Oh no evil AI.. Good lord. F.. off.. Go back to the middle ages..

[foggy hinge]

love it

[quaint fable]

Burns through my battery though

Import/ export is broken, i'm making like 800k a day from them now

[foggy hinge]

in between having a PC I was always looking for games resembling PC gameplay

Pocket City was a good Cities Skylines substitute

[quaint fable]

The first one was stellar

Second one I think only improves upon it

[foggy hinge]

yap

[quaint fable]

Apart from maybe the battery usage

[foggy hinge]

me no no bateria problems

[quaint fable]

And the controls for on foot/ in vehicles

[foggy hinge]

my oppo has a big one

[quaint fable]

Those are kinda god awful

My phone's getting old so could just be that

[foggy hinge]

time to get a new one 😄

love buying electronics

I'm like a kid in a candy shop

[quaint fable]

I'm too stubborn to get a new one because the new ones don't have a headphone jack anymore

[foggy hinge]

"mlaah, moooom, can I has this...."

[quaint fable]

I'm kinda the same lol

'Oo shiny new tech'

[foggy hinge]

you see? You are stubborn with phones just like I'm stubborn with SC ships

[quaint fable]

Yeah

[foggy hinge]

Man, I can't wait to fly Hull D or at least C.

[quaint fable]

I just dislike how the headphone jack has essentially been discontinued in favour of just the one usb c port

Oh yeah

[foggy hinge]

and I will pay for it. A month to release.

not a fucking decade 😄

[quaint fable]

The Hull C is gonna be great

Think there was something about transporting small fighters on the cargo grid

[foggy hinge]

not even Tesla Truck was in the development for that long.

[quaint fable]

Maybe that's what the MISC Furry Fury is

Snub fighter for the Hull C

[foggy hinge]

snub fighter?

nooo, thank you.

I was thinking....

Argo MPV

[quaint fable]

Not integrated in the ship, just slaps itself onto the cargo grid

ARGO is always a winner

[foggy hinge]

C could fit Mule

[quaint fable]

Easily

[foggy hinge]

Mules, I mean

4 Mules

standard C loadout

[quaint fable]

I can only imagine how sleek the transformation will be

All the technical components moving around

We'd probably be able to transport all sorts

[foggy hinge]

you're right.

A already looks feking awesome

I only wish more ships had elements like its cargo panels.

[quaint fable]

With the tractor beam getting it's next tier done, we might be able to just casually slap a few razors on it and use it for race ship transportation

Most ships have yet to have a gold pass, could happen in the future

Or platinum passes after that, whatever comes next

[foggy hinge]

I wish they finally did the 600i remake

if they put a medbed I'm paying for it

[quaint fable]

Oh god yeah

The Touring looks so damn fine

[foggy hinge]

600i is my first love

[quaint fable]

And the Exploration with the black armoury is just begging for some portrait photos to be taken there

[foggy hinge]

yeah

I just wish they left the canopy translucent

[quaint fable]

The Lynx is sexy too, be nice to finally have a luxury ground vehicle

It might work out better, we'll have to see

[foggy hinge]

I just miss taking screenshots of the inside of the cockpit from the outside, through the glass

[quaint fable]

Don't think we've had any major updates on it since they had shown off the concept art

[foggy hinge]

it looked spectacular from a distance

[quaint fable]

It might be added again

[foggy hinge]

fingerz crossed

[quaint fable]

I think the Spirits will be real nice to take picture of, especially the E1

San'Tok.Yai too, I like the Xi'an form factor

I just wish the photography community was more active in game, would be cool to get a few people together to stage and set up some really nice shots that you won't really see normally

[foggy hinge]

yes

I often miss someone to do something while I can shoot

like, flying a ship for dynamic shots and video

maybe someone created an org dedicated for folks into SC visuals foremost

humm

No? Oh dear, dear. I think I will have to create one myself 😄

[quaint fable]

I may have done so

[foggy hinge]

Yay!

[quaint fable]

Just can't advertise well because it's banned here and spectrum is hopeless lol

[foggy hinge]

what? An org?

I didn't hear anything

[quaint fable]

Yeah, org that i'm not talking about

Oh wait

[foggy hinge]

trololol

😄

[quaint fable]

I'm dumb

[foggy hinge]

nah, you're fine.

just delete it

hokus pokus

time reversibility

[quaint fable]

What were we talking about again? Star Citizen is a very good looking game indeed

[foggy hinge]

it is. That's why I can't stop playing, man.

[quaint fable]

It's gorgeous

[foggy hinge]

if it wasn't that visually good I would.

[quaint fable]

I crave a good space game

[foggy hinge]

yeah, someone must've sat down on it and say "yeah, that looks good"

before they released it.

Starfield

[quaint fable]

The visuals are nice but the game itself is really what drew me in

[foggy hinge]

space game

[quaint fable]

Lol

Starfield is just another Skyrim/ Fallout but in space

[foggy hinge]

which is the idea I feking love, dude 😄

Skyrim in space

happy dance

[quaint fable]

If it's done well, i'll play

If it's done badly, i'll still probably play because new space game

Plus the ship customisation is cool

[quaint fable]

Hey @snow zinc, it alright if I talk to you about something in dm's, can't reach you normally it seems (sorry for the ping)

[snow zinc]

yeah, I disabled DMs..

[quaint fable]

Oh right, it alright if I sent a friend req?

[snow zinc]

what you wanna talk about?

[foggy hinge]

I worked out a few useful loops of apps, regarding any potential edits. One of them is, first PNG generated in Nvidia Overlay goes to Lightroom to correct balance, clarity, geometry and cosmetic bits, then TIF lands in Cupscale to remove noise and upscale = if needed. Newly created PNG gets resized using PowerToys context menu script, to a native 1440p resolution. Very useful thing about PowerToys is that it preserves the extension and you can set up your own sets of resolutions to have it easily accessible under the mouse button. You can resize to a specific resolution, size or format. If I don't use Cupscale, TIF from Lightroom goes to Windows Photos for extension fix and resize.

