The work you guys are doing, on top of making a better looking, but faithful mod to the game, is also a hilariously insightful look into the world of UVs and textures for game development.
Capcom should be ashamed even if the team had time constraints. If your going to do something do it right like these two people have. Two people! If this gets done in a year then there's no excuse for Capcom to not have done with actual teams and a budget. This is a prime example of what an HD remaster should be. I give my props to you man.
I think we've gotten enough anecdotal evidence to know that japanese developers are notoriously bad at preserving their games, especially the further back in time you go. The modeler who worked on Resident Evil 4 a decade ago might know where the original source image for
Leon's fucking hair is, or maybe even know the person who would, but that's probably asking a little much for some Polish dude over at QLOC 10 years after the fact.
Especially when the the point of QLOC's duties were probably get a running PC version first, add graphical flourishes second.