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Our character artists worked their way through a prioritized list of hundreds of armors, creatures, characters, guns, and vehicles across the whole trilogy. Obviously, we couldnвЂ™t let uniforms branded with вЂњSR2вЂќ sneak their way back onto the crew of the Normandy SR1, and we still liked how the Alliance Admiralty uniforms became more militarized and sleek as the trilogy progressed, so we improved each version of those outfits individually. This resulted in more consistent and higher-quality assets, but we had to carefully ensure this process didnвЂ™t flatten the sense of the passage of time and the overall narrative.ДЇor characters who appeared in all three games, like Liara, Garrus, Kaidan, Captain Anderson, and more, we maintained slight changes throughout the trilogy as they aged, matured, orвЂ¦got hit by a rocket. For those cases, we generally used the improved asset as our base, improved it further, and then ported it across the whole trilogy. Some assets-most frequently, characters and generic props-were shared between the games, and many had already been improved in a later title or DLC. Eager to dig in, we started off where we knew the biggest improvements were needed: the original Mass Effect. The art team was now fully on board, and our content creation tools (many of which naturally changed and improved throughout the trilogy) had been stood up, unified, and made to work with more modern content creation programs. Phase 2 was the beginning of what we would consider full-scale development. вЂњThe process is as important as the result.вЂќ With the game playable again, and a much higher base resolution to work from, we began to improve assets by hand. Meanwhile, our programmers were hard at work upgrading our version of Unreal Engine 3 to a more updated and unified version. Our batch tools made special considerations to maintain the validity of special texture types, like normal maps or masks to ensure colors didnвЂ™t contaminate each other.ДЄt this time, we also incorporated some more modern texture compression techniques that would allow those textures to hold onto more of their quality on disk. We then wrote some batch processes that worked along with an AI up-res program to increase the original uncompressed textures to four times their originally authored sizes.

#MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDITION PS5 FULL#

For the trilogy, this is well over thirty thousand individual textures.ДЇirst, we increased the engine limits on texture sizes, so any textures that were authored larger than could be used on-disk could now use their full resolutions. Now, the remaster is releasing on hardware that allows 4K resolutions, so the answer for how many textures we wanted to improve was easy: every single one of them.

#MASS EFFECT LEGENDARY EDITION PS5 720P#

The original trilogy was released entirely on a console cycle that allowed up to 1080p resolutions but was often actually running at 720p or lower. actually exist across the trilogy, and on average what are their quality levels? Do the source assets (content creation files) still exist? What percentage of those assets should we improve, and on average, how long will each asset type take to improve? Knowing the sheer numbers of assets and their quality levels shaped our strategy for improving each вЂњtypeвЂќ of asset. How many particle effects, 3D models, textures, levels, GUI (Graphical User Interface) elements, sounds, cinematic movies, etc. We started Phase 1 by identifying and cataloguing every asset in the trilogy. вЂњThe Lazarus Project will proceed as planned.вЂќ We took a three-phased approach to remastering the trilogy. Remastering a single game is a deceivingly complex process, so creating a proper plan for how best to mitigate risk while reopening three games to full development was foremost on our minds.

The simple process of blowing the dust off, let alone implementing foundational changes like updating the version of the engine, will undoubtedly cause unexpected issues. When a game is in its final state, it generally resembles a house of cards. HereвЂ™s whatвЂ™s included:ДЇor those interested in the technical aspects of game development, itвЂ™s probably no surprise to hear that changing almost any asset or system can (and will) break something else. Within this blog, weвЂ™ll give you an in-depth look at our remastering process with a specific focus on key changes and improvements made to the visuals.

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