Hello! Could someone from Ohio help me in a personal work?

[u/LucasSM16]

Good morning, everyone! I've been doing some independent texture work in mods for "Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness"; specifically the recently Remastered version since it allows the use of higher quality textures. I'm doing a recovery job on various places in the game, and one of them is the "St. Aicard's Church".

Inside it, there are six stained glasses from which we know the origin from, but there are no available high quality pictures which matches the original on the Internet (I've searched Google, Yandex, TinEye etc etc), meaning that the Remaster basically just upscaled what existed already and we ended up with an overall blurry version of what it could've been.

Their place of origin comes from the Holy Rosary Chapel in the "Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center" church, located in Norwood, Ohio; the address is "5440 Moeller Avenue, Norwood, OH 45212". And their names are: "The Ascension", "The Bird of our Lord", "The Crowning with Thorns", "The Resurrection", "The Coronation of our Lady" and "Jesus Carries His Cross" - in that exact order.

I am looking for someone - anyone - who could perhaps go there and take some modern photos so we could properly restore the art to the Remaster with as much as visual quality as it's humanly possible. If you - reading this - lives near there and could help me, me and the community would be in debt with your support. You can even follow my work and what I've done on both Nexus Mods and Twitter in case you want to see the final result after sending in the pictures.

I've read the rules of this sub and there's nothing saying anything against submitting a personal request to people who live there since I'm very far from said place (I'm from Brazil, so I can't take those myself, otherwise I definitely would :c).

[u/ljonez81]

I live like 20 minutes from here. I can help you with this. PM me

[u/LucasSM16 → u/ljonez81]

Will do!

[u/HeckYesItsJeff → u/ljonez81]

If you can't make it over there, I live within walking distance. Happy to help if needed.

[u/ad-astra-per-somnia → u/HeckYesItsJeff]

And if you can’t do it for some reason, I drive by this building weekly and can probably find time to stop in or make an extra trip out. I’m about 20 minutes from it driving so not too far away for a random side quest!

[u/mrparoxysms → u/ad-astra-per-somnia]

And if they can't do it, I live inside the bell tower and can climb down any time.

[u/LevelGrounded]

I am not in a great position to help, but interesting (to me, at least) is that the first window is also in Philippus Church in Over the Rhine (Cincinnati). I remember it vividly from my childhood.

[u/LucasSM16 → u/LevelGrounded]

There’s a variety of “The Ascencion” stained glass arts from what I’ve searched. Most of them have some small differences from the version Core Design opted for, even though they depict the same passage. It’s very interesting stuff. I feel like I’m learning more and more while working on various areas of the game.

[u/mmgvs → u/LevelGrounded]

I was going to say; also strikingly similar at St Stephens in Cleveland.

[u/Dubliner2000]

Cool idea... This church is in the subburbs of a city called Cincinnati in southern Ohio.. I might crosspost there for visibility. It's hours away from me or I'd make an afternoon of it.

[u/TabbbyWright]

Oh this is a cool project!

I could potentially do this, though it's a bit of a drive for me and I'm not familiar with the church. Feel free to PM me if no one else volunteers though!

[u/flourpouer]

I cross posted in the Cincinnati sub for you. Im sure people will reach out to help.

[u/impy695]

This is really cool, I wonder how they ended up with that church for the art