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About this mod
Meant to improve the textures found in the vanilla PC version as well as those bundled with the enhanced edition mod
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from readme.txt:
*This mod is only for use with the latest update of the Enhanced Edition mod for Silent Hill 2 PC*
This is a texture mod that mainly intends to fix all transparent textures (as well as touch up textures without transparency) from the enhanced edition that are compressed with DXT 3 (bad no no compression), using their original sources from the PS2 version which has much better-looking transparent textures due to the PS2's nonexistent compressing abilities and compressing them to DXT 5 (good compression).
What I mean by "bad compression" is that DXT 3 doesn't really handle transparencies with gradients all that well (which is what the original Xbox port mostly used, and in turn, what the pc port used across the board), producing some noticeable harsh edges and banding artifacts on those textures. These are evident in the texture editor screenshots I put in here.
(plz back up your sh2e folder before installing) To install, simply drag the "sh2e" folder from this mod over to the main root of your Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition installation, pressing "replace" on all instances.
From some of my testing, these improved textures should work in-game, though you can comment here if there's any issues (I don't use nexus mods all that much tho), or contact me at .gaybanana on discord or my totally real main email at [email protected] if there's any crashing on your end or inconsistencies with the original enhanced edition assets that I missed.
*This mod is only for use with the latest update of the Enhanced Edition mod for Silent Hill 2 PC*
This is a texture mod that mainly intends to fix all transparent textures (as well as touch up textures without transparency) from the enhanced edition that are compressed with DXT 3 (bad no no compression), using their original sources from the PS2 version which has much better-looking transparent textures due to the PS2's nonexistent compressing abilities and compressing them to DXT 5 (good compression).
What I mean by "bad compression" is that DXT 3 doesn't really handle transparencies with gradients all that well (which is what the original Xbox port mostly used, and in turn, what the pc port used across the board), producing some noticeable harsh edges and banding artifacts on those textures. These are evident in the texture editor screenshots I put in here.
(plz back up your sh2e folder before installing) To install, simply drag the "sh2e" folder from this mod over to the main root of your Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition installation, pressing "replace" on all instances.
From some of my testing, these improved textures should work in-game, though you can comment here if there's any issues (I don't use nexus mods all that much tho), or contact me at .gaybanana on discord or my totally real main email at [email protected] if there's any crashing on your end or inconsistencies with the original enhanced edition assets that I missed.