[Scythian Quest] The quest towards a silkroad online _clone_

[Aurus77]

Originally Posted by notHype*

Don't waste your time on such a project. SRO is a dead game with a braindead community - it's done for. It's simply a game for those who have an IQ of 10 or more who can manage to open a server and milk some quick bucks.

People don't care about backend restructuring, engine modifications, and whatnot. The community will never stop playing vsro1.188 servers with a high and solid population that lasts 1-2 months. Been like that for quite a while; will probably never change.

The community doesn't deserve such time and effort.

Cool concept tho.

I understand what you are saying but you are missing one key point. I'm certainly not wasting my time. It's a fun project to work on after all. Whether its meaningful or not is on a different note.

What's the worst thing that can happen? The project won't be ever "completed" and will be thrown away at some point. If that happens I still had fun working on it and learned tons of things on the way along.

People don't care about backend restructuring, engine modifications, and whatnot.

Speak for yourself I love those kind of things and if there is just one other person that enjoys it - thats awesome.

[Otakanikaru]

Interesting project, how long did this take to get to this point?
I might be interested in writing some backend for this if you like.

[Aurus77]

Hm hard to say since I never worked on it with a constant pace. I started with it early last year, but actually most time went into reverse engineering so far.
Thanks for offering help I will come back to you once the backend is being started

[iqodas]

About the game Do you have more pictures of the changes you made?

[leo2111]

Originally Posted by Aurus77

Absolutely! One thing I noticed is that the client doesn't even use the highest texture resolution of their resources at times, so only that can make it look even better. I even played around with ai upscaling algorithms for textures that also seemed quite promising.

Another thing that I will definitely do is proper lightning and shadow rendering. Its crazy how the same models with just better lightning and shadow look so much different. So there is a lot of potential to improve graphics just by using a more modern rendering pipeline.

Originally Posted by Ferpa_

any sneak peak?

I'm also looking into that
how to get the texture resolution at its highest level, for now I got working the sight range and fog range

do you by chance figured out where are the texture rezolutions located in the sro_client?

light effect indeed is giving different vibe

obviously i added exaggerated values so you can see clearly the difference

[biscu97]

This will be great to make a Private server with New Shaders + Textures, imagine <33 a real silkroad remake where everyone plays ! no more 10.000 servers with few people
I also look into this topic myself for the past days, please add me on discord SanAndreas#5706