Highres 4X HD for classic

[Quylein]

I've been working on finishing a whole set of s3d files for Classic and a few Kunark zones have been completed. I was trying to work on Psycher's post here Inspirational start Post (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=338573). Sadly the compiled work there was not consistent through the zones. A lot was Lowres and some Highres and it was just a mess. So I completed the Classic project of Highres 4X.

https://i.imgur.com/Cs4L2BN.png

Highres 4X HD (http://wiki.project1999.com/Highres_4X_HD)

All of the zones, and many of the Objects and Characters have been viewed and tested. However, If you find any issues with Zones, Objects, or Characters in Classic zones. Please tell me and I'll get it corrected. I don't raid or go to the Planes so I'll need someone who's been point any inconsistencies out.

Imgur Album of Highres 4X HD in no order (https://imgur.com/a/N5jIyY4)

[abbelyn]

Very nice work, looking forward to Kunark and beyond =)

[Thulghor]

This is great. Thank you very much.

[Thulghor]

You weren't kidding when you said it might increase load times. Even with putting my entire P1999 EQ install on a RAMDrive it still takes a good twenty to thirty seconds to zone. Oh well, worth it.

So far it looks great, only found one thing so far in North Freeport that was kinda odd. I haven't checked very many places though.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/emruxyi9v9nmw9o/EQ000747.bmp?dl=0

[Quylein]

Yeah I tried to fix the maps but it will take a digital artist with photo shop to correct. If I was good at that I would. I did the best I could with assets within the game and minor touches.

[Mblake81]

I've been working on finishing a whole set of s3d files for Classic and a few Kunark zones have been completed. I was trying to work on Psycher's post here Inspirational start Post (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=338573). Sadly the compiled work there was not consistent through the zones. A lot was Lowres and some Highres and it was just a mess. So I completed the Classic project of Highres 4X.

https://i.imgur.com/Cs4L2BN.png

Highres 4X HD (http://wiki.project1999.com/Highres_4X_HD)

All of the zones, and many of the Objects and Characters have been viewed and tested. However, If you find any issues with Zones, Objects, or Characters in Classic zones. Please tell me and I'll get it corrected. I don't raid or go to the Planes so I'll need someone who's been point any inconsistencies out.

Imgur Album of Highres 4X HD in no order (https://imgur.com/a/N5jIyY4)

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[Quylein]

I've uploaded Kunark, The Zone's, Character files and Objects have all been upscaled much like the Classic files. Minor corrections where needed and some Lowres files were used as it kept the Flavor of the original more intact with what Classic should be.

I've reviewed All the zones and objects within EQzoneviewer, I've seen issues and cleaned up and corrected many, many files. However, I could only log on to see Character files and worked with the tools I had. I've been attempting to figure out LanternEQ to see if I could compile character models and ensure they are displaying correctly.

With that, if there are any Character files (or zone/object) issues don't hesitate to post and I'll get them corrected. I'm now currently working on Velious and hope to have the full set of s3d's upscaled by the end of the Month or sometime early March.

There have been several updates on classic files as well, much to do with transparencies. aprox download now is 5.5gigs.
Highres 4X HD (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EZVyzGbMH0wF2dQYtj7We_ZL2EFLEwvg/view)

I've also updated some more Globals and upscaled globalFroglok_chr files as well. The files have kept all EQclassicHD files so there is no need to worry about losing or overwriting them. (unless you patchv53 and overwrite the s3d files within p99 folder)
Globals (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n4awCNxrpNLZJrR-6eWTCr8NnxKIbAcJ/view)

[Faxi]

so great. thank you!

[abbelyn]

Agreed =)

Looking forward to Water updates (if needed) for Kunark and down the road Velious to complete this set.

Keep up the good work =)

[Quylein]

working on velious and the water and should have Velious by end of week these files went smother. The water takes a bit more

[Faxi]

bumping this because its so freaking great. Its like a new game - Classic but not a blurry mess. Now a gorgeous Norrath! after a few days playing with this, running through many zones (im on Green so only tested Classic zones), I havent seen any problems. Everything is vibrant and detailed in retro gaming visual wonderfulness. And on average i'm seeing ~4-6 sec increase zone loading times with game installed on a average SSD.

