Total War: WARHAMMER III | RenoDX | Page 1

bleak bronze Sep 26, 2025, 12:31 PM

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Total War: WARHAMMER III

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 12:45 PM

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SDR / Tweaked

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Mods work so far

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havent ran into incompatibilities or shader permutations

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 1:13 PM

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@slate ingot

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how about now?

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 1:17 PM

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1 is SDR and 2 Reno Tweaked or

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 1:19 PM

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SDR / Reno Tweaked

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 1:26 PM

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I see

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 1:37 PM

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tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 1:38 PM

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slate ingot I see

12/10 tier feedback

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 1:43 PM

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I’ll give better feedback when I can look at it in good conditions on my faking TV

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Not on my phone at work

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It does look better now tho

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 2:57 PM

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@drifting wave

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We have a thread here

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 5:24 PM

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@tepid imp shieet im home

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looks good man

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 5:26 PM

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gigachad

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There's a few HDR enjoyers over at WH3 server

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Most are just SDR plebs

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why does this embed look washed out

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 5:26 PM

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kekpepehands

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 5:26 PM

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'you do have a HDR display? Right?'

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No

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frenzy

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 5:27 PM

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tepid imp **why does this embed look washed out**

-# discord_eye This user is suspected to play in SDR • Learn More

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NOOO

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why does it embed

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cringe

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 5:27 PM

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A few hated HDR because of suprise suprise ITM but I showed off the batman screenshots

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 5:27 PM

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kekwnuke

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 5:28 PM

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Then compared with my ones here

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No 1K UI nuking

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 5:29 PM

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that batman one is really good showcase yeah cuz its so crazy blown out

drifting wave Sep 26, 2025, 6:29 PM

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F YEAH

fickle topaz Sep 26, 2025, 6:50 PM

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tepid imp A few hated HDR because of suprise suprise ITM but I showed off the batman scree...

which

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can i see 👀

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 6:50 PM

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Helf cities look berry nice now

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 6:51 PM

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fickle topaz which

batman pics?

fickle topaz Sep 26, 2025, 6:51 PM

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ya

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 6:51 PM

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SDR / ITM / Reno HDR

fickle topaz Sep 26, 2025, 6:51 PM

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jesus christ

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 6:52 PM

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ITM is donkey

fickle topaz Sep 26, 2025, 6:52 PM

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thats so bad in sdr and the itm is dog shit

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 6:52 PM

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so when movies are shipping out with ITM 'HDR' or people are just telling you to use RTX HDR

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you get the above

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and no wonder people dont like HDR

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 6:57 PM

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if something is giga clipped in SDR already then ITM will only make it 10x worse

slate ingot Sep 26, 2025, 6:58 PM

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tepid imp so when movies are shipping out with ITM 'HDR' or people are just telling you to...

RTX HDR GOATED BRO SHIT MAKES MY GAME LOOK SO BRIGHT! MANY HDR MHM YES

fickle topaz Sep 26, 2025, 6:59 PM

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this is why i rarely use any itm

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good example of some truly egregious slop is mario kart world on my miniled

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anyway the mod looks rlly good tyvm @bleak bronze

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 8:17 PM

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Made a reshade preset with a bit of colour grading + bloom, I desaturated shadows (dont have that option in Reno and shader is scRGB compatible)

Reno Tweaked / Tweaked + preset

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Want to make the game a bit more 'Grim Dark'

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@bleak bronze all my screenshots here so far have been using this preset, what do you think? Want to make this the HDR Look preset?

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Also for anyone else who wants to input the settings

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I tested both vanilla and modded lighting

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2922534576&searchtext=lighting

Steam Workshop::ULTIMATE LIGHTING 2.0

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This is the mod I am using in the pics

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 8:51 PM

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susge

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 9:26 PM

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tepid imp <@437033745686724617> all my screenshots here so far have been using this preset...

after some more testing 80 - highlights is a bit too much for vanilla lighting

65-70 is a nicer spot

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 9:26 PM

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tepid imp https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2922534576&searchtext=lig...

for this though, 80

tepid imp Sep 26, 2025, 10:07 PM

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slate ingot Sep 27, 2025, 12:47 PM

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tepid imp Want to make the game a bit more 'Grim Dark'

honestl thats pretty fitting for this type of game, i like both tho

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 4:44 PM

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slate ingot honestl thats pretty fitting for this type of game, i like both tho

I've also managed to replaced the games dodo SSAO with Marty's MXAO whilst using REST to render before UI and volumetrics (temporary for now until we can get xeGTAO natively implemented)

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This is what vanilla SSAO looks like

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Heres vanilla in motion 💀

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 4:49 PM

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tepid imp I've also managed to replaced the games dodo SSAO with Marty's MXAO whilst using...

I should do a 1:1 comparison since these pics have the rest of the grading/bloom as well

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one moment

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grass has a bit too much AO, let me adjust that as well

slate ingot Sep 27, 2025, 5:12 PM

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tepid imp Heres vanilla in motion 💀

eww wtf

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 5:14 PM

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Nope, MXAO is ded

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Since not HDR compatible

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And Soops convertor doesn't work when Reshade FX are rendered before game ones with REST. Noticed artefacts all over the place

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AHHNOOOOOO

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There's no HDR compatible AO shaders

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And even if I converted ones, wouldn't be allowed to share it

slate ingot Sep 27, 2025, 5:16 PM

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i think thats one of the "worst" parts about hdr

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theres like almost no hdr compatible shaders out there

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 5:20 PM

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To be fair, Reno gives so much control that 90% of the time I don't need any other Reshade shaders

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Especially when Reno can target in-game ones

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I have only felt the need for additional ones with FF14 and WH3

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 6:38 PM

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@bleak bronze wanted to ask what are you using to generate for HLSL?

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I saw the mention of Michealsoft's HLSL compilier

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Someone over at the WH3 server asked me how we're extracting HLSL code for the game

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since what they tried didnt work for them

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They were wanting to take a look at TW : 3 Kingdoms

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and whatever they were doing wasnt working

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Right, nothing else that's special?

