Townhall - WC3 Classic HD

[ERIOL33]

sick ths is the true Classic HD i hope u do a hole pack !

 

[LongbowMan]

sick ths is the true Classic HD i hope u do a hole pack !

I hope so too! I could really use some help, though - conversion and animations take so much effort
Edit: spelling

 

[YourArthas]

No words to say. Looks exactly the same as original but HD. Going directly to Rebirth.

 

[Kyrbi0]

This is what it should've been. Good work.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

what reforged should have been.

 

[Nyctaeus]

Reforged/Classic HD as it should have been. Blizzard failed, you did not. Impressive accuracy with source material and asset quality. It screams "Warcraft 3".

 

[Nortuega]

beautiful

 

[Volsung]

Pleasure for the eyes. It's physically enjoyable to watch.

 

[FlameofChange]

That's the fokin HD we all wanted !
The file size is still a bit too big for my taste, but it has leverage to be improved.

 

[The_Silent]

What a nice spruce up!

 

[GAQ]

Stunning works

 

[LongbowMan]

That's the fokin HD we all wanted !
The file size is still a bit too big for my taste, but it has leverage to be improved.

What do you think would be a proper file size? I may be able to optimize it a bit, at some point

 

[YourArthas]

What do you think would be a proper file size? I may be able to optimize it a bit, at some point

If you decide to please leave the unedited ones for HD lovers like me that'll use local files.

 

[LongbowMan]

If you decide to please leave the unedited ones for HD lovers like me that'll use local files.

Don't worry, I won't cut anything that impacts current appearance, level of detail will stay the same. I think it may be possible to optimize animations - sanity check states there are some repeating frames in tracks, for example. Though I doubt it will win a lot of weight.

 

[Nikita17]

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[Hana Linh]

I hope you can remake HumanTower

 

[YourArthas]

I hope you can remake HumanTower

Sc2 has towers remade. They look exactly the same as this style

 

[Yousef]

This is what reforged should've been, splendid work, I would definitely donate to you if I wasn't broke!

 

[Wind Rose]

Simply excellent work.

 

[Xelos]

wonderfull textures pal, this is exactly what blizzard should done when he added new patch instead those fake promo pictures of high ress pictures of warcraft 3, they needs to learn from you

 

[FlameofChange]

What do you think would be a proper file size? I may be able to optimize it a bit, at some point

Take that with a bag of salt (my own tears) since I have the bias to optimize the shit out of my stuff to waste no kb (and 8Mb map limit before 1.28)
For a SD model 50-100Kb is the sweet spot, but I can tolerate up to 400kb with textures for good quality and lots of juicy animations.
A 3 tier building could tickle the 500kb but that's my upper limit. For your HD I would tolerate 1Mb.

 

[LongbowMan]

Take that with a bag of salt (my own tears) since I have the bias to optimize the shit out of my stuff to waste no kb (and 8Mb map limit before 1.28)
For a SD model 50-100Kb is the sweet spot, but I can tolerate up to 400kb with textures for good quality and lots of juicy animations.
A 3 tier building could tickle the 500kb but that's my upper limit. For your HD I would tolerate 1Mb.

I see, thanks for the details! I don't think I will ever be able to squeeze it in 1mb without cutting everything down to the original level of detail
I already cleaned lots of unnesessary geosets (the og had insane amounts of repeating geometry). On the bright side, half of thi bundle's size comes from textures - and they can and will be reused in ther models for Classic HD.

 

[Hana Linh]

Sc2 has towers remade. They look exactly the same as this style

Could you please share more specifics with me?

 

[ERIOL33]

Ubersplats Reworked i hope u like it if u need more like this talk to me on dm-pm here on Hive

 

[LongbowMan]

Ubersplats Reworked i hope u like it if u need more like this talk to me on dm-pm here on Hive

It's not exactly a rework, it's an AI pass. I already did several AI passes with the original ones and then repainted them by hand to remove inconsistencies and match colors and shapes.

Could you please share more specifics with me?

He's talking about the anniversary mod for Starcraft II that included some remastered Warcraft 3 assets. They're pretty neat but I treat them as a reference rather than something that is already done. I also don't remember seeing them posted anywhere in mdx format but I guess some people had them converted from SC2.

 

[ERIOL33]

It's not exactly a rework, it's an AI pass. I already did several AI passes with the original ones and then repainted them by hand to remove inconsistencies and match colors and shapes.

He's talking about the anniversary mod for Starcraft II that included some remastered Warcraft 3 assets. They're pretty neat but I treat them as a reference rather than something that is already done. I also don't remember seeing them posted anywhere in mdx format but I guess some people had them converted from SC2.

oh oh ok let me put some effort on this i tried too a lot of ai passes too but can i give u options if u want

 

[LongbowMan]

oh oh ok let me put some effort on this i tried too a lot of ai passes too but can i give u options if u want

Taking someone's work to an AI upscaler and positioning it as an improvement somewhat devalues all the man-hours that were put in the original piece. Only a small part of it is AI upscale - there's a lot of manual work behind this texture: handpainting, color correction, careful design choices etc. What I'm saying is that if you think there is space for improvement, your feedback is much more welcome than retouch, especially one done by online AI upscaler.