Tactics Ogre LUCT HD UI v0.9.9

[Sirbagsalot]

This is a test update/overhaul of my old Tactics Ogre: LUCT (USA) HD UI pack. Be sure to delete the old version before installing.

Notes:
-Everything UI related should be covered and all story/battle portraits from Ch1 to CODA episode 4 should be updated.
-flashing/blurry textures have been completely fixed
-I have chosen to only upscale the drop shadows for the equipment icons, the pixel art looks pretty nice and it will help keep the pack compatible with OV and LUCT
-There are several alternate artworks and a few alternate ui assets if you dig around the appropriate folders, just rename and replace the stuff that you want, beware of spoilers.
-If any text isn't upscaled for you then I highly recommend using the latest PPSSPP nightly instead. This has now been fixed in the newer versions of PPSSPP.

Preview: https://imgsli.com/MjAxNjI1

Main Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xl9q1t063...9.rar/file

KTX2 Version: (Recommended for Mobile, or if u need better performance.) https://www.mediafire.com/file/tc6ze5zru...n.rar/file

Install Instructions:
1. Copy to the folder ULUS10565 inside PSP\TEXTURES\
2. Enable texture replacements under developer tools
3. Under game settings set Screen Scaling Filter to "Linear"
4. Done!

Recommended Settings:
-Set the emulator to 4x rendering resolution (or a multiple of 4x)
-Post Processing Shader to "Off" (FXAA or Natural Colors can look ok if u like that kinda stuff)
-Texture Filtering to "Nearest" (Setting this to Linear may cause visual artifacts but will smooth/filter sprites)
-Screen Scaling filter to "Linear" (Don't set this one to Nearest, it is easy to mix up these settings)
-Deviating from these settings may or may not introduce unintended visual artifacts.
*Additionally, if you have a high refresh rate monitor you can achieve 120fps in this game with 0 issues by using Lossless Scaling's AI Frame Generation option.

Credits:
Gibbed: For his Tactics Ogre tools
Raics: For his many HD Text/UI replacements, he pretty much co created this pack with me, much love <3

[Ace_Kuper]

Registered just to ask you a few things.

1. Can you link the thread about this on the TO reddit in case or is there a better way to follow this if you decided to update it?

2. Is this compatible with the One Vision mod? Since it changes some text i assume not.

3. This looks pretty good, but some text is inconsistent and blurred is that the mod or just emulator settings difference? Particularly at the Xapan menu the INT,DEX, etc stats looking more defined, but loosing some colour and their numbers looking blurred. Or move\Jump at the top of the same screen being pretty hard to read and their number being blurred.

[LunaMoo]

The guy has 1 post and made it like year and a half ago, so don't expect an answer.

But as for the 3, it's most likely how the upscaling algorithm/AI processed the original texture. Those AI's we use for upscaling aren't real "intelligence", they lack imagination and foresight, they can't see the bigger picture and while sometimes the result of their work is great, sometimes it's just ugly when they add details to artifacts or blend things that should have high contrast usually when the source image was really low quality.

[Ace_Kuper]

(04-04-2020 03:44 PM)LunaMoo Wrote:  The guy has 1 post and made it like year and a half ago, so don't expect an answer.

But as for the 3, it's most likely how the upscaling algorithm/AI processed the original texture. Those AI's we use for upscaling aren't real "intelligence", they lack imagination and foresight, they can't see the bigger picture and while sometimes the result of their work is great, sometimes it's just ugly when they add details to artifacts or blend things that should have high contrast usually when the source image was really low quality.

Huh, for me it says that the post is from the 5th of February so two months ago.

I also found out that TOLUCT One Vison mod apparently changes some UI stuff around, so it for sure would not be compatible.

[LunaMoo]

Oh yeah I somehow loked at his 1 post and join date without noticing the date of the post itself;p.

As for the text being changed, it depends. If the textures have text itself, then yeah it will not be compatible at least for those changed parts. If it's using a font which this texture pack scales up, there should be no problem whatsoever.

Even if it's the first case you could just dump those textures yourself and use similar AI upscaling software.
Through I don't really get why the author of this choosen x6 scale as PSP graphics will only scale perfectly for HD(1920p x 1080p) and UHD(3840p x 2160p) displays, upscalers also tend to give better results with scale that's multiplier by 2 and if you really need UHD(x8), you can just x2 the x4 textures later on, through not recommended when using non-texture formats like PNG's since it cause a lot of stutter on texture load and current texture replacement doesn't have anything to prevent it.

