✅Luma: Counter-Strike 2

[hot chasm]

Valve, please add...
In the meantime, go sightseeing and shoot some bots.

IMPORTANT

• Add "-insecure" (w/o quotes) to launch options.
  • Disables VAC, restricts joining official servers, allows unverified hooks.

Features

• Bloom slider.
• Customizable blowout.
• Fake WCG.

Latest Version

• https://www.nexusmods.com/counterstrike2/mods/20

Source Code

• Included in download.
• Formerly RenoDX.

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🚧RenoDX: Counter-Strike 2

[errant latch]

what sdr tonemapper they used

[hot chasm]

hable

[errant latch]

at least its tonemapped

i think csgo was untonemapped

[hot chasm]

prob a quick simplier one.
source 2 has .vpost i think. all of hable's variables are exposed.

[errant latch]

csgo was source 1

most source 1 games are untonemapped

portal 2 was released one year before csgo and its untonemapped

everything just clips

[hot chasm]

sdr pipeline moment. and then they had like phong shading and whatnot.

[errant latch]

you can uncap almost all dx9 source engine games with liliums dxvk though

[hot chasm]

✅Luma: Counter-Strike 2

Update: Luma

• Customizable blowout.
• Fake WCG.
• SKINS!

WCG HDR skins 📈 📈 📈

[cloud ridge]

Crashes on launch with this error:

CRenderDeviceMgrDx11 :: Init():
Failed to create Dx11 render device!

Nvm, forgot it was set to fullscreen. Borderless works.

[tough grove]

wow, very nice. If only this could work online (with VAC, that is)

you can tell the Source 2 lighting is screaming to be shown in HDR

this + some form of TAA (ideally DLAA/FSR Native) would be a match made in heaven

[hot chasm]

No way really?
I'm trying this for HL:Alyx and that's the error I'm getting.

NoVR mod. But there's no fullscreen or not, so how to fix it.

[hot chasm]

Probably when CS3 comes out lol.
Surely, Valorant could never.

[arctic gate]

FSR2 was "supposed to happen" on release but they never added, tho Deadlock have it rn

[errant latch]

you can try deadlock if you want to see source 2 in dlaa

[hot chasm]

interesting. I thought they would avoid adding temporal AA to competitive games. source 2 already has very low shimmering shader materials.

[errant latch]

deadlock is pretty shimmery without it

btw they still havent fixed the reflex framelimiter

the framepacing is still quite bad

with reflex + vynsc

i dont think reflex is done correctly in source 2

[hot chasm]

dang. must be because its not VR. they aliasing was super minimal in HLA.

[hot chasm]

burh

[errant latch]

the overall rendering in deadlock is much more advanced

it uses distance field shadows

had sdf reflections before but was removed later

they are basically valve's own lumen solution

my 4090 couldnt reach a stable 120fps at 4k

its probably the most demanding competitive game lol

[hot chasm]

it really is lose-lose moment.
CS2 with beautiful graphics and poop perf or valorant flat ahh.

[hot chasm]

Update:

• Hable Extended (from Musa)
• Better Bloom
• Better Blowout Emulation
  (pics are unclamped)

[forest jungle]

@hot chasm why did u change to luma

[forest jungle]

Can i get these in sdr

[hot chasm]

Skins was working lol. Luma's tex upgrade is safer for this game.

[hot chasm]

I dont think so, because it's extension into HDR.
Doing so, then luminance tonemapping back down is idk.

[forest jungle]

I mean the screenshots

Like comparison

Tuggling off luma

[hot chasm]

oh. i dont have any rn.
its not perfect because bloom is done completely different in HDR and tex upgrade broke downsampling.
There is less blowout white than original and things like highlights aren't crunched hue shift.
#1423913028373712986 message

the one linked is before Musa's Hable Extended.
I guess mine is perceptually sound, but with the new tonemapper, it's mathematically sound i guess.

[forest jungle]

Do you know what the hdr toggle in cs2 does ?

Like which part of the hdr rendering does it change

[sterile hawk]

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/HDR
There’s a dithering step that becomes apparent with FSR performance

[forest jungle]

But it's not that effect on cs2 still right ?

[sterile hawk]

Not sure what you mean

I believe it uses texture samples with less bit depth and dithers the result

[forest jungle]

I'm wondering if the hdr effect in cs2 is the same as lost coast

That it's just eye adaptation

It cannot be toggled off right ?

I'm wondering what's the point of even showing that option to players

It's just very confusing

Because it's not hdr output

[sterile hawk]

All Valve games feature some form of HDR rendering but none of them have HDR output

Even HL1

You can’t toggle off the dynamic tonemapper (eye adaptation) unless you have sv_cheats enabled or you’re the map maker and can control the tonemap settings

[forest jungle]

Alright i see

Thanks

[cloud ridge]

Could you elaborate? I've never heard anything about this

[sterile hawk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hInZIgnOxvk

Anniversary edition fixed this with shaders

[cloud ridge]

Wow that's actually insane for the 90s

I wonder if any other games around that time had something similar

[sterile hawk]

It was something the software renderer supported but wasn't properly supported by the hardware renderer

[hot chasm]

I need to remove that slider. I didn't account for it. Just unload shaders to make skip all shader modifications, making it close to SDR (bloom is broken with upgrades).

[hot chasm]

Nah no way. They must have rewritten the shader pipeline. They use Hable now while the old games doesn't do any tonemapping, just exposure control I guess.

[hot chasm]

Oh ooops. I never played with FSR.