Don't ask me, it was random. Maybe someone will find it useful 😄

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

[quaint fable]

It's a good work flow

I forgot I still need to fix my Cupscale

Pathtracing likes to crash but it gives some real nice results

I forgot how beautiful CP is though, so many colours

[snow zinc]

[quaint fable]

I've been trying to give film grain more love from an artistic standpoint

[foggy hinge]

jesus...

it's great

[quaint fable]

Pretty convincing, isn't it?

Apart from a few bits here and there

It won't allow me to go higher than 3440x1440 though, gpu isn't powerful enough lol

Running at 4k with pathtracing is a pipe dream

Benchmark gave me 1fps for a bit then crashed :/

[warm mesa]

Bring the 4090 to the game

[quaint fable]

I wish I could

Rather keep both kidneys

[snow zinc]

https://youtu.be/e9bLWcmXboM So good. Just look how the environment is reflected everywhere and the ground is reflecting light onto aloys clothes. ❤️

[quaint fable]

Goddamn, that's one way to bring a game to the present

Massive improvement for the lighting

It's pretty nuts what ReShade is capable of now though

[snow zinc]

Yeah the game does not look bad at all, but the Raytraced Global illumination changes a lot.

[snow zinc]

https://youtu.be/-0k3OHySaEU Another Example.

[quartz portal]

@snow zinc hey man i tried downloading cupscale and it wont recognize python or let me download it through the app, is it just broken now?

[snow zinc]

Downlaod this version.
https://github.com/DrPleaseRespect/cupscale/releases

[snow zinc]

https://youtu.be/InUiBff1Fx8

RT off vs. Reshade RTGI on.

[snow zinc]

https://imgsli.com/MTc0NTA4

[quaint fable]

Fellow dual blades user

Love it so far, so pretty

The photomode is lacking a little though, which is annoying

Trying to focus on the story for my first run, then I'm doing a second for photos

[snow zinc]

I barely progressed in teh story, as I am playing around with photomode and the pathtracing from my shader. ^^

[quaint fable]

I got to the second planet and that's as far as I've gotten

Been doing collectibles

Won't be able to play till Monday night/ Tuesday morning now

Real nice photos

[gritty grove]

Can someone upscale these for me? And add whatever else you can

[warm mesa]

We need these settings in Star Citizen.

[snow zinc]

Yeah we need Pathtracing in SC. ^^

https://imgsli.com/MTc0NTI5

https://imgsli.com/MTc0NTI3

https://imgsli.com/MTc0NTI0

Those have a slider if you click the link so you see the difference.

[warm mesa]

That would be nice indeed!

[snow zinc]

It would put SC on a whole new level. Pathtracing is so amazing, when you see how the light actually bounces from surfaces and lights up other surfaces with the reflections and bounces from there again. It makes the whole scene so much more realistic.

When you have seen it, you cant unsee it. I cant play anymore without Raytracing and pathtracing in particular ^^

[quaint fable]

Takes a pretty beefy pc to run ptgi though

Or anything pt related really, apart from maybe shadows

Results are so worth it though

Completely changes a game

[gritty grove]

maybe lets make the game run as is before we add next generation lighting as even an option

[zealous tinsel]

I wish CIG made the graphics look more better. So the game would look like screenshots in here

[snow zinc]

If they keep going at this rate, the game will soon be outdated visually, if not already.

Game needs raytracing or pathtracing to update to todays standards. With baked lighting its too much work for the artists and it looks bad anyway.

This is how much a difference pathtracing does in Jedi Survivor when I apply it via reshade.
https://imgsli.com/MTc1MDM3

https://imgsli.com/MTc1MDM0

https://imgsli.com/MTc1MDMz

https://imgsli.com/MTc1MDMy

https://imgsli.com/MTc1MDMx

You litterally see with the picture in the middle, where the light bounces of everywhere and lights the surroundings up. I cant play anymore without this. Changes the atmosphere so massively.

[snow zinc]

Actually. Raytracing would make the game easier for artists as they dont have to spend that much work with the lighting.

[quaint fable]

Looks so flat without rt lol

I'm very happy it exists, and that it's getting more mainstream too

[quaint fable]

Just been there lol

Still taking my time to enjoy the story, but you gotta take advantage of RTGI when it's there

[quaint fable]

Some more

Gotta love RT

Lighting just isn't the same without it

[quartz portal]

^ thank you!!

do you tend to use bsr or esr more?

[quaint fable]

Just finished the game

Goddamn

1ch0 you'll love some of the later set pieces to take pictures in

I didn't take any just because it's spoiler central, but I definitely will for NG+

[snow zinc]

Awesome!

[snow zinc]

https://imgsli.com/MTc2MjA0

[snow zinc]

||https://imgsli.com/MTc2MzAw ||

[unique root]

100%correctr

[snow zinc]

Damn. Seriously I cant play anymore without Raytracing. Everything looks so flat and bland without it. Measured on that, SC looks so outdated, if you have gotten used to Raytracing. ^^

https://imgsli.com/MTc2NTQ0

Slider comparison

[snow zinc]

AI-Upscales | Raytracing | Reshade Screenshots

[quaint fable]

Ah you're there

Real nice for atmospheric shots

[snow zinc]

Its fantastic. ❤️

[snow zinc]

@velvet dock Edited and upscaled. Also added some Antialiasing.

[velvet dock]

looks sick

[snow zinc]

You are welcome. ^^

[azure thorn]

this photo looks like it is a toy. Like it is a ship in toy story. Could be the upscale but still cool

[snow zinc]

Yeah its the DOF. I dont like it.

[azure thorn]

you using mid journey?

[snow zinc]

nope

[worldly basalt]

@snow zinc Could you do your magic on this please?

[hybrid basin]

@snow zinc would you mind cleaning this up a bit?

[snow zinc]

@candid adder 4K

[snow zinc]

@floral onyx 4K

[snow zinc]

Forspoken RTGI

[fathom slate]

I don't know where else to have this conversation, but I've been trying the new machine learning generative fill feature in Photoshop

I have strong opinions about the usage of AI tools (or completely AI-generated images) in art, but it's impossible not to admit that this is a very impressive (albeit concerning) tool.

[native lotus]

@snow zinc would you mind upscaling and removing some aliasing on this?

[snow zinc]

High On Life RTGI

[quartz saffron]

Hello @snow zinc, could you upscale this please?