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cool

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ty

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 8:40 PM

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Native SSAO has dither, stripping, noise, GIGA power, radius AND crushes black levels

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Glamarye costs the same about the same as native SSAO

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Mxao is about twice as expensive with bitmask

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 9:15 PM

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It's alright, works with scRGB and I can use REST to render before UI

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It's not the 'best' as it stated on the github

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But it is fast

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Anything is better than native SSAO at this point

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Yh, try it out and let me know what you think

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For vanilla lighting 80 highlights will be too much I think

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Decrease it to 65

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For the modded lighting mods I am using, the changes made, really limit highlights so I run 75

granite rampart Sep 27, 2025, 9:25 PM

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probably better to build a specific addon that tells renodx what to do (skip/bypass, etc)

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if you have an implementation/strategy you want i can look into porting that concept

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 9:30 PM

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I also asked and tried to see if anyone from various WH3 community modding servers would be interested in improving various graphical elements of the game, DLSS implementation that sort of thing

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No one stepped up

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But everyone is wanting to see the project

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I'll share Reno soon

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Will start taking a look at Luma for DLSS

granite rampart Sep 27, 2025, 9:38 PM

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you can set reshade effect to run whenever, it's not that complicated

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you can do on_drawn and tell reshade to run with the current rtv and that's free on all device apis

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if you want to do by shader hash

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making a list of what effects is where it gets semi-complicated

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though i guess you can just have like a json: ```json
"0x1234567c": [
"shader1.fx",
"shader2.fx",
]

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you can modify the callbacks on every present, and it would be thread safe

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yeah, i think most of it is there already

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let me see if it's local or in devicedata

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but i can resync via flag on device data on every present (if device_data->custom_shaders_dirty ...)

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yeah, if you want renodx to not tonemap, that's easy as well

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or just not replace the shader

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depends of course

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you might want to modify the untonemapped image with an external and then let renodx tonemap

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so you want on_draw which is before the custom renodx shader runs, and not on_drawn which is after

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dx11, easy. dx12, i'm not sure on reshade's state tracking to revert when a set of fx are done

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 9:45 PM

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so so

granite rampart Sep 27, 2025, 9:45 PM

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not too well

tepid imp Sep 27, 2025, 9:45 PM

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it isnt officially supported

granite rampart Sep 27, 2025, 10:59 PM

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you might want to modify the untonemapped image with an external and then let renodx tonemap

depending on context, you may want to run it before renodx tonemap, after renodx tonemap, or instead of renodx tonemap (since renodx tonemap is usually neutral). on_draw and on_drawn are all you need for the three case (return false on_draw to bypass draw)

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None already does that

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Tonemapper None

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0 = vanilla, 1 = none, 2 = aces, 3 = renodrt

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You have what you need already if you're going to hardcode. I meant to support user defined json like rest has inis

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bool OnCustomGammaDrawn(reshade::api::command_list* cmd_list) {
  if (!UsingSwapchainUtil()) return true;
  if (current_render_reshade_before_ui == 0.f) return true;

  auto* cmd_list_data = renodx::utils::data::Get<renodx::utils::swapchain::CommandListData>(cmd_list);
  if (cmd_list_data == nullptr) return true;
  if (cmd_list_data->current_render_targets.empty()) return true;

  auto rtv0 = cmd_list_data->current_render_targets[0];
  if (rtv0.handle == 0) return true;
  if (UsingSwapchainUpgrade()) {
    auto* info = renodx::utils::resource::GetResourceViewInfo(rtv0);
    if (info->clone.handle != 0u) {
      rtv0 = info->clone;
    }
  }

  auto* data = renodx::utils::data::Get<renodx::utils::swapchain::DeviceData>(cmd_list->get_device());
  if (data == nullptr) return true;
  const std::shared_lock lock(data->mutex);
  for (auto* runtime : data->effect_runtimes) {
    runtime->render_effects(cmd_list, rtv0, rtv0);
  }

  return true;
}

this is what oblivion does, which is callback based on shader hash

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for (auto* runtime : data->effect_runtimes) {
    runtime->render_effects(cmd_list, rtv0, rtv0);
  }

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you'd have to

save the current state of what effects are activated
disable them
activate the ones you want (with possible options)
call render_effects on all runtimes with the rtv0
revert fx state

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// Custom Gamma
{
    0x70EB957B,
    {
        .crc32 = 0x70EB957B,
        .code = __0x70EB957B,
        .on_drawn = &OnCustomGammaDrawn,
    },
},

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.code is optional

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that should be just a macro, but yeah

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there are some examples that crosire made about effects but it looks overly complex

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https://github.com/crosire/reshade/blob/main/examples/13-effects_during_frame/effects_during_frame_addon.cpp
https://github.com/crosire/reshade/blob/main/examples/03-history_window/history_window_addon.cpp

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idk if you can "GetCurrentTechniques()" or have to track their toggling on and off and store state

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it's probably more optimal to not have to iterate a list every frame and instead keep a list of reshade::addon_event::reshade_set_technique_state changes

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i think you can almost completely copy https://github.com/crosire/reshade/blob/main/examples/03-history_window/history_window_addon.cpp

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yeah, you can begin testing with that

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reshade will not run at end of swapchain if you ever call render_effects once per frame (there might be a reset somewhere)

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that's why i wrote it for oblivion, so people can run their custom reshades behind the UI

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should probably be more standard practice to be honest

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it's kinda free

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rtvs are always tracked by renodx

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i originally built None so people can bring their own tonemapping, though that ended up to some confusion on users

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oblivion has that so i can know if a lut builder has been run and the game needs a pause/lut-rebuild

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{
  new renodx::utils::settings::Setting{
      .value_type = renodx::utils::settings::SettingValueType::TEXT,
      .label = "Pause and unpause the game to apply changes.",
      .tint = 0xFF0000,
      .is_visible = []() {
        return lut_invalidation_level == 2
               || (shader_injection.custom_lut_optimization == 1.f && lut_invalidation_level != 0);
      },
      .is_sticky = true,
  },
},

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and ```cpp
bool OnLutBuilderReplace(reshade::api::command_list* cmd_list) {
lut_invalidation_level = 0;
return true;
}

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so when lutbuilder runs, clears invalidation level

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could be a macro CustomShaderReplaceAndEffects({crc32})

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CustomShaderReplaceAndEffects({crc32}, rtv_slot_number)

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as a single value, as a list or just default empty to be 0

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though it's almost always 0

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you can mix with __ALL_CUSTOM_SHADERS

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c++ is just backwards compared to other languages

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renodx::mods::shader::CustomShaders custom_shaders = {
    CustomShaderEntryCallback(0x4A0DBF57, &OnLutBuilderReplace),
    CustomShaderEntryCallback(0x50F22BD6, &OnLutBuilderReplace),
    CustomShaderEntryCallback(0x0649A5D1, &OnLutBuilderReplace),
    CustomShaderEntryCallback(0x773A9497, &OnLutBuilderReplace),
    CustomShaderEntryCallback(0xF9332C83, &OnLutBuilderReplace),
    __ALL_CUSTOM_SHADERS};

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it's a map, so no

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c++ will honor the first entry

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most languages honor the last

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yeah, you want in ascending priority ```cpp
renodx::mods::shader::CustomShaders custom_shaders = {
{
PAUSE_MENU_PIXEL_SHADER,
{
.crc32 = PAUSE_MENU_PIXEL_SHADER,
.on_draw = [](auto* cmd_list) { return g_draw_pause_menu; },
},
},
CustomSwapchainShader(0x20133A8B),
__ALL_CUSTOM_SHADERS,
};

this is hollowknight

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0x20133A8B is part of __ALL_CUSTOM_SHADERS already

