Heretic Neural Texture Pack

[grandgreed]

Heretic Neural Texture Pack | Hexen Neural Texture Pack

 

This project is a continuation of the development of the Hexen is also aimed to bring a new look for in-game content of Heretic.

The main course remains unchanged: "...preservation of details and lack of third-party modifications, only close view of what was conceived by designers since the beginning. No intervention, only the original."

 

Due to the fact that Heretic has smaller, simpler and weakly detailed textures (still two years between games, and this is a significant period), the work becomes more complicated, since it is difficult to recover details from sources.

 

Thanks theleo_ua for the help and tips during the work.

 

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Entires are ready

 

 

 

Texture examples (old versions)

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Examples of weapons (old versions)

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Examples of enemys (old versions)

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First screenshots #1 (old versions)

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First screenshots #2 (old versions)

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First screenshots #3 (old versions)

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How to use this mod.
Manual for Doomsday Engine here
Manual for GZDoom one and two

 

Release date: 26.04.2022

Version: 4.0.2 Final

File size: 148 Mb

Direct links:

GZ Dengine

 

Changelog:

-Some minor fixes

 

Old changelog:

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v4.0

-All textures have been reworked using specially trained models
-Pickup items, weapons, particles, effects, enemies and the rest of the pack content have also been updated with improved models

-Added some missing sprites

-Some minor fixes

 

v3.0.1

-Added missing flats

 

v3.0

-Updated and fixed almost all textures and sprites

-Fixed most visual errors of the AI interpreter

-Added missing sprites

-Updated weapons sprites

-Fixed corpse sprites

 

v2.0

-Fixed most textures

-Fixed most sprites

-Fixed most flats

 

 

Edited June 13 by grandgreed

[grandgreed]

More screenshots

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Edited August 4, 2020 by grandgreed

[printz]

This is totally awesome. I wonder if it can be integrated in source ports as a permanent feature. Can it also be used on new third-party graphics? Or does that require new training samples?

[grandgreed]

48 minutes ago, printz said:

This is totally awesome. I wonder if it can be integrated in source ports as a permanent feature. Can it also be used on new third-party graphics? Or does that require new training samples?

Thanks for your attention. Two engines are supported: GZ and Dengine. Nothing special needed.

Edited March 10, 2019 by grandgreed

[Emmanuelexe]

What about the red color on the side of the mouth of the malotaur? Is it normal?
I can imagine, it can be hard to find a good redesign for the little enemies like the gargoyles.
Hyped, I shared the link of the topic ^^ 

[printz]

10 hours ago, grandgreed said:

Thanks for your attention. Two engines are supported: GZ and Dengine. Nothing special needed.

I meant that: is it hard work to train the neural network to upscale any new texture sets? I suppose from the original post that it was somewhat of a challenge to upscale the Heretic set? Because I'm interested if this can also be applied (by the user eventually, not bothering you every time) with custom third party textures (from other mods), so they don't stand out as low resolution when loading them alongside this mod.

 

In other words: it would be great if this became a source port feature (instead of a resource wad) to automatically upscale any low resolution textures. However, i understand you had to use specialized tools, which probably take significant off-line time, so maybe it's not ready for what I said here (said source port would have prohibitive loading times, and might need to be distributed with lots of machine learning data in the zip) . 

[grandgreed]

13 hours ago, Manhs said:

What about the red color on the side of the mouth of the malotaur?

Please show where is it.

 

11 hours ago, printz said:

is it hard work to train the neural network

It's not hard work but... But it should be remembered that the neural network often interprets what should not be and as a result the original appearance is lost among the invented details. Let the final resolution of the image get a little lower, but close to the original, than it will be high, but with extraneous details.

Regards.

[Emmanuelexe]

Here is a pic for the malotaur, well little detail, maybe not important, there like a mini red effect.

[grandgreed]

14 hours ago, Manhs said:

like a mini red effect.

Only bull sprites have this. Other enemys and objects do not have that. Obviously this is some kind of lighting simulation conceived by developers.

[Emmanuelexe]

Oh i see yes, ok then ^^

[grandgreed]

Main post updated. Initial test release uploaded.

[Emmanuelexe]

Awesome, i shared it, did you made the head of the golem like that intentionally?

I like this design



Looks like his head is really made out with a pile of rocks like that nice!

[grandgreed]

14 minutes ago, Manhs said:

did you made the head of the golem like that intentionally?

No side intervention. It's a result by neural network.

 

Edited March 14, 2019 by grandgreed

[Emmanuelexe]

ah ok xD lol 
How do you plan to modify it? Well, i suppose it's better to keep it like the original design style!

Edited March 14, 2019 by Manhs

[grandgreed]

3 hours ago, Manhs said:

How do you plan to modify it? Well, i suppose it's better to keep it like the original design style! 

I don't have plans to touch it. I just can to try other interpret method to compare, but I think it will be not good result.

[grandgreed]

Main post updated with new ver.

[Emmanuelexe]

Nice, thank you for the work!
I will try at v1 like for Hexen Neural. :)

[grandgreed]

Main post updated. New ver uploaded.

[Emmanuelexe]

They made an article about your mod in PC GAMER website nice!
https://www.pcgamer.com/heretic-looks-stunning-with-neural-network-texture-improvements/
Nice, close to v1, i suppose? :)

[NightFright]

I just actually realized the existence of this. Really nice work, even if the AI did most (if not everything) of it. Even nicer: Existing GZD brightmaps still work with these resized sprites, so at least you don't have to live without that extra eye candy. Some other stuff like my fullscreen HUD or widescreen sprite fixes naturally breaks things, though.

[Mordeth]

They actually credited @grandgreed this time, instead of the illustrious artists/modder called 'somebody' :)

[theleo_ua]

Nice work!

 

Also, don't forget about this https://zdoom.org/wiki/Sprite#Heretic.wad (I will check your pack later about those technical details)

[grandgreed]

Main post updated. New ver uploaded.

[Emmanuelexe]

Awesome, version 1 release! I will play Heretic with it, gonna share it ^^
Thanks for this mod! :)

[grandgreed]

Main post updated with new ver.

[theleo_ua]

On 4/13/2019 at 6:19 PM, grandgreed said:

Main post updated with new ver.

 

v1.0.1

-Fixed transparency on some sprites

-Updated some textures

Which exact sprite names are fixed with transparency? I compared byte-to-byte patches folder of 1.0.1 and v1.0, and found no differences

[grandgreed]

1 hour ago, theleo_ua said:

Which exact sprite names are fixed with transparency? I compared byte-to-byte patches folder of 1.0.1 and v1.0, and found no differences

Thank you very much for your attention. It should not have been downloaded. This is a workprint, I mistook the names. The right files are uploaded. Big thanks again for noticing this.

 

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CHDLA0
CHDLB0
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Edited April 14, 2019 by grandgreed

[Judicator]

Hello, how do I load this texture pack in Doomsday?
Thanks.

[grandgreed]

On 4/17/2019 at 8:13 PM, Judicator said:

Hello, how do I load this texture pack in Doomsday?

Please read manual from here.

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New ver uploaded.

[Judicator]

On 4/28/2019 at 10:06 PM, grandgreed said:

Please read manual from here.

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New ver uploaded.

Thank you very much.