The Witcher 3

[night yarrow]

rec looks good here

[cold basin]

Vanilla | Test | Rec | Rec without Boost

[rose whale]

Current Nexus mod

[cold basin]

hdr screenshot pls

i think i prefer reinhard over termite spleen

[stark anvil]

need to see if I can do something about highlights v3

it's too aggressive

might just put the old sliders back

[cold basin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/7918 i found a torch mod atleast

though no clue how thatll look in hdr

[stark anvil]

modding the torch to look like the HDR torch we have but in SDR

probably just gonna be more dim and have more issues

[cold basin]

yeah

i dont really have an issue with the torches anyways

[stark anvil]

did a little more testing, torches shouldn't look any worse with the new version of the mod compared to old

should be basically the same

I thought maybe gamutcompression could be wrong but it's not

[cold basin]

torches are fine tbh

candles are not

[rose whale]

Having a hard time getting nvidea overlay to work while i am in the game...

but it does not look orange at all

Pretty much in line with what I would expect

[stark anvil]

here are my candles with no hdr boost

recommended preset otherwise, 203 nit game brightness 1000 peak

other than the red outline being a little awkward, looks fine

[rose whale]

I am at 2500 nits so its not related to peak brightness. The nexus mod works good in that term

[stark anvil]

here's ~2400 peak

back to 1000 nits with hdr boost

[rose whale]

how do you take hdr screenshots in reshade again

[stark anvil]

print screen lol

fire with recommended

oh right I still have better vanilla lighting installed, let me make sure that's not influencing this

(for the record I made the mod without any lighting mods)

yeah no everything looks as expected

[cold basin]

why my shit look diff

[stark anvil]

🤷

I do have better fx installed

[cold basin]

[stark anvil]

maybe it messes with fire https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/9173

[rose whale]

2500 nits

but as I said its the recent nexus mod

looks perfect to me

[cold basin]

🇩🇪

[cold basin]

now thats a fucking candle

why does this look so good

xd

do you have any mods installed or is your game completely vanilla

[rose whale]

German G5 the best

[cold basin]

frfr

[rose whale]

No pretty much vanilla

I only have that one cloak mod

[cold basin]

i dont even have this blue that youre seeing

lemme try the nexus release...

[rose whale]

Yes the one mod posted in here didn't work for me neither which is why I switched back to the one on nexus again

[night yarrow]

why dont you use 🇩🇪 in game

[cold basin]

just preference

lol

400 paperwhite brrrrrrrr

bro aint playing around

[rose whale]

These are my settings btw

[night yarrow]

cant use the plasma emoji here sadly

[rose whale]

Oh yes that should be on 350. was just messing around and didn't put it back

[flint pollen]

Hey, I get it. 203 w/ HGIG on my G3 is dim as hell unless my room is pitch black.

Sometimes you wanna play in the middle of the day 🤷

[cold basin]

huh?

nexus release doesnt have termite spleen

are you sure thats the nexus build

@rose whale

[night yarrow]

he is probably drunk

[cold basin]

what

xd

[rose whale]

Should be but I will post it here

[cold basin]

cant be

nexus build is oct 17

i swear something is cursed though im gonna remove all the reshade files n stuff

or even wipe the entire gamefolder

reinstall that shit

[night yarrow]

pc is borked

[cold basin]

cuz my candles still not even close to this

[rose whale]

become my patreon for only 60€ and you can download it from my page

[rugged nest]

#CandleGate

[cold basin]

[cold basin]

thx

[cold basin]

no change+

yeah im wiping this shit

[night yarrow]

its probably just candle from different scenes

[cold basin]

could be...

[night yarrow]

very likely lol

[cold basin]

@rose whale can you go to the nilfgardian garrison in white orchard

[rose whale]

Will do in a sec

[rose whale]

.

[cold basin]

Bruh yeah looks like mine

Those candles are awful

Why tf do they look amazing in other areas of the game

[rose whale]

seems like its a novigrad thing

i am in toissaint hence I didnt notice it

[night yarrow]

might be different luts

[cold basin]

But then lut grading 0 would fix it

Which it doesn’t

I think they might literally be using other candle effects here

Perhaps for the DLC(s) they used a different candle FX?

[stark anvil]

different exposure levels would affect it probably

simply don't hyperfixate on it 😅

just close your eyes and it's not real

[cold basin]

i cant

[rose whale]

https://tenor.com/view/morfeo-matrix-the-matrix-real-the-construct-gif-21089246

[cold basin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/9482 ouhhh

[quiet sandal]

redo the textures

redo the lighting

simpel azz

You now have the Redkit

off you go

[cold basin]

it would be interesting atleast if they use diff shit for different areas for whatever fucked up reason

ive no clue how to use the redkit

maybe i can figure sumn out

[quiet sandal]

WELLL

get to learning

Easy to complain

[cold basin]

shut

[stark anvil]

I actually have considered making a weather mod to go along with renodx to make it so I don't have to do fucked up things to bloom/sunshafts for compatibility. Do we get access to their shaders too?

if so, could simply make this not a renodx mod lol

[quiet sandal]

Yes

[stark anvil]

hmmmm might have to see if I can get it figured out

but I have other things to do first 😅

[quiet sandal]

I picked that info up from Scoutbr0

since he was also the one that found the semi-working PT mode

Only works in Redkit

but yes, Redkit is a fully functional dev kit

problem is they released it 8 years too late

so theres barely anyone left to use it kek

ofc everyone wants BlitzFX to be ported over to NG

[rose whale]

Touissaint is peak

[cold basin]

looks poggies

[rose whale]

i feel like the rt comes into play in touissaint far better than in other regions

[rare scroll]

best dlc ever

specially if you read the books

[rose whale]

Specially if you don't watch the series

[rare scroll]

wdym the series is peak
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1070742/?ref_=fn_t_2

[cold basin]

WIEDZMIN KURWA

[quiet sandal]

Bitcher

[cold basin]

Ok got MO2 setup now, seems to be working

[quiet sandal]

Now enjoy having to manually merge scripts

number 1 thing I 'ate

Cyberpunk it is all automated

[cold basin]

theres some script merger that has some automation built into it it seems, not sure how well that works though

[quiet sandal]

ummm

[cold basin]

but i wont install alot of shit that uses scripts anyways

[quiet sandal]

it doesnt fully automate

Only some parts

[cold basin]

yeah bitch

[quiet sandal]

famous last words

[cold basin]

i said HAS SOME automation

https://tenor.com/view/silly-dog-silly-dog-propeller-hat-propeller-hat-dog-gif-4764495627579170054

ya think i need any more toolz

[abstract tulip]

Seeing Regis for the first time since the books 🥹

[chilly mural]

Sorry maybe a lame question in an FAQ, but do I need to turn off the in game Bloom, Lens etc. or does the mod automatically overwrite these and you control them as you have shown here through the MOD ?

