Nice work as always, man. Artisan Wasteland and Midnight Wizard Peak look super cool.

Thanks very much! World Viewer Hacks are fun because they are easier to do overall, but they can't alter the lighting at all, so sometimes things can look weird. Luckily in the last two ones, there's no issues at all!

Here's Rettroix's new Spyro World Viewer texture hack; unfortunately it is not available in game. He's used textures from Sonic Colours.

EDIT: And another one!

..And a preview for the next World Viewer hack:

More texture hacks: this one is for Spyro World Viewer:

And here's a preview for a future texture hack.. B A N J O..

And this is Starfish Islands, created by me:

Have you thought of creating high-res textures and creating a high-res texture pack for the game? That would be awesome.

No way. I think many may be surprised by that statement, but honestly I've looked at the Spyro 1-3 textures, and unless we had a professional artist trying to upscale and improve them, it would simply not work. And that's only design-wise. Technologically, it's not possible and likely never will be unless we extract the game. To be honest I just don't think making everything "HD" makes something better. I'd much rather redistributing textures and creating additional ones to go alongside those to create new environments and climates.

However, if you've taken a look at the Spyro World Viewer, there's a big reason why it looks so great. NO DRAW DISTANCE. That's what makes Spyro outdated. Not the textures. They look great. It's the fact that if you're a little bit too far away from the texture, it's a low quality one. And then the further you get, the worse it gets. If we could eliminate the draw distance textures, that would make the game look like PS2 (like the world viewer). That, and get a widescreen hack to have no glitches and load everything. Simply put, we need more VRAM.

Flapjacks wrote:

Have you thought of creating high-res textures and creating a high-res texture pack for the game? That would be awesome.

I don't think we're anywhere near this at the moment... I would expect the game to be pretty much hard coded to use the texture format that it does, not to mention the limited texture memory, which wouldn't have room for four or more times the data, at least without sacrificing something else.

is this not using an emulator?

Have you thought of creating high-res textures and creating a high-res texture pack for the game? That would be awesome.

I don't think we're anywhere near this at the moment... I would expect the game to be pretty much hard coded to use the texture format that it does, not to mention the limited texture memory, which wouldn't have room for four or more times the data, at least without sacrificing something else.

This one is by Najvyexi:

And these are by YFourteen: