
These games were just an interactive gallery of backgrounds,

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>>5008443
>>5006293

Guess I needn't have bothered, someone came out with an improved version of SRGAN and it's not terrible with prerendered backgrounds. Color banding and dithering still fuck it up, just not as hard.

https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN

>> No.5027935

>>5027838

nice

>> No.5028534

my only problem with these programs upscaling images is that it makes them look like paintings rather than 3d objects prerendered.

if that's your thing it's cool, otherwise it's not for me.

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>>5028534
Prerendered backgrounds are the equivalent of painted backgrounds in old movies. They look really nice, but they're not that convincing, especially with a character in front of them.

>> No.5028826

>>5028556
Maybe but they are still timeless

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>>5028534

I think for that exact reason it would work best with Chrono Cross, seeing as a good chunk of the backgrounds are literally paintings. Too bad there's no PC port.

I also suspect that it's "tuned" for hair, fur and grass because it sees spaghetti strands in everything.

>> No.5029675

>>5029050
Wutai was underrated

>> No.5030163

>>5027778
What's wrong with?

>> No.5030187

>>5016474
Way better than pe1. Go for it

>> No.5030482

>>5030187
Okay I will

>> No.5030760

>>5010334
TRAG!!!!
Thats my shit

>> No.5032001

>>5024176
What's better ff7s plastic looking backgrounds pr chrono crosses hand drawn look

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>> No.5032746

Bump

>> No.5032768

>>5028556
I dont see a problem

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Maximum comfy

>> No.5034148

>>5032991
What game is this?

>> No.5034152

>>5024176
I've tried to play Chrono Cross a few times over the years but never got into it, is it worth it?
I've played through Trigger about 4 - 5 times

>> No.5034223

>>5034148
abe's oddworld

>> No.5034706

>>5034021
Maximum comfy indeed

>> No.5036360

>>5034152
Not as good as trigger but worth it

>> No.5036487

>>5005987
Do you really think those backgrounds looked good because of the technology and not despite it?

>> No.5036941

>>5036487
Because of it they did their best

>> No.5037769

>>5032830
The level of detail

>> No.5038575

Bump

>> No.5038925

>>5023152
d3d rendering or some shit

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>> No.5040912

>>5040902
this as "anxious heart" plays. get chills just thinking about it. the first hours of this game are wonderful.

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>>5005975
Commandos 2 had some really nice levels.

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>>5041389
Fuck, wrong board. Thought this was /v/ for a second, so no Commandos 2. Well, the first game (1998) also had some really good pre-rendered map design in my opinion.

>> No.5041429

>>5006062
>tfw in 30s and back in college but still look really young so I can finally live out my animu/vidya school dramas (already having cute interactions with the ladies)
Always wondered what going to a garden in FFVIII would be like. I guess the closest thing in the real world would be a military academy.

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>>5006675

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>>5041686

>> No.5042048

>>5007879
>>5007998
The best thing the DKC does with its backgrounds is make it seem like there's a vast mysterious world just over there that you really want to see and learn about but for now you're just in this spot that's enough to immerse you. It's like a background feeling that you'll never get to fully explore.

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>> No.5043015

>>5042587
Let me park my school

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>>5029050

Currently working on a texture pack for FF7 where each background is run through ESRGAN. Some turned out better than others, but even the worst are an improvement over the waifu2x mod.

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>>5029050

Currently working on a texture pack for FF7 where each background is run through ESRGAN. Some turned out better than others, but even the worst are an improvement over the waifu2x mod. Wouldn't blame anyone for thinking straight nearest neighbor is better, though.

>> No.5043032

>>5042048
I played through the newest one and while its not quite DKC2 tier, it definitely has the same feel as the older games. The secret is nothing to do with whether the graphics are rendered or pre-rendered, its the fixed perspective that allows the artist to show you exactly what they want you to see. Rather than a free camera, which instead shows you both it and your character clipping through walls.

>> No.5044442

>>5043029
Good luck

>> No.5044459

>>5042634
just gorgeous. you could reach out and touch it.

