Regular ESRGAN is not apropiate for photoreal textures (they end up looking like hand painted), you might want to look into Real-ESRGAN and RealSR, and even those have issues retaining the original color palette. Anyway, better retextures already exist, I guess it's cool as an experiment, but not really worth as a product.
I know what you mean, but I like it. If you just want a really simple texturepack that just works that looks exactly like the original, doesn't f*#@ with the colour palette and just adds a little more sharpness this is perfect. I like this painting like style really much, it actually suits the game, the character models look really weird with HD photorealism texture packs, I have tried 3 packs that didn't work for me artistically.
1) Download and start GothicVDFS 2) In the line "Filename" press "..." and open "HQ15.VDF" 3) In the line "Root Path" press "..." select folder to extract files (it is recommended to create an empty folder for this) 4) Press the "Extract Volume" button 5) After unpacking is complete, open the: folder where you extracted the files/_WORK/DATA/TEXTURES/_COMPILED and delete the files that start with BOOK_, as well as the LETTERS-C.TEX file. Do the same in the folder: _WORK/DATA/TEXTURES/DESKTOP/NOMIP 6) In the GothicVDFS at the top select the tab (Builder) 7) In the line "Filename" press "..." and enter the filename "HQ15" 8) In the line "Root Path" press "..." and select the folder containing the "_WORK" folder 9) In the second lower window (which the text "File(mask)(s) to INCLUDE" ), in the line above write "*.*" (Without quotes) and press "+", after which the symbol *.* should be added to the window. 10) Press the "Build Volume" button 11) Rename "HQ15.mod" to "HQ15.vdf" and and copy it to the game's "Data" folder
I converted your mod into A .mod file and combined it with the Unpatch V.08. Since there are 2 .mod files that come with UnPatch, I added the one duplicate file from this mod (NCODWADARKROCKHOLE-C.tex) and added it to the Gothic_UnPatch.mod, Then the rest I added to Gothic_UnPatch_Textures.Overwriting all, Using the .vdf tool that comes with Gothic 2 Gold. Every one should try this. Makes the game look and play perfect. Your game may stutter A little bit when first loading, but it stops after A bit. Depends on your PC. Cuz your loading A 1.7 gb mod? or it`s just my PC. I wish I could upload this as my mod. But I don`t want too steal 2 mods. For those that do not have G2 Gold. here is the .vdfs tool. https://dll-overhaul.com/file/gothicvdfs.exe/3910.html . It`s easy to combine the 2 if you know how to use the vdf tool. worldofgothic.de/ or .com or worldofplayers.de or .com has alot of tutorials on how to use the tool. Go to the PSI camp at night. BEAUTIFUL. You did an awsome job on the skies/barrier. I will explain the whole procedure if anybody wants.
Textures for books and letters have wrong size - when you read one (try fire mages letter), empty white screen without text will be shown. Problem occur only with this mod installed. Please update the mod and exclude/remade all text related items textures: BOOK_ ... and LETTERS (.TEX and .TGA files).
Admire your work, just fond out about this old gem. Fun that THQ bought pirahna bytes. We might get a quality 4 in the future. Back to this topic, it started lagging when i extracted your file to the data folder and started the game.
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Anyway, better retextures already exist, I guess it's cool as an experiment, but not really worth as a product.
1) Download and start GothicVDFS
2) In the line "Filename" press "..." and open "HQ15.VDF"
3) In the line "Root Path" press "..." select folder to extract files (it is recommended to create an empty folder for this)
4) Press the "Extract Volume" button
5) After unpacking is complete, open the: folder where you extracted the files/_WORK/DATA/TEXTURES/_COMPILED and delete the files that start with BOOK_, as well as the LETTERS-C.TEX file. Do the same in the folder: _WORK/DATA/TEXTURES/DESKTOP/NOMIP
6) In the GothicVDFS at the top select the tab (Builder)
7) In the line "Filename" press "..." and enter the filename "HQ15"
8) In the line "Root Path" press "..." and select the folder containing the "_WORK" folder
9) In the second lower window (which the text "File(mask)(s) to INCLUDE" ), in the line above write "*.*" (Without quotes) and press "+", after which the symbol *.* should be added to the window.
10) Press the "Build Volume" button
11) Rename "HQ15.mod" to "HQ15.vdf" and and copy it to the game's "Data" folder
Textures for books and letters have wrong size - when you read one (try fire mages letter), empty white screen without text will be shown. Problem occur only with this mod installed.
Please update the mod and exclude/remade all text related items textures:
BOOK_ ... and LETTERS (.TEX and .TGA files).