#hq mod

[sims4hq]

HQ mod replacement files for EP17 (Life&Death) have been added.

Get them here: LINK

- RS

[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

[naturally-dazed]

question for simmers with 4070/4070 super GPUs and 2k screens

i always see people say the HQ mod is for photo taking only and not gameplay, but its actually distracting how bad some if not all the textures in the game look - everything feels a lot crunchier than it did in 1080 res - so im wondering if that advice is for people with older GPUs or everyone? should i bite the bullet and actually play the game with hq mod or does it mess things up in the game regardless of your hardware capabilities?

[justagirlandhersims]

Finally took the leap and switched over to the HQ mod and the difference is amazing. This is a completely unedited screen shot from CAS without gshade. It was a bit of a pain converting my CAS cc (although I was surprised quite a lot of my favorite cc creators already were HQ compatible) but definitely worth it.

Not my sim. This beauty is by @thisisthem

[grimothy-cc]

Polycount :8k

For tf-ef sims;

With teen/adult pregnancy morphs;

2048px textures;

One swatch is plain and fully recolorable ; Sweater is recolorable in other two presets in which dress is not recolorable.

Looks weird in CAS-fine in game. (Only highest lod)

Requested by @wanderingsimsfinds

@emilyccfinds @pis3update

......DOWNLOAD......

[ezariumi]

Nekoma Summer Vacation Road Trip Printed in the Kuroken Timeskip Anthology ─ Partners @hqkurokenzine (2023).

leftover sales currently ongoing until 2024 NOV 15 (11:59PM PST) (σ・・)σ 🛒 : hqkurokenzine.bigcartel.com

[fangs-trait]

2023 | 2020

[1-800-nirvana]

iris.

[tau1tvec]

Making snow angels the right way, face first.

[avacdavra]

Blessed be the Daughters of Cain

[sims4hq]

HQ mod update 28th of september 2024 (Basegame, minor fixes)

The Base game (BG) HQ replacement files have been updated to fix some distorsion in skin textures. If you haven't noticed them or are using custom skins anyways, there is no need to update.

> > > REPLACEMENT FILES HERE < < <

BG_HQ file names contain the date to allow better tracking of which version you have in your game. The newest version goes by 2024-09-28

[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.

[plantiish]

lookbook for my milkshake sim!

sliders + presets: height + hip shape slider / eye slider / eyelid slider / nose sliders / chin slider remake / mouth slider / ear slider / ear preset / body preset early access genetics: skintone 1 / skin overlay + body blush / skin overlay 2 TZR / skin tints / cleavage overlay / tattoo face color / misc face details / interstellar set / intergalatic set / scales / gradient overlay / eyelashes / eyebrows / hair TZR / hairline / eyes / faaeish skin details / heihu skin detail / spotlight v2 makeup: eyeshadow / eyeliner / lipstick / blush accessories: third eye / horns clothing: socks + boots / dress

thank you! @luumia @saruin @marsosims @obscurus-sims @miikocc @eunosims @ohaudreysims @evilquinzel @crilender @northernsiberiawinds @imadako @okruee @pyxiidis @shandir @dream-girl @cosmiccs4 @sehablasimlish @faaeish @simandy @crypticsim @simsplify @jius-sims @asansan3 @heihu

[maykitz]

extremely stupid fucking question that you might have been asked before but i couldnt find. do u still have the original image used for the leon mod, the tramp stamp specifically in any higher quality? trynna get that shit tatted. THANKS

i wish i could help you, but that image never existed in a larger size because i drew the tramp stamp directly onto the tiny gamecube sprite. it's a combination of multiple reference photos too. that said the creator of the mod for the og game scaled it up quite well so that might be hq enough for your purposes?

[aiqingdemeimiao]

ambika mod | this is going to hurt behind the scenes

[haalyle-psychonauts-fan]

So, I've just been trying to learn how to change meshes in Psychonauts 2. So far, only had luck with P1 Raz, but it's definitely something. Hopefully I can change HQ and the others, because I wanna play the whole game with a bag over his head.

[Slight side-effect is he has no shadow and his skin clips through his hair, but that's a rigging thing, I can fix that, since this mainly just a test to see if I could get it to work in the game].

This (what I was aiming for):

To this [which was just a silly thought I had but now I wanna play the whole game like this]: