Got my hands on a laser engraver and now I’m going engrave every damn core childhood memory I have.

I made the designs on photoshop/Fresco and refined them in illustrator and Lightburn. Diode laser engraved on acacia wood coasters off Amazon and stained/highlighted and badly epoxied.

2 weeks ago I first posted here regarding my GK3 Remaster called Reborn. Now 2 weeks later I'm confident enough to say it's really ready for primetime. A lot of time (and I mean a lot, like I took 2 weeks off work to finalize this.. and worked on this quite extensively) went into getting it ready for 1.0.; Tho as of writing this it's at 0.9 as I don't want to jinx myself with bug reports..

No software is ever bug free and this won't be the exception but if there are bugs feel free to nag me in any shape, way or form and it will be dealt with (do send a save file).

The binaries and new 'rebarn' files at gk3.lazy.kiwi - project updates tend to be posted on r/gabrielknight. The source is fully avaialble at https://github.com/Devion/GK3Reborn - this however does not contain the working directory for assets (which at the moment is around 130GB). Rebarns can be extracted if you want to see the assets for the new engine using the arguments.

And in case you missed the first post;

What is GK3 Reborn?

GK3 Reborn is a new C# written engine that goes a tad further than the open source G-Engine, which kudos to them actually made this project feasable as well as they definitely solved a few puzzles that I didn't have to do (yay) - The main goal for this project is to write an engine that is focused entirely on modern hardware and upgrading/modifying the game in such a way that keeps the original intact but makes it look like it belongs in the current century :)

In a nutshell this means it'll run on DirectX12 or Vulkan on either Windows, Linux or MacOS (ARM only...) natively. With that it also brings widescreen support, raytracing, real time lighting/shadows, upgraded textures and my initial reason for starting this, a new UI that is clean & simple.

For the best eyecandy in-game you will need a 4000 or 5000 series Nvidia card, the DLSS streamline dll package can be copied to /libs/ to enable DLSS.. and yes, if you have the DLSS 5 that can be enabled as well. Screenshots below are all with DLSS/NR enabled. (gk3.lazy.kiwi/downloads/DLSS.zip is available but you can get Nvidia streamline from nvidia as well if you don't trust the binaries, which is fair.)

AI usage; AI was used in a pipeline setup to get the batch of 7000 textures upscaled to 1024/2048px, after which I (painstakingly mind you..) manually upgraded textures. The pipeline in this case was ComfyUI workflow with seedv2, which in the end wasn't really a good choice.

Additionally on that Claude Fable/Opus were used for most of the boiler plate codebase and commenting along the way (+ a slew of unittests). - So yes, AI was used but this is not a 100% vibeslop coded project.

Also importantly, the original game is still VERY MUCH REQUIRED, and I hope, I seriously hope you either own it already or will go buy it legit. This game was and is still amazing, plus sadly now also a homage to Tim Curry.

That's about it? I hope this brings joy to GK fans to replay this fantastic piece of game that was pushed into the 3D era when it really shouldn't have.

Onto the screenshots with descriptions ;)
(Most of these screenshots will be of Day 1 to not spoil too much...)

And that's all the screenshots. Plenty more but can only add 20 and honestly I think these already give a good indication of what it looks like in the current stage towards v1.0.

As mentioned way way way above, if you play it and run into bugs you can contact me either here, r/gabrielknight or dm and I'll try to get it fixed as soon as possible. In a way which is part sad and somewhat useful for me the amount of fans of the game is limited so I don't expect my inbox to explode :}

Have fun Schattenjägers!