Twilight Princess HD Reskin Project Adds Skyward Sword Style Textures, Aiming for Dynamic Lighting

Tomoya, a member over at Zelda64.net, is putting together a rather interesting texture pack for Twilight Princess, but it’s not just a simple retexture ideal. Sure, he is bringing the game to full HD (which has been done before) and is reskinning some of the game in Skyward Sword textures (which has also been done before) – but he also aims to bring more modern effects to the game such as dynamic lighting – something that wasn’t present in either Skyward Sword or Twilight Princess. The textures themselves even differ from prior attempts, as at times the textures are melded together from both games – and the previous Skyward Sword texture pack for Twilight Princess wasn’t in full HD (because the textures aren’t in HD to begin with). Here is what Tomoya had to say about future goals:

“I’ve decided to retexture Twilight Princess GC! I wanted to keep the original textures, but convert them into HD format as much as possible, and also add a little Skyward Sword style. Twilight Princess was suppose to aim towards a dark look+feel, but failed miserably by the power of blurry+ugly textures. The game also lacks lighting effects and shadow effects, so I’m working on getting shader addons(ReShade, SweetFX, etc.) to become compatible with the game. I’m aiming to get SSAO or HBAO, and DoF to work properly. I’ve seen some people that had success with some effects, but no tutorial. I NEED SOME HELP WITH APPLYING THOSE EFFECTS! I really want to get Twilight Princess polished as much as possible. The textures, that I’ve done, are looking beautiful, but the lackluster of HBAO, SSAO, and DoF is killing the feel. I know it’s possible to get the effects working because I have successfully implemented HBAO and DoF on the Project64 ROMS(Majora’s Mask, OoT, and Conker.) So yeah…”

The texture pack isn’t complete yet and doesn’t include the entire game, but you can try out the alpha of it for yourself by downloading it here.

Source: Zelda64