[onyx rock]

https://tenor.com/view/idgaf-stare-unsure-gif-14021376

[gritty grove]

Hey I need someone to upscale some of my ss's as my buddy wants one as his wallpaper but he has a 4k, monitor for some reason.

He's got unreasonable amounts of money to spend on a pc

[daring nebula]

@coarse sail here you go! so its easier to find

[coarse sail]

Yo. What's this?

[daring nebula]

that channel you said you couldnt access 😄

[quartz portal]

took a jab at it, all upscaled to 4k

[gritty grove]

Thanks so much!!

[quartz portal]

Np, haven’t learned all the fancy ways to actually make shit look better but i can at least purely upscale images with minimal quality loss

[white echo]

Requests! Captured from the vid, if they could be cleaned up and at least 4k that would be awesome.

[snow zinc]

@mighty burrow Antialiasing and edited.

@maiden bane removed jpeg artifacts and upscaled a bit in size. Also added antialiasing.

[quartz saffron]

Thanks you! :)

[prime wyvern]

Hey @snow zinc can you do your magic with this one plz

[snow zinc]

@mighty burrow Removed the JPEG Artefacts and upscaled to 4K

[mighty burrow]

Many tanks 🙏

[snow zinc]

@restive onyx Antialiasing and 4K 🙂

@fierce light 4K and denoised.

[fierce light]

[restive onyx]

You always rock it!!! Thanks so much🙏🏿

[snow zinc]

@static tangle 4K denoised and antialiasing added.

@brisk carbon 4K and tweaked

[brisk carbon]

thanks

[snow zinc]

@plucky venture 4K and tweaked.

[brisk carbon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/248637571284992000/1142764618868068382/StarCitizen_2023-07-31_17-56-21.png

is it possible to 4k this?

[brisk carbon]

thanks

[hybrid basin]

@snow zinc

[restive onyx]

Aoow, you're not playing the same game as me. Impossible

[hybrid basin]

😂😂

[uncut trench]

@snow zinc Hey, idk if its possible but when you have time could you try making this image look better, fine if not possible 🙂

[quaint fable]

@strong dew If you look here you'll see a few examples of what it can do

[quartz tiger]

Can anyone do anything with this?

and get rid of the discord stuff top left

[tall mountain]

you can turn it off yourself

there you go

[snow zinc]

Not much one can do. Denoised it.

[restive onyx]

Is there any tiny tutorial for better usage of the upscaling program you use here?

[strong dew]

There I removed the discord thing and the comms

[quartz tiger]

Thank you

[snow zinc]

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/338403-what-video-ai-upscalers-can-and-cant-do#WhatThe Cupscale gives you much freedom in comparison to topaz and what not.

[brisk carbon]

4k? please?

[fast fox]

i just rediscovered cupscale but for some reason it keeps telling me theres no saved model directory even though there is??

[proud fulcrum]

blade runner vibes

[snow zinc]

Reshade pathtracing.

[fast fox]

has this just become a general channel for posting ss from other games?

dont mind me i'll join in ]

i have found this beautiful reshade preset that has a bladerunner aesthetic and it makes the game so cinematic

[fast fox]

also i've been working on my first reshade preset trying to simulate a crtv

i still wanna tune it a bit, and i need to get more ss with it

[quartz portal]

whooaaa that left shot

would you send me the preset out of the kindness of your own heart

[fast fox]

https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/6298
this is the nexus page for the credit

[snow zinc]

@prime wyvern

[prime wyvern]

Thank you

[snow zinc]

@worldly basalt removed aliasing.

[hybrid basin]

@snow zinc 4k upscale please?

[quartz portal]

hey i recommend starting to take png screenshots if youre able. reshade has a dedicated keybind to do so, and i think the screenshots taken by pressing prtsc key are as well

[quartz portal]

here's my attempt tho, 4k with some jpeg artifact removing and antialiasing, i wanna see how i stack up to 1ch0

[foggy hinge]

That is as good as it will be. Since it's FHD jpg there's really not much to work on. Detail becomes a noise and vice versa.

[quartz portal]

I get ya but looking at 1ch0’s he’s definitely doing something better who knows

[worldly basalt]

fantastic pic mate

10/10

[hybrid basin]

thanks @worldly basalt

[snow zinc]

I tried a few models but in the end I added antialiasing with Gainres model then smoothed it out with BSRGAN and used again GAinres.

[fast fox]

heres some pics i got with my 4by3 preset

i feel the urge to download a no hud mod and make a short cinematic

[quartz portal]

middle shot goes so insane

[quaint fable]

First one is real nice too

They're all really well composed

[fast fox]

thank you!

[snow zinc]

@limber shadow Antialiasing added.

[limber shadow]

looks nice.^^

[snow zinc]

@surreal kiln

[snow zinc]

@ebon lily

[ebon lily]

Awesome man, thank you

[snow zinc]

@barren rock 4K and antialiasing added 🙂

[barren rock]

Thank you very much!

[snow zinc]

@tall mountain 4K. 🙂

[tall mountain]

wait what?

[fast fox]

wait did you just upscale that?

[snow zinc]

yup

@bleak tusk 4K and antialiasing added.

And another.

@plucky venture upscaled and dehazed.

@surreal kiln 32% more resolution and enhanced.

@foggy hinge enhanced

[foggy hinge]

Aww, bless! 🙂

[snow zinc]

@narrow coyote

[bleak tusk]

@snow zinc can you 4k this? TIA

[tall mountain]

oh man... I'm posting in the wrong channel... sorry!!

[native lotus]

@snow zinc is this worthy for 4k?

[azure mulch]

@snow zinc 4k please?

[snow zinc]

@white echoOMG that looks almost real. 😮

@magic cypress edited. 🙂

[magic cypress]

Nice

[foggy hinge]

I had to give it a go @worldly basalt

[white echo]

Apparently CIG noticed me and I don't know what to do with this much power.

[quaint fable]

Bask

[white echo]

Lol. Feeling good right now, I needed that today.

[tall mountain]

looks like a real Hanson boy. Meanwhile, in PU...

[white echo]

Here's something for you to play with @snow zinc. I have tons of others too.

[snow zinc]

Dude, I'm playing Avatar and I am addicted. Best looking game I ever played.

