[17:46:01] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#600060">Dominus:</font> @Marzo this looks neat https://twitter.com/csubagio/status/1522370664455307264<BR>
[17:52:19] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> The shadowing and highlight might be doable with Exult 3D-style stuff, or maybe even appropriate xforms and shapes<BR>
[17:52:46] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> I think that the thing missing the most are higher resolution graphics<BR>
[17:54:37] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> Because just adding more colors does very little when you don't have space to use them<BR>
[17:59:35] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> I don't know if you remember these graphics I made using the original palette but scaled to 3 times original size in each dimension<BR>
[17:59:35] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1006304564598800434/1015682484253495367/Moongate-W-E.gif<BR>
[17:59:35] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1006304564598800434/1015682484492582912/Moongate-W-E-rising-ending.gif<BR>
[17:59:35] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1006304564598800434/1015682484689698856/Red-Moongate-Oblique.gif<BR>
[17:59:35] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1006304564598800434/1015682484899418212/SI-Red-Moongate-Oblique.gif<BR>
[17:59:36] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1006304564598800434/1015682485142700042/Blue-Moongate-Oblique.gif<BR>
[17:59:36] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1006304564598800434/1015682485411139584/BGMap.png<BR>
[17:59:36] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1006304564598800434/1015682485650198549/SIMap.png<BR>
[18:01:02] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#0000fc">Rothbard_Chlorthos:</font> I'm thinking AI upscaling could be used. Would make it quicker maybe<BR>
[18:01:43] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> AI upscaling would require more work than you think because of the unusual perspective U7 uses<BR>
[18:02:33] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> We would have to manually upscale a lot of graphics manually to have enough training data for it<BR>
[18:03:13] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> Not to mention that it could just as easily just not add any detail other than what was already present, which might not be good enough<BR>
[18:06:43] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> For what is worth, those moongates were actually drawn flat on and essentially wrapped onto a simplified model of the U7 perspective (simplified because the moongates are essentially boxes, so it is easy)<BR>
[18:08:54] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> Another thing that would be more important than adding colors would be to add intermediate frames of animation; 10fps was good back in 1991, but we might want to bump it up to at least 30, and likely 60, in modern times<BR>
[18:09:58] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> I recently had an epiphany on how to script character animations to allow for such extended animations while still supporting the old style of animations<BR>
[18:10:34] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> But engine modifications aside, the biggest challenge would be to get all the required art<BR>
[18:38:12] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#600060">Dominus:</font> Yes, the usual problem… artists that would recreate that much art for free… while keeping the style of the game<BR>
[18:48:14] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#0000fc">Rothbard_Chlorthos:</font> I'm not much of a pixel artist, but whomever did Stardew Valley seems similar. I've thought many of the sprites in that game could be at home in U7 with the right orientation.<BR>
[19:03:31] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> Just a quick proof of concept using xform shapes in Exult<BR>
[19:03:31] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1006304564598800434/1015698577047179294/unknown.png<BR>
[19:07:39] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> I think that the only way to really get a U7HD would be to organize a Patreon or similar to pay for the artists... which would get EA beating down the door very quickly<BR>
[19:13:51] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#0000fc">Rothbard_Chlorthos:</font> That looks so nice though. Gives it a lot of depth<BR>
[20:58:39] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> TBH, that only looks good during day time<BR>
[20:58:59] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#005000">Marzo:</font> When you move to night time, it looks silly, and even worse when you turn on the lamps<BR>
[22:47:25] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#600060">Dominus:</font> Yeah, I noticed on that twitter thing that the moongate did not cast light…<BR>
[22:48:29] <font color="#7a40b0">exultbridge:</font><font color="#600060">Dominus:</font> Thanks for approvibg the PR. I was about to and activated the CI but was called away and never returned 🤷‍♂️<BR>