The Remako HD Graphics Mod is a mod that tries to improve the pre-rendered backgrounds of Final Fantasy VII.
Major strides have been made in making FF7 look much better through mods. Yet, the pre-rendered field backgrounds have always remained behind. Traditional upscaling such as Waifu2x leaves a lot to be desired and manual remodeling such as Team Avalanche takes a lot of time.
When looking into machine learning to do the upscaling I landed on a great program called AI Gigapixel by Topaz Labs. As you can see in the image below when Gigapixel scales up a picture it fills in the extra details very well, creating a convincing image.
Initial results were very good and after some more tweaking with the generation algorithm, I ended on a good setup for upscaling FF7’s low-res pre-rendered field backgrounds by 400%. This turned into the Remako mod.
The mod is now released (beta) and can be downloaded here. If you want, you can first see some screenshots and videos.
Major strides have been made in making FF7 look much better through mods. Yet, the pre-rendered field backgrounds have always remained behind. Traditional upscaling such as Waifu2x leaves a lot to be desired and manual remodeling such as Team Avalanche takes a lot of time.
When looking into machine learning to do the upscaling I landed on a great program called AI Gigapixel by Topaz Labs. As you can see in the image below when Gigapixel scales up a picture it fills in the extra details very well, creating a convincing image.
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| Example of what AI Gigapixel can do |