[cold basin]

Hey, no you keep the ingame settings on.. im not sure if it overrides them; as in they stay on anyways if you disable them, havent tried tbh

[chilly mural]

Appreciate it!! I will try your settings too, thank you for sharing those!!

[cold basin]

As for those im not sure i still recommend them, but you can try for sure. ive been tweaking for so long the past few days that im kinda not sure anymore what looks correct

lemme know what you think though

[chilly mural]

🤣 I know exactly what you mean....it took me 3 days to realize that Ray Tracing was crushing everything...

So for those who have issues with black crush and oversaturation, first thing to do...disable RT from the in game options

[chilly mural]

100%

[cold basin]

i use RT actually, its a bit contrasty at times but ive not seen it actually crushing much

[chilly mural]

Oh we need to talk, I can't for the life of me get it to work. The blacks are completely crushed

[cold basin]

what screen you on?

[chilly mural]

QD-OLED

[cold basin]

can you check this video in hdr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhxR-gMU_U

can play within discord i think

you should be able to see at the very least 72 light up if youre not in a fully dark room

68 will be hard to see in a lit room

[chilly mural]

Yup all good

[cold basin]

thats weird then, you can try setting the shadows setting in reno

i think somewhere between 60 to 70 looks good

doesnt raise it much despite the value sounding high

[chilly mural]

I'll give it a shot

[cold basin]

oh yeah i have it a 70 in the screenshot that you originally replied to

[chilly mural]

Aha! Well that looks really nice

Mine is just uniform...blackness no detail

With RT on, if off everything is super nice

[cold basin]

can you take a hdr screenshot?

[chilly mural]

I'll boot it up right now

Oh do you mind sharing your reshade.ini file ? 🤔

[cold basin]

doesnt matter if its a hdr png with reshade/skiv or jxr with nvidia screenshot

[cold basin]

what for?

[chilly mural]

I made some changes there when using Copilot...i feel like it got messed up

[cold basin]

just replacing the entire file will be fucked since the paths for the shaders n stuff are specified in that file

[chilly mural]

AAh ok

[cold basin]

i mean i can send it, just not sure how helpful that is

[chilly mural]

Let's park it for now then haha i will take that HDR screenshot

[stark anvil]

It needs to be on if you want the effects, but the mod still works with them disabled (just without bloom etc).

[chilly mural]

Thank you sir!

Ok I do not know what happened but now it works....

I have Ray Tracing on too...

I give up

[cold basin]

looks good to me

picture and graph

[chilly mural]

I honestly have no idea what happened but hey...it is what it is

It works

[stark anvil]

I pinned my rtxgi unlocker setting config

[chilly mural]

Oh! Apprecaite it, I will dive in!

[stark anvil]

helps a little bit with overdarkening

[night yarrow]

68 is 0.003nits in that video so you should definitely see it

that video is actually flawed

technically 64 to 940 in hdr10 should be 0 to 10000nits

but he used 0.0015nits for 64

[cold basin]

Ayo wtf is that

Bro has the secret sauce

[proper valve]

the absolute latest is on gits snapshot right?

[proper valve]

is that the only RT tweaks you're using? Are you using "Tweaks" as well and/or any other RT mod?

This game is making me pull my hair with the garbage shadows changing shape when approaching as well as some pulsing lights in a few areas (not all) ... RT is so badly implemented i dunno what else to do lol

[night yarrow]

just bought a flow sensor, how much flow rate you get with 3 d5 pumps maxed, i feel like mine is a bit low

230lph

[cold basin]

220 ish

depending on temp

also unless that flowsensor is a highflow next its probably very inaccurate

[night yarrow]

highflow 2

next is out of stock here

[cold basin]

should be good then

yeah fair

[night yarrow]

secret 🇩🇪 sauce

[cold basin]

igorslab did some testing compared with some very expensive calibrated industrial flow meter or whatever

only aquacomputer is good

rest is way off kek

[night yarrow]

you also have an OCTO right ?

[cold basin]

no

dont see why i would need that

[night yarrow]

well

with highflow 2

you need that

[cold basin]

highflow next is just usb header into mobo, done

[night yarrow]

it does not have a pc connection

[cold basin]

lmao

[night yarrow]

im lucky to own an octo

so it works

lol

well i could get a highflow next

just need to wait like 30 days for someone to import it from 🇩🇪

[cold basin]

shits in stock rn cuh

[night yarrow]

ya not here though

i also need to pay 15% more

[cold basin]

skill issue on your spawn point tbh

[night yarrow]

well not bad actually because i dont pay for shipping

[cold basin]

where you from again

[night yarrow]

where your gpu was made

[cold basin]

ah damn

[night yarrow]

[cold basin]

[night yarrow]

actually im still in Hall of Fame of timespy extreme and steel nomad

[cold basin]

i'll be back for 60 series

[night yarrow]

i could go top10 if i shunt mod it

impossible now

too many PRO 6000s

[cold basin]

port royal is generally the most competitive leaderboard

top 10 there would be very impressive

[night yarrow]

not going to shunt mod anyway

since pro6000 exists

[cold basin]

Anyways, not really a topic for this channel

[rare scroll]

this is the least unrelated topic that was on this channel

[cold basin]

[stark anvil]

Iirc just this and better reflections and shadows.

[night yarrow]

(in this server

[proper valve]

no issues with shadows changing / pop-ins / flickering etc?

[proper valve]

also ^

[stark anvil]

Should be

I have some test builds posted with new features but they aren’t needed

[stark anvil]

I’ve never been very sensitive to it so idk. I’d imagine the mod I mentioned pretty much fixes it though.

[proper valve]

Ah ok, cause I can't see anything on the pinned so just downloaded from renox mods repo

[proper valve]

that's my issue, I notice too much minutia like that it's annoying

[stark anvil]

It’s the second pinned message

Nexus is currently outdated though lol

[rugged nest]

Does this ini have a big perf impact?

[stark anvil]

I don't think it has any

[rugged nest]

Oh gotcha, where do i drop it? Im unsure

[stark anvil]

uhhhh good question, I forget

bin folder

[chilly mural]

Alright gang, so after a bit of back and forth i think i found my issue with the blacks 😄 so funny thing if you set the HDR Calibration on a QD-OLED in Windows 11 at 0 it actually messes up how Blacks are displayed....all the information online points at setting those at 0 in the Calibration tool, but the moment I put the last value before 0...wham all is well in the world again.

Does anyone have a different experience and am I freaking out?

If you set the Blacks to 0 you tell the system that basically there are NO blacks to display.