[white echo]

I know! It's almost overdone in some ways, trying to fight stuff in that foliage is rough lol.

[fast fox]

i guess it's pretty accurate then lol

[white echo]

Far Cry comes out. Look at all this foliage!

Crysis comes out. Look at all this foliage!

Avatar: Hold my rainforest.

[snow zinc]

😄

[fast fox]

horizon games also had extremely beautiful foliage, let's not forget those

also god i wanna play avatar, is it good though? Like as in gameplay, is it the average Ubisoft open world progression bar simulator or does it have something more?

[quaint fable]

Looks like blue man group far cry

It's ubisoft, their last few games haven't been great

[white echo]

I'm enjoying it a lot. It's Far Cry, but to me that isn't a bad thing.

[snow zinc]

I am playing it now since 29 horus and I still love it.

I would compare it more with Horizon

[snow zinc]

Yeah, but Avatar is on another level. The sound alone is fantastic. The ambience. Raytraced sound.

[snow zinc]

The sounds and graphics are next gen.

[quaint fable]

Surprising from a Ubi title

[snow zinc]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bjm4/hear-me-out-avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-is-ubisofts-best-open-world-in-years

[quaint fable]

Okay the sound design is crisp

[white echo]

It's just a dang good game.

[quaint fable]

Don't have the cash for it right now, i'll see what people think and see if I do want to get it when I can

I'm a sucker for good visuals lol

Want me to play a game? This is all you need

Does it have a good photomode? Most ubi games have a pretty rudimentary one

[white echo]

CP77-esque.

Some of the ones I've done with the photo mode.

[quaint fable]

Ubi titles (especially AC) always seem to be oversharpened, or something looks off, graphic limits maybe, but that looks decent

I'll keep an eye on it

[snow zinc]

I cant wait till we finally have RTGI in Star Citizen. Raytraced Global Illumination. It will looks so much better. Avatar is a perfect example of this.

[quaint fable]

If they stick with what they said in that (nearly) everything they showcased during CitCon will be in the pu in a year's time (give or take) then we should have RTGI and their own in-house version too

[snow zinc]

RTGI is the only real raytracing for me anyway.

[quaint fable]

RT lighting as a whole I think is the most important/ impactful of all RT types

Makes a world of difference

[snow zinc]

After over 50 hours this is the first time I see a goliath. 😮 I bonded even with it. And I could pick the flowers which opened the first time. You need a goliath to farm the flowers as they only open in the presence of a goliath and they are super rare.

[white echo]

Could I have this upscaled and cleaned up?

[white echo]

My hero. I greatly appreciate it!

[white echo]

Don't have to do anything with these, I'm just showing off and we don't have another room for this kind of stuff. I'm pretty dang impressed with this AI thing.

[quaint fable]

Yeah, AI is getting crazy good of late

Some stuff isn't quite right but it's pretty much there

[fast fox]

It still has that "AI" feel in most cases, especially with people. Once you expose yourself to a lot of AI pics you start to feel it

i don't know what it is

[quaint fable]

It's still in the uncanny valley, you can tell there's something off about it

Even if it isn't at first glance

Human faces are one of the hardest things to get right in games, animation, etc... because of it

[brisk carbon]

4k possibility?

aurora borealis

irl image

@snow zinc

[snow zinc]

Woah, cool picture!

[brisk carbon]

@snow zinc if possible

[quaint fable]

[brisk carbon]

finland arctic region

[quaint fable]

I've only ever seen it once while I was up in Iceland

Was really faint, couldn't see much of it

[brisk carbon]

it was super rare day in finland we also had pearl clouds those are even more rare than aurora borealis seen them only once in 30year time

also known as rainbow clouds

[quaint fable]

That's gorgeous

We just have dark, grey or rain clouds lol

The UK isn't really known for being beautiful

Not the weather, anyway

Got some really nice landscape and loads of greenery/ forests around

[brisk carbon]

theres also some beaty moments like mist pictures

[quaint fable]

Mist/ fog is always a win

[brisk carbon]

[snow zinc]

Installing EFT again after years. See whats changed.

[snow zinc]

@terse condor Oh I love that picture! I have the santokyai myself but not flown it since I havent installed the game. 😄 But its a beautiful ship! 😮
I did DLAA on it and upscaled to 4K.

@abstract mica Just DLAA on your picture and webp format ^^ I now call my ESRGAN Antialiasing model just simply DLAA, it is a simpler and more accurate name for what the model does.

[snow zinc]

@minor rivet DLAA and 4K Upscale.

@crude ingot DLAA and 4K

@crude ingot DLAA 4K

@magic cypress DLAA 4K

[magic cypress]

amazing

[snow zinc]

@flat silo 4K DLAA

[crude ingot]

wow thank you! 😍

[flat silo]

cheers! 🍻

[snow zinc]

Edited a bit. 🙂

[snow zinc]

My newest creation via AI. 😄

[quaint fable]

I never knew I needed to see Gandalf on skates till now

[snow zinc]

hahahaha. 😂

Fighting with an astronaut, mind you. 😄 on Mars

Its really cool and easy to use. I use Dall E which is built into Windows Copilot.

[quaint fable]

I can't begin to imagine how much Chewie has to pay at the hairdressers

[snow zinc]

Haha 😄

This is so much fun, just trying insane things and with what the AI then comes up. 😄 Its fun. 😄

[flat silo]

8k vectorized for poster print

[radiant garnet]

God damn

[snow zinc]

With DLAA Antialiasing. @flint iris

[flint iris]

wow, thanks, that's done a great job on fixing those jagged edges

[violet blade]

how far does it fly back when you shoot?

[fluid roost]

0.7 meters per bullet. So you have to use the boost to compensate for the recoil

[violet blade]

lol

[snow zinc]

@restive onyx 4K

[restive onyx]

Thank you ! 🙌🏿

[quaint fable]

I've been meaning to ask, which models do you use for the AA? I've been wanting to clean some of my shots up but haven't found anything that looked that great for games. They're all based around cartoons and stuff

[quaint fable]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-gif-25358104

[quaint fable]

Silly question but you you run it through again after? Ran a picture through and didn't see too much of a difference (or maybe i'm being blind)

[barren rock]

hi. a long time ago, u turned one of my screenschots from star citizen into 4k. i was just wondering how u did that and wanted to ask if u could tell me how to do something like that

[snow zinc]

I use an upscaler app for it. https://github.com/DrPleaseRespect/cupscale/releases 🙂

[barren rock]

Thank u very much!