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very very confusing since javascript/json isn't like that

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yeah, i had planned to do __ALL_OTHER_CUSTOM_SHADERS based on folder name

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it's in the cmake

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basically make another rule based on folder

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if(ANY_VERSION_SHADERS_LENGTH GREATER 0 OR DX11_DX12_INTERSECT_LENGTH GREATER 0)
  string(APPEND SHADERS_H_OUTPUT "#define __ALL_CUSTOM_SHADERS \\\n")
  if(ANY_VERSION_SHADERS_LENGTH GREATER 0 AND DX11_DX12_INTERSECT_LENGTH GREATER 0)
    string(APPEND SHADERS_H_OUTPUT "  __CUSTOM_SHADER_ENTRIES, \\\n  __CUSTOM_DIRECTX_SHADERS\n")
  elseif(ANY_VERSION_SHADERS_LENGTH GREATER 0)
    string(APPEND SHADERS_H_OUTPUT "  __CUSTOM_SHADER_ENTRIES\n")
  elseif(DX11_DX12_INTERSECT_LENGTH GREATER 0)
    string(APPEND SHADERS_H_OUTPUT "  __CUSTOM_DIRECTX_SHADERS\n")
  endif()
endif()

the macro definition is via cmake

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cmake is built for that, really, though cmake syntax takes a bit to get used to. unless you just throw AI at it

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it does already

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except for folders that start with "."

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just can't do it right now, but adding per folder macros for shaders is probably a 10 minute AI job

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can you modify SHADERS_H_OUTPUT to add a macro for each subfolder of shaders, for example, if src/games/tunic/lut/lut_shader1.0x11111111.ps_6_0.hlsl and src/games/tunic/lut/lut_shader2.0x22222222.ps_6_0.hlsl exists, then you should make a macro called __CUSTOM_SHADER_FOLDER_LUT that contains both of them. look at how they're built now and also cross reference with build\tunic.include\embed\shaders.h to see how it works.

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let's see what it does

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time to take a walk

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i guess i didn't consider you may want some secondary macro for them

granite rampart Sep 28, 2025, 12:27 AM

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i didn't test sub-subfolders, but this would be enough for oblivionremastered

granite rampart Sep 28, 2025, 2:48 AM

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DX11 or DX 12? DX12 is expensive. If it's DX11 then Batman AK does UAV0. I think it may have srv0 (t0). I basically copy pasted how DevKit works with tracking srvs

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The key is here

https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/blob/56f77860252fd847d9799c9fe659f226d4a7d65c/src/games/batmanak/addon.cpp#L433

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devkit will tell you what slot SRVs are in

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the log

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bool OnToneMapDraw(reshade::api::command_list* cmd_list) {
  reshade::api::resource_view current_uav0 = {g_current_uav0};
  auto* resource_view_info = renodx::utils::resource::GetResourceViewInfo(current_uav0);
  if (resource_view_info->resource_info == nullptr) return true;
  if (resource_view_info->resource_info->clone_enabled) return true;
  resource_view_info->resource_info->clone_enabled = true;
  renodx::mods::swapchain::FlushDescriptors(cmd_list);  // Not implemented yet, will fix next draw
  return true;
}

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the link i sent shows how it stores g_current_uav0 , then the callback uses it

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but you want to change 433 to not filter by uav, but by srv (t0)

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batman uses u0

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layout_param is not 3 though, i need to look it up

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reshade sends an event when a game tries to write the UAV/SRV and an update to a (virtual in dx11) descriptor table

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so when a SRV is written in slot 0 to the virtual descriptor table, that's the current SRV0

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you need a secondary event to track when SRVs (and SRV0) is slotted

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batman is an example of UAV0, but not SRV0, though the concept is mostly the same

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hence, batman has reshade::register_event<reshade::addon_event::push_descriptors>(OnPushDescriptors); to track when descriptor changes (SRV/UAV/Cbuffer) occur

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you don't read back what's on the current descriptor table, you rely on a previous capture/hook to tell you how it was updated

tepid imp Sep 28, 2025, 10:30 PM

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Going to have to deboog this

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Happens at random

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but seems to proc more often when a battle has started and you zoom in close to character models

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wondering if some shader is borking up, blood maybe?

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Will remove REST and disable the rest of the reshade shaders to see if theyre at fault

tepid imp Oct 10, 2025, 10:46 PM

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Caused by 'Camera Blood Splatter' - video settings option

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I also started work on TW : Three Kingdoms addon

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Output shader is very close to the one in WH3 just some slight differences here and there

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📎 0xB51922BC.ps_5_0.hlsl

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What's strange is they're doing some sort of post output shader bloom

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which is why the 'SDR' pic on the left is already showing HDR brightness (after resource upgrades)

tepid imp Oct 10, 2025, 11:21 PM

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Also is this the latest output shader and the one used in the addon atm?https://github.com/pmnoxx/renodx/blob/main/src/games/_univ/games/total_warhammer3/uber_cand1_0x1EDCBE3A.ps_5_0.hlsl?

GitHub

renodx/src/games/_univ/games/total_warhammer3/uber_cand1_0x1EDCBE3A...

Renovation Engine for DirectX Games. Contribute to pmnoxx/renodx development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I noticed with Three Kingdoms that If I placed float3 untonemapped in a similar place as what you did for WH3, a lot of areas where being clamped to 203nits

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If I moved it here, the game unclamps more

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but I dont know if theres shenanigans involved which you picked up on

tepid imp Oct 10, 2025, 11:40 PM

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OK

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I moved the float3 untonemapped for WH3 to the same position as what I did for 3K

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it unclamps way more

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to the point I no longer have to do 70 highlights in reno menu

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let me post a comparison

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Also stopped some weird ass LUT shadow colouring from going on

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SDR / Previous / Moved untonemapped code

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Taken with reno default settings

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@bleak bronze when you have time

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Previous / Moved untonemapped

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tepid imp Oct 11, 2025, 12:31 AM

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sweet

tepid imp Oct 11, 2025, 12:48 AM

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Game is looking really nice now

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I turned off the blood screen stains

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stopped that giga fried texture from appearing

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i think its some alpha shenanigans

atomic latch Oct 14, 2025, 12:15 PM

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New Nvidia driver (581.57):

FIXED Total War: Warhammer III: Graphics corruption [5363634]

tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 10:13 PM

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I've been taking a look at wtf is going on with this game's shadowing

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Luma isnt loading for some reason but Pumbo mentioned he'll have a look

granite rampart Oct 19, 2025, 10:14 PM

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shadows: yes

tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 10:14 PM

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for the moment I suspect

The lighting pass samples the wrong texel for the shadow mask
The material flag that enables per-pixel shadowing may be getting cleared
Geometry that should cast near-camera shadows can be discarded outright

tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 10:15 PM

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tepid imp

How da fuk do we have more shadows further away compared to being closer to the camera

