This project is the best texture replacement. It keeps the feel of the original game without so much blur. Please apply the same treatment to the mission packs so that Quake 2 may live on!

While making comparison screenshots, I noticed some textures were cropped incorrectly:

Wrong (upscaled textures)

Look at the floor, the light textures and the trim behind the elevator.

Correct (original textures)

Leaving this as a note to myself to fix it.

The current sky textures are a bit noisy. Denoising them using GIMP or some other tool should help make them smoother and more natural-looking.

It would be nice to see the weapons for the mission packs upscaled. Thanks!

Bugsquad edit (keywords for easier searching): the reckoning, ground zero, xatrix, rogue

Let me quickly preface by saying that I like this texture mod a lot. It keeps the existing art style and visual direction the same, while improving display quality. Many mods trying to do the same, often make it feel inconsistent, but your work is very good and consistent.

That out of the way, would it be possible to include the UI elements of Quake 2?

Hey, so I think the weapon textures look great, but the world textures can look a bit weird in some situations.

As mentioned in another issue, some textures are rather noisy, and I wonder if some of the dedither models could help here, the 4xFSDedither variants look pretty good, https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database#Dithering

There's also the HDCube scaler looks promising.

I'm on AMD and Linux so I'm not really sure how to extract textures from Q2 or run pytorch on my hardware, I would love to do some comparisons otherwise.

It was mentioned on Twitter that Yamagi Quake 2 supports TGA external textures. Replacing PNGs with TGAs should make it possible to use this texture pack in Yamagi Quake 2 (in theory at least).

Supported source ports

• Q2PRO
• Yamagi Quake 2 (rename the extension from .pkz to .zip if it doesn't work)
• KMQuake2
  • Needs to be tested. Help is welcome 🙂