[snow zinc]

You have to learn a bit how to use it to get the real good results but thats to be expected. Look how old this thread is. ^^ I literally upscaled thousands of pictures at this point.ö So I know exactly whta which model does. ^^

[snow zinc]

Depending on the starting quality of the picture to begin with, I actually run it a second time, yes. The Gain Res model.

[quaint fable]

Alright, maybe it was just because the shot was taken at 4k so it's hard to see the improvement

[snow zinc]

Yeah you need a viewer that shows an on point view and no filter. So you se pixels.

[quaint fable]

Alright, something to bear in mind for next time. Thanks 1ch0

[snow zinc]

@mighty burrow 4K

[mighty burrow]

Ty 🙏

[quaint fable]

Haven't seen this Simpson's episode yet

[snow zinc]

xD

[quaint fable]

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Think it's my best shot so far

[quaint fable]

Depp actually modelled his behaviour off some rock icons, so this must be canon

[snow zinc]

haha. 😄 cool

Its amazing what you can do with Windows Copilot if you have imagination.

[quaint fable]

Yeah, AI has come pretty far compared to last year

[quaint fable]

I was surprised Survivor could do such good portraits

Finnicky, but it does really well

[quaint fable]

I'm loving the last two here

Colours are nice on these

[quaint fable]

Edited because I love the shot

[quaint fable]

Have a little bit of DS

[white echo]

Such a good game. I really should finish it some day.

[quaint fable]

It's really good

Bit of a slow burn but that's the game

I'm debating doing NG+ or something in Survivor and just focus on captures

I've missed so many characters I could take portraits of

Game is ridiculously detailed

[quaint fable]

Man

Have I slept on Jedi Survivor

I'm really noticing how all the pictures i've taken in SC have really given some transferrable skills I can apply to other games

Especially with composition and adjusting levels

[white echo]

Sean Young?

[quaint fable]

Not that I can find

I've reached the point where I think the pictures are so good it must just be the game engine making them look good :/

Like, no way I could take a good looking game, take a screenshot, and make it look that good

[barren rock]

wich of these models did u use for this pci?. do u now that?

[snow zinc]

You can see it in the filename in order.
1x-Kim2091_DeJpeg-1x_GainRESV3_Natural-4x_foolhardy_Remacri

[barren rock]

ah ok

[barren rock]

what do you think?

[snow zinc]

I wouldnt use the realSR model, though I it is up to you what you like. I prefer the remacro models. 🙂 or this one:

[barren rock]

ok, ill try that one out

[barren rock]

and why would'nt you use the realSR models?

[snow zinc]

It is just the look of it.

[snow zinc]

You can check this discord out as it is for models.

https://rb.gy/cnjs8b

[quaint fable]

Mad Witcher: Fury Road

[snow zinc]

xD

[quaint fable]

Some more Survivor

[quaint fable]

That looks like the most chaotic father-daughter pairing lol

[snow zinc]

😄

[fair yoke]

Looks like the witcher

[quaint fable]

That's basically AC Origins DLC boss fights lol

[snow zinc]

Its kassandra fightign a mummy ^^

[quaint fable]

My GPU loves CupScale

[snow zinc]

Yeah it takes a while. What gpt do you use?

[quaint fable]

I'm on the 3080

It's good but just takes a while

[white echo]

I have a 7900XTX, I could give it a whirl and see how it does. I've never done this kind of thing though, but I've downloaded CupScale and have it open now.

[quaint fable]

Granted, it was going through 4k images lol

But even 1440p stuff takes a while

[snow zinc]

I just 5 min ago bought a 4080 super to replace my 6900XT.

[snow zinc]

But THAT long? What did you do?

My 6900 needs maybe half a minute for 4K upscales and stuff liek that.

That sounds more liek you are using teh CPU

[quaint fable]

No, it's definitely using my gpu

I'll look through the settings in a bit and see if I've missed anything

I'm only using the model to add AA too, so it's not even having to work hard

[quaint fable]

Yeah, it's definitely using the gpu

[fast fox]

oh wow, so you have an extra 6900 you could give to me right?

[snow zinc]

Haha. Yeah I am selling it. 🙂

[quaint fable]

Okay so

This can't be normal

2880x6880 upscale with 1x_GainRESV3_Natural

And current options

That took an hour 40

[snow zinc]

Yeah thats insane.

Check if you have cpu in the optionsenabled.

Should not be set

I use ESRGAN NCNN however, since my current AMD card cant use pytorch

Settings.

[quaint fable]

Yeah, those are all my settings

Gonna see if toggling CPU mode on/ off does anything

[snow zinc]

Maybe try not using PYtorch and try NCNN instead

[quaint fable]

I'll try that

Huh

Much faster

Any real difference between the two models?

[snow zinc]

NCNN uses no CUDA but vulkan. Thats it.

Thats why I have to use it on AMD

Should be a difference like night and day now for you. 🙂

1 hour 40 was ridiculous. xD

[quaint fable]

And that was just for one lol

[snow zinc]

Yeah thre is definitely somethign not right.

[quaint fable]

I'd be spending all day doing it on a dozen

[snow zinc]

jesus

[quaint fable]

It'd even take ages when it was a normal 1440p shot, which really confused me

[snow zinc]

Yeah I can imagine

[quaint fable]

Now it takes longer to convert the model than to add the AA lol

[snow zinc]

Convertig takes a moment, but not long

[quaint fable]

Here I was thinking something was horrendouly wrong

[snow zinc]

Yeah it was.