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tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 10:16 PM

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tepid imp

Also luv the ground mesh for the mountain being elevated on the left

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so you can see the seem gaps

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Yes

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I am going to also set up luma (assuming we can figure out why it is currently hanging on launch)

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for future DLSS

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I think i've captured all the relevant shader for their shadow processing

tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 11:04 PM

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@granite rampart Can decompiler mess up the code? I ask since I've had a few times were loading a shader (unmodified fresh from decompilier via devkit) would result in an error reported

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Otherwise if that isnt the case

granite rampart Oct 19, 2025, 11:05 PM

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tepid imp for future DLSS

DLSS is like 30 lines of code, the problem is getting the motion vectors and matrixes

tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 11:05 PM

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tepid imp Otherwise if that isnt the case

I found a them doing divide by zero in their code just now (3 times)

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pepeRageDistorted

granite rampart Oct 19, 2025, 11:05 PM

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tepid imp <@115289688037785602> Can decompiler mess up the code? I ask since I've had a fe...

what code?

tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 11:06 PM

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shader decompilation

granite rampart Oct 19, 2025, 11:06 PM

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i mean, sure?

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3dmigoto at least messes up a lot

tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 11:07 PM

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granite rampart DLSS is like 30 lines of code, the problem is getting the motion vectors and mat...

They have all of those, alongside already trying to implement DLSS

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but they gave up or whatever

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maybe ran into some major bug

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I just saw the overly negative reviews

granite rampart Oct 19, 2025, 11:10 PM

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dlss needs:

resource in
resource out
motion vector resource
depth resource
jitter offsets

dlssg needs

everything from dlss
matrix and camera position

tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 11:10 PM

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Dunno what happened

granite rampart Oct 19, 2025, 11:11 PM

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if you have a TAA shader, then you probably already have resource in and resource out. depth is easy to find, reshade does that for you, motion vector isn't if it doesn't exist, jitter is from cbuffers maybe

tepid imp Oct 19, 2025, 11:12 PM

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so a typical CA / player relationship pepe_omegakek

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I desperately need another studio to make Total war style RTS games

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WH40K? susge maybe?

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did mention one historical and one fantasy

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Good, so they'll finally stop updating

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and we can mod

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the updates + the way steam workshop works always messes up my modlist

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Only way around it is to recopy all downloaded mods into the games data directory

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and then reroll the update

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and pray it all works

tepid imp Oct 20, 2025, 1:02 AM

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I dunno, maybe I am getting somewhere... CSM related? Is the game just determining the split distances really badly?

The shader threw a decompilier induced error

r5.x = g_split_distances[r0.y + 2] + -g_split_distances[r0.y];
r5.y = g_fFadeRange.x * r5.x;
r0.y = -r5.x * g_fFadeRange.x + g_split_distances[r0.y + 2];
r0.y = r0.x + -r0.y;
r0.y = saturate(r0.y / r5.y);
r2.w = r2.w + -r1.z;
r1.z = r0.y * r2.w + r1.z;``` 

This section had g_split_distances[r0.y + 36] instead because the constant buffer was using 36 (caused an out of array error)

@bleak bronze

📎 0x97978286.ps_5_0.hlsl

tepid imp Oct 20, 2025, 6:05 AM

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I haven't finished debugging it

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I slightly improved it but it still has a ton of shadow pop-in

tepid imp Oct 20, 2025, 7:51 AM

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Hmm just remembered that I haven't adjusted the 0x0921 shadow_draw shader you sent me

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 12:03 AM

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I fixed the shadows

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by removing them entirely pepeRageDistorted

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I cant quite figure out what type of mess they've made here

slate ingot Oct 21, 2025, 12:47 AM

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tepid imp by removing them entirely <:pepeRageDistorted:1420896802470887535>

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 10:26 AM

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Maybe? I still suspect that their CSM's are borked somehow.

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Let me send you the vid

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So in the beginning this area has shadows for the mountains

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I can move the camera around, up/down and the shadows stay

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Once I moved a far distance away from that initial area and then return back

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Now the CSM is all borked

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 10:29 AM

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tepid imp I dunno, maybe I am getting somewhere... CSM related? Is the game just determini...

Anything other than 2 or 3 for g_split distance ends up with borked CSMs

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In Luma the CS shader you sent me and 0x9797 ps I sent here control the CSMs

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Undrawing them removes shadows entirely

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Yes boohoo

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Been a bug since release

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So at least it is consistent

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That's the otherthing

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I had a look at their other shaders

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But I think it was just decompiler shenanigans

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I had issues with regular ps

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Got hit with 3 instances of divide by zero

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This is after I decompiled the game's lighting shader

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🤷‍♂️

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I am going to say decompiler

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Since otherwise in-game shader wouldn't load with divide by zero?

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And lighting would be missing / borked

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 11:58 AM

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Coming back to this, I patched MXAO to work with HDR and wanted to go down the 'I just provide instructions on how to do a patch).

However CreepySasquatch pointed out that he did the same with Marty's RTGI shader for his 'HDR guide'

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Marty and some other reshade shader devs were not happy

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So legally I can but then I'd sour relations

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Is Reno's REST like feature setup to work for WH3 already?

granite rampart Oct 21, 2025, 12:04 PM

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There are other AOs

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 12:05 PM

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I personally think it's bizarre 🤷‍♂️ but Marty has had his code stolen a trillion times

granite rampart Oct 21, 2025, 12:05 PM

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Intel's is supposed to be good

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https://github.com/gametechdev/XeGTAO

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 12:08 PM

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Marty implemented his own version of xeGTAO with bitmask support

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Yh I think making a Reshade port of xeGTAO would be good with HDR support

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But then Luma also has GTAO

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That or I just patch another AO shader to support HDR and said author will not mind

granite rampart Oct 21, 2025, 12:10 PM

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I'd start with making a reshade shader. Copilot will probably build for you in an hour or less. I have a test pattern in my repo. So it can keep trying until it compiles

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XeGTAO is one file. Not that long. You just need access to the textures

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 12:11 PM

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What if we just packaged the AO shader with Reno? To replace games AO

granite rampart Oct 21, 2025, 12:11 PM

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This looks way cleaner than the CAS nonsense

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If the game has an AO pass, just replace it.

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 12:11 PM

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Because in-game AO is diabolical

granite rampart Oct 21, 2025, 12:11 PM

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I've just never done it. No reason why you can't.

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 12:12 PM

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Now I have another objective

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On top of figuring out these damn shadows

granite rampart Oct 21, 2025, 12:13 PM

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I remember sleeping dogs have the AO shader. Could have replaced it but don't know jack about rendering order.

