MasonFace wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:44 pm
I used CleanPixels to upscale the originals to 4x, then downscaled to 2x using NoHalo interpolation, then upscaled the 2x up to 8x using CleanPixels again. Below is the result:
Hey, it's not that bad! Thanks!
But as
King of Worms suggests it would likely be better to upscale the larger res versions of the dancers that came from the NUKE review I linked to in the post on the previous page.
From what I can tell, there are tree major types of dancers, based on the same girl model and animation:
- girl with no headdress and long braid - available in high res
- girl with a triangular shaped hood - available in high res
- girl with a round shaped hood - only low res
The subtypes differ by the colour of what they have on (if anything) apart from the hoods. I think it would be more or less easy to recolour the hi-res hooded dancer into the blue variant seen in texture.181, plus it need to remove the skull medallion but I believe this is doable by using frames from the other high-res animation without the hood. (I have to check that though!)
The other variant of the girl with braid and no headdress should also be doable, but will require more work because her skirt/loincloth has blue trim, and the hi-res one has no trim at all. (BTW, her direct low-res counterpart has yellow trim, while none is seen on the high-res version). There's also a different pattern on the loincloth itself.
The third would be tricky because we have no high-res version of the round hood. It should scale up more or less well though and perhaps could be frankensprited onto the high-res body that we have.
Some of the dancers are topless and one is entirely nude (and all of those use the round hood, duh!). However it appears that the original model was actually nude and whatever clothing they have is simply painted on, so this is more of a matter of recolouring the high-res sprites available using the low-res versions as reference. Still sounds like a lot of work!
I think I could try something with these (I'm curious how this can work out), because it seems a worthy pursuit to try to get as many of those in high-res before upscaling, for all the extra detail that they have.
If someone provides something better, by all means. I did not see anything even remotely close to it yet so... 
For this specific sprite I have used some higher res source than is available from the game. And same for one of the KoW dancers. I extracted them from these gifs.
