KS could be EASILY turned into a 4K remake [CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!]
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Be excited to see it, but don't set your expectations TO high.
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Edit: HOLY HECK, it's available even on JAST's store apparently, somehow.
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(I think there was a misunderstanding and I might have given him the wrong impression that I made a KS mod. I should have made it more obvious that it is not a KS mod. However it is to late to fix that misunderstanding and now I have to stop, because my *** is at stake.)
Time has passed since then and I learned a few things and realized some of my mistakes.
If you are looking for a good way to play KS on new monitors then the best approach (which does not violate any copyrights) I can currently recommend is running the regular unmodified KS in window mode and using the cheap Steam app "Lossless Scaling" with the configuration "Scaling Type: Anime4K, Size: Ultra Large". The app is 100% unrelated to KS the same way as trains are 100% unrelated to onions.
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Re: KS could be EASILY turned into a 4K remake [CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!]
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They made a game for us and they did it for free. If 4LS wants to be left alone by people complaining about broken mods that 4LS was never responsible for in the first place then so be it. It's their right from both moral and legal perspective.
Apparently the mods simply have to chase all the annoying fans (myself included) off with sticks in order to not waste to much of their time with something they do not get paid for. I just wish there would be less "shoot first, ask questions later". I wish it, but i do not demanding it, because I understand the situation.
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I'm not doing anything related to this anymore and currently do not have any related plans for the future. But who knows, maybe someone else is interested regarding making something like this a reality, since the rules regarding derivative works have changed. So for now I'd like to conclude, just to make sure that everything important was communicated:
I also tested out waifu2x neural network up-scaling approach. Waifu2x seemed to be more true to the original, but it produced outlines that were less sharp. RealESRGAN produced cleaner, sharper outlines, but sometimes it messes things up. It's less true to the original in other words. So the optimal solution will probably be a combination of both waifu2x and RealESRGAN (by means of masking explained earlier in this topic) in order to get the advantages of both. Maybe it is also worth it to make a very few exceptions and redraw some details by hand and/or use a more dumb up-scaling approach like DCCI wherever necessary.
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I just discovered your post and it looks really nice! Also sounds like you had problems with the topic in the past, but watching some of the iconic scenes in high resolution feels like a refreshing experience for which I'm thankful. I don't know if this project will resume, but so far I can only tell my thoughts on it... great job! Thanks for daring to try something new while retaining the essence of the game, and of course, to share the results with us
Re: KS could be EASILY turned into a 4K remake [CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!]
I wouldn't mind this as a standalone project, though I do hope you can incorporate something like the Relighting a Scene thread into it as well. Honestly, a 4K remake with dynamic lighting and animated sprites would be great.
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Siphonata wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2024 5:34 amI wouldn't mind this as a standalone project, though I do hope you can incorporate something like the Relighting a Scene thread into it as well. Honestly, a 4K remake with dynamic lighting and animated sprites would be great.
That's far beyond my powers. The only way know to me how to add this kind of lighting is making a huge crowdfunding campaign and than paying some artists to do lots and lots and lots of drawing. KS has a lot of fans. I'd not be surprised if they actually managed to collect enough money for a such a remake. And yes, It'd be nice to see some spires that move a little bit to make the characters look alive and as if they were breathing. But only crowdfunding can make that happen I'm afraid.
As you can see in making the pictures bigger by magic of AI is relatively easy. But properly drawing lighting and animations will require some real people doing the whole work in order to do the work well.