Mafia Actually Really Remastered (By You, Not Yet)

[Honza_B]

[Duelist]

I have simply mesh smoothed main hand and one of morphs responsible for holding glass like in that cutscene, exported them, converted morph mesh into morph and hex pasted both into tommy taxi driver model. It's important to make sure that morph verticles IDs are corresponding to the same verticles IDs of main hand model.

I'm surprised no one did it, it's was easy to figure out and to make Whole character model can be made into HD using this method.

[spartaque12]

[AsaSK]

[AMadeMan]

So HQ character models are possible! Thank you for sharing this information! You'd be great help with this mod.

[Duelist]

Hehe, thanks, no problem

I have created rest of the poses for both hands, just have to convert and test them. I was also looking at other character models. Regarding cutscene ones (with HIGH in name) all but Sarah uses same hands model but most of them without that one pose for holding the glass. So these ones can be easily replaced. All other characters + Sarah would require a lot more work becouse their hands are part of their base body model.

[Honza_B]

[Duelist]

Who's Harry?

For the hands mesh into morph you mean? It is automated... somewhat I have created excel template which does all the magic. I'm just imputing vertexes in hex and voilà I hope you didn't think I was doing it manualy XD Although for pasting them into character models I'd have to do it manualy, but that's not that much of work. I tried to write a 010 Editor script for copy/paste stuff from one file to another but I couldn't get it to work.

Before I start doing it I recall that one patch changed these models, something about the eyes. But I don't remember which and I don't remember which eyes were better - after or before patch. So is it worth to copy them to both versions or just choose the better one (but which )?

[Honza_B]

[Duelist]

Ah, ok I browsed this page few times thinking that I omitted a post.

No, models were changed, 1.0s have modeled eyeballs and one more mesh behind eyes which I'm not sure what is supposed to do - maybe eyes depth? While 1.2s eyeballs are just 3 vertexes and no additional mesh.

[Honza_B]

[spartaque12]

indeed , u need an own topic and youtube tutorials

[Abradox]

[Duelist]

I have pasted hands into 3 models to check how it looks: http://mafiascene.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=127982#127982 . After pasting and running game for the first time I noticed that left hand had flipped normals... That was seriously pissing off I'm also not sure if I shouldn't remake them a bit to make knuckles stand out more

Yes, I meant official game patches. I wanted to write tutorials on everything I learned in that one year but the moment I think about it I'm like http://nooooooooooooooo.com/ . For the tutorial on hd models read below.

My positive attitude on whole models into hd also was a bit rushed. I was looking at it and there are 3 problems;
1. Excel cell cannot contain that many characters (yeah I know XD) so input would have to be split which I guess would be doable but not that convenient. Or excel would have to be ditched altogether.
2. This one might be important. I have noticed something that I didn't before; bones have assigned some verticles to them with some data. But not by either ID or XYZ pos. More like min/max area but I didn't check that.
3. A matter of craftsmanship. Original morphs contains only verticles that has its xyz pos changed in relation to the base model. Looking at hands example, 97 verts base model, 89 verts in morphs. The ones that aren't changing are at the base of hand model, hidden in the sleeve. I have changed them all since it wasn't that much of a difference but for facial morphs where out of ~1100 verts only 24 are changed it won't cut.

On a bright side, my method still holds true I'll try to make some proof of concept without morps or something to at least see what's about point 2.

[Abradox]

I want to offer you a new model of phone in Salieri's bar.



Original phone it's just a box with blurred texture, this model is real produces and used in the USA in 1920-1950 years.
It's not exactly the vision of MARR, but impossible to create, a "final version" of a model that consists of a few boxes.
I think in this case better use a realistic model.



HD Phone - https://cloud.mail.ru/public/ADHk/V9383FkVz
Author: Staghound
Lightmaps for some cutscenes: Firefox3860



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