[FF7PC]FF7 SYW V3 upscale: Battle, world map, fields and videos (Final relesase)

  • Thread starter Thread starter satsuki
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Hello. First time posting. I'm a bit confused as to how to install these mods. When I import them or place the iros in mods, 7th Heaven folder, I don't see any difference. They are active and are in the proper load order. But when I unpack each iro and then place the folders in the textures folder of 7th heaven, I see the mods working. When the iros are imported, shouldn't 7th heaven automatically process them and place them in the textures folder. It's always empty when I import the iro and place them in the mods folder. Which is the correct way? Manually by unpacking each iro or importing them through 7th Heaven and then put them in the correct order? Or do you do both. Thanks for any assistance.
 
Hello. First time posting. I'm a bit confused as to how to install these mods. When I import them or place the iros in mods, 7th Heaven folder, I don't see any difference. They are active and are in the proper load order. But when I unpack each iro and then place the folders in the textures folder of 7th heaven, I see the mods working. When the iros are imported, shouldn't 7th heaven automatically process them and place them in the textures folder. It's always empty when I import the iro and place them in the mods folder. Which is the correct way? Manually by unpacking each iro or importing them through 7th Heaven and then put them in the correct order? Or do you do both. Thanks for any assistance.
Click to expand...
No, .iro's only run during the game, period, must be activated, configured and set to on or off.

I manually unpack everything with the IRO creation tool, you may have to read up on any technical uses beyond basic unpacking and repacking, load order, et cetera.

If you want them to run manually, in the textures folder unpacked, you have to build a mod.xml code list, have you done that?

I don't do both.

I don't do the textures folder, either. I only build and pack my .iro's because of how easy they are to deal with.

Finally, if you're not seeing anything and have no other field mods applied, turned on or activated, you may have an improper install, as that was my last experience with 7th Heaven, before I made sure I had nothing remaining in the registry..
 
Last edited:
thanks for the response. I believe I have everything installed correctly. I'm using a few other mods like gameplay, and cheats, but no other texture mods besides spells. I imported the three iro's posted here. I then activated them and sorted them. Maybe that's where I am going wrong. What I don't understand is why when these iros are activated, the texture folder is empty. Only when I unpack each iro manually into the textures folder do I see the changes.


I don't know how to upload an image. But my load order is as follows

Miscellaneous - Dynamic Cloud Weapons
Miscellaneous - Team Avalanche Fields
Animations
Satsuki_Yatoshi_Esrgan_Battle
Satsuki_Yatoshi_Esrgan_Fields
Gameplay - Difficulty and Story
Gameplay - Tweaks and Cheats
Media - Music & Sound
Menu - Avatars and Backdrops
Minigames
Spell Textures
The Reunion - Beacause and Menu Overhaul
Satsuki_Yatoshi_Esrgan_World
 
I'm sitting here with tons of mods from top to bottom of the load order on the FAQ, including four other field mods, all working, on & off with Satsuki's on & off respectfully.

I have nothing in my texture folder, ever, with everything activated, it doesn't work like that. The texture folder is there to build your own stuff from everything I've gathered.

Again, last time I got 7th heaven working, everything but field maps worked, I had to re-install after cleaning the registry, to get 2D field maps functional.

It might be your issue, it might not, but it's possible. 

However, the Reunion I do not use, so I have no idea if there might be a conflict there, either, as that's why I didn't use it, because they are still building it and NOT updating it for fixes right now..

Also, I never use Tweaks & Cheats, or Difficulty & Story either, so no idea on those and compatibility, either.
 
Last edited:
That could be possible. I'll try disabling Reunion to see if that's causing the texture mods to not work. Right now, I have the unpacked iros in the texture folder. Game looks beautiful. The only problem I'm seeing are the fonts and battle bars don't look right.
 
If you aren't using a mod, deactivate it to ensure it's not the cause of your issue.  You can deactivate without deleting ;)
 
Hello !
Thx for sharing your work, i have a question, i'm using avalanche arisen for battle texture and remako hd for field texture, what is the difference between thoose one and yours?
Also do you have an iro for a battle model ennemies ? i use the one who figure in 7th heaven but it looks older
 
I added the links in the first post.
Click to expand...
Hmm, really odd issue I wasn't expecting. Your field's .iro breaks everytime I try to unpack it, and only unpacks about 1/3 of the total before stopping altogether, very strange..

I mean, it's working as is, fine, but I cannot alter it, or take it apart, at all.

EDIT: I got it, I just used the simulated dos app you did to upack and viola..

Hello !
Thx for sharing your work, i have a question, i'm using avalanche arisen for battle texture and remako hd for field texture, what is the difference between thoose one and yours?
Also do you have an iro for a battle model ennemies ? i use the one who figure in 7th heaven but it looks older
Click to expand...
There is a sample image in both 7th heaven IRO's, that's the best quick way to have a comparison.
 
