Deus Ex: Invisible War ESRGAN Upscale Attempr

[Akven]

I check half of material library, found 237 normal maps to be created.
Overall it would be about 500 normal maps

[Akven]

I sorted out everything, found 599 textures for which normals need to be created

[ewan]

I'm loving these ERSGAN upgrades. Really brings the game back to life. Also great work on Thief Deadly Shadows, just checked that out.

[Akven]

I already made 150 normal maps in two days. So it's a progress

[Akven]

Ok, last news blog.
Deus Ex: Invisible War ESRGAN mod
Test version from 18.09.2020 (I consider it as almost finished mod)
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/3sfb/xzXNFFEB4

What was done from last time
1. I made 597 additional normal maps
2. I edited 953 entries in material file adding these normals. Also corrected 1 or 2 vanilla game bugs in materials.
3. snobel's tool wasn't able to retrieve cubemap correctly, but I noticed that Deus Ex 2 uses only one env_noise_01 cubemap. And this is exactly the same texture as turbulence_01 from Thief 3, so I took Thief 3 upscaled variant (Deus Ex 2 version is 64x64 while Thief 3 original version is 32x32, but upscaled Thief 3 version is 128x128. If snobel would correct his utility to extract env_noise_01 from Deus Ex 2 - I would be able to upscale it to 256x256 and backport to Thief 3).
4. I wasn't able to upscale fonts. For some reason edited cel file isn't applied no matter where I put it.

Screenshots
This is added normal maps to surfaces
https://imgsli.com/MjI1MzY/2/3
https://imgsli.com/MjI1MzY/6/7

Added normal map to metal bar
https://imgsli.com/MjI1MzY

Added normal map to cleaner bot (no clearly visible on this screenshot)
https://imgsli.com/MjI1MzY/4/5

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I didn't see any bugs but I didn't played long. And loading times are tolerable so I don't know if Light version of the mod is needed.

I could tweak material file and add reflections (env_noise_01 cubemap) to additional materials with metal and marble attributes (most of them had reflections), just slightly tired from it.
If anyone want to try - they are always welcome. All materials entries are here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...t#gid=80360427

[snobel]

snobel's tool wasn't able to retrieve cubemap correctly

I think that the cubemap tool would work, but the texture extraction tool currently only extracts the first face of a cubemap. (The cubemap tool should tell you "not a cubemap" when you try to do the split.) I'll see if I can fix the extraction.

I wasn't able to upscale fonts. For some reason edited cel file isn't applied no matter where I put it.

IIRC, the VU doesn't have the patch to apply the scaling factor stored at the end of upscaled .cel files - but that may not be the only problem. In any case, hold on to the upscaled fonts in case this is eventually fixed...

[Akven]

Yes, it tells not a cubemap after extraction when I try to split it. It's not a big problem since I took the same texture from Thief 3. Just that Deus Ex 2 version would be slightly better after upscaling cause of bigger original resolution of the file

[ewan]

Get back home in a couple of days and happy for a new excuse to play through DX:IW.
New normal maps looking good!

[snobel]

I'll see if I can fix the extraction.

I decided not to expand on the texture extraction tool before cleaning up the code, but for now, here's all the faces of the DX2 cubemap - extracted using a hex editor...

[Akven]

Here is upscaled env_noise_01.dds from Deus Ex
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/Pom9/aYnkmtDDR

I tested it ingame and it working
You could also rename it to turbulence_01.dds and use in Thief 3 since it the same texture in bigger size.

I could also possible create turbulence_gold and turbulence_ruby from it just playing with the colors.

[Akven]

Here are upscaled env_noise_01 from DX2 plus recolored versions of it - turbulence_gold and turbulence_ruby
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/4AEX/xPqovcvVf

For use in Deus Ex: Invisible War take
env_noise_01.dds

For use in Thief: Deadly Shadows take
turbulence_01.dds
turbulence_gold.dds
turbulence_ruby.dds

[Akven]

Tweaked Deus Ex 2 a little. Additionally added a lot of reflection maps to metal/marble/bots materials.
Now it's 1008 entries in material library compared to 953 before.

[Akven]

I uploaded mod to ModDB. You can count it as a release.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-i...ar-esrgan-pack

[ewan]

Excellent work Akven! Ill download this tonight. Still so impressed with how much this updates the image, without compromising on the visual style.

[Akven]

And I'm really lazy to do cinematics upscale))
Can't found a way to get a good result.

[Akven]

I updated the mod to v2, creating mip-maps for all the textures
https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-i...ar-esrgan-pack

Also I splitted mod into full and light versions for better perfomance.
Perfomance tests and all of the descriptions on the moddb page

[lowenz]

Thanks man!

[Hydra Spectre]

I would love a Deus Ex 1 ESRGAN upscaled texture pack for both vanilla Deus Ex and Revision.
It would especially be great if it can upscale both vanilla and New Vision/HDTP textures for Revision along with its exclusive textures.

One thing that would make it 1-Up Helios Texture Overhaul is if it can work with OpenGL/Direct3D 9/Vanilla renderers rather than being exclusive to DirectX 10 or 11.

[ZylonBane]

It would especially be great if it can upscale both vanilla and New Vision/HDTP textures for Revision along with its exclusive textures.

Hold up, you want to upscale textures that have already been upscaled?

1-Up Helios Texture Overhaul

Give a texture upgrade project an extra life? What?!?