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Dan Lel 13 Dec, 2020 @ 4:55am
Full remaster of FF6?
I never beat this game and would like to give it another go. The graphics are just painful though, especially on the steam version. Has anyone managed to rip the graphics from the game and reimport better ones? I am a 3d modeler and quite a proficient one, I've humored the idea of recreating the sprites in 3d and render them from an ortographic perspective. Assuming there aren't millions of sprite sheets. (I don't think so)

In theory you could make the game look very very good, almost comparable to the 3d ones on the ps1 and it would be very easy since you'll just have to copy and paste rendered 3d graphics onto the sprite sheet. The characters is another story since they have to be animated but if anyone is interested and knows how to get the sprites out and if there aren't lots lots lots of sprites to create send me a message.
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dnru 13 Dec, 2020 @ 10:26am 
I think the original game pretty much looks as good as it could given the engine, but I like that one romhack that changes up sprites to create more of a happy marriage between the characters' original sprites and their concept art.

Honestly though I don't think it's worth re-doing the graphics and importing them into the game. You'd probably just get better results recreating the entire thing in a different manner of game than it already is, rather than having some kind of hodge-podge of re-rendered characters and original game environments.
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Dan Lel 14 Dec, 2020 @ 6:40am 
It would be worth redoing the graphics if the tilesets weren't cut up like this:
https://www.spriters-resource.com/resources/sheets/52/54728.png

I hoped you would have a clean cutout of a tree so you could just paste on top a higher quality of the tree, but seems like they're chopped up. Which is going to be very hard to match. Like doing a jigsaw puzzle but the pieces aren't cut out for you. Same with some of the buildings.

But these are the snes tilesets, do the steam sprites look the same? One benefit of old games like this is that the graphics are reused over and over again. Creating all the tilesets for all the areas wouldn't be a lot of work.
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Doug Stormblessed 23 Dec, 2020 @ 9:35am 
Check out the VG Research and Modding Discord https://discord.gg/W6Hxc4YbFc. I've been working on redoing the sprites for FFV and there are lots of people working on various FF6 projects. There are a lot of good folks to chat with regarding the limitations of the PC release. That's the real hurdle to overcome on the PC release, it was developed for iOS and Android, so there's only so far it can bend. I guess you could do 3d models and then do a downsample to a .bmp but that seems like it would be a lot of work for the majority of it to be discarded. I think it's worth exploring though.
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