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Published: 2015-09-27 05:32:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 33811; Favourites: 766; Downloads: 111
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A short tutorial I wanted to do for a bit now. How to improve the texture quality of MMD models.Lets say you have a gamerip model like this (Doesn't have to be Pokemon, I just chose this) or just a texture thats dimensions are small
when you add that texture to a model usually it will appear rather pixelated like the before images because the dimensions of the image are small.
The original dimensions for this models textures were 256x256. Now the After images textures are 1024x1024!! Making the models textures sharper and cleaner!
Doing this is VERY easy. All you have to do is go to this siteΒ waifu2x.udp.jp/ and upload your image.
For the settings choose "Medium" for noise reduction and for up scaling choose "2x"
I suggest you run it through twice for a better quality image if your original picture was small but do not do it more then that because the image will start to get a little muddy/blurry, you don't want that.
The site basically upscales your image, cleans up any pixealted parts and smooths it out.
AND THAT'S IT! Enjoy your higher quality models, this can work with literally any model and you don't need to adjust the UV once you're done.
Serena model: BryanRush (animefancy-mmd)
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Means the website is down a lot I recommend this: waifu2x.booru.pics/
It's not the original but its better than nothing! <3 This is a good tutorial btw! Thank you! <3
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really nice trick. sadly it doesnt work on .tga files
will help me on normal textures doe O3O
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Paint.net is able to open up .tga files and edit and save the as tga files again! <3 It's a free art program you can download to your computerΒ
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You can convert it to a png file and then do it.
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this thing is not working for me it gives me a transparent thing with lines but i guess i could re-try.
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You are one of the originals,
resolution is beautiful thanks so much!!!!
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dude this is just awesome to find and the highest setting Β is hnngh amaze
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Just in case the site goes offline, is there a way to do the same exact thing on GIMP or Photoshop?
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Thank you so very much for finding this, it's so darn easy and really improves the textures :3
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Alternatively, you could just get the UVMapping plugin for PMX/PMD Editor(s) and scale up the mapping.
That would scale down the textures on the model, but it requires accuracy.
...and lots, lots of updates... xD
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This method is much faster and much easier.
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Though it didn't work for me.
Closest alternative to this would be to just scale up the textures a bunch.
Since this doesn't work. (For me, at least.)
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Not sure why it didn't work for you? What format did you try to enlarge?
Upscaling an image regularly doesn't do much because and detailed textures will be rather blurry.Β
Doing this it upscales it, sharpens and smooths out the image making the details of the smaller image stay intact.
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I know what upscale filtering is.
It's also a system used in PSP games.
Just makes textures smoother and more clear.
Like in the older Project DIVA 2nd and Extend games.
I'm sure it's just the website, thought it could be my browser too.
I went to it, followed what you said, it's pretty basic.
Uploaded an image of the same format. (256x256 .png from Pokemon X & Y)
Clicked "Convert", it opens a new tab, loads for 5 minutes and then brings up a "cannot connect" page.
I'm trying it again and I can get it to work now but I notice no difference in the image.
Trying again...
Okay, it seems I got it to work.
It wasn't working before for whatever reason.
Sorry~
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any chance you could tell me how to change the eye color on textures like this?
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OMG I just tried this and it really works! Thanks for sharing!
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This is incredible. Thank you so much for this! I'd never thought to use this site to improve model textures.
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King-Jellyfish Here, this should help you :3
Thanks btw! ^^
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One thing to be aware of is that the site doesn't support TGA or DDS files, so if your gamerip requires those formats for transparency (hair, for example) - you might be out of luck.
However, with older game rips and/or lower resolution textures in jpg/png format? This thing is brilliant. I've already tested it a few times and so far it works wonders. HIGHLY recommended for people to try, as it can literally take older models and give them a new/more clean look.
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If you convert the file from DDS or TGA to PNG it will then work I believe.
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It will on most files, yes. However, certain ones that need to retain transparency don't convert over as good, if at all (at least not that I've found - been trying to get dds/tga files with transparency to convert and most of the time it doesn't work well).Β
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You have no idea how much you help us with this tutorial. Thank you!Β Β
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I knew about waifu2x, but I never knew it could be used like this
thanks for posting this!
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OMG I love you so much for this!! 
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Wow, I didn't even think it was possible to make low quality texture HQ again... 
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It's something I discovered a bit back and forgot about it till today lol
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No problem, hope it serves you well.
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Mistress: Oh shit dude your a life savor <3 <3!! Thank you so much!!
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It works rather well with Kingdom Hearts models tooΒ sta.sh/01bmsg3ayrud
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oh my god, now he looks even more awesome.
Excuse me... I'll have to go fangirling over this.
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