#4k upscale

[lt-sims]

(Please full-size to see the actual difference in quality! Tumblr compression sucks)

Looking for collaborators!!!

Here's a project I've been noodling on for some time now -- using ERSGANs to upscale Sims textures! I'm quite excited about the results so far. It's bittersweet to post about this though. I was hoping to collaborate with CmarNYC's on updating the HQConverter to use new techniques for upscaling. Without CmarNYC's HQ Converter, the current HQ mod would not even have been possible. Her contributions to the Sims community were so helpful and ubiquitous and she will be remembered. So right now the TS4k Upscale mod is a semi-manual process, of exporting textures using Sims 4 Studio, then upscaling those using chaiNNer, and importing those upscaled textures back into the package. So these screenshots are just a proof-of-concept. The program I'm imagining would be a blend of S4pi or S4TK, and using pytorch to upscale extracted images.

I can handle the Python portion, but I unfortunately do not know C# or JS. Admittedly I started this project last year and looked into the HQConverter source and S4pi and and then got overwhelmed. So... if anybody who is a little more savvy with C#/S4pi (or JS/S4TK) want to collaborate on creating the program together, please let me know. I would love to make this project a reality some day!

CC Shown: Llumisims Vanilla Noodles Body Overlay , Twisted-cat Lemonade Skin Overlay

CmarNYC's HQConverter

ERSGAN paper

chaiNNer

[i-am-aci01]

Rómeó és Júlia 4K sampler

I'm working on a 4K upscale of Rómeó és Júlia only because the AI face enhancement has better results in 4K. I think the close-ups and medium shots look amazing but wide-shots are not much better than the original scale.

Sidenote: full-screen looks good, but the windowed mode gives the better viewing experience, imo.

[airasora]

Are you looking for a cute little bimbo character to throw into a video of yours? Let me introduce you to Sensuella from the Danish cartoon movie "Hugo the jungle animal 2". She doesn't have a lot of footage to work with, but she can definitely still be edited with for shorter videos or with someone stubborn enough to use her xD I recently acquired a program that can upscale movies to 4K quality and that's what I've done with her scenes from this movie, so that I someday can use her for… SOMETHING. So I'm sharing it here with you guys too! Couldn't post it on YouTube cause it kept taking it down no matter how much I messed with the video and audio to trick the system xD

Download from MEGA here

[mortifiedandawesome]

Republica - Ready To Go [4K Upscale]

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS S1 -> S2 Teaser: ↳ "It's Jinx now. Powder fell down a well."

[anyataylorjoys]

JENNIFER CONNELLY as Gloria Harper —1990, The Hot Spot

[arcanescreencaps]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 1x05 - "Everybody Wants to Be My Enemy" ↳ "Undercity's gonna eat you alive."

[q8qwertyuiop8p]

Official Arcane Season 2 Vi Poster Upscaled

"It's too late to point the finger now."

Wow Jinx is definitely going to flip someone off with that. Love how you can see their hands in each other's poster.

The hidden VI can be seen between Jinx's left ring and pinkie finger.

Interesting that neither of Vi's eyes show. In that first poster that showed Jinx cradling Vi, it almost looked like Vi was forced to look at or confront something by Jinx, yet now Jinx has blinded her... but to what?

[kimsuyeon]

CELEBRATE | Once Day (221228)

[jugheadjones]

CAMILA MENDES 'Give A Little' Music Video (2019)

[lt-sims]

Thanks everyone for your interest in the TS4k Upscale mod! I'm still looking for a collaborator, so if you know C# please reach out to me ♡

@obscurus-sims had some great questions so I decided to take the HQ Lady out into play mode to demonstrate the differences. Check out the read more for the specifics!

Where this new method of upscaling shines is in face/body details, as well as clothing that have complicated normal maps, such as the pants.

In terms of file size, items that just have the diffuse map seem to be a bit smaller:

CC Items with normal maps are of a larger size -- but that's because the old HQConverter did not upscale normal maps. Normal maps are usually 1024x1024. In the TS4k upscaled version, they're 2048x2048. Hence the larger file size.

One last note is about compression. I don't know a ton about how TS4 compresses things, but something happens somewhere after what I see in photoshop, and what I see in game. The TS4k Upscale won't fix the artifacts you see because of compression. This is best demonstrated on dark clothing.

So to clarify, the TS4k Upscale mod would only work on upscaling textures (.png and .dds images). The limitations of compression in-game would unfortunately still exist.

[i-am-aci01]

Rómeó és Júlia - Act 2 4K Upscale (sampler)

[airasora]

Another example of the Topaz Video AI program's upscaling feature. It's by no means perfect because the original is in SUCH poor quality that certain elements stay blurry or kinda looks like splatter paint, but it's still MUCH better than the original.

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

Here's some comparison screencaps between Farscape as it currently exists on streaming sites (and probably DVD/Blu Ray), and the 4K AI Upscale.

These are from Into the Lion's Den Part 1, since that's the ep I happen to be watching..

Also, the difference is way more obvious on a laptop screen than on my phone screen.