FINALLY THE GAME LOOKS LIKE THE BOX ART PROMISED! only took 20 years... hehe

thanks again

[Quylein]

Glad you liked it, still working on details. clearing up some signs in FP and Qeynos. testing Velious, correcting water bitmaps.. The original blue water doesn't work so well but I'm keeping that in. I have a second download for water that doesn't have black and lines here soon, the stuff i have on wiki right now was a test but it still doesn't sit right. going with what i did in Lake rath. Finding that there are some NPC's that should have transparencies even in OG file that even the Trans fix does not fix correctly. I am still trying to get an NPC model viewer or lanternEQ to work, as I do not want to mess up any Epic mobs.

[paronga]

I'd love to give this a shot. Where are the install instructions? :)

[Faxi]

I'd love to give this a shot. Where are the install instructions? :)

you just drag them into your EQ install folder ... and then choose to Replace/Overwrite when prompted

[Quylein]

I'd love to give this a shot. Where are the install instructions? :)

Can also check out the wiki and the whole project.

Wiki (http://wiki.project1999.com/Highres_4X_HD)

[Quylein]

Classic, Kunark, Planes & Velious are completed. All Character, Zone, Object files are upscaled. A few things in Classic were repaired such as the Map wall in Freeport, and several signs in Qeynos; some signs that were difficult to read or were severely pixilated. Kunark had a few minor corrections as well. Velious has been completed and zones, objects tested. All textures were upscaled and repaired.

I am still unable to test all NPC's outside of game so epic/rare mobs were unable to be seen by myself. If there are any transparency issues or texture/color problems post them here and i'll look into it and correct the problem.

I feel like I'm done with this project as of now, almost 3 months of pretty much everyday tweaking these files. I'm spent on this for now, but if you do find issues that I can fix please don't hesitate and post and I'll do my best.

Highres 4X HD wiki (http://wiki.project1999.com/Highres_4X_HD)

quick rundown there are 4 downloads in total and will add aprox 7.5GB in total to your main P99 folder

Main files 3 folder (open each folder extract to main P99 folder overwrite) 7GB
Water files 2GB (66 zone files with new water overwrite after main)
Moon/Stars (drag and drop resources folder into p99 overwrite) 200Kb
Tradeskill objects/Pets (keeps EQClassicHD intact but adds to it mage pets not classic) 140Mb

[MalystryxVoF]

Looks great! Installed them last weekend.

Mage Fire pet is my fav so far. thing looks mean!

[Quylein]

Looks great! Installed them last weekend.

Mage Fire pet is my fav so far. thing looks mean!

Yeah I love it to, this update fixes some fouled textures in many zones, so you may want to re-download and update won't need globals though. Only updated main 4X files and new water

[Faxi]

thanks again man. rest up, push away from your work and admire it. Great job. have like 10 of my friends and guildmates using it and they cant shutup about how much more they enjoy the game. Really appreciate your effort.

Go actually play the game now hehe

[Rick Sanchez]

TYVM for this op.

[schulerta]

Is it possible to make weapons look better?

[Quylein]

Is it possible to make weapons look better?

yes the Globals do that. EQclassicHD (http://wiki.project1999.com/EQClassicHD)and my Globals cover most weapon textures, armor and shields

[abbelyn]

Thank you so much for the completion. I haven't had a chance to load in yet (new job) but I'm sure its an improvement =)

[Gustoo]

Makes me think I gotta check my files if I am running high rez to go back to low rez and check my load times.

East coast pvp jerks got the jump on me at the ZL

[Doooom]

Incredible Mod for the game 10/10.

One friend best described it as "It's like putting on glasses for the first time":D
Appreciate all the hard work you put in here to really improve the retro experience with this amazing revamp to the classic skins and textures!
much love and keep up the great work!

[Quylein]

Made several updates to zone textures and Characters, Aviaks, sharks. Also made selectable folders as you can search for the March update s3d files as to not have to download full.

Globals had fixes too, many texture anomalies were attempted repair looks much better.

[Castle2.0]

Well done!

[paronga]

Just had a chance to install this. It's a game changer. Thank you so much. I could see past the blur, but now that i've seen it sharp, I can't go back :)

Thanks a lot.

Is it worth also doing EQ Classic HD? would doing that add anything?

I'm just curious, I went to the wiki page Visual Enhancements (http://wiki.project1999.com/Visual_Enhancements). Are all of these still valid?

