Persona 3 Portable HD Texture Pack Community Expansion (WIP) [Updated 12/16/2021]

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(11-25-2020 03:53 PM)BanhCanh Wrote:  Just a small update on what I've been trying with AI upscaling, what I did :

- upscaling x2 then downscaling back to 1.0 with waifu2xcaffe
It somehow fixes the transparency of the edge of a upscaled textures (the border between transparent and opaque of a texture).
In P3P, you otherwise notice a black border around the blinking textures during the animation.

- Upscaling with ESRGAN
ARG: --skip_existing --alpha_mode 1 (don't need to split channels with this)
MODEL: 4x_NMKD-Yandere2_255000_G_4x_NMKD-UltraYandere_300k_interp_08.pth

I used 4x_NMKD-UltraYandere_300k because it doesn't mess up the transparent/not transparent border as much as other models.
I interpolated it with 4x_NMKD-Yandere2_255000 because it helps reducing some artifacts introduced by using UltraYandere. Yandere2 also doesn't mess up too much the border mentionned earlier but it doesn't look as good as UltraYandere to be used alone (imo).

- transparency fix with imagemagick, I replaced colors with the following values "rgba(255,255,0,0) and rgba(0,0,0,0)" with a fuzz distance of 5% to rgba (0, 0, 0, 0).
Some ESRGAN models slightly change colors and opacity so it's kind of a workaround to counter that (might break very transparent part of some textures). The rgba values replaced are based on the model I used and the color and opacity change it introduced.

I did my tests mostly in the early games of Growlanser and P3P. Growlanser has some very very noticeable seams so I believe fixing it in Growlanser also helped fixing P3P further.

Results: https://imgsli.com/MzA3MTY/2/3
The blinking seam looks more or less the same as in my previous post (don't have screenshot but I actually tested in game too and it looks just the same!).
The quality might not be phenomenal or anything but at least it doesn't break transparency! (or at least not as much as it used to with the other methods I tried)

I believe that if you only care about portrait in P3P and blinking animation it should be ok but what do you think ?
I'm personally using this method on my personal packs, my first objective is just to get rid of the pixelation that hurts my eyes and I don't want to be bothered with ordering textures etc... so I just upscale the whole thing and hope for the best

It takes ~7hours to upscale ~12K psp-sized textures with a gtx1070.

YES! I'm glad someone is working on this. Looks great as far as I can see. I started redrawing them from scratch when I was working on this pack, but there are SO many portraits, that it proved too much work for me alone.

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(10-29-2020 11:16 AM)ArcEnCiel Wrote:  Hello, sometime ago I was working on extracting PS2 textures for Shadows, Personas and Tartarus and working on implementing them to prior 3x texture pack. I am not particularly interested in maintaining my own separate branch, but I am willing to post the work I have done so far and will be OK with it added to this project.

Example Screenshots:
Sarasvati: https://imgur.com/7DnMvzS , https://imgur.com/XtHE6AO
Nebiros: https://imgur.com/mQgHgUH , https://i.imgur.com/gqobz04.png
Norn: https://imgur.com/cA3v3zC , https://imgur.com/xzdz2DG

Looks great I did the same for just a few enemies (some beetles and shadows if I remember correctly), and they looked much better