System Shock 2 High Definition Cutscenes released!

[RejZoR]

I'll make a shameless self promotion here, letting you all know I've just released a visual enhancement for legendary game System Shock 2. This time, a video cutscenes conversion into HD, to supplement the existing awesome visuals enhancement mods like SHTUP and Rebirth. Mine is unfortunately not as dramatic since there is no easy way of magically getting HD image out of nothing, but I think I've done a pretty decent good job, making this epic game look few years younger

INTRODUCTION
System Shock 2 High Definition Cutscenes (SS2HDC) is an attempt to bring some fidelity into aging low resolution video cutscenes of System Shock 2 game.

Original cutscenes arrived in 640×480 and 320×240 resolutions, the new HD cutscenes are all encoded at 1280×960 (4x original resolution) with special sharpening process applied that restores certain details (mostly texts and simple visual elements). It is technically impossible to obtain video quality out of thin air (except in C.S.I. TV series hehe), but this is probably the closest thing we can get with current technology and certainly far better results than with Bicubic or Lanczos resampling.

COMPARISON SAMPLES (click for full size):
Left image is original SD quality, right image is optimized HD quality.







MORE INFO, SAMPLES AND DOWNLOAD
https://rejzor.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/system-shock-2-high-definition-cutscenes/

Let me know what you think, spread the word and enjoy this epic game

 

[RejZoR]

After talking to a guy at TTLG, there seems to be a limitation within the video playback engine that can only handle 640x320 video as max. Anything above that is scaled down. Not a huge problem as such since goint he opposite way creates a very minimal impact on quality, but since it's still done, I hope someone will be able to lift that limitation...

 

[GreiverBlade]

I'll make a shameless self promotion here, letting you all know I've just released a visual enhancement for legendary game System Shock 2. This time, a video cutscenes conversion into HD, to supplement the existing awesome visuals enhancement mods like SHTUP and Rebirth. Mine is unfortunately not as dramatic since there is no easy way of magically getting HD image out of nothing, but I think I've done a pretty decent good job, making this epic game look few years younger

INTRODUCTION
System Shock 2 High Definition Cutscenes (SS2HDC) is an attempt to bring some fidelity into aging low resolution video cutscenes of System Shock 2 game.

Original cutscenes arrived in 640×480 and 320×240 resolutions, the new HD cutscenes are all encoded at 1280×960 (4x original resolution) with special sharpening process applied that restores certain details (mostly texts and simple visual elements). It is technically impossible to obtain video quality out of thin air (except in C.S.I. TV series hehe), but this is probably the closest thing we can get with current technology and certainly far better results than with Bicubic or Lanczos resampling.

COMPARISON SAMPLES (click for full size):
Left image is original SD quality, right image is optimized HD quality.

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MORE INFO, SAMPLES AND DOWNLOAD
https://rejzor.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/system-shock-2-high-definition-cutscenes/

Let me know what you think, spread the word and enjoy this epic game

grahh... if i could hit the thanks button more than once i would gladly do it!