"The world is a guesthouse. Man is a guest who will stay there for a short time, has numerous duties, and is obligated to acquire the provisions necessary for eternal life within a brief lifespan."
"A major part of the project was created by Gemini." (Best fit for code/development)
https://github.com/said19605353-max/.dd ... a/releases
Here is the translation of your notes, written in a natural developer/forum style:
On average, a 0.347 MB .dds file balloons up to around 5.5 MB—meaning a 16x increase in file size.
For a 300 MB pc pack, even if it's not a full 16x, it will still grow by about 10x because there are .gr2 models and other files mixed in, and not everything is a .dds. This means just the pc and pc2 packs alone would end up being around 6 GB when packed (roughly speaking).
Still, let's share it anyway. Maybe someone wants to offer an HD pack for their server, like HD skills, HD critical damage text effects, building models, etc. It also handles optimization settings and mipmaps automatically (like bc3).
Let me mention an approach: if work is done on upscaling to 4x and then downscaling back down to 1x, some solid progress can be made.
Anyone who wants to replicate something similar can feed this .py script to an AI and use other NCNN models with the exact same logic.
https://huggingface.co/amd/realesrgan-5 ... les-amdnpu
https://imagemagick.org/
https://github.com/microsoft/directxtex
https://github.com/nihui/realsr-ncnn-vulkan