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Not sure how AO works, but I'd imagine it's a hot swap

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 6:18 PM

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NOOOOO

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I found 4 shaders associated with SSAO

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3 are Compute

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last one is a pixel shader

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The thing is pure wtf

slate ingot Oct 21, 2025, 6:19 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/skill-issue-urge-resist-cat-gif-25536160

Tenor

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 6:20 PM

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Some legit SSAO

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KMS

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I have no idea why it isnt showing the full g-buffer

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2/3 only

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🤷‍♂️

tepid imp Oct 21, 2025, 9:07 PM

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fullscreen under reno devkit 🤷‍♂️

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I found their ssao-ray-marcher CS, ofc its messed up by decompiler

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dunno how we'll replace AO considering CS is being a PITA

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back to just doing xegtao via reshade, disabling in-game SSAO then letting it draw before volumetrics with reno

barren patio Oct 22, 2025, 11:14 PM

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Sorry I'm being an absolute tool, but how do I actually install this? I've only ever used the regular renodx install method.

tepid imp Oct 22, 2025, 11:23 PM

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barren patio Sorry I'm being an absolute tool, but how do I actually install this? I've only ...

#1421110516914327643 message grab this

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plop it into the WH3 directory

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I can edit the page right now

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unless you want to add the snapshot as well?

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I will link to discord in the meanwhile

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Added

barren patio Oct 23, 2025, 8:12 AM

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tepid imp plop it into the WH3 directory

Thank you 🙏

barren patio Oct 23, 2025, 8:13 AM

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tepid imp https://discord.com/channels/1408098019194310818/1421110516914327643/14263634111...

And I don’t need to install reshade? Just place the add on file into the WH3 directory?

tepid imp Oct 23, 2025, 8:14 AM

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RenoDX add-ons work by utilising reshade's .addon feature

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Reshade is a requirement for every mod

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You have to have the reshade .dll that supports addons

barren patio Oct 23, 2025, 8:16 AM

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tepid imp RenoDX add-ons work by utilising reshade's .addon feature

I see, I’ve installed Reno correctly for The Witcher 3 in the past but wasn’t sure if this was different. I tried it last night and the game was just black, all I could see was the Warhammer cursor, and I could hear the main menu music. That’s why I thought there might be an additional step for this mod

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I’ll try again in a bit

tepid imp Oct 23, 2025, 8:18 AM

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Resource upgrades should be handled automatically

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In-game sharpening shouldn't be used

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So turn that off

tepid imp Oct 23, 2025, 10:34 AM

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@bleak bronze

I asked around and was told that Alexander has given MIT license for his ported xeGTAO (with bitmask visibility) https://github.com/4lex4nder/ReshadeEffectShaderToggler-FFXIV?tab=readme-ov-file

Just need to adapt it for other games

GitHub

GitHub - 4lex4nder/ReshadeEffectShaderToggler-FFXIV: FFXIV specific...

FFXIV specific ReshadeEffectShaderToggler configuration - 4lex4nder/ReshadeEffectShaderToggler-FFXIV

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Also

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WH3 has the same 4 suns lens flares as in three kingdoms

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One of them you already marked for RTV

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Problem is that all 4 run after tonemapping / output

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So they clip and overshoot peak brightness

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Voosh mentioned they're using blend plus but I haven't yet figured out how to solve this problem

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Only relevant when looking at the sun but I thought I'd ask in case you have any solution? I could then implement it into 3K as well (since the code is similar)

tepid imp Oct 23, 2025, 10:59 AM

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Yh I am fine with just disabling in-game AO and injecting it after using Reno.

Their SSAO is built up via multiple compute shaders and #skillissue on my part atm so I don't know how to do a full engine based replacement

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I already tested and have the shader hashes at which external AO via Reshade should be applied to render before fog, FX and such

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The messages with ShortFuse in this thread is all I need to follow to have Reno do REST's functionality?

granite rampart Oct 24, 2025, 11:55 AM

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Everything you need for a custom draw is easily possible with Reshade. You don't need custom stuff (DX commands)

https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/blob/b90bcdb493fddd1c347ee3ea38ee33bb4fdffec2/src/mods/swapchain.hpp#L1075

Swapchain proxy draw is an example of injecting a pass somewhere and reverting the state back. So you can do it anywhere

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For sure, but doing in RenoDX is not anything too difficult

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I'm more worried state tracking has performance repercussions, but no other way to really do it.

Save current state (cbuffers, samplers, srvs, render targets, cbuffers,
Make your bindings
Draw
Repeat bindings and draws as needed
Revert state

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And you have it

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Swapchain proxy pass

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Click the link first

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I'm talking about slipping in a pass in a general sense.

tepid imp Oct 24, 2025, 12:04 PM

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Yh, I've finished up on Three Kingdoms add-on (outside of any reported bugs)

I can take a look at this whole thing now

granite rampart Oct 24, 2025, 12:08 PM

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Swapchain proxy needs:

Sampler (built in first call)
SRV (swapchain clone)
RTV (real swapchain)
Pixel shader (addon.cpp sets this)
Vertex shader (addon.cpp sets this)
Cbuffer slot and space (addon.cpp sets this)
Cbuffer values (addon.cpp sets this)
Viewport (built every draw)
Scissors (built every draw)
The command list to run on (uses present queue's)

The annoying part is building the descriptor table, but that is built once

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yeah, those are srvs. You can catch srvs by when a pixel runs with on_draw. The most annoying is reading cbuffer values.

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There's a reshade fx way of doing things and a reshade addon way of doing things. Reshade FX have samplers and others built into the .fx. because ReShade fx is a custom shader language that also includes setting up srvs and cbuffers inside the shader file itself.

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Can also interact with addons that tag resources for you (eg: depth)

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That's not really just a "shader"

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What I mean is the shader portion is just one part:

texture2D g_srcNDCDepth : DEPTH;
sampler2D g_sSrcNDCDepth { Texture = g_srcNDCDepth; MagFilter = POINT; MinFilter = POINT; MipFilter = POINT; };

texture2D g_srcWorkingDepth
{
    Width = BUFFER_WIDTH;
    Height = BUFFER_HEIGHT;
    MipLevels = XE_GTAO_DEPTH_MIP_LEVELS;
    Format = R32F;
};

storage2D g_outWorkingDepthMIP0 { Texture = g_srcWorkingDepth; MipLevel = 0; };
storage2D g_outWorkingDepthMIP1 { Texture = g_srcWorkingDepth; MipLevel = 1; };
storage2D g_outWorkingDepthMIP2 { Texture = g_srcWorkingDepth; MipLevel = 2; };
storage2D g_outWorkingDepthMIP3 { Texture = g_srcWorkingDepth; MipLevel = 3; };
storage2D g_outWorkingDepthMIP4 { Texture = g_srcWorkingDepth; MipLevel = 4; };
sampler2D g_sSrcWorkingDepth
{
    Texture = g_srcWorkingDepth;
    