For 4x models use realesrgan

as network

for 1x models esrgan ncnn like now

[quaint fable]

I probably won't use any 4x models, 2880x6880 is plenty for most things

[snow zinc]

I get tomorrow or more likely saturday my new 4080 super. I will test then pytorch first time

[quaint fable]

It's only really that AA 1x model I use at the moment

[snow zinc]

Yeah me too for screenshtos

I do every screenshot with that

[quaint fable]

I'd pick out a few good ones to upscale, wouldn't dare use it for every one or i'd be waiting all week

I think this was the worst so far

[snow zinc]

haha

[quaint fable]

(About 5 hours for 11 shots at 4k)

[snow zinc]

I bet that was all CPU and never GPU

[quaint fable]

No, all GPU

That box was never ticked

[snow zinc]

I honestly doubt that.

[quaint fable]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[snow zinc]

well, now we fixed it. 🙂

[quaint fable]

Either way, it's sorted now

Pytorch bad, NCNN good

[snow zinc]

yup. Only problems with the pytorch installations and stuff. Just use the NCNN stuff which uses the embedded and all is good ^^

[white echo]

Alright I finally got this thing working. Never used something like this before, wouldn't work at all for me at first. This is with a 7900XTX.

Heh, I did a native 4k image and it's too big to upload.

[strong dew]

Oh my god, I upscaled some images from my camera which are I think 6000x4000 and it took like 6 min on a 1060 lmao

[quaint fable]

Yeah

Heh

It just turned out to be the AI model I was using

Something was fucky with it

[snow zinc]

I finally have my 4080 super in my case. I will test how fast it is with upscaling.

[quaint fable]

Well it's a direct upgrade for me so it'll be interesting to see

[quaint fable]

You used a 4x model, so you've quadroupled the size of a 4k image lol

For 4k, you only really need to use 1x models

[snow zinc]

Or set it to resize after upscale to 25%

so its gets downscaled again. If you wanna use BSRGAN for denoising.

[quaint fable]

Yeah, or downscale

[white echo]

Yeah I wanted to see just how big it would get lol.

[quaint fable]

Yeah uh

Big

[white echo]

130mb 😄

[fast fox]

does anyone know how to "fix" this seperation line in the ColorSort reshade filter

[snow zinc]

Oh and btw. I tried first thing after I had put the new nvidia card in my pc, the pytorch upscaling and the pc was going on for minutes andnothing happend. But GPU 100%.. Was weird. I then downloaded anotehr built optimized for ampere and now pytorch works and its much faster than ESRGAN NCNN or even realesrgan.

https://github.com/DrPleaseRespect/cupscale/releases/tag/unoffical-rev3

What version to use?
cpuonly = AMD (or if you don't want to use PyTorch)
Turing = NVIDIA Maxwell - Turing (RTX 20 Series and Earlier)
Ampere = NVIDIA >= Ampere (RTX 30 Series and Higher)

[quaint fable]

Oh yeah, mine's probably an outdated build lol

I'll check that out

[quaint fable]

Plague Tale again

This time in 2880p

Because I realised I could do that

Do need to dig into the files and disable chromatic abberation though

[snow zinc]

I tried the Unobtanium settings in Avatar. 😄 Quite intense. The 4080 Super still manages good performance with DLSS Performance, but you can tell how intensive it is. Especially the first time it draws a full 340 Watts. xD And VRAM 13.x GB. You can nicely heat the room. You get warm feet. 😄 But it really looks a step better than the normal Ultra in the game. Unobtanium is the hidden ‘real’ ultra. ^^

[quaint fable]

Finally started NG+ for Survivor

[white echo]

Hm, so CupScale breaks if you move the folders to another drive. Had to delete it, extract it again in the new location I wanted it for it to work again.

[quartz saffron]

Hello, does anyone know why there are lots of black dots on my character's hair? And how can I easily remove them

[abstract mica]

You are either playing on a low resolution or have the details set to low in the settings... (take a note to the rims of the glasses)

[quartz saffron]

The details are set on very high
And I'm playing on 1440x3440

[quaint fable]

Game is just kinda like that sometimes

For example #1073247409121017946 message

That's playing at 2880x6880 for reference

[quartz saffron]

Ah ok

After tweaking the picture we don't really see the black dots anymore

[quaint fable]

Some of us here use Cupscale which sometimes helps with stuff like that

[quartz saffron]

Ah? I'll give it a try then, thanks for the information 🙂

[quaint fable]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-thumbs-up-gif-26785488

If you need help, ping 1ch0, they're the resident expert with it

[magic cypress]

so I'm trying out the upscaler since I shoot at 1080, the output image looks great

but it's 144mb

is there any way to have a smaller output

that or I probably don't understand the resizes

that might be the issue

ok got the image down to 53 mb improving

[quaint fable]

That would be the issue

[quaint fable]

Bottom right, you can adjust final resolution based on %age or direct pixel height/ width

Also can save some space by saving as jpg if it's the final edit

My 2880p shots tend to lie somewhere between 15-25mb

If you upscale too much, you'll end up with a cartoony effect too, it's better to not upscale too much

You're better off (in my opinion) to run a slighty higher res and use it for anti-aliasing to smoothen out some of the jagged lines

You'll have the higher quality you want without sacrificing it for the upscale

You don't even have to play at the higher res, I only go up into 2880p once i'm ready for the photo

Game turns into a slower slideshow than Powerpoint 2010

There may also be some 2x models available, rather than 4x, which might give a better output

But 1ch0 would know more than I would

I only really use it for the AA

And maybe occasional noise reduction if I really feel it needs it

[magic cypress]

what's the difference between before and after resize

I mainly want it for the AA and also a slight boost to quality

probably from 1080 to 1440

[quaint fable]

You got the original around?

[magic cypress]

also the comparison

for the really big image

[quaint fable]

The model you're currently using (to my knowledge) doesn't do any AA, it simply upscales

[magic cypress]

4x uniscale?

[quaint fable]

Yeah

[magic cypress]

I mean it has an AA effect

[quaint fable]

It does, just because it supersizes the image

[quaint fable]

So this is at 7680x4320

And while it does smooth it out a bit, it also enhances some of the artefacting

[magic cypress]

yeah a noticed that

[quaint fable]

As opposed to the 1080 shot

Where in the preview, there isn't really that much of a difference

It just kinda blew up the original

[magic cypress]

interesting, yeah

[quaint fable]

What other models do you have?

Or was it just that one?

