Upscaling Sprites

[iMillenium]

Sorry for my English, I'm using google translator!

At the beginning of the year I started "working" on upscaling the ragnarok sprites.
The method consists of using a tool to upscale the image and after making some changes in the ACT to play this image into the game.

The result made me happy, I like the way it looks... There are people who don't like it and that's okay. From the beginning I faced some problems with the "compatibility" of the sprites, which cause anomalies in the client's HUD, we tried some solutions and, unfortunately, we could not REALLY solve the problem.

I came to share with you the solution we adopted, in the future I hope to be able to make this work the way I would like.

I'll leave the upscale I made in the game's base classes, so you can see the result better.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9srbjuf2fj7in8o/1-1_Class_MilleniumUpscale.zip/file






these are some of the problems we encountered



this diff basically removes the display of sprites in skill and equipment tabs


this is the solution that was provided by @Secret (thanks for that)

A possible solution would be to modify the default display frame from frame 0 to a higher number (frame 200, for example).
But this requires knowledge of hex and I don't know how to do it

Warp hide sprites.rar

For those who have doubts about how to upscale, in this video I teach how I do it, I don't know if it's the best way, but I do it like this.

 

 

Edited August 8, 2023 by iMillenium

[Rynbef]

I rly like the upscaled sprites. I wanted to upscale the sprites a few years ago using ESRGAN but I had no time. Maybe u can find the frame number by using CheatEngine. And than try to hex it by using XVI32.

Good work and good luck!

 

Rynbef~

Edited August 8, 2023 by Rynbef

[iMillenium]

3 minutes ago, Rynbef said:

I rly like the upscaled sprites. I wanted to upscale the sprites a few years ago using ESRGAN but I had no time. Maybe u can find the frame number by using CheatEngine. And than try to hex it by using XVI32.

Good work and good luck!

 

Rynbef~

thanks for the feedback.
I really don't understand how hex editing is done, I've tried to look a little at the secret code but I don't have the knowledge to modify it.

I use a program called Cupscale it's a time consuming process but not complex.
https://github.com/n00mkrad/cupscale/releases