It messes up a whole lot as a result

[cold basin]

[rugged nest]

HUH? That doesn´t make sense

I have it at 0

[unreal badge]

(same)

[chilly mural]

Hm...I was checking the graphs and it improved the moment i put the blacks at 0.015

I run with an AMD card so maybe there is something there

Lol here's what the AI says 😄

Maybe I am trusting this thing too much no idea, but it does look great now not gonna lie

DISCLAIMER: I am not trying to start a fight lol just my persception on what looks good to me

The way I read this is Windows HDR calibration needs to know what is Black, but if you set that to 0 then essentially you are telling the software there are NO BLACKS at all.
If you set that to the Last value before 0 then you "feed" what is to be considered black and then the QD OLED does the rest = making it True Black by turning off the Pixels where it's "supposed to be black" from the Windows HDR Calibration.
Games really look great now!

And I stop.

[rugged nest]

Don’t trust AI for these things

It probably hallucinated more than half of what it said lol

You’re also using a monitor I see there. Which is quite a different beast from a TV

[chilly mural]

Fair point

[frigid jacinth]

"....what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

^ how i feel about AI answers

[cold basin]

[chilly mural]

😄 😄

[cold basin]

but yeah it should be set to 0 on OLED, sorry bro

[chilly mural]

All good! 😄

[cold basin]

[chilly mural]

I'll just delete that post LOOL

[cold basin]

at least the AI slop yeh

[frigid jacinth]

Haha yea

AI won't be able to piece together this stuff from the info out there

There's too many contradicting pieces of info

[heady dune]

A true witcher battle begins here

[cold basin]

cracked

[radiant radish]

I always kill the archers first 😁

[earnest rain]

The hell was that at the start

is that something you unlock later on like an ult or something

[cold basin]

https://tenor.com/view/mishaël-lopes-cardozo-sword-sword-fight-sword-fighting-gif-26487225

bro hit em with de

[radiant radish]

Yes it's a capacity you unlock

[cold basin]

i deadass thought its a mod

[unreal badge]

mod for free enchanting of items + mod for putting enchantments on anything + one of my gear pieces is always enchanted with Deflection or what it is called, the one your armor deflects all arrows. (I'm such a cheater, yes. Skill issue)

[heady dune]

I'm using a hardcore overhaul mod "W3EE Redux"

Basically: each resource (stamina, poise, toxicity) matters a lot and managing them poorly = quick death

[cold basin]

btw i know now why i thought the recommended preset looked a bit too pinkish

fucking white balance on the G5 isnt quite right

leans too red-ish

[rugged nest]

[night yarrow]

you eyes get fucked by oled iphone

i immediately found its too red when i received it

[cold basin]

Well you see, the CX looked way too teal when they were side by side, not pure white at all. So I thought it was correct and never bothered to check again, and my eyes just became very used to it after a few days

[night yarrow]

its not quite right on almost all current displays

maybe its decent on sony

i never had a tv from sony after the crt era so im not 100% sure but people seem to like the wb on sony tvs ootb

[rare scroll]

yeah they did this on their new qd oled

[cold basin]

[night yarrow]

i think panasonic do that as well

[south musk]

CIE170-2 is stockman/sharpe

what i'm working on now actually

i'm trying to figure out how to do CIE1931 XYZ to the new stuff

[rare scroll]

damn

would be insane if it can be done

[rose whale]

Sounds like an issue some samsung Tvs have with the PS5 though

[cold basin]

scamsung and software issues is unheard of

[chilly mural]

I'll posts some screenshots, maybe it's juts me not understanding what the game designer intended the games to look like and i'm crating an issue for no reason 😄

[proper valve]

This game can look so good at some points, then it's bugs galore (with the changing shadows etc) RT Shadows on or off doesn't matter so annoying but not a constant thing.

[proper valve]

not quite true. There's a pretty big community if you check nexus all updating everything to redkit. Brothers in Arms will be releasing an ultimate version on december 1st as well on redkit. Promotional Atmosphere will release 2.0 soon as well I hear

[naive bramble]

@south musk what do we set the peakbrightness to with TVs that are able to reach higher peakbrightness than 1000 eg the LG G5 according to various sites its somewhere arround 2200nits so i guess i set it to 2200 and the gamebrightness according to that?

[cold basin]

why ping shortfuse for that

you set your peak to whatever your peak is, varies a little per tv id say, you should probably verifiy that yourself with windows hdr calibration tool or Special K Image Viewer

Filmmaker mode is a bit brighter on the g5 than game optimizer mode for example, so its important that you check yourself

If you play Game Optimizer HGIG my G5 clips at 1987 nits exactly @naive bramble

in Filmmaker Mode I set mine at 2467 nits roughly

[naive bramble]

alr ty, and what do you set the overall gamebrightness?

[cold basin]

203 is recommended, i do 246 most of the time so its like 10% of my peak

game brightness is just a different name for paper white or reference white basically

[proper valve]

hmm, haven't got my G5 yet, but it's really weird how I read everyone's G5 peaks differently? My C9 peaks EXACTLY at 800 on Windows HDR Cal with HGIG

[naive bramble]

I know im probably asking such questions alot but im trying to get a more deeper understanding of this.
Why is the 203 always recommended and what happens in your case exactly when you set it to 246?
Does it raise the black level? Does it change the colours? Is it wrong is it right?🤣

[naive bramble]

Afaik every tv panel is somewhere individual silicon lottery like with cpus and gpus

[stark anvil]

it's the same thing as raising the brightness on your TV in SDR basically

so basically, set it to preference

but 203 is a good default

raising it reduces your dynamic range though

the higher diffuse white is, the less room highlights have to breath

[naive bramble]

Ok i instantly got the part with the dynamic range got it ty.
So it doenst fake or change the colours right

[stark anvil]

nah, it's just linear brightness

[naive bramble]

It is pure preference

[stark anvil]

it technically will raise black levels and all that, just like crankiing the brightness in SDR

I wouldn't worry about it too much tbh

if you want reference brightness for what the SDR content was actually graded for, you'd be at 100 nits

really need to replace the switch for the "i" key on my keyboard 😩

[naive bramble]

https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-r/opb/rep/R-REP-BT.2408-8-2024-PDF-E.pdf

So this means nothing right?

[stark anvil]

that's where the 203 number comes from

I personally think 203 looks correct for HDR content

but as I understand it this spec is about maintaining dynamic range at various peak levels

[quiet sandal]

If I had a display that could do 5000nits peak, I wouldn't run the diffuse white at 500nits or whatever based on the calculation.