[quaint fable]

Alright

Try this one out

If it's a bit noisy afterwards, run it through with this

[quaint fable]

Also it's sometimes worth running this model twice

1ch0 has uploaded their models folder somewhere, might be worth seeing what those are and playing around with them

But the GainRESV3_Natural was what they said they use most when I asked

You won't get the resolution itself up, but you should be able to refine the detail itself a bit more than with the 4x

Which is why I recommend capturing at a higher res than the monitor (if it's 1080)

[magic cypress]

interesting, I haven't played with running higher than native resolution for a while

back before I got my new pc

[quaint fable]

Yeah, I think we've spoken about it before briefly

But yeah, worth a try

You don't really need to, you can still get a quality shot

But if you want the finer details to come out then it really does help

Composition and lighting still remain king

But anyway, I need to sleep

Do let me know how it goes

[magic cypress]

seems to be pretty nice but I can't generate a preview for some reason

[quaint fable]

No it's good

You can really see the improvement if you zoom in

Has the benefit of cleaning up some of the rougher shadows too

Tiny bit

[mighty burrow]

Anyone know if enhance in Lightroom is noticeably worse than cupscale?

[quaint fable]

Uh, not that I can remember? I don't think I really used it much when I was using Lr

Mostly just colour tweaks

[mighty burrow]

I’ll stick to LR, ty

[quaint fable]

Can try it with both, see which you prefer

Cupscale definitely has more freedom, you can choose different models and whatnot

[mighty burrow]

Oh that’s nice. Yeh LR is pretty linear

[quaint fable]

I've gotten decent results from it

This is a good example, look at the holomap lines and compare the two

[mighty burrow]

More smooth

[quaint fable]

Big smooth

And you can always just run it through again if it doesn't work as well the first time around

[mighty burrow]

I’ve used it for a fair few shots the last couple weeks, it fucked up a couple ones with masks already applied tho. Maybe I could use cupscale for those instead

[quaint fable]

Experiment with the two, see which you prefer

[mighty burrow]

Unless it’s Drake, in which case Drake always takes the L

[magic cypress]

this is very nice for when I want to crop into an image

although denoise is too plasticy

[quaint fable]

Yeah demonise is like that

Really helps to have a higher res for that one

[magic cypress]

especially since I had to crop it in

I just realized I already said that

[quaint fable]

The anti-aliasing model should help a fair bit for that, can run it though again if needed

Yep lol

But denoise really struggles at lower res

But if you want to experiment with it more, @snow zinc is the person to ask

[snow zinc]

@fluid rose Awesome picture! I upscaled it and enhanced it. 🙂

@mystic dragon

[fluid rose]

woah! looks spectacular. Thank you!

[quaint fable]

1ch0 does some great stuff, was always great to get upscaled by the master of upscales

[quaint fable]

Store Wars

[quaint fable]

Store Wars Episode 2

[fluid rose]

10/10 as usual

[quaint fable]

[elder cloak]

[quaint fable]

Store Wors: Prequels Ep.1

[elder cloak]

so purty

[fluid rose]

Screenshorts

[quaint fable]

Store Wors: Prequels Ep.2

[quaint fable]

Store Wors Prequels: Return of the Poncho

[snow zinc]

Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty 4K Max Details + Cyberpunk 2077 HD Reworked Project

Pathtracing DLSS Balanced

The game looks so fantastic with pathtracing. It’s hard to put into words. It’s so much more natural and amazing. The colors and contrast are so much better. It’s a gigantic difference compared to raster with baked light everywhere or normal Raytracing.

[fluid rose]

It’s such beautiful game

[quaint fable]

Ooh shit

Loving that one with the cars + barrier

[snow zinc]

It just looks amazing. ❤️

[quaint fable]

Cyberpunk really does just your every day scene but makes it really good

Just mmm 👌

[snow zinc]

Yeah everythijng looks fantastic when it has realistic lighting. I love raytracing

[quaint fable]

https://tenor.com/view/pacha-perfect-emperors-new-groove-very-good-gif-5346522

[snow zinc]

The 3 pic comparisons are in order of FPS -> Pathtracing, Raytracing, No Raytracing. The ones were there are only 2, its pathtracing vs. Raytracing. The difference is so huge. ❤️

[quaint fable]

What Nvidia and CDPR have worked on together is ridiculous

[snow zinc]

It's really crazy how good it looks and how well it runs.

I cant wait for other games reaching that quality.

I wish every new game now had Pathtracing.

[quaint fable]

That sequence was really cool to watch

Song's good too

[snow zinc]

Yeah really enjoying the DLC a second time.

[quaint fable]

Store Wors Poncho: Ep 3?

Pt. 2

[rare river]

hello guys, can you make this picture great again?

[quaint fable]

Upscaled to 4k, Anti-Aliasing pass, slight colour edits

[snow zinc]

Pathtracing Cyberpunk.

[gritty grove]

Wait that’s a screenshot? I genuinely thought that was a cosplay of some type

Wow i needed to update my discord that was a while ago… yikes

[white echo]

Ha, yeah a lot of people have said that. Nope though, straight from the game, no editing.

[junior niche]

Original

[junior niche]

@tender onyx

[mighty burrow]

AI doing the work for me

Crazy what it can do

[junior niche]

https://tenor.com/view/noice-nice-click-gif-8843762

[snow zinc]

Wait a minute. This is AI generated??

[mighty burrow]

I cropped expanded the image from this to what you see above

A good chunk of that image is AI generated

The ground is masked water too now thanks to AI

[mighty burrow]

This might be a better before/after example

[abstract mica]

hot dang.... beautiful character...

[junior niche]

It's Sparky pictures with a AI pass. The AI change slightly the face depending the settings

@cunning flame

[quaint fable]

Ai is getting pretty good at adding a lot of detail

[cunning flame]

Damn that's pretty crazy. It's still struggling with text though lol

[quaint fable]

Pretty crazy

[cunning flame]

@junior niche which software did you use for this?

[mighty burrow]

That detail add is wild

[junior niche]

hey

I'm using upscaling ai call krea

don't show this to Chris.R he will restart the game from scratch 😂

[quaint fable]

Nah, just wait till we get some of the engine updates in the PU

[mighty burrow]

I just tried krea on some ships and it seems to get confused kinda easily, or maybe just bad prompts?

