What is it ?


HD retexture of the game.

Installation:

Extract in your "custom" folder in the game root folder, were you installed it.
If you don't have this folder you can just create it.

How did I do it ?

First of all, I'm no texture artist.
I just extracted all the game files and classed those, and ran waifu2x on the textures files.

Why ?

I really like the artistic direction of this game and find it beautiful, but on my HD and big monitor the texture are blurry.
The cartoon style is really well affected by waifu2x, so the detail loss is minimal but the texture blurring is completely gone.

Additional info:

I recommend running this patcher on the game executable: http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php , as the more high resolution textures demand more RAM.

Also, if you have an NVIDIA card, you can force antialiasing on the game with nvidia inspector, making it look way better.

Tools Used:

waifu2x
XnConvert
Ordenador
PakBuild

Permissions:

Do whatever you want with it, ahoy mateys.
Just don't use in paid mods or projects.

Credits:

Sid Meier for Pirates!
nagadomi for waifu2x
apipino for ordenador
XnSoft for XnConvert
Firaxis for PakBuild

From the author of the manual: I collected all the files in one folder, archived them and added them to the file exchanger.

Download:
h1ttps:/mega.nz/file/IWwWmAoJ#VxMYvCmR_e1db7jsphmpe3qZJ1zz2s66rH1kFUYR9Vg
IMPORTANT! Remove 1 from the link!

Note that the game will render the models in UHD resolution (aka 4k) if you set the resolution to 2880x2160 in the .ini file, and run the game in windowed mode. Provided the height of the window is 75% of the width, any resolution should work.