I'd still stick to 203nits

That would be way too bright for avg scenery

[naive bramble]

Alright thx you two

[quiet sandal]

Literally monkie brain go 203nit

If you want to adjust 'brightness' change exposure slider in reno

That's how I do it

[naive bramble]

Someone sonewhere told me that dolby even recommends even lower values is there a chart for this maybe too

[cold basin]

Yeah 500 seems a bit bonkers

I only raise it slightly because sometimes it looks wrong with such a high peak. Like when you run around in a game looking at a 2500 nit sun but when you dont look at the sun like the average nits is 30 and doesn’t look like a sunny day at all

In some cases in Witcher I felt like even 300-400 is appropriate as crazy as that may sound but that only equaled to a avg Nits if 80-90 looking at fully sunlit area

[rugged nest]

Damn thats way less than FMM

I thought the difference was not that huge

I set mine at 2450 in FMM

Probably a good value for all G5´s in FMM

[cold basin]

HGIG is cooked

professional thing is probably 2100 ish

[rugged nest]

Oh gotcha that makes more sense

[cold basin]

[slate forge]

the most recent version of this mod is no longer the one of Nexus right?

[stark anvil]

Correct

I’ve been lazy about it

[cold basin]

Musa is a bad influence smh my head

[heady dune]

Is it normal that these images looks darker on the iPhone, right?

too many pixels in a small screen

[cold basin]

I swear I’ve been noticing this too, it’s so weird though because test videos on YouTube are like perfect black floor

[woven yacht]

Yes it's normal. It's a tone mapping conversion problem caused by how iOS image viewer handles PNG/AVIF/JXL in HDR

Basically some metadata to map brightness don't get correctly transferred

[cold basin]

Aye I’m not tripping then

Bet that hasn’t changed with IOS 26

Haven’t updated yet

[woven yacht]

I doubt it will ever change. Technically user should apply a correct tone mapping

iOS photo is perfect for HDR contents generated with iPhone using Apple HDR format

[cold basin]

Yeah downloading the image doesn’t change anything either it’s same in the iOS photos app

[rose whale]

People called me crazy

Witcher 3 APL is low

[cold basin]

Yeah and if I use a lot more exposure instead of raising paper white then highlights seems to look worse

[cold basin]

I think it’s also because Witcher does some eye adaption shit

Not sure if Jon can do anything about that

[quiet sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/fry-omg-the-simpsons-simpsons-gif-4984186

AHHHHHHHHH

Jon, time to retire Beno Dee Eggs

we just cant compete with RTX

and AutoDR with gamma fix

[rare scroll]

"if they want to live in an SDR world, let them" - ShortFuse

[night yarrow]

cant go over 1500nits, in fact cant go over sdr range

they 100% havent try native hdr in tousiant

its completey SDR

[stark anvil]

It does go over SDR range just not much

[quiet sandal]

203nits + tip

[stark anvil]

Honestly the post processing thing is valid

Didn’t think people would see that HDR boost option and think the whole thing is artificial though…

[quiet sandal]

so the oversaturates colours is literally just seeing more colours because they're no longer clamped to SDR

if you dont like it just lower sat slider?

[stark anvil]

Yeah, it’s just not clipping/clamping

[quiet sandal]

gigabrained

[stark anvil]

Hdr boost does increase sat though

[quiet sandal]

soo they slapped on HDR boost

[stark anvil]

This is what the purist preset is for

[quiet sandal]

This is why giving options to plebs is bad

you get your black ford

and you're happy

[stark anvil]

I could hide the sliders and just do presets lol

Matter of time until someone looks in the config file and said you could tweak it though haha

[stark anvil]

I would not actually do this btw

[quiet sandal]

I wish HDR wasnt still such a messy thing in 2025

[stark anvil]

Where was this btw, I wouldn’t mind explaining the mod/code to them

[cold basin]

you had me scared for a sec there

[quiet sandal]

Got shared on the BF6 thread

[cold basin]

[quiet sandal]

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/1p3jcvf/rtx_hdr_off_vs_on_battlefield_6/?share_id=LKCH6PrjLyyohWig5fPr8&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

OP of that post prefers RTX

becuase its brighter and not washed out

[cold basin]

currently fighting the urge to write a comment worse than warcrimes

https://tenor.com/view/cat-scared-gif-6787764075896120076

[rare scroll]

seeing all the renodx comments

[quiet sandal]

the shilling must continue until the situation improves

[cold basin]

billions must use reno

[stark anvil]

I have posted a longer comment than anybody there will care about

[cold basin]

reading it rn i posted a shorter one too kek

[devout ibex]

Plato's cave moment

[quiet sandal]

Holy shit haven't heard that one since school

[tribal sable]

Some of the particle effects and bloom draw after tonemap

[cold basin]

absolute kino, i forgot that he said that even lmao

[stark anvil]

Im not quite so bothered by people disliking the mods or whatever, but I don’t like when I see people being wrong on the internet

[cold basin]

yeh spreading mispreading information is what bothers me as well

ngl without reno i wouldnt nearly have played as many games as i have the recent 1-2 years

[quiet sandal]

You would have just played it all in SDR

With raised LUTs

[cold basin]

imagine

[rugged nest]

Dude Reno’s made me abandon physical format to play everything that has a mod on PC (and I’m a huge physical media fan)

[cold basin]

whats that have to do with physical? dont like all PC games technically still release on discs or am i way too outdated on that

[rugged nest]

Physical on PC is non existent sadly

The few that still come in boxes just have a code for steam inside

No disc

[cold basin]

oh

rip

[stark anvil]

I feel this lol. HDR is such a big deal and the industry just doesn't care to get it right.

[rugged nest]

Yeah, well and on top of that there´s the massive perf and quality uplift on PC. I struggle with semi abandoning physical media for games

Don´t know why on earth PC eliminated disc readers, I guess it´s the same consoles are trying to do now but PC did it way faster

[stark anvil]

I’m not as concerned with physical on PC, since my angle for it is more about ownership. If digital games are taken away on PC, I know there will be a way to access them without relying on OS level exploits.

[rugged nest]

I mean digital you have GoG

DRM free and you can keep backups on drives if you really wanted to

For me it’s more about having something physical to feel like I actually own it (even if the disk doesn’t have the full game)

[cold basin]

just burn gog games on blurays

[stark anvil]

Yeah I just don’t buy a physical copy if the game isn’t on the disc/cart

[ashen spruce]

but it's just a box, not a game, playing is running binaries on an nvme/ssd/whatever, so owning is having game binaries on your own storage, preferably in an OS that you control

[night pond]

literally went around in circles trying to adjust and test the post-processing and bloom effects

works really well in Touissant but in other regions it's hit or miss whether it can mimic the vanilla look

[rugged nest]

Oh yeah I know I’m weird for this hahahaha. It’s probably my ADHD lol

[rose whale]

What does he mean with reduced bloom, sunshafts and atmospheric elements?

These should be inline with the native implementation or not?

At least perceptually

[south musk]

You are not working with people's technical impressions. You deal with people ultimately saying "Well, I built this myself and therefore it's better". You can't reason with that. Their brain is so wired to narcissistically attribute their own solution to be better than somebody else's that it literally is more acceptable and better to their brain.

People do this all the time and in every field.

