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7th Heaven / Switching Sound Devices

« on: 2016-02-16 05:13:01 »

So I have my speakers on optical (digital output) and my headphones on the 2.5 mm jack (standard speaker output). My pc and most software understand how to switch between the two except for FF7 apparently. I had to rerun the game converter to change the sound device to use the 2.5 mm jack exclusively. Thought someone might want to look into this.

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7th Heaven / cmh175 - Team Avalanche Edits Battle Model, Buster Sword not rendering properly

« on: 2016-02-14 15:28:48 »

Did some troubleshooting. The issue was with the Cloud battle model I selected not the weapon battle model mod as I first assumed. With Kaldarasha or Bloodshot - Team Avalanche Edits Cloud Battle Model selected the Buster Sword rendered fine. In this screenshot I have cmh175 - Team Avalanche Edits.



Had some trouble getting the screenshot. Print screen didn't work and when I tried recording in OBS I had to capture the display. When I tried to capture the game window/executable I only got a black screen. The game accepted input from my controller (I could move Cloud around) while I had OBS selected but ran slightly slower. When I checked the recording I noticed the video was static when the game was selected but the audio was synced properly so it isn't a performance issue. Is anyone familiar with OBS or has had success with another game capture program? I could upload the recording too.

Also odd glitch where when you load a save the bgm will not trigger sometimes until after a battle ends or when you enter a new zone. I guess the trigger for the bgm to start on load isn't working? I can't remember has that always been an issue? To be clear I'm using the save anywhere mod. Maybe there just isn't a trigger for the bgm to start?

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Graphical / Using Waifu2x to upscale FMVs?

« on: 2015-09-24 05:36:18 »

Why am I awake? Well I was really impressed by the background upscales that have been made with waifu, and someone just made this guide for using waifu2x on videos, so I was wondering if we could get some HD quality versions of the old FMVs.

http://pastebin.com/JzgNfHS4

Before i decide to release this im going to let you see it on youtube first. im using the original jp psx intro with it and please tell me if you feel its worth releasing by watch the vid first
 
Mediafire links
Upscaled Verson http://www.mediafire.com/?oq9ikhnnirs5n9f Rename This One Opening

Original Jp quality http://www.mediafire.com/?wrmufd962wa74o7

I think I'll play around with it and see if the results are any better than Protoman's were.

Writing... 45 minutes for a 2 minute video upscaled from 224p to 448p jesus christ. This better be good.

Done
http://www.mediafire.com/watch/52mt62l9l19eg4n/Waifu2x_Test_1.avi

Initial thoughts, it looks ok. Most impressive thing is the file size is actually less than the original and more than half Proto's upscale though he's obviously used a different original file. It's not as sharp, but may be worth playing with the settings. I'm going to try increasing the noise reduction next.

Writing... 50 minutes this time. Not a huge increase, but on let's say a half hour clip 10% longer could be hours more. I should mention I have a GTX 760 2 GB. From the guides the deep convolution neural networks used for training are only really useful with topline graphics cards. Mine is already last generation (I have another I'm going to put in SLI soon), but the recommended GTX Titans cost a grand each. I imagine as this project grows people will share their compiled training for various media.

Done
http://www.mediafire.com/watch/wmoxqvm1s46ctqb/Waifu2x_Test_2.avi

I'll look at it later, too tired. It's even smaller this time.

If someone can figure out how to insert training into the waifu2x plugin for AVIutl that may work better: https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/372157-New-upscaling-algorithm-waifu2x?p=2393889&viewfull=1#post2393889
It seems you can only do training on a linux based system with Nvidia GPUs for now. The plugin won't have training until that component gets ported at least.

Either way I'm going to bed now, I have to be up at like 6. This was not a good time to look into this.

Alternative OpenGL plugin: https://github.com/MaverickTse/aviutl-waifu2x-gl