[junior niche]

Don't modify it too much

ship is harder for the AI

[mighty burrow]

I tried turning down the settings, but I just don’t think it’s very good at ships yet ig

[rare river]

hi masters, is it okay to ask to improve the quality of ugly or meaningless screenshots

if yes, i woud like to save this in a good and readable shape, thanks

[snow zinc]

No screenshot is ugly. 🙂

[snow zinc]

There you go

[rare river]

thank you so much! that's amazing! looks like pure magic to me

[foggy hinge]

Damn, I only started playing CP recently but boy I fell in love with it already.

[white echo]

It's a great game. Had it since launch, put a ton of hours into it.

[foggy hinge]

It's a literal wallpaper generator, man.

[snow zinc]

I am now at 200 hours. ^^

[foggy hinge]

No wonder, game's a beauty and all these reflections... mind blowing

[snow zinc]

Especially if you have an nvidia card and can use Ray reconstruction. Makes the reflections super sharp.

[foggy hinge]

I must admit I decided to upgrade from 3090 to 4090 specifically to natively run frame generation lolol

[snow zinc]

I played it in 4K dlss balanced and pathtracing with framegeneration on on my 4080 super. so fantastic.

[foggy hinge]

agree, the amount if direct and indirect lights and reflections is stunning, I only wish SC looked this good

I love these cars

[snow zinc]

Thats why I say we neeeeeeed RTGI in SC, which hopefully soon comes.

[foggy hinge]

Amen, pal.

Btw, could you try to use your upscaling magic on this one? I did it already but I'm curious what you'd come up with, your skills are spectacular.

[snow zinc]

I don't see where you could even improve that picture. 🙂

[junior niche]

(Original Screenhot)

[snow zinc]

😮

[foggy hinge]

oof, I need that in my life

[foggy hinge]

Night City, as always vibrant and colourful. Awesome shots

[quaint fable]

My turn

[magic cypress]

I need to fix my cyberpunk mods

[quaint fable]

Updates so far (since 2.1) haven't changed too much, thankfully

[magic cypress]

well it broke my shit

or at least 2.12 did

[quaint fable]

Most mods didn't need too much updating as far as I was aware, only the core mods

[magic cypress]

well one of them is fucked up and it's not one in vortex

[quaint fable]

Oof

That's gonna be a fun fix

I did a complete mod wipe when 2.1 launched, so all of mine are kinda up to date anyway

[elder cloak]

wow many pretties

[quaint fable]

Half of them are steam screenshots cause the photomode (still) crashes my game lol

8GB VRAM is dumb and Nvidia should have given all 30 series 12GB at the very least

Especially the 80 and 90s

But whatever

[snow zinc]

Yeah, even 16 GB is almost full with Dogtown and Pathtracing in 4K.

My next GPU will definitely have more than 16 GB and at least 20 GB and more.

[flint iris]

hey, at least the 3060 has 12GBs lol

[snow zinc]

This is in dogtown with Pathtracing in 4K. VRAM almost full. I even had 1 crash with a texturmod I then replaced by another one.

Always have to take the rest of the system into account. Windows and background also need VRAM and this adds up.

Thebigger number is the overall VRAM usage.

[flint iris]

56fps though, you using frame generation or something?

[snow zinc]

Yeah framegeneration works super fine. Most the time its more 60-80 fps. Dogtown is pretty intensive though

And with reflex its really playable. Its really amazing

This is outside dogtown

[flint iris]

nice, i still need to give it a go, 4k kills my frames

[snow zinc]

4K Pathtracing looks fantastic. It has that cinematic look where everythign just looks right. The lighting looks fantastic and makes a huge difference.

[flint iris]

oh yeah, used it in photo mode and its fantastic

[snow zinc]

I used also the photomode I bought at otis_inf.

I went first into photomode as it has 2 rays but 6 bounces and then used camera mod to move around.

Things like this you dont get without pathtracing.

[flint iris]

yeah, makes such a difference

[snow zinc]

I wish every game had pathtracing.

Most of the people dont realite the differnce it makes, as they usually only see lame reflections in games or shadows at the most.

But Raytraced lighting transforms a game

[flint iris]

defiantly, hopefully it starts to become more common in games

[snow zinc]

There is a thread I foudn on a website where every game is listed with raytracing and what kind of raytracing it uses, which I looked for. Finally fouind siomething like this

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/the-complete-list-of-pc-ray-traced-titles-with-classification.63273/

You can search games for specific effects.

Love that.

[flint iris]

ooh, that's useful

[snow zinc]

Yeah, almost every review doesnt mention this and I hateit.

You always have to see for yourself in games or figure it out.

I was actually surprised how many Pathtracing games tehre are already.

But the only real AAA games and no mods are probably Cyberpunk and Alan wake

And Alan wake is only partially Pathtracing

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora looks also so amazing, as it has raytraced lighting, shadows and reflections.

[flint iris]

yeah, that is more than I was expecting

[snow zinc]

Avatar and Cyberpunk pathtracing are for me the now most advanced games in terms of visuals. I havent played Alan wake 2 though

After that comes metro Exodus enhanced edition

[flint iris]

I still need to have a look at Avatar

[snow zinc]

Avatar is a nice game. It has its weakneses, sure, but if you can be entertained by a well done world, it kept me going for 80 hours.

And I am hyped so much for this.
https://youtu.be/aM_gzfAMdNs

That was on my old GPU, the Radeon 6900XT. With FSR 3 Framegeneration.

[foggy hinge]

Those reflections and light rays! I think I must try it finally.

[snow zinc]

Yeah it is really beautiful!

The screenshot is from a very cute mission.

[foggy hinge]

@flint iris here's the best place to put questions about Cupscale 😉

[tulip lark]

Was wondering why upscaling a single image was taking so long, turns out I was upscaling it to 10k

[quaint fable]

That'd do it

Most you'll ever normally need is 8k at most

[abstract mica]

I can‘t unsee Nico Avocado‘s face … 😂

[quaint fable]

Goddamnit Irmdall

Now I can see it

That game is absolutely gorgeous though

[onyx rock]

Bro, it does look like him

[fast fox]

finally got my hands on forbidden west

camera mode is really nice but the distance you can move from your character is atrocious