Last edited:
Alright, I only added one feature to the final edit by Satsuki, which I'm currently testing out for others to use (Char ONLY option tested and working so far with OGFields, Remako, & Ark)

The option only turns on just the /char folder, in case someone wants to use other field map mods which don't have any of these smoother /char folder edits..

1ysa3q.png


Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E3CB4hX434m9krBEVA9CCQsVPIfIQg4V

Other community .iro alter if missed: "All I did was take apart the World_Textures_2.0 .iro, added your updates and repackaged it exactly the same (when you go into the options you can choose your new updated world maps or the other choices, all still there)

1zve492.png


(Updated version link) I added all of Satsuki's fixes and then found a few missing from Grimmy and added them in as well for those using 7th Heaven with the community world texture .iro, enjoy. :)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CG8Ggr8uO9wb8XXyZhQWhR1US5O64raN
 
Last edited:
Hallo,

i love your work *-* it looks so awesome.

Can you make 2 Videos with the German Videos?

Thank you :)

Greetz
Shino
 
I have no plan so far to do no french version of the videos, but at least for the ending you can take my video, crop the black borders (witch contain texts) than add new black borders and add your subs.
 
Okay,

how did you edit the Video?
i can't open the files for editing.

or can you explain how you upscale the video, than i can make this 2 videos.
I can´t find anything how this work.

greetz
Shino
 
Last edited:
or can you explain how you upscale the video, than i can make this 2 videos.
Click to expand...
Realy complex processing with at least 4 or 5 tools, some home made and witch only work in my computer environment (with dependcies, specific cpu and gpu ...)

how did you edit the Video
Click to expand...
Try virtualdub2 it's doing this in an easy way, or go fro avisynth (thats the way i edit my video but not realy easy to handle)
 
Realy complex processing with at least 4 or 5 tools, some home made and witch only work in my computer environment (with dependcies, specific cpu and gpu ...)
Try virtualdub2 it's doing this in an easy way, or go fro avisynth (thats the way i edit my video but not realy easy to handle)
Click to expand...
Nice. Yeah, I'm still blown away by the work you've done on the videos, I even dropped my AC Blu-Ray bits I'd added, just because your work was so impressive.
 
Realy complex processing with at least 4 or 5 tools, some home made and witch only work in my computer environment (with dependcies, specific cpu and gpu ...)
Try virtualdub2 it's doing this in an easy way, or go fro avisynth (thats the way i edit my video but not realy easy to handle)
Click to expand...
Thank you :) i will try this.
 
or can you explain how you upscale the video, than i can make this 2 videos.
I can´t find anything how this work.
Click to expand...
Upscaling videos really is fairly straight forward.

Use ffmpeg to split the individual frames from a video
Optionally/depending on the source: remove compression artefacts with the batch method of your choice; Use ESRGAN/gigapixel to scale
Use ffmpeg to recombine audio and images.

Its very simple with ffmpeg:

   ffmpeg -i video.video $filename%03d.png -hide_banner (splitting)
   ESRGAN/gigapixel
   ffmpeg -framerate 30(or whatever you want) -i '%3d.png' -b:v 6393K video.mp4 (recombining to video)
   ffmpeg  -i video.mp4 -i audio.audio -shortest -c:v copy  videoplusaudio.mp4 (adding audio)

Theres an all in one script for esrgan video scaling too but its alot slower and limits your options to remove compression unless your have a proper interpolated  or trained model that can handle it and still give you statisfactory results on the scaling itself. Like ALOT slower. Ubearably slow!

But if you prefer that:
https://pastebin.com/EFghprz7
 
Last edited:
Upscaling videos really is fairly straight forward.

Use ffmpeg to split the individual frames from a video
Optionally/depending on the source: remove compression artefacts with the batch method of your choice; Use ESRGAN/gigapixel to scale
Use ffmpeg to recombine audio and images.

Its very simple with ffmpeg:

   ffmpeg -i video.video $filename%03d.png -hide_banner (splitting)
   ESRGAN/gigapixel
   ffmpeg -framerate 30(or whatever you want) -i '%3d.png' -b:v 6393K video.mp4 (recombining to video)
   ffmpeg  -i video.mp4 -i audio.audio -shortest -c:v copy  videoplusaudio.mp4 (adding audio)

Theres an all in one script for esrgan video scaling too but its alot slower and limits your options to remove compression unless your have a proper interpolated  or trained model that can handle it and still give you statisfactory results on the scaling itself. Like ALOT slower. Ubearably slow!

But if you prefer that:
https://pastebin.com/EFghprz7
Click to expand...
I may do this as I just got an FMV in French and I can't translate, so I may have to get this down..

Had no idea what was being said without voice in a scene already, so I'll just put back in the Advent Children scenes I had with English & Toshiba DVD enhanced which look better overall for now..
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top