[quiet sandal]

The post processing isn't 1:1 inline as Jon had to rework it

It looked borked if he used the original code because of the goofy ahh 'game scene is actually SDR but post processing is HDR' shenanigans

Toussaint ends up just becoming BLOOOM

[south musk]

Silksong has Vanilla Look because there's going to be somebody who wants to live in a blown out, hue clipped world.

And a direct comparison is then one click away and I don't have to hear about much whatever nonsense they did to SDR "looks better"

[mild elbow]

RenoDX mods are just the best. Having perfect HDR (or as close as possible) in a vast amount of games (a lot of which never had HDR to begin with) is just phenomenal and a colossal advantage of playing on PC. I'm just glad for RenoDX and all the beautiful bastards that contributes to it and kindly share their work. Thank you very much.

[glad geode]

Hello! Which version of the mod is to be used as of now? This one, the one from reno github or the one from nexus? Thank you!

[stark anvil]

That was the struggle. I’ve spent a goofy amount of hours on this lol.

[stark anvil]

Either the pinned release or the snapshot

[rugged nest]

I always thought that was intentional art direction

[stark anvil]

In SDR it is lol

[rugged nest]

Oh yeah I haven’t seen how it actually looks in HDR lol

[stark anvil]

If I give the bloom a true HDR color, the game is unplayable lol.

Without changing the bloom that is

Posted an example of it in here before

On mobile and search is ass

[quiet sandal]

This is where we need to take some liberty with an add-on

Black Desert looks like utter ass, if I just did a 1:1 SDR match, it'll look utterly abysmal

I had to rework a lot of their processing

Auto-exposure

Colours

Grading

Bloom

So it doesn't match SDR at all

Though I tried my best to still keep it roughly there just without the giga deepfried contrast look with JJ Abrams lens flares at 400%

Game doesn't even use any known tonemapper

It's their own custom curves

Yes, they really sat there in the studio cooked up this gas and said 'Ship It'

[unreal badge]

I've been fighting the bloom in Toussaint for hours 😄 think I'm contend now. Might hate it back in the other regions. xD

[abstract tulip]

Give me all the bloom and piss filtering in Toussaint, can't get enough of it 🤗

using the recommended settings myself.. only tried them briefly in Toussaint when loading a save from an earlier playthrough but I loved what I saw. Can't wait to replay it.

[unreal badge]

haha and mine with Filterless T. and bloom down to 10 at the moment 😄 beauty of modding. If I don't fall asleep I'll try a screenshot later

recommended has HDR boost (my eyes die XD)

[rose whale]

I know but is it not adjusted accordingly to be on par with the vanilla game perceptually in terms of amount/strength of post processing fx?

[quiet sandal]

I dunno what the poster was one about

Jon has adjusted the post processing and it looks good with reno

theres a purist toggle

[rose whale]

#1411093186842988645 message

Looking at this there seems to be a huge difference in terms of that

Iirc it was more present in the very first release of the mod

[quiet sandal]

abysmal

all the SOVL of the bloom is now gone

I agree with the poster

Reno is slop

[stark anvil]

It’s impossible to match it unfortunately

I’ll have to get redkit and try to basically rework it all, that’s just a lot and I want a break from tw3 for now lol.

[rose whale]

Because you are working on tw2?

[stark anvil]

I would actually do a tw2 mod lol

[rose whale]

Obviously renodx is still far superior. Is that problem only tw3 specific or does it happen in other games as well such as RDR2?

[abstract tulip]

Please do, I love that game

https://tenor.com/view/witcher-dwarf-geralt-lesbomancy-lesbians-gif-18077231

[rare scroll]

greatest line in gaming history

[cold basin]

lmaoooo

ive not reallly played tw2 except a little bit back on the xbox 360 years ago

might have to replay that

[stark anvil]

Relatively unique to tw3

Valheim had a sunshafts shader that ran after tonemapping as well

[rose whale]

So basically shaders that ran after tonemapping cause problems

[stark anvil]

Pretty much yeah

[rose whale]

Iirc the post processing fx in Witcher 3 in the first few mod releases were more apparent or am I tripping?

[stark anvil]

It was zone dependent. I had a naive solution of just clamping the input texture for bloom to SDR range. This only worked correctly in areas that tonemapped to 1, but that’s not how the game actually works. This solution also has a critical flaw where the bloom is now limited to hard clipped hue shifts, so anywhere bloom draws it’ll take some clipped color which doesn’t look the best. Tonemapping to SDR instead simply doesn’t get the right bloom behavior either.

The solution now gives the first bloom shader the full blown HDR color, and then I tonemap the bloom mask that gets generated. It’s still using the SDR parameters (which I also tweaked extensively before settling on this solution, and was in some previous 2.X releases).

Basically I need to see if I can rework the post processing entirely with redkit. All I can do with renodx is the best compromise and I just don’t think it’s worth spending more time on.

[night pond]

Would you recommend the latest snapshot for its bloom and post processing or were there older versions that worked better for it

[stark anvil]

I think latest is best

in some circumstances the old sdr emulation option could work a little better, but in other instances it was substantially worse. From my experimentation what I've got now is the best all-rounder.

and it's more detailed bloom

[rose whale]

17. october ?

[stark anvil]

can't recall when (those versions are automated)

[rose whale]

ah here

[rose whale]

#1379315592820949092 message i think this one is pretty good if people want to preserve the SDR bloom look

[stark anvil]

the issue with it is some places, like skellige, basically completely lack bloom

[unreal badge]

(I think) the latest says "compiled October 25th" on the bottom of the renoDX menu in ReShade. It's also on some of your shots earlier around 2 weeks ago in this channel, if I saw correctly

[unreal badge]

after looking at my screenshots yesterday, I remembed that I had cranked up sharpness in reno when I used a too smooth-ish Geralt face texture mod for a while. It looks pretty bad on still shots, though. And also noticed that I could turn HDR boost back up after having reduced the bloom in T.. So I'm basically still using one of the last sliders that invictus shared. Just with my display's brightness settings (OLED, True Black 400) adjusted. And looks like it might be 2 presets to switch between regions.

• bloom unchanged from invicutus' rec. at 33 bloom (but haven't been to some regions like Skellige with it yet)
• bloom down to around 10 in Toussaint (needs more playing, too)

found this shot shareable from one of the main missions with Triss

by the way, if I cannot make out any differences, no matter if RenoDX filmgrain is set to 0 or to max 100 -- is that broken in general or circumstances? For example I use FSR for AA, might that be related?

[stark anvil]

film grain should work all the time 🤔

not related to AA

[unreal badge]

and it should actually be noticeably "grainy" at least when higher?