#if XE_GTAO_RESOLUTION_SCALE <= 0
    MagFilter = POINT;
    MinFilter = POINT;
    MipFilter = POINT;
#endif
};

texture2D g_srcWorkingAOTerm
{
    Width = XE_GTAO_SCALED_BUFFER_WIDTH;
    Height = XE_GTAO_SCALED_BUFFER_HEIGHT;
    Format = R8;
};

storage2D g_outWorkingAOTerm { Texture = g_srcWorkingAOTerm; };
sampler2D g_sSrcWorkinAOTerm
{
    Texture = g_srcWorkingAOTerm;

#if XE_GTAO_RESOLUTION_SCALE <= 0
    MagFilter = POINT;
    MinFilter = POINT;
    MipFilter = POINT;
#endif
};

texture2D g_srcFilteredOutput0
{
    Width = BUFFER_WIDTH;
    Height = BUFFER_HEIGHT;
    Format = R8;
};

sampler2D g_sSrcFilteredOutput0 {
    Texture = g_srcFilteredOutput0;

    MagFilter = POINT;
    MinFilter = POINT;
    MipFilter = POINT;
};

texture2D g_srcFilteredOutput1
{
    Width = BUFFER_WIDTH;
    Height = BUFFER_HEIGHT;
    Format = R8;
};

sampler2D g_sSrcFilteredOutput1
{
    Texture = g_srcFilteredOutput1;

    MagFilter = POINT;
    MinFilter = POINT;
    MipFilter = POINT;
};

texture2D g_srcCurNomals
{
    Width = BUFFER_WIDTH;
    Height = BUFFER_HEIGHT;
    Format = RGBA8;
};

sampler2D g_sSrcCurNomals
{
    Texture = g_srcCurNomals;

    MagFilter = POINT;
    MinFilter = POINT;
    MipFilter = POINT;
};

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All of that is dynamically generated by ReShade

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As an RTV it's not hard. But when you want to mix other aspects like cbuffers it gets complicated. Swapchain proxy started as a reshade fx

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Then got complicating syncing states and ended up being "native" pass

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Setting a simple RTV is easy. Oblivion remastered does it

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https://github.com/clshortfuse/renodx/blob/b90bcdb493fddd1c347ee3ea38ee33bb4fdffec2/src/games/oblivionremastered/addon.cpp#L83

plush niche Nov 4, 2025, 9:23 PM

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great timing for this mod now that its in the humble bundle

drifting wave Nov 28, 2025, 7:00 PM

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didnt convert the image but the portait is wacked

boreal reef Dec 4, 2025, 11:13 PM

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@bleak bronze @tepid imp what version is now considered latest? can you please provide a link to full package of WH3 addon with all the tweaks mentioned in this thread?

tepid imp Dec 4, 2025, 11:21 PM

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^

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I havent added my AO code

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nor have I yet fixed other game issues like the wrong CSM rendering on the main map

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Been playing other games and such

boreal reef Dec 4, 2025, 11:25 PM

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tepid imp ^

I'm using version 0.30 and it just shows black screen instead of main menu. Reshade UI works and addon enabled, but the game is black screen. any fix for this?

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btw WH3 was updated today to v7.0 with new DLC released as well - Tides of Torment

tepid imp Dec 4, 2025, 11:27 PM

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🤷‍♂️ update might have borked the addon

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@bleak bronze

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I could check when I finish up with POE addon

boreal reef Dec 4, 2025, 11:29 PM

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tepid imp <@437033745686724617>

please please fix it! the auto HDR is unbearable. colors are washed out and all over the place. Win 11 (updated) btw.

tepid imp Dec 4, 2025, 11:37 PM

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hhmm

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Just checked 7.0

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Werks on my end

boreal reef Dec 4, 2025, 11:51 PM

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tepid imp hhmm

please share your ini's, or better the whole Reshade installation from your WH3 folder including all files and addons. will try your settings.

tepid imp Dec 4, 2025, 11:53 PM

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📎 renodx-_univ.addon64 📎 ReShade.ini 📎 dxgi.dll

boreal reef Dec 5, 2025, 12:08 AM

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tepid imp

with your default settings it's still black screen, but changing SwapChainEncoding=5 to SwapChainEncoding=4 under [renodx] fixed it. any idea why it matters? thank you anyway.

tepid imp Dec 5, 2025, 12:11 AM

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5 is scRGB whilst 4 is HDR10 for the swapchain

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AMD GPU?

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There are some issues where AMD cant into some resource upgrades

boreal reef Dec 5, 2025, 12:14 AM

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tepid imp AMD GPU?

Nvidia 50 series, latest drivers

tepid imp Dec 5, 2025, 12:15 AM

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ummm

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Thats a first

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unless the new drivers broke something

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(I am not on them yet)

boreal reef Dec 5, 2025, 12:19 AM

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tepid imp ummm

I also get this strange effect where character model is too dark and transparent (background can be seen through model). is it a known issue?

tepid imp Dec 5, 2025, 12:22 AM

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yh, seems the 3D models for UI elements are borked

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Probably a resource upgrade that messed them up

boreal reef Dec 5, 2025, 12:30 AM

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hope it will be fixed some day...

tepid imp Dec 5, 2025, 12:32 AM

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circa 2035

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when I get around to adding DLSS

plush niche Dec 5, 2025, 10:17 AM

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tepid imp when I get around to adding DLSS

Please I beg you

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Game needs dlss so bad

boreal reef Dec 5, 2025, 10:21 AM

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tepid imp when I get around to adding DLSS

doesn't it require TAA for antialiasing? while RenoDX mod needs TAA to be disabled?

plush niche Dec 5, 2025, 10:23 AM

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Why would hdr need taa off

boreal reef Dec 5, 2025, 10:25 AM

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plush niche Game needs dlss so bad

please don't fall into all that nVidia marketing nonsense. DLSS is a simple resolution downsampling with sharpening filter added on top of it. when you switch from 4k to 2k resolution normally it basically acts as DLSS. there is resolution scaling slider in WH3 graphics settings that does the same and there is sharpening checkbox as well. never used DLSS anyway as it looks blurry at any setting, even with the new transformer model. having proper HDR in game adds much more value.

boreal reef Dec 5, 2025, 10:25 AM

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plush niche Why would hdr need taa off

why would you keep it on anyway? TAA turns any game into a blurry mess.

placid beacon Dec 6, 2025, 4:09 AM

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boreal reef I also get this strange effect where character model is too dark and transparent...

ive noticed this issue too esp on portholes

tepid imp Dec 6, 2025, 4:38 AM

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boreal reef doesn't it require TAA for antialiasing? while RenoDX mod needs TAA to be disabl...

