Hello everyone!
As some of you, who look at announcements in the ALOT discord might know, there is a new graphics upgrade project cooking up right now: ALOV, or A Lot Of Videos.
I'm here to give you some info on it and hopefully encourage some people to help me and my team.
Me, Audemus and Sara each work on a separate subproject that is a part of ALOV, I'm responsible for ALOV ME3, Audiemus for ME1 and Sara has started working on ME2 even before we thought about the ALOV project as a whole.
What do those projects do?
ALOV aims to fix all of the low resolutions, prerendered, video-based cutscenes and loading screens across the Mass Effect Trilogy.
Each of the trilogy games has video BINK files and while those files are great at loading fast, they have many downsides, that especially show on high-end machines.
They have a resolution of only 720p, which already is visible os blocky on a 1080p and on 2k, or 4k screens... No comment.
They have a low bit rate and frequently have really big artifacts from the compression process used to create them.
And since they are prerendered videos, no texture or graphics mods can fix them.
And this is where me, the rest of ALOV team and hopefully you come in.
We have found a way to fix, upscale and polish those videos, using a combination of image editing, AI learning-based algorithms and post-editing.
The results we are getting are amazing, but look yourself at some examples:
But this process is very time consuming and with only one PC per project, it takes a really long time to get them the exact way we want.
And this is where you can help us.
We are looking for 2 types of people:
1) testers - for making sure what we have works fine.
2) AI runners - for running the AI algorithms that take the longest time out of the whole process and which are also the least ability needing part.
If you would be willing to help us wright a DM to me and I will help you get started with everything.
Thank you for your time and help, and I hope to see you playing Mas Effect using ALOV at the N7 Day!
2 comments
Unfortunately, I won't be able to support on this, but all I can do is show my support by commenting and endorsing, if you can call feedback helpful.
And yea, spreading information about this will definitely help.