[stark anvil]

should be pretty noticeable in darker regions at 100 yeah

it's very obvious that it's doing things if you look at HDR analysis btw

it'll smooth out the plots on the luminance histogram

[unreal badge]

oh. like analysis in lilium's shader? I can try that tomorrow or later the week, only seen it used when new releases are posted and by now I sort of learned to notice the obvious stuff like OMG it's all cut off at the top in non-reno/luma version

[night pond]

Was that the only region? I think I have the Nov 1 compiled version

From GitHub

[stark anvil]

kaer morhen also has heavily reduced bloom with it

I think parts of novigrad too maybe? Not sure

[stark anvil]

learned some new things while working on the black flag mod, gonna have to apply it to this game too

[night pond]

What did you find out

👀

[rose whale]

Sounds promising

[stark anvil]

Just a better way to apply tonemapping. Won’t fix post processing or anything.

[proper valve]

I can definitely see it. And looks great, I play with 100 film grain 4 lyf

@cold basin what are your current settings? Wouldnt mind giving them a try

[cold basin]

Uhh since I fixed the white balance on my TV I’m not really changing much anymore, my G5 was doing too much pink which I had to hueshift against

I haven’t atleast felt the need to change the recommended preset except minute details maybe

[abstract tulip]

@heady dunecan you post your reno settings?

[heady dune]

Using RPL Lighting with the ini RT settings that Jon shared, but remove the skyimpact additive light parameters since RPL already uses them

[cold basin]

Currently this. If you run Hermite Spline then the left settings, if you prefer the build with Reinhard then the right which i think is just default settings of recommended preset

Probably looks completely wrong on 1000 nit displays

On my phone it looks pretty cooked

[stark anvil]

looks fine enough with skiv tonemapping it

[cold basin]

yeah in discord on phoneits cooked though

1000 nit screens

[stark anvil]

the update I want to make will make it so game brightness/peak don't have such a strong infuence on blowout btw

in black flag I'm doing luminance tonemappiing but I'm giving it the chrominance of a (adjustable) high nit per channel tonemap

[cold basin]

i thought youre not working on witcher for now

[stark anvil]

I mean I haven't touched the code yet lol

and tbf I mostly meant I didn't want to start what was basically a whole new project for it lol

and I'm done with poking the post processing with a stick and seeing what happens lol

[cold basin]

but yeah the saturation seems vastly diff on 1000 nit vs 2468

Raising from 1000 to 3000

[stark anvil]

yeah that's per channel display mapping at work

[cold basin]

Is that a good thing?

[stark anvil]

I used it because it works better than the blowout slider (imo)

[stark anvil]

yes and no

[cold basin]

I mean looks good tbh

But at 25 hdr boost it’s just too much with termite spleen

[stark anvil]

the game used a per channel tonemapper, so it's designed around that kind of blowout

but having a different look depending on peak/game brightness isn't ideal

[cold basin]

Termite and Reinhard also are differently saturated

That’s why I use lower hdr boost but 25 is fine for Reinhard at 2468nit

[stark anvil]

reinhard would have more desaturation of lower nit values

oh and I also need to experiment with the stuff shortfuse and musa have been cooking in #🧪lab

there should be a method for me to simply extend uncharted2 to HDR now

but the bloom coming afterwards and whatnot means I'll still have to do some jank shit even with that

[cold basin]

Yeah

Probably impossible to get something "perfect"

Games cooked

[stark anvil]

probably just extending uncharted2 to like 2000 nits, applyinig the chrominance of that onto full range HDR, then luminance display mapping that at the end

post processing is always gonne be off, that's for sure

[cold basin]

But it’s already a bajillion times better than stock HD..I mean SDR

But yeah I’m not sure if I prefer Reinhard or Termite

Can’t decide on one

[stark anvil]

hermite spline seems better, I think it's mostly just that reinhard makes hdr boost more flexible

[night pond]

I think for hermit adjusting blowout to 80 instead of 100 fixes the super unnatural sun colour

Hermit is definitely my preference

[cold basin]

Default "HDR" | Purist | Reinhard | TermiteSpleen™ at 20hdr boost

at 25 bro gets even redder

which i find too much

20hdr boost is absolute max for me at 2468 nits

[cold basin]

i think overall i prefer hermite as well though

[night pond]

In your shot it genuinely looks amazing

Restores so much facial detail and improves the pigment on Geralt’s face

[cold basin]

wish i could get darker nights to work in this modlist but im too retardet for the scrip merging shit

[cold basin]

this one looks weird again when looking on my phone ahhhhh

1000 nit

[cold basin]

game just looks so good

[proper valve]

I just wonder what all those settings do. I'm already using this ini but that's all I'm using https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/8865

[proper valve]

yeah I'm just using the Recommended Preset, didn't touch anything apart from peak / ui brightness etc of course and Film Grain. Otherwise all is at default

[proper valve]

ngl, can't tell much of a difference between reinhard and hermite on those 2 last pics 😄

[cold basin]

He only gets a bit more color in his, mainly the forehead in that case

[proper valve]

are you using true fires for those fire lods being so high in the distance? or is that from the ini

[heady dune]

I use True Fires the RT version from the posts

I also manually modified the LODs in the game's ini files.

[proper valve]

Yeah I tried that True Fires RT version and got a few loading between dialogue situations on a quest so had to remove it unfortunately

[proper valve]

So more than whats on that ini you posted?

[heady dune]

If in dx112settings, the little that I remember I modified were these values:

[Rendering/SpeedTree]
GrassGenerationEfficiency=0.075
GrassDistanceScale=3.5
FoliageDistanceScale=2.8
FoliageShadowDistanceScale=54
GrassRingSize=8388608

Don't uses HD reworked because it causes too many problems that are obvious to a good eye

and this is the most important one, here I think I did modify everything. you can test it.

put it on D:\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt GOTY\bin\config\platform\pc

Don't play in windowed borderless mode either, I've observed that it causes flickering. Play in fullscreen.

[proper valve]

isn't it needed for reno? to play in borderless

[proper valve]

I'm actually using HDRP lool, what problems are you talking about. I haven't seen much.

Main problems I see are literally sometimes some weird probe lighting pulsing due to RT. Seems like RT is a bit botched in some places

[heady dune]

Flickering textures, shadows, reflections, and the impact on performance.

[heady dune]

The opposite happens to me, Reno doesn't work for me if I have it in borderless.

Textures are not just textures, I understand that they have properties of transparency and reflections. Personally, I think the HD textures that CD Project adapted from the same author of HD Rework are more than enough.

[proper valve]

Flickering shadows etc is a vanilla issue no? Hmm

[proper valve]

That’s odd loool. I always read borderless was the way to go for reno

Havent evem tried changing to fullscreen

[heady dune]

Not for everyone, just some people. Add more HD textures? lol

[cold basin]

reno forced borderless anyways?

not sure what flickering youre having, i dont have any

[stark anvil]

Pretty sure the mod at least tried to force borderless and prevent fullscreen, would have to double check (I think it does that by default unless I tell it not to?)