I'm thinking I want to do 4x HD and Classic HD. Are any of these other mods much of a difference? I wouldn't dare want the luclin models, but there is a section there about luclin textures. I'm assuming these HD ones are better quality? I'm not interested in custom content either I don't think. The luclin spells look nice, but I'm not sure I want that either.

What's everyone else's setup?

[abbelyn]

Made several updates to zone textures and Characters, Aviaks, sharks. Also made selectable folders as you can search for the March update s3d files as to not have to download full.

Globals had fixes too, many texture anomalies were attempted repair looks much better.

Do the main 4x ones include the water fixes now, or where those tweaked with any changes? Only asking because when I looked at the modify dates it looks like all the files got modified, so unsure which ones got updated recently. =)

[Quylein]

The main files are the old water with some corrections to that water cycle, the best i can do with that old dark blue stuff. The new water and cycles are all changed from the first version to something that has a better texture recycling so it looks less line chopped. But in all reality since you started using this most of those files have been modified, I'm sure
. I lowered freeport N&W files some as those zones seem to like to crash after a while I updated many single or more files in tons of Obj and Zone files. This was done of the past few month in Classic and Kunark, Velious came together pretty nicely but Cha files might need fixing if I find certain things.

[Quylein]

Just had a chance to install this. It's a game changer. Thank you so much. I could see past the blur, but now that i've seen it sharp, I can't go back :)

Thanks a lot.

Is it worth also doing EQ Classic HD? would doing that add anything?

I'm just curious, I went to the wiki page Visual Enhancements (http://wiki.project1999.com/Visual_Enhancements). Are all of these still valid?

I'm thinking I want to do 4x HD and Classic HD. Are any of these other mods much of a difference? I wouldn't dare want the luclin models, but there is a section there about luclin textures. I'm assuming these HD ones are better quality? I'm not interested in custom content either I don't think. The luclin spells look nice, but I'm not sure I want that either.

What's everyone else's setup?

Yes EQ Classic HD is good with this, just put it in your files before the 4X HD as some files are reused with Classic HD but have some additional fixes or upscales. The Luclin models are just model corrections and that old way doesnt work on P99 anylonger. It does nothing to upscale and correct the texture files. These aren't custom textures they are all Low but mainly High res textures created by SOE/Verant somethings were fixed in gimp but nothing was out of scale and mainly just signs.

[abbelyn]

I actually grabbed everything new again when you released velious as well. I was just wondering if applying the optional water fix over the latest files would revert any of the latest fixes.

Thanks again for all your work, I love the sharpness and detail, Skyshrine for instance looks soo much better.

[Quylein]

I actually grabbed everything new again when you released velious as well. I was just wondering if applying the optional water fix over the latest files would revert any of the latest fixes.

Thanks again for all your work, I love the sharpness and detail, Skyshrine for instance looks soo much better.

I did some water updates, today i added feerrot as i must of forgot to do that one.

[mhfleming92]

While the world looks so much better, I'm having crashing issues in every city i've been in now. Playing on a MacBook however. But so far i'm just dealing with it because the world just looks so dang good.

[Quylein]

While the world looks so much better, I'm having crashing issues in every city i've been in now. Playing on a MacBook however. But so far i'm just dealing with it because the world just looks so dang good.

I've thoroughly vetted most of the main city's and have played non stop since i uploaded this. I've fixed zones that had issues a few weeks ago Like Freeports textures were loading to large so over a few weeks or times zoning it would crash. If you have a specific zone that crashes alot after you get a fresh folder copy of EQ and reinstall everything. Make a copy of that, for some reason about every 2 months I have issues and just copy my UI files over and keep going.

Then if you have specific zone issues like say KaladimB or something always crashing on a fresh install shot me a PM and I'll look into it for you.

You might want to try to get a fresh copy of your Everquest folder and reinstall the 4X HD files. IDK why but when I was doing all the work it seemed about every few weeks the old folder would give me crash issues.

I've also turned off texture cashing and that seemed to help alot. I can't say as to if the issue is mac specific otherwise as I do not own that computer system.

[mhfleming92]

Awesome ty for the suggestions!

[paronga]

While the world looks so much better, I'm having crashing issues in every city i've been in now. Playing on a MacBook however. But so far i'm just dealing with it because the world just looks so dang good.

