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A.I. Upscaled and manually enhanced version of the MapleAtlas02 texture. With or without added maple leaves in 3 color variations, all in 4x2K, 8x4K & 16x8K.

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These are my new up-scaled and enhanced versions for the post-war MapleAtlas02 texture set.

I set out to create myself a greener wasteland in at least a 4K resolution, but got a bit stuck on the tree's as the textures for the institute and pre-war trees don't match the UV's used on the tree's and they just don't look all that good to begin with.

So I started re-creating the tree's with new leaves, taken from photographs. For the best results I started using an 8K resolution to create the textures (that's actually 16x8 in many cases, like the MapleAtlas02). For rescaling the texture I used an AI Upscaler to enlarge the original texture to 16x8K which I then further enhanced (correcting edges mostly), to use as the basis for my new tree.

For the new version with leaves I added the pre-war/maple institute bark and a bunch of maple leaves taken from photographs, and positioned to fit most UV's.



- Upscaled to 16x8K using AI Upscaling technology (finall version downscaled to 8x4K & 'standard' 4x2K)
- Cleaned up all 'flying particals'
- Modified branches to fit most UV's (no flooting parts of twigs anymore (far less anyway))
- Added a bunch of maple leaves
- Created color variants
- New normal & specular maps to fit with all the above

My goal here was to create at least a 4K version, with leaves. The rest of it is actually 'by-product'.
It is part of my 4K greener wasteland mod: RoNin1971's UHD Landscape Enhancement

However, I don't want to keep the enhanced vanilla version from you, as even in standard 2K it beats the original, if only for the adjusted branches & for those who want the mapleatlas02 texture in 2K or 8K, instead of 4K.

I did the best I could, on both the quality and fixing the 'overlapping UV' showing parts of other branches (the floating parts of twigs you see everywhere) or cutting through leaves, but whoever did those UV mappings did an extremely poor job, making it impossible to fix all without touching the nifs & UV's.

The MapleAtlas02 with or without leaves in 8x4K are the 'standard' versions. The other resolutions are 'optional'.

NEW:
An even sparser version with multiple colors & a bunch of new leaves. Perfect for any fall setting. It comes as optional download, in 2, 4 & 8K including new LOD textures.



History:
- new sparse version added (optional)

- Version 3 comes with less leaves and softened down, reworked coloring, as well as a brand new normal.

- As of version 2 an up-scaled version using ESRGAN with a model trained on bark has been mixed in for an even better result.
It now comes in 4 variants: The original dead, or with leaves in green, red & mixed colors.



Extract or copy the zip file content to your fallout installation's .\Data folder
Enjoy

RoNin1971