[Sirbagsalot]

(04-03-2020 03:12 PM)Ace_Kuper Wrote:  Registered just to ask you a few things.

1. Can you link the thread about this on the TO reddit in case or is there a better way to follow this if you decided to update it?

2. Is this compatible with the One Vision mod? Since it changes some text i assume not.

3. This looks pretty good, but some text is inconsistent and blurred is that the mod or just emulator settings difference? Particularly at the Xapan menu the INT,DEX, etc stats looking more defined, but loosing some colour and their numbers looking blurred. Or move\Jump at the top of the same screen being pretty hard to read and their number being blurred.

1. I will probably update this thread here first before the reddit thread since it's super dead over there.

2. It is compatible with OV mostly, I ran OV and upscaled whatever did dump that was new and pasted it in to the folder a long while back. Think all that was new were some icon sets and a portrait for sara. They both dump the same fonts, text boxes, and portraits for the most part. There have been recent updates to OV I dont think there was anything new to worry about. Unless he like moved Raveness to another location and now her upscaled face doesnt work, dont think that is the case though.

3. That is indeed due to upscaling issues, I used Fatality and Manga109 ERSGAN models for most of these upscales. It is definitely possible to fix with photoshop or maybe even using a diff model. But im not that great at that kinda thing.

I did continue to play through the game but there honestly isnt much left to dump and upscale for the UI at all. Just portraits that I may have missed, even then all the unique characters are covered so at most you may see an unupscaled generic if your unlucky. I was very thorough in collecting everything I saw and reloading maps multiple times to collect more portraits though.

There is alot more potential for a full upscale or retexture of this game mostly because of the way it dumps its tiles consistently but that was beyond my ability as well.

[Ace_Kuper]

Great to see that this is still ongoing.

I saw a similar project for FF9, but people probably already heard about that one.

Quote:There is alot more potential for a full upscale or retexture of this game mostly because of the way it dumps its tiles consistently but that was beyond my ability as well.

I wonder if the author of that one could give you any tips. Since you are probably using a similar up-scaling technique, but it maybe just the same completely.

[ryuubu]

There's no textures.ini file included?

Just textures?

[ikuji]

I tried making HD fonts for this game, but I abandoned the project due to the lack of time. And the kerning was not as satisfying as I hoped it would be.

I'm linking to what I managed to achieve and some PSD files. You are free to use it if you want.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5sh3t4ccxldgb...5.zip?dl=1

[Sirbagsalot]

(06-14-2020 10:46 AM)ikuji Wrote:  I tried making HD fonts for this game, but I abandoned the project due to the lack of time. And the kerning was not as satisfying as I hoped it would be.

I'm linking to what I managed to achieve and some PSD files. You are free to use it if you want.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a5sh3t4ccxldgb...5.zip?dl=1

Thank you for the contribution! I'll make an update to the pack with these fonts included over my crappy upscaled ones once I get some time as well. Ill be sure to credit you.

(04-25-2020 01:53 PM)ryuubu Wrote:  There's no textures.ini file included?

Just textures?

Just textures.

[mikewando]

The font for the dialogue is almost certainly "Captain Comic Italic" with some of the punctuation changed (for example the ampersand). I'll upload the redone texture when I finish updating it, but definitely helps keep the kerning the same.

Example: https://i.imgur.com/eyUoMvR.png

[Kairo GC]

Hello guys, I've completed the folder , UI background is less noisy and menu stats, most of icons are reworked now
The link there >>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/3qlev2ny60iqm6...I.rar?dl=0

[shadking]

Hi guys, based on the pack posted by Kairo GC, i resized a bit, from 1.0gb to 365mb, rejoice :]

link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tF6GH2A...2K0CI/view

[Sirbagsalot]

(08-21-2020 11:52 AM)shadking Wrote:  Hi guys, based on the pack posted by Kairo GC, i resized a bit, from 1.0gb to 365mb, rejoice :]

link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tF6GH2A...2K0CI/view

Thank you both very very much for the contribution. Would u guys like me to edit this on to the first post?

[shadking]

sure man, happy to help :]