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Ability to enable new texture mapping in games
5 years 10 months ago #2 by bckpkol
Replied by bckpkol on topic Ability to enable new texture mapping in games
Yes, it would be good to dump and replace the textures with ReShade like some Glide wrappers and Dolphin Emulator do.
There is a texture scaler plugin for Gimp - Resynthesizer. It can easily upscale the 64x64 texture to 256x256, and, if you repeat, to 1024x1024.
It also would be good to write a shader that will convert diffuse maps to tangent normal maps. This is the example of shader of that kind which I done for Cycles.
There is a texture scaler plugin for Gimp - Resynthesizer. It can easily upscale the 64x64 texture to 256x256, and, if you repeat, to 1024x1024.
It also would be good to write a shader that will convert diffuse maps to tangent normal maps. This is the example of shader of that kind which I done for Cycles.
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5 years 9 months ago - 5 years 9 months ago #9 by Ganossa
Replied by Ganossa on topic Ability to enable new texture mapping in games
There is already no limit what shader we can write using the depth buffer. The limitation is only applied to the specific applications which does absolutely not rule out that the written shader can still be used in all the other apps.
We have to ask ourself though how well texture swapping could work in such a generic way.
True, all static color correction can ultimately be covered by one LUT but to get there we have various algorithms that differ in their results and need to be applied to create the necessary input which is needed for the LUT shader.
For everyone who does not own photoshop or similar those algorithms can be chosen and applied through ReShade.
Everything else is a matter of taste which is why we provide free variables for each individual shader and not only the hard coded version of our own "bad" taste
We have to ask ourself though how well texture swapping could work in such a generic way.
True, all static color correction can ultimately be covered by one LUT but to get there we have various algorithms that differ in their results and need to be applied to create the necessary input which is needed for the LUT shader.
For everyone who does not own photoshop or similar those algorithms can be chosen and applied through ReShade.
Everything else is a matter of taste which is why we provide free variables for each individual shader and not only the hard coded version of our own "bad" taste
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