Since I was bored I played Thief Deadly Shadows again

[lowenz]

Dunno, i found it had a story. Although, typically, i play such a game for the atmosphere, gameplay, game world, and the quests. You know, if you do all the side quests, you can easily forget about the main story completely...

Aaaaaaaaaaand maybe this works for Skyrim, but not for a DX title.

Edited October 3, 2018 by lowenz

[chakkman]

You're right. Funnily, i didn't even perceive MD's story as thin, or hardly existant. But, i'll be cautious, because, sometimes your perception can really trick you.

[Anderson]

You're right. Funnily, i didn't even perceive MD's story as thin, or hardly existant. But, i'll be cautious, because, sometimes your perception can really trick you.

 

I don't know if that was sarcasm but The Elder Scrolls main stories were very superficial. And then compare it to what Daggerfall had. A couple of endings and an interesting plot intrigue. It was all text. But goddammit that script had more consideration than the Hollywood Oblivion or Skyrim. Can't say about Morrowind though because I missed it.

[chakkman]

It wasn't sarcasm, i really mean it. Sometimes, when you have a positive general impression of a game, it can make you think that certain aspects of the game were great, even though they may not have been. Even though i still think MD's story wasn't half bad.

[lowenz]

Happy 16th birthday?

Original Textures but ESRGAN rescaled (see the thread on TTLG forums), just a bit of Ambient Occlusion HBAO+ (nVidia GPU)

No Bloom, MSAA 4x

[peter_spy]

I saw that thread on TTLG, but I have my doubts on whether he actually knows what he's doing. He says he "fixed" T3 materials by adding normalmaps or generating new ones. The thing is, they weren't added on purpose.

Edited May 8, 2020 by peter_spy

[lowenz]

That is what I've thought, but maybe for performance reasons only. Other reasons?

Still more choices for the ones loving the original look&feel vs John P. work.

Edited May 8, 2020 by lowenz

[peter_spy]

4 hours ago, lowenz said:

That is what I've thought, but maybe for performance reasons only. Other reasons?

IMO normalmaps were not added for smooth surfaces (like stucco in his example), because textures at the time of release were mostly 256 and 512. There was no point in making normals for those, because you couldn't have fine details with such resolution. Normalmaps he created for rescaled versions look bad, probably auto-generated from a diffuse texture, without thinking how normalmaps should work for a given material type. And if there's sense to include them at all. Sometimes there isn't. 

Edited May 8, 2020 by peter_spy