But mod works fine in borderless

Borderless is required for HDR unless it’s an nvapi game and you aren’t using renodx

I have seen issues with the engine and its borderless mode though, sometimes it breaks and switches to window which is annoying

[heady dune]

I don't have problems but I think Nostromo does, I think he mentioned something about that.

[heady dune]

It's rare, but if I enable borderless mode RenoDX it doesn't show me the HDR options. As if it were in SDR.

Although it may perhaps be OBS removing the focus from it.

[proper valve]

0 issues with Reno and Borderless specifically

[heady dune]

I mean flickering

[stark anvil]

Oh, yeah that is a thing. It’s fixed by switching modes and switching back. Some weird bug with hdr detection.

Never noticed that it doesn’t happen with fullscreen though, nice

[proper valve]

Just an example of this game looking so good at times and so bad at the same time. Screen spaced RT shadows? Lol. (Apologies for phone recording)

[heady dune]

It seems to be a field of view problem

Do you have it by default?

I understand that W3 causes problems if we play with the FoV

[proper valve]

Yes. I even did a full clean reinstall once to doublecheck

Disnt touch fov

This only happens with rt shadows

Specifically

i read somewhere online, cant remember where that rt shadows are screen spaced for some reason

Only happens on these long shadows from grass really

[heady dune]

Well, try without HD pack, I really noticed improvement for example in the water reflections, with the HD Reworked mod there were reflections of very strange colors and some puddles looked cloudy. I uninstalled it and goodbye problems. Also some LOD flickering.

[proper valve]

When its dawn or dusk

[heady dune]

It could also be the ENV, the lighting mod you use.

[rose whale]

Are you guys using the uncharted 2 tonemapping or something?

[stark anvil]

that's what SDR uses

[cold basin]

Defo ping me whenever you have a test build ready

I’ve finally started a proper playthrough today

[proper valve]

oh really? interesting

[proper valve]

heh took me like a month of curating mods etc 😄 I'm mid playthrough but taking it very slowly whilst waiting for Promotional Atmosphere 2.0, author's been showcasing screenshots on his discord

[cold basin]

native "hdr" too since it uses the same tonemapper

which is why native is effectively sdr xd

[cold basin]

ive installed a vortex modlist that seems like vanilla plus

which is kind of what i want since ive never played through the game

i put like 90-100 hours in at some point and then dropped it due to IRL stuff

[proper valve]

I'm not using Vortex because it has tons of issues with W3

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/9384?tab=description

this guy is a pillar of the entire modding community and knows his shit

[cold basin]

seems to work fine with the modlist so far

and the author has like all the merges etc, so i dont have to learn really how to do that myself

[cold basin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/7979?tab=description

anyone running this shit?

[kind crescent]

Causes problems.
No such thing as a free lunch

My post on Nexus:
"for now I might recommend deleting 0_TW3_Modified_Optimized RT.ini and 0_TW3_Modified_FasterRTUltraPerformanceGlobalIllumination.ini and keeping the three remaining .ini files from the mod."

Those are the two files I found were causing problems

But no idea if keeping the other files is even worth it

[cold basin]

yeah, i see, just wanted to make sure..

[proper valve]

Is this related to the “white-ish sheen” seen at certain areas under certain types of shade? Like around trees or even on terrain, as if there’s a weird white/light blue-ish coating around objects?

Cause this occurs in vanilla as well as far as I know, it’s one of my main sources of annoyance

[kind crescent]

Yes, but in my test area it was barely noticeable in vanilla and very bad with the mod

[heady dune]

Don't use them, they are .ini files made with AI recommendations and hallucinated parameters from other engines. All they will cause are crashes.

[cold basin]

[proper valve]

there's a specific area in skellige at a specific time in early morning that looks like absolute ass because of that. even with vanilla. I only have "Improved RT Shadows and Reflections" ini now. Like the entire ground is just that disgusting white as well as most trees and boxes there, this is my one pet peeve with this game.

Well, apart from in some areas the RT probes literally loading on the floor one by one as you're riding like you're manually turning on the lights on 4x4 blocks lmao

This game looks incredible at times with RT, other times it looks like ass cause of those poor implementation issues 🙁 such a shame

[night pond]

The second I heard AI recommendations I was out

[fleet flume]

does the game have fsr2 or 3 ?

does it get fsr4 through amd drivers ?

[unreal badge]

from my understanding, it only has it for AA unless you mod it further. DLSS enabler or something if you want frame generation

[night yarrow]

fsr2 so impossible to be updated to fsr4 by drivers

[unreal badge]

👀

[stark anvil]

That’s just the old stuff that’s already out

[unreal badge]

still good (more "accessible" than through here)

[unreal badge]

thanks, very nice, as before! Hermite version; just changed sunshafts from 100 to below 10 (I was tweaking underground, the graveyard that Regis lives in, and my torch was radioactive at 100 XD)

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-doctor-octopus-the-power-of-the-sun-in-the-palm-of-my-hand-sun-gif-23770857

also checked filmgrain's effect with the HDR analysis thing. it is working indeed

[cold basin]

(that mf beating my ass in deathmarch)

[cold basin]

anyone know how to fix these goofy ass glowing artifacts that are only present with RT Shadows

@proper valve perhaps you know?

[quiet sandal]

Remember hearing hairworks is dodo with RT

both are not built in mind with one another

and so problems prop up when you use both

🤷‍♂️

[cold basin]

i dont do hairworks

its off

looks shit anyways

[quiet sandal]

Well

this is what happens when you slop out a NG update

Saber was working on the game

but nnnnoooooo

[rugged nest]

It’s un fixable with RT afaik

[cold basin]

i see

unlucky

[heady dune]

RTX Power

[quiet sandal]

Renaissance painting

21:9 is needed

Can these 5K ultrawides hurry up

and 6090 also

[cold basin]

[stark anvil]

Ray bleach helps (bad mod name)

Wait shit that’s for a different RT problem

[cold basin]

Which?

[stark anvil]

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/8890

The weird blue thing that happens

[cold basin]

Hm

Might still want that tbh

What I found out is that it seems to happen when you’re standing in some sort of transition between a cascaded shadow I think? and about to get sunlight on you

I also found a comment on nexus that said something like that geralts hair hair specifically has like a shader that causes this, I wanna try later if I can disable that shader with reshade shader toggler and if it’s playable that way or if it breaks something else

Or perhaps you can even modify that shader with reno somehow positively? @stark anvil
Since it can get pretty bright and look like a hdr highlight kek

Just grasping at straws here

[abstract tulip]

turn off RT shadows

[cold basin]

[abstract tulip]

they have bunch of other issues, like not applying in any breakable objects

since they aren't compatible with havok physics

[cold basin]

They look way to good to turn it off for rare issues

[stray sequoia]

I turned off RT shadows too, they have very distracting issues unfortunately

[cold basin]

[stray sequoia]

haven't played a while but I also remember weird issues with culling

like massive shadows pop ins and stuff

[abstract tulip]

they look really bad in places where there are a lot of clutter and like half of that clutter is breakable

[stray sequoia]

some got fixed via mods

[cold basin]

Yeah I have a mod that fixes that mostly

I have some at the edge of the screen

But

Im sitting in front of a g5 in ultrawide

I don’t see that unless I actively look at it

[stray sequoia]

G5 ultrawide?

so you run 3840 x 1600?

