Watch Resident Evil 4's Fan-Made HD Edition In Action
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A couple fans of Resident Evil 4 who decided to take it upon themselves to fix up the graphics of the game's 2014 Ultimate HD Edition have released a new in-game video showing the latest results of their labour. It's the work of two guys called Cris and Albert, who as we mentioned earlier in the year, have basically outdone the work of Capcom by any measurable scale that's based on Looking At Things With Your Eyes.
The mod, which carries the ever beauteous name RE4 HD Project, does a full clean-up job of the game's textures and is roughly 50 percent done; however, an HD texture pack for the Village section of the game is already out.
The duo have been re-creating some textures by finding the places Capcom photographed for source material, re-drawing some from scratch, and tweaking the world's geometry. Now they've reached the game's Island area, which as Albert describes it - although not in so many words - sounds like so much pro-bono work it's just mind boggling. "This time, like in the Village area, most of the textures are full re-creations," he writes.
"From now on, the majority of textures you see in the game are quite random (with some exceptions). Some of them were taken directly by Capcom staff but its randomness makes it impossible to find the originals in real life. And some of them are based on textures you can find on the Internet (with patience and a bit of luck ;)). But many times even if we find the original textures, they are not at a high enough resolution to be usable. Consequently, we must re-create them from scratch anyway.
"And this time I had to do something “special:” I drew by hand the sacrifice mural painted on the rock. Capcom based it’s design in an actual Aztec sacrifice scene you can find easily on the Internet (again). The original drawing has a bit of a “childish” drawing style and seeing it in HD makes the design less scary than before. We may touch up the faces and hands to look somewhat more creepy..."