That was just a mishap by Pmnox, the addon works with all AA

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just dont run AA off

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that'll break the mod

tepid imp Dec 6, 2025, 4:39 AM

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placid beacon ive noticed this issue too esp on portholes

I didnt notice it since I ran 2D port

placid beacon Dec 6, 2025, 4:40 AM

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ah fair

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2d ports do look better tho ngl

boreal reef Dec 6, 2025, 10:35 AM

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tepid imp just dont run AA off

I run it with AA off. the only issue is the character porthole being dark/transparent, but other users report it as well. there is no good AA since they removed 2x-8x MSAA in WH3. FXAA/TAA are blurry AF.

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games are literally unplayable with TAA. there is whole community dedicated to disabling TAA with any possible means via mods/config edits/custom DLSS libraries even if game doesn't support it natively. such communities exist for a reason: https://reddit.com/r/FuckTAA/

F*ck (Forced) Temporal Anti-Aliasing

Subreddit focused on the over-reliance of blurry temporally-based algorithms that are plaguing modern video game graphics. Such as TAA, TAAU, TSR, DLSS, FSR, XeSS and more.

drifting wave Dec 6, 2025, 7:16 PM

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@tepid imp

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Do you have the settings for REST?

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ingame AO is a mess

tepid imp Dec 6, 2025, 7:17 PM

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📎 ReshadeEffectShaderToggler.ini

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Modified MXAO to work with HDR

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yes vanilla SSAO is garbage

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I dont know if 7.0 has changed shader hashes though

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so the .ini might or might not work

placid beacon Dec 7, 2025, 4:03 AM

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tepid imp yes vanilla SSAO is garbage

im ngl, it auto turns off everytime i relaunch it so i dont even notice its gone lol

placid beacon Dec 8, 2025, 4:00 PM

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tepid imp Modified MXAO to work with HDR

btw is that immerse MXAO?

tepid imp Dec 8, 2025, 4:04 PM

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yes

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I cant shared it though

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MXAO by default doesnt support HDR, you'll get all sorts of artefacts on the screen

placid beacon Dec 8, 2025, 4:16 PM

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how do i actually fix the artifacts?

tepid imp Dec 8, 2025, 4:32 PM

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You'll have to modify the shader

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Use AIslop to help you in VS code if you dont know how to code

placid beacon Dec 8, 2025, 4:41 PM

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oh ok, do i just need to change the color formats mainly?

tepid imp Dec 8, 2025, 4:49 PM

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If I remember correctly

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the shader did some SDR shaping towards the end, you just need to modify it to output linear e.g remove the shaping and just output as is

placid beacon Dec 8, 2025, 5:00 PM

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tepid imp the shader did some SDR shaping towards the end, you just need to modify it to o...

thanks, got it working now (chatgpt narrowed that down immediately) when i specified exactly that

placid beacon Dec 17, 2025, 1:41 AM

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found something kinda interesting, https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3039004186&searchtext=portholes this mod actually fixes some of the porthole bugs but theres still a few where it looks like the backgrounds are being rendered over the characters with some transparency but its certainly interesting

Steam Workshop::3D Porthole Lighting Fix

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instead of the 3d porthole just being all black on the character

leaden harness Dec 19, 2025, 8:42 AM

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Hi everyone
I am new here

Planning to install RenoDX for making screenshot art in TW3

I’ve read up there that you guys could make it work even with immerse MXAO?
That’s awesome 👍

Hope to learn a lot from you all

tepid imp Dec 19, 2025, 2:56 PM

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tepid imp Use AIslop to help you in VS code if you dont know how to code

tepid imp Dec 19, 2025, 2:56 PM

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tepid imp the shader did some SDR shaping towards the end, you just need to modify it to o...

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@leaden harness

leaden harness Dec 19, 2025, 3:28 PM

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tepid imp <@1028247681811894343>

Thank you 🙏
I’m not yet at this step

First gonna install and discover RenoDX in WH3 and play with the settings with reshade
Then I’ll try what you guys wrote

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Will write here if I’m lost in something or asking advice

leaden harness Dec 19, 2025, 10:49 PM

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leaden harness Dec 19, 2025, 10:50 PM

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tepid imp

I installed these ones but it doesn’t seem to change something wether on and off like in the pictures I posted

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And I turned windows hdr off on the pictures
I tested with before same I don’t see changes

leaden harness Dec 19, 2025, 11:13 PM

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Nevermind for these weird black boxes it was blood splitting on camera, I disabled it

vagrant marsh Dec 22, 2025, 2:34 AM

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My game just hits a black screen at start up then crashes to desktop. Could be a me using proton issue but other renodx mods work fine. Reshade works fine it only crashes when using the mod. I noticed the reshade log shows this as the last log

13:31:17:218 [  604] | INFO  | [RenoDX] mods::swapchain::OnCreateSwapchain(swap: r8g8b8a8_unorm => r10g10b10a2_unorm, present mode:0x4 => 0x4, present flag:0x800 => 0x800, buffers:2 => 2, width: 2560, height: 1440)

placid beacon Dec 22, 2025, 4:59 AM

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is TAA on or off?

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ive noticed for my game atleast that depth buffer reversed is incorrect but im not sure why tbh

vagrant marsh Dec 22, 2025, 7:32 AM

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placid beacon is TAA on or off?

I do not think it was a reply to me haha, but I have it off

placid beacon Dec 22, 2025, 8:51 AM

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ive had issues with it off, personally

vagrant marsh Dec 23, 2025, 8:18 AM

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I tried with both - same issue

placid beacon Dec 23, 2025, 9:11 AM

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vagrant marsh I tried with both - same issue

im not using linux with proton so im not 100% sure but are you using the weyland desktop or another one? its been a while since ive used linux so im not sure if HDR support was ever implemented fully, but IIRC the weyland desktop was the only one that had an implementation for it but IIRC it can be a bit funky

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might also be a driver side issue but i think weyland uses its own nvidia driver that has its own set of issues

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if you have a second GPU i would personally recommend using a kernel virtual machine to run windows natively alongside linux at the same time, it has a relatively small performance impact but it eliminates compatibility issues entirely

leaden harness Dec 23, 2025, 7:29 PM

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placid beacon thanks, got it working now (chatgpt narrowed that down immediately) when i speci...

Hi 👋🏻
Could you send me a screenshot on how you managed to get it to work with immerse mxao pls?

plush niche Dec 23, 2025, 11:46 PM

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someone add dlss to this game please

vagrant marsh Dec 26, 2025, 9:24 AM

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placid beacon im not using linux with proton so im not 100% sure but are you using the weyland...

