The plan in the following few days is to upscale also some characters, monsters, items and other textures, and create a web application - a prototype, a Diablo 2 demo - which uses these upscaled textures. The comments under this post will be taken into consideration when I'll be choosing a single model for these and all other animations. Next report will be in a few days, when there will be something new to show to you And I also don't have a 4K screen to test it on It is possible to make a 4K version, but the result is a web app - 4K textures would take too much space. Right now you can zoom in, the final app won't be zoomable (it will resize automatically to fullscreen)Įvery animation was upscaled by a factor of 2 (2x larger width & height, totally 4x larger area)ĭon't forget about the zombies at the bottomĪs stated, the final resolution will be fullHD. It can take a few seconds to load, the size of the animations is about 10MB The larger the display the better, at least fullHD (for extra enjoyment press F11!) Question for you: which model do you like the best? Last time I used ESRGAN with Manga model to upscale Rogue Encampment, this time I've extracted some animations and used several different models to upscale them. Stay awhile and listen!Īs I've stated in this previous post, I'm working on a web application - a Diablo 2 prototype with upscaled textures. Here's a still of the models, but definitely check out the ones in motion above (the different columns represent different options of rendering the models):Īnd here the full quote from the man himself in the reddit posts: You can check out a few more images from the Rogue Encampment in the full gallery.īut he's not stopping at just stills, as he's also upgrading the animations for some models, which you can check out here (NSFW warning - Andariel features prominently).

That last one is particularly impressive, really bringing out the details in both the pillars and the background. First off we have some Rogue Encampment and Arreat screenshots, that look pretty impressive in their HD treatment.

Zomprd isn't going too far off to the 4 and 8K crazyness territories and is sticking to 1080p HD for now, which is ambitious enough, seeing as he has to rebuild the entire game from scratch, using several AI upscaling techniques. Redditor zomprd has taken several steps in the long road to remastering the classic, with some impressive images and animations so far. As we've recently found out that an official Diablo 2 Remaster is very unlikely/almost impossible, this fan-made project is all the more relevant, despite the very early stages of development.

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