>> No.5044468

>>5043032
I dislike the enemy designs in the Retro DKC games. The anthropomorphic tiki drums in DKC Returns and those Angry-Birds-looking birds in Tropical Freeze. They all look like something out of a Discovery Kids show, just lowest common demoninator designs. The Rareware enemy designs had a touch of elegance to them. They were actually cool.

>> No.5044597

I love threads like these on /vr/. Minimal shitposting. Just a people posting things they like and having a civilized discussion.

>> No.5044604

>>5016638
Super comfy. Would have a tea party in.

>> No.5044606

>>5016718
Money.

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>> No.5046237

>>5044468
Wait so you like the old designs or dont, also you are not op

>> No.5046410

>>5045484
What game is this?

>> No.5046452

>>5046410
Chrono Cross

>> No.5046467

>>5040902
That electricity sound makes my heart jump every time I play the game. I'm never expecting it for some reason.

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> viola/cello music intensifies

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>> No.5047318

>>5046905
damn. they should of did a colab with square to do more backgrounds for midgar. that's really impressive.

>> No.5047369

>>5006738

Actually, these are stunning. I see the problems but for an automated process this is insane. With some manual touching up this could be used to make a real HD version.

>> No.5047373

>>5046905
damn this is a good industrial hellscape

>> No.5048438

Bump

>> No.5048454

>>5006738
They aren't that much sharper

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>> No.5048498

I would buy FF7-9 rebakes with these filters

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>>5048454

Part of that can be blamed on imgur for softening the images, plus using the old srgan in those shots over its newer counterpart. A few turned out so bad that I tried to fix it with a smoothing filter. Shame that project that tried to remake all the backgrounds in 3D seems to be dead.

In case anyone cares, all the field backgrounds for FF7 are here, split into layers: http://www.mediafire.com/file/z7bk6pteg41bmzr/field.zip/file

The files named 66000+ are all lights, they're supposed to be added to the backgrounds.

>> No.5048567

>>5048561
Still not seeing much of a difference

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>>5048567

Fair enough, it's not a huge difference in the end.

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>>5048582

>> No.5048608

>>5040902
Fun fact: the billboard is a reference to Mt. Koltz in FF6.

>> No.5048714

>>5048608
How in the world can you see that?

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>>5048714

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>>5005987
>Realtime 3D was a mistake
Correct

>> No.5048794

>>5048714
By the trail of spelling errors, off course.

>> No.5049097

Pre rendered stuff always reminded me of those old Short Circuitz bumpers YTV used to show in the 90s in between shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbhGmzvkp70

Seems all renderings with SGI graphics all seemed to have that unique look that I can't quite put my finger on. Oh and I ended up finding all the shorts circuitz stuff on Laserdisc a few years ago. The Mind's Eye, Beyond the Mind's Eye, and Imaginaria. All on youtube too.

>> No.5049165

>>5048791
Fuck I love this game
SO 2 is the best PSX rpg

>> No.5050389

>>5049097
Did you have a laser interactive

>> No.5051184

>>5048743
You cray

>> No.5052527

>>5049165
What is so 2?

>> No.5053461

>>5027562

>Icewind Dale
Hellyeah man I miss Black Isle and ID1 and 2

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>all these JRPGs
Ffuck outta here. Baldurs Gate and Planescape have the most beautiful backgrounds. To where even playing today exploring is amazing. Im just in awe of these places. Sadly its hard to get screen caps of these places. But every single background is a work of artp

>> No.5054992

>>5053519
There is just something about early japanese prerendered games

>> No.5057203

Bump

>> No.5057207

>>5053519
>enjoy a JRPG
>WRPG fan gets mad
every time

>> No.5057704

>>5015398
I tought I was te only one. I FUCKING LOVE dryfield.

>> No.5058080

>>5057207
But JRPGs are all the same and there isnt a single one that doesnt get boring.

>> No.5058725

>>5058080
either bait or you've never played more than like 2 jrpgs.

>> No.5058734

>>5058080
What a worthless post, are all your contributions this pointless?

>> No.5060760

Bump

>> No.5061430

Anyone have high quality Saga Frontier backgrounds?

>> No.5061678

>>5027838
It's really nice looking. You could just go in there and clean up some of those artifacts in photoshop pretty easily too to make it look better.