[cold basin]

LG G5 TV 55inch

[cold basin]

Ya

[stray sequoia]

okay and how does that work for ya?

without curve

[cold basin]

It’s brilliant tbh

Window shifted to the bottom like that

[rugged nest]

Same yeah

[stray sequoia]

looks nice, how deep is that desk?

[cold basin]

90cm

[abstract tulip]

raster shadows are more consistent

shame because RT shadows do look nice in certain scenes

[stray sequoia]

I've got a similar setup with a 90cm desk aswell lmao

[cold basin]

42 inch?

[stray sequoia]

yea

[cold basin]

Neat

[stray sequoia]

just sold my oled g9

[cold basin]

Yeah I think the G5 in UW probably about as tall as that 42

[stray sequoia]

and bought the 42 inch for the selling price

[cold basin]

Maybe bit less

[stray sequoia]

definitely worth it

[stray sequoia]

yea looks about right

[abstract tulip]

RT shadows on vs off

also look at those barrels in the background

[stray sequoia]

wait which one is which?

I assume the softer shadows are RT?

or is it actually the other way around?

[cold basin]

Left should be RT off

[quiet sandal]

Just use 1.32 with blitzFX

[abstract tulip]

it's RT on

[cold basin]

Nvm

[abstract tulip]

but because there's bunch of havok objects they aren't casting shadows

[quiet sandal]

CDPRslop

Special sauce

[cold basin]

Shh

[quiet sandal]

Sosuine had to fix slop like this in 2077

Abysmal

[cold basin]

Huh that normal barrel right in front of geralt

Shouldn’t be physx?

Just normal container

[quiet sandal]

You'll turn on PT, and half the entity meshes are missing shadows

[cold basin]

Why that have no shadow

[quiet sandal]

Slavjankcore

[cold basin]

Forge pls fix

Thx

[quiet sandal]

Give me the Saber build

[abstract tulip]

I don't think Witcher 3 supports PhysX

[quiet sandal]

Not the polishjank one that was put together in under a year

[abstract tulip]

they only have their hair thingy

Hairworks bs

[cold basin]

Ah havok sorry

[abstract tulip]

which is also broken

[cold basin]

Hairworks looks really weird anyways

Never liked it

Atleast on geralt, maybe on some npcs

[stray sequoia]

looks amazing on animals

rest looks weird

there actually is a mod for that

[cold basin]

Gib

[stray sequoia]

turn off hairworks everywhere except animals

[cold basin]

Sounds good

I want

[stray sequoia]

ah sorry it's disable on geralt only so I guess some npcs still have it on + animals

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/7217?tab=description

should be this one

[rugged nest]

I think Hairworks looks awesome in everyone tbh

Sad that I couldn´t use it on Geralt with RT, I´m also using that mod

[stray sequoia]

it has issues with RT I think

ah yea

[rugged nest]

Yeah with RT it´s unusable only on Geralt, everyone else is fine

[stray sequoia]

exactly what you described haha

beard apparently looks fine with it so maybe try that one

[abstract tulip]

patch 4.03 or 4.04 also introduced a bug which results into hw not always loading

so you have horses with missing manes or tales, or even some NPCs like Johnny, missing their hair

only fix is to reload a game

it also clashes with RT reflections so during some cloudier/rainier weather you have weird purple reflections on windows in Novigrad and Oxenfurt for example

then there are the cutscenes where it causes issues with RTGI

I have it turned off completely

fuck this game has so many problems

[rugged nest]

Never seen this one

[stray sequoia]

yea the whole next gen patch had major issues especially with moving to dx12

[rugged nest]

Also had 0 crashes with RT thankfully

[stray sequoia]

but the RTGI and Ambient occlusion especially look amazing and much better than what they had before

I'm really glad they exist now

[rugged nest]

RTGI is so good

I´m still hoping that this hypothetical DLC they are cooking will come with some optimizations to finish the DX12 version

[stray sequoia]

oh yea that would be amazing if they actually did it

also update streamline for MFG

[rugged nest]

They totally fucking should xD

[abstract tulip]

play the game long enough and you will

[stray sequoia]

never had it myself tbh and I played plenty

but it's totally possible it happens

[rugged nest]

Played 130h lol

[stray sequoia]

did a whole playthrough again after jon released his renodx mod

it's amazing what proper HDR does to games

almost like playing for the first time again

[night yarrow]

shorter

55*(1600/2160)=40.74

[abstract tulip]

330h here

last time I encountered Johnny with hairworks on he was bald

[stark anvil]

I could try. Might be as simple as saturating the alpha channel.

I should have more time for modding this week

[cold basin]

Would be cool, gonna try to find the shader later tonight, maybe just toggling it off is enough lol

[stark anvil]

That’s all I’m gonna do to find it. Look for what either makes the lighting on hair disappear or the hair itself disappear.

[cold basin]

heh

[stark anvil]

Then dump it and smack things together

[cold basin]

it really feels like that in some games

Witcher is one of them since its quite a drastic improvement

[cold basin]

if disabling it isnt the play but you can find a solution ill gladly throw you a tenner

[stark anvil]

Something I realized about what I was hoping to eventually do with redkit is it would break all other weather mods

[cold basin]

ehhh yeah very likely

youd have to come up with a full custom weather edit kek

[abstract tulip]

yeah I found the difference in TW3 being particularly eye opening with Reno

cannot wait to get to Toussait on my current run

[stark anvil]

Yeah that’s what I was going to do. It’s cool how the current mod works with everything though

[abstract tulip]

I also haven't visited Skellige yet either which I'm looking forward to seeing in its HDR glory

[cold basin]

yeah, which is ideal tbh.. im not sure if bloom is worth all that hassle

[stark anvil]

I suppose I could just make edits for vanilla and keep the same structure.

Idk 🤷

[rugged nest]

I use vanilla weather (and most users probably do too) so that would work

[stark anvil]

So I could just do that and add a toggle in the mod for a compatibility mode.

Got the first person on nexus that wants a mod for the classic release not because of BlitzFX, but because of no TAA.

[quiet sandal]

SharpTM enjoyer

Hold up

8K with DLSS is blurry

But FXAA with ass shimmer is good

[stray sequoia]

I wonder if this plasma guy knows he's a sticker in this discord lmao

[quiet sandal]

Probably, Plasma was around

Was on a stream with Shortfuse