Render96 Video Game Texture Preservation

Stevie 30-Apr-21 02:55 PM

Fanamel 30-Apr-21 03:01 PM

that actually looks pretty good with more clarity

Sometimes it's difficult to get high res images to work with older games but this looks like it works nice

Stevie 30-Apr-21 03:15 PM

I know what you mean, it’s not as jarring as before

When they made the jump from arcade to dc they swapped/improved a lot of important textures like roads and grasses but there were some things left out. The brick one was originally like 128x128 or something which is really far off from the standard res for ground textures in dc.

Ground textures in dc vary between 256 or 512 squared with some road textures having a width of 1024

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Fanamel 30-Apr-21 03:27 PM

holy hell lol

I don't know why but DC games seemed to like using massive textures for the time, Sonic Adventure 2 has some pretty huge ones as well

Have you ever documented the differences between the versions in a video or page before? (edited)

Stevie 30-Apr-21 03:31 PM

I always point stuff out to the people in my server but I don't have a full on video or anything like that.

I haven't done that yet because I've been bouncing around projects regarding the game, hard to focus on one thing.

There's also a gamecube/ps2/xbox version of the game used in a compilation which is where I do all of the modding work for the game. I originally started modding the GC port to fix all of the issues with the game but because of the how easy it is to work with I've been using it as a base for a mod.

There's talks of a wiki though, as soon as one of those people start it I'll send them stuff. Writing/organizational stuff are some of my weaker points

Wood match is totally correct btw

I thought it would have just been a section but it turns out it's the whole thing lol

Fanamel 30-Apr-21 03:39 PM

what the hell, nice

dude same though. I don't consider myself good at writing at all but I've been doing it just to make sure the information can get out there

If you guys start a wiki btw I'll totally link to it the same way I link to Princess Mth's wiki

Stevie 30-Apr-21 03:41 PM

That would help a crap ton

Yeah I just want literally everything as sourced as possible just to make it way easier for other people to work on something or mod, etc.

My dream would be to remake the game in an engine and keep it open source. Warner Bros. got the rights to the series in some acquisition deal like 10 years ago and they've kept the game locked in a vault since. It's a bummer now knowing of all of the people that would play a remake of the arcade.

Fanamel 30-Apr-21 03:49 PM

That'd be sick, considering what you do know with this game I'd hope they reach out to you if plans for a remake or port ever happened

Stevie 30-Apr-21 03:50 PM

It'll be either that or a shutdown lol

dunno how WB with that kind of stuff

Fanamel 30-Apr-21 03:51 PM

Hope not considering how foolish on their half that is considering you're one of the few dudes still maintaining value for the game

Stevie 30-Apr-21 03:55 PM

Here's gameplay; It's a very well made game but I'm pretty sure it didn't catch on as they intended because they made the skill ceiling too high. There's a lot of shortcuts that are more optimal than just standard driving but a handful of them are very difficult.

1:30 and onwards is a pretty good chain of shortcuts, they open and close depending on the elapsed time in the track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4iSmkAI74

MrWizard

Rush 2049 Special Edition Track 7

Fanamel 30-Apr-21 04:03 PM

Interesting, the more gameplay I see of this the more I'm surprised this wasn't talked about more often

The track design actually looks fun

Stevie 30-Apr-21 04:05 PM

Yeah it's really well made. Arcade had an expansion that added tracks 6 and 7 (which were originally console exclusives) Those 2 tracks were made by Rush 2's (n64 exclusive game) track designers.

It'd be hard for any game to take off though if they're locked into super expensive hardware. It just recently became playable on mame as of like 2 years ago.

Console versions are okay too but they run on a different engine and there's some small adjustments to the tracks, idk just not the same

Fanamel 30-Apr-21 04:16 PM

Ah so if I ever got around to trying this I should probably try emulating the arcade game. I assume either Dreamcast or Gamecube would be the next best thing?

Stevie 30-Apr-21 04:21 PM

If you're playing on PC then Rush 2049 Special edition on mame for arcade

If you want to play a console port on PC then Rush 2049 Legacy Edition (my mod) on dolphin.

DC is the best if you're on actual hardware. N64 is good too but it requires expansion pack for track 6 and some other stuff (edited)

Fanamel 30-Apr-21 04:30 PM

sweet gonna have to keep that in mind. I think my friend actually has the N64 version already so I'll have to have him bring it over next time he visits

Stevie 30-Apr-21 04:32 PM

oh sweet, you'll have fun with the multiplayer stuff

Stevie 26-Jun-21 09:07 PM

I used a heavily modified stone texture from wraptures 3d. This is probably the closest I can find to the actual texture used.

Here's the original.

Stevie

I used a heavily modified stone texture from wraptures 3d. This is probably the closest I can find to the actual texture used.

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 27-Jun-21 12:49 PM

Ooh is this one of the textures off the discs I showed?

KerbalAwesomebuilderX

Ooh is this one of the textures off the discs I showed?

Stevie 27-Jun-21 02:32 PM

Yeah, it’s from the stone folder

SonicChao 04-Jul-21 01:40 PM

Hi I was wondering if anyone know how to import higher quality texture into games. Since I've been wanting to do it for SA2 on Steam

SonicChao

Hi I was wondering if anyone know how to import higher quality texture into games. Since I've been wanting to do it for SA2 on Steam

Stevie 04-Jul-21 01:44 PM

I’ve never done steam textures before so idk the dumping method. But you can get away with downloading a texture pack that someone else has made and overwrite files there. You’ll probably have to look into dumping textures eventually since most packs don’t have everything.

SonicChao 04-Jul-21 04:15 PM

Nvm I found out how to do it

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SonicChao 18-Jul-21 02:57 PM

seams

SonicChao 20-Jul-21 10:26 AM

It feels like I just got a new prescription for my Glasses

SonicChao 22-Jul-21 10:19 AM

Lucoshi 22-Jul-21 10:27 AM

I want Rare Ltd Games to be decompiled to create a Rare Replay alternative for PC

ThreePlanet 22-Jul-21 10:38 PM

Hey, SonicChao, I've a seamless and manual upscaled version of cobblestone I did, do you want it?

ThreePlanet

Hey, SonicChao, I've a seamless and manual upscaled version of cobblestone I did, do you want it?

SonicChao 23-Jul-21 08:29 AM

no thank you besides this was mean't as a joke lol but thank you for the offer thought!

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Lucoshi 23-Jul-21 10:58 AM

I feel the world of game Modding is against me mostly because the people who don’t want teach me or don’t care about teaching me or maybe this teaching is misunderstood as doing the stuff for me because of this they post something so that is too difficult to understand or something that I think is unrelated. Too much info overloads my mind FYI

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 09-Aug-21 06:09 PM

Is it just me or does it sound like somebody saying “help”? I was watching the quake ii demo and kept hearing this

Is that one of the enemy sounds?

SonicChao 27-Aug-21 01:18 PM

beautiful

MtH 27-Aug-21 03:54 PM

mood

SonicChao 27-Aug-21 04:24 PM

I think there is another part of the sky box missing

MtH 27-Aug-21 07:13 PM

yeah no idea what that is

Stevie 22-Sep-21 10:11 PM

I spent the day texturing parts of a race track that dates all the way back to 97 in Rush: The Rock. This pic is from unity.

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This is what the section of the map looks like in the game for comparison.

This was a combination of two textures from separate libraries. WorldBuilder was where the rocks came from; I don't remember the metal. The libraries from r96 are really helping though!

This was a custom and I spent over 2 hours on it. I pulled the stripes from another library and the Danger sign from an image search, but everything else started out as a drawing

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