Oh, I think you mentioned you had a Discord a while back? We've now got a No Strings channel server if you're interested: discord.com/invite/nJKq47B

@@NoStringsPrd I absolutely am. I'm running out of let's plays to listen to! Thanks much, I'll join when I get home from work.

youtube loves anal...just look at their content id system

always a shame to hear about, but that doesn't sound like a big loss for the 13 code :^)

I had to install Movie Maker 2.6 just for that, it had to be authentic

@@NoStringsPrd I love the video :) It's always quality :D

Oh certainly, no insult to the devs, I respect what they were able to achieve in the FMVs. But yeah, unfortunately the Stalin cutscene was never ported to PlayStation so that's the best they had to go from.

pixel art is the best

Oh, if you're interested in modding the cutscenes feel free to give me a ping if you'd need anything! The No Strings Discord is here if you'd like: discord.com/invite/nJKq47B

Some of the detail in the upscales is the 'Phantom AI Swirlies' Something about simulating CRT phosphors squashes them right down.

Oh interesting, was this with something like Reshade?

@@NoStringsPrd Yeah, Advanced_CRT (SweetFX) and Lotte's CRT (FxShaders) do a good job. Advanced_CRT is more powerful but needs the settings tuned for specific display resolution and screenshots can't be scaled. Lotte's is nice and easy though.

It would certainly be pretty interesting, but unfortunately a few have since passed away, notably for the Remasters Eric Martin who played GDI general Sheppard, and Gene Dynarski who played Stalin.

@@NoStringsPrd Oh shoot I forgot that they had passed away, ah well.

Seems more interesting to remake it from the bonus material greenscreen stuff.

Thank you! You could probably do it manually, if you navigate to the worshop mods folder somewhere like Steam > steamapps > workshop > content > (numbers) > (mod numbers) > TD DOS Cutscenes > Data > Art > Movies > TD, then you can backup/delete any video files you don't want I think the EVA cutscenes you want are gdi5, gdi8a, gdi8b, nod4a and nod4b, just from a quick skim. You can download RAD Video Tools to be able to play bk2 files on your end if you want to go through them My folder for C&C Remastered Collection is called 1213210 and TD's mod folder is 2205671508, but I've no idea if these numbers are the same for everyone

@@NoStringsPrd Thanks for info, I'll be sure to give it a shot! I'm thankful we have the VQAs in HD with that sharp resolution. They looks fantastic.

A video on the Tiberium game? Nothing planned just at the moment, it might be worth revisiting later but not on the cards just now

Hmm, you might be able to download the mods, copy the mod to your local mods folder, then in the mod just delete the videos of the briefings, so it should play these integer scaled VQAs for the in-between cutscenes, while playing the Remastered briefings. I'll have a play tomorrow and see how well this works. This should allow you to customise which cutscenes you want I think the workshop files should just be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\[numbers], then find the folder for these mods, the folders will just have numbers in the names. Open the folders inside until you come to .bk2 files (if you want to play them you'll need RAD Video Tools), and just delete the gdi[number].bk2 and nod[number].bk2 files, which are the breifings. Then copy the whole folder to the game's local mods folder (which I think is in Documents>CnCRemastered) in case Steam decides to fix the mod by redownloading over it, not sure if it'll do that. Then you should be able to activate this custom mod in-game.

@@NoStringsPrd Hm. I thought the video said it was upscaled with Nearest Neighbor, which is subtly different than integer scaling. Hey it's good work though, because in all honesty, even nearest neighbor makes those action cutscenes easier on the eyes. Like you showed in Desolate, it's a prime example of why interpolation and softening was not the best route for these cutscenes. It's a monumental effort the developers took all the same, so much respect to them.

Oh absolutely, huge respect to the devs for the effort on upscaling hundreds of old FMVs! I neeved to be honest, but I hope it didn't come across as disrespectful! I think I read that Joe Bostic took a personal interest in the FMV remastering So yes, these mods are nearest neighbour rather than integer scaled (I misspoke in the last comment); the original VQAs are slightly vertically squashed, so I stretched then vertically to 16:9. The mod files are 1920x1080, while the originals are (for the most part) 320x156, which is a ratio of 16:7.8 rather than 16:9, so integer scaling would yield 1920x936 and would look squashed. If you look really closely you'll be able to see a few of the rows of the big chunky pixels are slightly taller than others, but it's very hard to tell and it's preferable in my opinion, since DOS is supposed to be stretched (it's why the assets are squashed in the first place, MS-DOS's internal res was something like 640x400 but was stretched to fill 640x480 monitors or something). I don't think it's possible to guarantee linear scaling since the videos are just going to be stretched to fill the screen, so if you have a larger monitor the FMVs are going to be stretched linearly slightly (still looks pretty decent on mine though). These FMVs are best viewed on 1920x1080 displays for pixel-sharp playback, but they look pretty good on my 2560x1440. I was considering that resolution for the mod, but the files are plenty big enough as it is!

@@NoStringsPrd Did you test to see how well removing the Briefings from the folders worked?

@@PimpUigi Oh, my apologies for not getting back to you, I forgot where we'd started after the last reply, that's my bad. So yes, if you want only some cutscenes to be VQA and for some to be Bink; 1. Download the two mods (unfortunately I made a mistake with the RA mod, it also contains the TD cutscenes and so is twice the size it should be. I'm planning on fixing this soon but my upload speed isn't great) 2. Navigate to the workshop mods folder, something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\[numbers]. The folders for the two mods might be 2205671508 and 2205943028 unless they're random 3. Copy the contents of these folders to the game's local mods folders: [user]\Documents\CnCRemastered\Mods. Copy these files such that the root Tiberian_Dawn folder contains TD DOS Cutscenes folder, TD DOS Cutscenes.workshop.json and the .jpg, not the folder with loads of numbers. Same for the RA cutscenes mod in the Red_Alert folder. 4. For each mod, open the Cutscenes folder and keep going until you find the .bk2 files. Then just rename the ones you don't want, or flat out delete them. The game will just play the default cutscenes instead. To play these cutscenes in Windows to preview them, download RAD Video Tools and you should just be able to double click them. The briefings should be easy to find though

Sprites are more typically pixel art computer graphics. I don't think I could call something like this 'video' per se (www.fightersgeneration.com/characters3/ryu-bigsuper.gif) and this is closer to how VQA as a format is structured, but pixel art graphics like these can be used to create the facsimilie of video such that the lines of definition are blurred