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StarCraft FP #11: The Top-Down Camera, Drawn from the HD Art

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StarCraft’s own camera over the same game: HD terrain and creep edges, every sprite in StarCraft’s draw order, the same fog of war as first person, about 2.5...

StarCraft FP #10: Repainting Eye-Level Sprites with a LoRA

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Stable Diffusion 1.5 with a LoRA trained on each unit’s own frames repaints the eye-level renders. What it fixed, what it invented, the DXT encoder behind ha...

StarCraft FP #9: A Clean-up Model Trained on Leave-One-Out Renders

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Training a small U-Net to repaint eye-level renders in the unit’s own art, when no eye-level art exists to learn from. Two versions, better numbers, and why ...

StarCraft FP #8: Eye Level for Every Unit

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Running the Marine’s process on the core Terran, Zerg and Protoss units: per-unit cameras, the cone under every unit, turrets, and a relief fallback for unit...

StarCraft FP #7: Eye-Level Sprites by Voxel Carving

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The HD sprites are drawn from above, so in first person every unit looks like a picture stood upright. Rebuilding each pose as voxels from its own 17 directi...

StarCraft FP #6: Lockstep Multiplayer over OpenBW’s sync.h

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A 1v1 mode where both games run the whole simulation and only commands travel: deterministic free movement, a predicted camera, fog of war and exact recordin...

StarCraft FP #5: Remastered Pixels on 3D Buildings

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The SC2 models have the shape but not the look. Measuring the sprite camera, trying reliefs and TRELLIS, then painting or recolouring the models with the Rem...

StarCraft FP #4: SC2 Models in a Software Rasteriser

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Flat billboards of buildings read worst in first person. Reading StarCraft II .m3 models and drawing them on the CPU into the same depth buffer as the terrain.

StarCraft FP #3: Rebuilding the Map as a Heightfield

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A StarCraft map is a flat picture with walkability flags. Turning it into terrain you can stand in: minitile heightfield, column raycaster, cliffs from the m...