I think it's a different game honestly.

My partner has recently started playing with me. On a 2011 macbook pro, she is experiencing crashing too. We were only hanging out in Freeport and EC.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I might try going through them to see if I can get it working. Currently, we're happy with the SD version for now.

Thanks for all the work!

[Thulghor]

This pack is great. I like it a lot.

I don't know if it's just me though, but the female high elf chain skirts look rather bad compared to the other character textures. I'll have to compare it to EQClassicHD or Chebby/Psycher's textures, but I don't remember them looking like that in those packs.

[Quylein]

If I don't have a 4k Monitor should I bother with the 4k textures at all or just download the High resolution textures?

This is a Texture pack not a resolution pack. This will improve your textures at any resolution. Give it a try, I bet you'll like it. ;)

[Quylein]

This pack is great. I like it a lot.

I don't know if it's just me though, but the female high elf chain skirts look rather bad compared to the other character textures. I'll have to compare it to EQClassicHD or Chebby/Psycher's textures, but I don't remember them looking like that in those packs.

The Character models are the exact same, I didn't mess with their corrections only added in a few fixes to untouched armor but mostly the pets. Psycher's textures we're never fully completed when he was doing this project at the start of green. Others added to that pack and it was a mess all over the place. To each their own for sure though =)

[Thulghor]

Ah ok. That makes sense. :-)

[Quylein]

I installed the main classic file and the water stuff and it does look great.

I have 2 questions though:

1-Do I need the Kunark and Velious right now if I am on Green?, I think those aren't released yet.

2-I did't understood this part of the downloads in the wiki: "Optional Tradetables/crates & Ghost spirit wolf and new elementals" are those needed if I already installed EQClassicHD? what is different? I didn't understood that and the 2 download links called: "-Trade tables & Summons download" and "-New Elementals & Old Wolf".

Nah you don need Kunark and Velious if you only play on green until they are launched.
Those are if you want different pets from the normal globals as well as upscale Trade skill tables like Stove ect. It also gives you the newer pets. First one if you see the picture it's like a ghost wolf, secondary one is the Original wolf but new Mage pets.

Basically if you don't care about up-scaling or messing with pet textures then Just do the Normal Globals.

[reznor_]

Great work OP.

[watbab]

This is amazing.

[BlooDReDRagE]

FANTASTIC job! Thank you for contributing your time to our addiction!

As I understand it, the best texture upgrade now for P99 is to first install EQClassicHD, then install your Highres4xHD files, correct?

[Quylein]

FANTASTIC job! Thank you for contributing your time to our addiction!

As I understand it, the best texture upgrade now for P99 is to first install EQClassicHD, then install your Highres4xHD files, correct?

Thanks, you might of alright figured it out but EQClassicHD will mostly be overwrote. I've kept their weapons pack in full with new textures loaded that wernt added. Most of the info is on the Wiki as I'm not 100% and have been working on other projects.

[Knuckle]

Hi Folks - For anyone new to this specific pack let me say my experience first day using.

1.) I previously had used class HD for the improved character facial models and armor/weapon textures and love it.

2.) I downloaded and installed this, logged in, and immediately realized my Armor/face textures had reverted.

3.) Reinstalled those textures(2 files) and it looked great again for character armor/weapon etc.

4.) This makes the ground, building walls, objects have much more sharpened and clear appearance, does not feel alien, just better. Im using the HIGH RES pack and am not experiencing load increases between zones more than maybe 1 second.(i have a 2018 or newer SSD samsung, high performance CPU/GPU).

5.) Some objects DO look objectively different. Druid circles look different but higher res. I don't dislike it, but they 'feel' different. that is NOT the case with the terrain which gives off a warmer more natural feel you can tell is what the eq devs were going for.

Thats all, coffee hasn't kicked in will probably edit and clean up this post later.

[Halox]

Is the Google drive for the main download empty for anyone else? It shows the files, but they are not downloadable.

[Gustoo]

Hold on in this link it says you will need underwater vision or follow prexus to see clearly underwater.

What is this about following prexus?

https://wiki.project1999.com/Highres_4X_HD?redirected_from_http=1

The reflection on water is neat but I certainly remember rock solid water haha

[Halox]

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