Our Resident Evil 4 HD Texture Mod Attempt

Loving it albert

Nice to see the game completed for the most part.

Looking amazing, albert.

Honestly, I only watched a little of the videos because I haven't yet played RE4, so everything is a spoiler for me.  I'm trying to Find enough in 1 - 3 and Zero to keep me busy long enough so I can use this and see it all fresh and first-hand. 

I did watch enough to see that it really does look amazing though.  Really can't wait to check it out for myself.

Also, I'm sorry to say I have absolutely no idea how to code/modify .dll files.  I suspect you're going to need the assistance of one of the actual programmers around here, as opposed to a modder.  I think fiddling with something like that falls a lot more in the wheelhouse of someone who really knows their way around solid coding rather than little scripting hacks and modeling tools.

Er, no disrespect to modders of course.  Not implying anything negative.  Just a "right tool for the job" sort of deal.  I mean, you can't really use a wrench when you need a hammer (or vice versa).  Or, at least, it doesn't work so well. 

In any case, I hope someone can lend you a hand with that issue, and in any case, I'll keep waiting patiently for release.  Looks like it will be worth the wait.

So for my Professional run, I decided to go ahead and do it with the current release of HD Project.

I'm not very far in yet, mostly because I keep stopping to closely examine everything and stare in awe.  Looks SO good so far! 

I think we may need to contact the families of the maggots who starred in this game though and pay them royalties.  I mean, they're not just faceless extras anymore, and  just look at those flies!  I don't even think I noticed there WERE actual drawn flies the first time I played/looked at this.  =/



Oh, I did notice a funny little "bug" though - and to be honest, I'm not sure if you guys did it, or if it was this way originally and no one ever noticed/cared, but the typewriter (which looks great obviously) has its top two rows (but NOT the bottom rows) of keys reversed.



If you look close, what's extra strange: the characters are NOT mirrored (look at say the numeral 3), yet they are in backward order, and the "1" key is conspicuously absent. Maybe it would fit better than the "*" (asterixis) key? Just a thought. But anyways, to finish the thought, the words on the Margin and (something) Lock keys at the outer top corners ARE reversed.

Weird little bug. Anyways.. figured I'd mention in case you guys care. But if nothing else, take it as a real compliment that things look SO GOOD with this installed that I could actually notice the keys were wonky in the first place, regardless of the fact it's certainly not a very important "bug" or whatever.

Albert mentioned the typewriter issue in his commentary in one of the recent videos. Im sure its on the to-do list =)

LOL  Nicely done!  ^_^
I do really want to stress that I merely wanted to point out something I thought was so minor it may have gone overlooked as an item to put on the "eventually" list.  Really didn't expect you to jump on it so fast.  hehe

Wow.. I never knew this. I mean, I never really looked into it, and hearing that explanation makes perfect sense, but I'm quite impressed with the depth of your research and knowledge here.  In my experience, it's pretty rare for even the original designers of a game to know that much about such small details, let alone modders who come along years later.  99% of them are just basically "Bigger textures! More pretty! More explosions!  --done!"  lol  Very well done! 

While I can certainly understand the nostalgic "keep it as original as possible" idea, and I'm sure some people will say as much, personally, I think I like the re-creation best.  Though, maybe that's the sort of thing that could make a really simple optional add-ons pack?  Take all the little things where you had multiple ideas of what should be the finished result, pack 'em up in a rar file with a little .BAT script that the end user can run.  It just asks "Do you wish to use version 1, 2, 3..." for each item and replaces (or doesn't) as necessary?  Then everyone can be happy and not cry how THIER choice didn't 'win'.

Like you did with the optional new filters, I believe...  Just a thought.  Regardless though, again, great job as usual. 

LOL  Yeah, I really wouldn't suggest a patch JUST for the typewriter logo.  That would be huge for a relatively minor thing.

What I meant was, assuming it didn't add *too* much, maybe incorporate it as another option/choice with the optional patch that already exists, assuming that such a thing still ends up valid and in use when this is all done.

Either way.. just an idea.  With the amazing quality of the work you guys are doing, I'll be happy regardless what the final choice ends up to be.  ^_^

I just installed your HD mod really impressive! thank you very much <3