smoothely-smooth-smooth textures

[daaw]

So soldat didn't have a style..huh
so made up one - called smoothely-smooth-smooth;

A great tool i found GpuAkf

[Bistoufly]

That is pretty awesome!!!

[Akinaro]

App is nice and it should be handy on some projects, but its not to good for textures on Soldat. its just remove details keeping contours/dark spots more visible.
Its like selective blur with oil-paint effect, but with nicer output.

But even if for me its not that great for soldat, if someone use it on sceneries and other graphic soldat could get more cartoonish look that some people would like.

[daaw]

..and thats what we want.. soldat to be more animated / cartoonish... style.. than this hyper-realistic textures...

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[Akinaro]

well this is one of question that I asked before and didnt get respond.
Because we have realistic sceneries, ugly polygon maps, cartonish character, and we saw few concept of map/part of map that shoozza showed up that dont fit to anything.
Half of people that work with soldat want to fap to polygon style of maps, other want realistic look, and other dont know what they want...
Its just look like no one have precise idea to what do with soldat(from player/user perspective). The same with overall idea of keeping soldat, that contain advertising it... something that just doesnt exist.

But still textures are cool

[daaw]

feels hard to settle down for anything here....wonder if we will have this little discussion...before ill try apply this  to some sceneries..

kinda default style was complete realistic.. to me this feels  better than that nothing... this this smoother..

[urraka]

Would be nice to try it on 1 map to get a better picture of the style

[daaw]

hmm didn't find any good map with big sceneries..did bunch trees..as they large






...btw urraka your forum avatar creeps me out, haha

[Name]

They look familiar but I'm still glad sort of.. cause they are good. Most of VTT's stuff were good.

[Akinaro]

...btw urraka your forum avatar creeps me out, haha

perroAZUL - blue dog


But beside that I found one problem with this style. On typical resolution(windowed 720p and fullscreen 1080p) its hard to see the difference between normal texture and sceneries and this one after applying filter.
Sceneries are small and textures are... also smaller So you actually dont see this style. Tree look like small tree, bush look like bush, texture look like a bit blurred normal texture. On res bigger than 1080p like 2560x1440 you see more changes and you see that oil pain style but still changes are not that visible like on single image.

[Illuminatus]

I've just checked most of the default dm- and ctf-maps and I really like the art-style it creates. Looks good for me in most maps; some need some more polishing to smoothen out the edges though.
And yes, you do notice the difference to the original textures. "Lowering the resolution" of those hyperrealistic textures by smoothening the image helps in reducing the flickering which sometimes happens if you have so much detail and yet are moving really fast.

I wouldn't mind this becoming default.

[CCalp]

I've just checked most of the default dm- and ctf-maps and I really like the art-style it creates. Looks good for me in most maps; some need some more polishing to smoothen out the edges though.

Could you share some screenshots, please? I'm too lazy to try out myself...

[Illuminatus]

Simply create a new folder under the "mods"-folder called "smooth" for example and extract the "textures_smoothely_smooth_smooth.zip"-file into it. Then use the "starter.exe" to start the game.
Doesn't really take more than a minute and won't hurt your original textures.

[Shoozza]

I'm interested in this. The trees look nice, we should try this out.

[Akinaro]

windowed 1280x720
typical resolution that I found most people use.

I changed only texture, palm trees, columns, box and lines. Because I had to manually revert alpha channel to images after applying this filter. So bushes and and grass are intact.

filter
no filter

You still can see that changes are not that visible, unless you assuming that everyone play at res bigger than 1080p on 32ich screens and they would look for changes with face 10cm from it :] Then you see all that oil paint details.


On single image ist really cool effect but on more complex things, like map, and with so much variation of resolution you would need to set radius of this effect to really big, and you would need to change most of graphic to fit cartoonish look.

But if you would do this you would end with... soldat before OpenGL HD we have in 1.7 that would be just stretched to bigger resolution...

[darDar]

filter

This looks really bad

[Akinaro]

its like using old graphic from 1.6.x

Also I applied smaller amount of this filter on sceneries like palm tree, because with bigger values its look just more blurred.
http://s26.postimg.org/hypb9d3qh/filter02_medium.jpg
 

[homerofgods]

Photoshop has the same effect filter I think

[duz]

postimg.org adds an extra compression to the jpg. Looks worst than before.

[Akinaro]

Yes, postimage compress it a bit, but I have png screenshoots and trust me it look the same. Its still look like using old graphic on 1.7