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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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Hopefully this will be viewed as constructive criticism, as again I really enjoy and appreciate this work. A lot of the updated art is lacking in highlights and shadows (to give the illusion of depth and texture), and some of the details have been omitted or resized (changing the overall design, where is the script on the green robe?).
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It's only potentially constructive if you give examples like you did with the green robe, which is an example that's not constructive because that robe texture contains no script - that's just a cross-thatching pattern which was redone by Nysus to be much more fine-grained.
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So I mean, I just flatly disagree when you say "a lot" of the updated art is lacking in highlights or shadows to give the illusion of depth and texture - that's the primary thing that all of them improve upon. As I stated in this thread's first iteration, a lot of them are different in subtle ways which is why we're making two separate packages: one which contains all of the redone-by-hand textures which were painstakingly worked on by Nysus, Xevin, Joyelle, Sorn, Cucumbers, and myself, and one which will include none of the redone character/armor textures opting for 100% upscaled-from-original textures. So the former will be the "maximum quality" package, and will contain the most differences from the originals - which is to say, it will be the package which has superior highlighting and shadowing and detail and nuance, with some very minor departures from the original stock textures as shown above. The latter will be Cucumbers' "maximum classic" package, which will be of lesser overall quality and detail, but will still be a massive improvement over the originals because the upscaling does 90% of the work.