Yep - I am. RenoDX is working fine in most if not all other games that support it for me.

opal cloak Dec 30, 2025, 8:34 PM

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Hello, sorry if I'm not in the right spot to ask a basic question, but Im tyring to get started with renoDX for warhammer 3. Do I need to implement any particular reshade tweaks, or do I just place the file in with the exe? can anyone point me in the direction of specific setup directions for warhammer 3?

tepid imp Dec 30, 2025, 8:40 PM

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opal cloak Hello, sorry if I'm not in the right spot to ask a basic question, but Im tyring...

You need the latest Reshade .dll that has addon support and the pinned reno addon here

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both are placed near the .exe

opal cloak Dec 30, 2025, 8:40 PM

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Got it, didmt realize it was that simple thanks

opal cloak Dec 31, 2025, 2:01 PM

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Just wanted to say thanks for working on this. I've been using RTX HDR and your mod does a significantly better job.

haughty lagoon Jan 27, 2026, 3:48 PM

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Are you guys just using the default preset?

next current Feb 3, 2026, 1:55 PM

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hello, is this works on warhammer spacemarine 2?

plush niche Feb 3, 2026, 1:56 PM

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next current hello, is this works on warhammer spacemarine 2?

no, completely different games and engines

next current Feb 3, 2026, 1:57 PM

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plush niche no, completely different games and engines

i see.. i tried this renodx https://www.nexusmods.com/warhammer40000spacemarine2/mods/207?tab=description but it wont works on gamepass version

Nexus Mods :: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

RenoDX - HDR - Tonemap - Color Grade

Rewrite of the grading pipeline to add HDR and controls for tonemapping, paper white, UI brightness, and color grading.

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any idea to get this run on gamepass?

plush niche Feb 3, 2026, 1:58 PM

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@next currentlooks like the thread for that one is over here https://discord.com/channels/1161035767917850784/1357350835851366616

next current Feb 3, 2026, 1:58 PM

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okay thank you

tepid imp Feb 23, 2026, 2:09 AM

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Reworking addon for TW:WH3

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They added saturate()s to the menus / UI of all things. Abysmally clips details that didnt even need to be clipped

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tepid imp Feb 23, 2026, 1:44 PM

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Working on fixing Worldmap shadows

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pure slop, I cant

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pepecry

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Static shadows / Next cascade

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But then the main shadows g-buffer doesnt show Next Cascade

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Cascade Index just harsh transitions

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Vanilla / Modified

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Ok we are getting there

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so vanilla is doing lerp(current_cascade, next_cascade, fade_weight) which only blends forward

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This causes previous shadow to disappear

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pepeBigBrain

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I did min(current, next) to solve this

leaden harness Feb 23, 2026, 1:56 PM

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You are our hero gigachad

tepid imp Feb 23, 2026, 1:57 PM

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Going to fix this sloppa then move on to xegtao

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since vanilla SSAO is complete ASS

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This shadow bug has been a thing since launch

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ts pmo 🥀

leaden harness Feb 23, 2026, 1:59 PM

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Can’t wait to try it

tepid imp Feb 23, 2026, 2:08 PM

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Fixed shadows

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https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-gif-5430850758035663288

Tenor

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Vanilla / Fixed

leaden harness Feb 23, 2026, 2:11 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/ai-sponge-moderators-ai-sponge-moderators-gif-2782168709508773407

Tenor

leaden harness Feb 23, 2026, 2:53 PM

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This game is beauty

leaden harness Feb 24, 2026, 12:51 PM

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@tepid imp do you think you will release the updated file this week?

tepid imp Feb 24, 2026, 12:52 PM

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So my shadow fix didnt fix

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kekpepehands

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Game uses some ass cheeks fustrum culling for camera

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You can move your camera and notice shadows appearing then disappearing

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zoom in and out, come back to the original spot and shadows work

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theres no rythmn to what causes the shadows to display properly or not

leaden harness Feb 24, 2026, 12:55 PM

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tepid imp zoom in and out, come back to the original spot and shadows work

Yep that’s true I noticed when taking screenshots, usually get better shadows when I just zoom in
If I don’t I found it to be less immersive

tepid imp Feb 24, 2026, 12:55 PM

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I rage quit after spending hours trying to debug

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I am working on updating POE 2 now

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I will return to WH3 later

leaden harness Feb 24, 2026, 12:57 PM

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Np
Still it’s beautiful
Not such a big deal although I’m always happy to try screenshots with the new improvements

Good luck when you come back at it 👍

verbal crane Feb 24, 2026, 2:03 PM

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leaden harness This game is beauty

What's your settings and slider?

leaden harness Feb 24, 2026, 2:18 PM

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verbal crane What's your settings and slider?

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All in game settings to max
4k resolution

And a bunch of mods also that changed map and visual quality of the game

leaden harness Feb 24, 2026, 6:19 PM

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tepid imp <@437033745686724617> all my screenshots here so far have been using this preset...

I was wondering you’re still using those settings with the actual addon ? Especially the 80 highlights with ultimate lighting mod

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I was just tweaking settings again to try getting a sweet spot

little fern May 1, 2026, 10:39 AM

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Hmm...

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I installed through RHI and didn't change anything besides, not sure what might be wrong

wide ridge May 12, 2026, 8:14 PM

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i have the same issue

little fern May 14, 2026, 9:47 PM

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sadge

pliant shadow May 15, 2026, 3:01 PM

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I'm having the same problem. I installed ReShade using ReShade_Setup_6.7.3_Addon.exe and then added the RenoDX file downloaded from GitHub via Snapshot to the game folder. I didn't change anything else, and the campaign and battle maps are completely black except for a few icons. Did I do something wrong, or is there something wrong with the RenoDX file?

golden pond May 16, 2026, 5:05 AM

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some update must have borked it, getting the same blackscreen

golden pond May 16, 2026, 7:04 AM

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To get rid of the black screen, turn off sharpening in the settings. HDR doesnt work however as a update capped it to sdr

little fern May 16, 2026, 11:34 AM

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Figured it was an update.

kindred pivot May 17, 2026, 12:34 PM

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Ahh will there be an update? Was so ready to play with Reno and damn it, just SDR it seems after few game updates

drifting wave May 17, 2026, 2:11 PM

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kindred pivot Ahh will there be an update? Was so ready to play with Reno and damn it, just SD...

Special-K HDR is tons better than SDR for this game

kindred pivot May 17, 2026, 2:12 PM

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drifting wave Special-K HDR is tons better than SDR for this game

need to check it out. do you know if it's better than RTX HDR?

drifting wave May 17, 2026, 2:15 PM

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General rule is to prioritize HDR in this order:

Renodx / Luma or Native HDR if its good.
Special-K
Reshade Inverse
RTX HDR & AutoHDR

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But honestly SK HDR looks amazing in this game

kindred pivot May 17, 2026, 2:20 PM

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Just tested, really great picture, many thanks

young ravine May 24, 2026, 2:26 AM

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Is there any great reshade/reno for ttw3 ?

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