Doom sprites HD (8x) version v03 released

[iLikeTheUDK]

Not so impressive. It just made everything have round edges (even the things which need to have angular edges!). And they all still look blurry. VERY blurry. We need to enhance the detail manually.

[RV-007]

While blurry, I must admit that the sprites are becoming image quality.

[iLikeTheUDK]

What do you mean, becoming image quality?

[RV-007]

@ the very least, the sprites are distinctly recognizable from its pixelated counterpart. I guess there won't be blurs up front in the future.

[hfc2x]

These files are different from the old D64 wads and allow
direct replacing of original Doom2 monsters (but also weapons).
Also included are all stuffs like maps or textures.

The point of this post being...

[TheMorden]

whats with everyone talking about doom 64

[iLikeTheUDK]

I've been asking myself the EXACT same question.

[wildweasel]

Because someone saw fit to spam about someone's Doom 64 project for no reason whatsoever. Hey, Kaal979, in the future, maybe don't do that, please?

[RaVeN-05]

How about this 2x scaling method?

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[iLikeTheUDK]

Nice, but not that detailed. You must understand that vector scaling is a no-go, at least as final results. It might be possible to use vector-scaled sprites as base, and then paint details onto them. But simply slapping vector scaling onto it and calling it HD sprites doesn't make it HD - It just makes it look...weird. It actually distorts it a bit.

[wildweasel]

But simply slapping vector scaling onto it and calling it HD sprites doesn't make it HD - It just makes it look...weird. It actually distorts it a bit.

Not to mention, GZDoom et al can actually do this in real-time, natively, by turning on the HQ2X/3X/4X scalers in OpenGL options. There's no point in doing it "manually" without touch-ups.

[Enjay]

HQ*X scaling can slow the game down in a way that resized sprites wouldn't but, agreed, this type of resizing really doesn't give much in the way of quality improvements (though it's not bad - I've certainly seen worse) and it doesn't really seem to be consistent with the aims of this project.

[Blox]

You guys are really overestimating how good hq*x scaling is. It would likely blur the hell out of the sprites, and have plenty of very sharp artifact-looking edges.

Also that big tree looks really good.

[iLikeTheUDK]

You guys are really overestimating how good hq*x scaling is. It would likely blur the hell out of the sprites, and have plenty of very sharp artifact-looking edges.

You're pretty much repeating what I commented in different words.

[Enjay]

There is something odd about these images. If you zoom right in to the edges of any of the sprites you can see a border around each one that is a compromise between the colour of the sprite and the white background. Has the image host resized them or something?



As an aside...

GIGANTIC IMAGES spoilered for bandwidth sanity. -mgmt

I was under the impression that the images still loaded if they were spoilered, they just aren't displayed. Is this incorrect?