Baldur's Gate 3

[amber stream]

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/15892

SDR / Old / New

[naive lichen]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-dolphin-animated-tears-gif-4624487

[old nacelle]

omg

[naive lichen]

midtones and shadows a bit brighter

[amber stream]

old / new

[naive lichen]

the fire looks cooked in the new version, no?

[amber stream]

I think I like it

turning down highlight saturation by a little would probably make it similar to before

fires in that calibration pic look different from what i'm seeing in game

[naive lichen]

maybe

i that calibration screen its way too pink

[amber stream]

i can make hue shifts stronger

made hue shifts stronger

[naive lichen]

better, though still there id say

do we get a slider for hue?

i have mad autism about flame hues since witcher 3

[amber stream]

guess I can add a slider for additional hue shifts

[naive lichen]

would be appreciated

[amber stream]

here's what I have for now

[shut valley]

Good. May I ask what are you aiming for with a rewrite? Just out of curiosity about how RenoDX modders work, what are their goals and why they never stop working.

[amber stream]

manually adjusting highlights to look better

making shadows a little cleaner

little too dark before and oversaturated

[naive lichen]

what tonemapper u using now

[amber stream]

neutwo by max channel

[naive lichen]

Mewtwo

[amber stream]

yes

[naive lichen]

weird evolution from termite spleen

[eternal radish]

It's just the White subpixel

[blissful ember]

Shadows get noticeably less crushed. It looks great ! Say, would you consider adding a bypass for AO ? So that people might avoid the REST struggle.😇 please ?

[naive lichen]

stfu

[blissful ember]

I hear ya. That's the first thing I obsessed on when first trying out renodx in witcher 3.

[amber stream]

If I can do it in like 5 minutes I’ll try to bypass ao

Don’t feel like putting in any more work than that

[blissful ember]

I understand. If it helps, there is already a BG3 specific REST preset. It is just atrociously painful to get working with latest versions of reshade/renodx since REST isn't super well maintained.

[amber stream]

Does the rest preset show shader hashes

It’ll be something like 0xAF7838E

[blissful ember]

Possibly ? If you snoop around in shader toggle groups, I'm pretty sur the concerned hashes are highlighted in the list.

https://github.com/4lex4nder/ReshadeEffectShaderToggler-BG3

Though if you want to be sure it works, you have to use the reshade version designated in preset's github page.

[amber stream]

updated

[eternal radish]

is dechroma supposed to be at 0 or 50

[amber stream]

0

[chilly token]

@amber stream hi, installing Reshade for BG3 is giving me some warning when I open the game launcher, have u encountered the same issue?

[naive lichen]

What warning

[chilly token]

I might get crashes cause of data Mismatch

[naive lichen]

Well makes sense, atleast if it means what I imagine it means… I suppose it sees that there’s files in the game folder that don’t belong there so it throws that message

Since it’s not matching what the folder is supposed to look like it says data mismatch but maybe I’m tripping

[chilly token]

I don't remember that happening before and because of Reshade working on a Shader level doesn't really make sense to me

But maybe I'm wrong

unless the Launcher just scans the folder

[spiral rampart]

correct, ignore it

better yet, use --skip-launcher

[chilly token]

Thank u

[kindred sedge]

When using Reno will the game recognize it to be in HDR? Its giving me Gamma correction instead of HDR calibrations and my colors look really funky?

[eternal radish]

ingame hdr is enabled ?

[kindred sedge]

No, thats what I'm asking, is it supposed to be? Since BG3's hdr sometimes works and sometimes doesnt I thought I'd use RenoDX but it doesn't seem to be giving me an hdr output

[eternal radish]

wdym bg3 hdr doesn't work sometimes ?

it's always enabled for me 🤔

for 99.9% of games with native HDR + RENODX mod, you have to keep ingame HDR enabled

[kindred sedge]

For whatever reason, when I load into the game I have the potential for a good looking hdr and a bad one. It's not something I know the cause for yet. Sometimes I load into the game and it looks like proper hdr and othertimes I load in and it looks washed out and grey but I still have the HDR calibration option. I have to crank my brightness all the way down and contrast all the way up in order for it too look reasonably good.

Right now the game is loading into a good looking hdr without Reshade enabled, but I dont know when or if it'll load into a worse looking hdr.

[eternal radish]

sounds like a conflict with either rtx hdr or autohdr, try disabling both for BG3

[kindred sedge]

Alright, I use rtx hdr for another game but I never endabled it for BG3 I'll check.

[eternal radish]

nvidia drivers have a bad habit of forcefully enabling global rtx hdr when you use it for a single game

[kindred sedge]

And what about the RenoDX issue where it starts in a SDR space?

also possibly rtx?

[eternal radish]

i don't rly understand how that can happen ? is this on BG3 or other games ?

probably just RTX HDR double tonemapping the image yeah

just think of bg3 HDR and bg3 renodx hdr to be the same thing internally

any washhed out look would be due to external factors

[kindred sedge]

Only BG3. I used this or a fork of it for Call of Duty and it looks amazing, never had an issue, but im pretty sure that game doesnt have native HDR.

[kindred sedge]

I see, I'll take a look.

[kindred sedge]

So is Renodx mostly just for when you are like on vulkan or something?

[eternal radish]

no

the mod is only for dx11 mode

it fixes the native hdr to be closer to SDR

color wise

and gives you accurate sliders to tonemap the image

[kindred sedge]

I see, so it's basically so you can color correct the game in HDR mode?

[eternal radish]

yeah it fixes the native HDR pipeline

[kindred sedge]

I see, well I have my game loaded now, RTX hdr was indeed on, it looks waay different now, but the ui no longer looks blown out and my colors pop once again so I can fiddle with this from here. Thank you for your help!

[spiral rampart]

@kindred sedge 99.9% of the time when you use renodx you must turn on the ingame HDR for it to work

[kindred sedge]

Sorry for the late reply. I came back to boot up BG3 and see if I can screenshot what I mean but this time it did boot up with hdr ON. Not sure what changed if anything. Maybe there is a toggle ingame that I might be missing and that can force one mode or the other, kinda annoying to hope and pray it just works when I load the game.

[amber stream]

game has no toggle, it just forces hdr on if you have hdr enabled in windows

[eternal radish]

@amber stream some highlights in the game has a super saturated center (like on the left here) so you know why ?

[amber stream]

I literally can't see it on my display

[eternal radish]

huh

[amber stream]

its just yellow to me

[eternal radish]

this one of the left ?

dafuq

i can see it on my ips

[amber stream]

i mean

its yellow

I see yellow

[eternal radish]

it's yellow red yellow

[amber stream]

oh do you mean its not blowing out

oh

[eternal radish]

ya it's not uniform

[amber stream]

i thought you drew a circle in a program

[eternal radish]

a lot of effects do the same

lol no

i mean

not a lot

some cutscenes

they go so fast i don't have time to toggle off reno to test

[amber stream]

maybe the way I'm boosting saturation

guess I can rewrite

[eternal radish]

dechroma isn't supposeod to be at 50 righttttt ? 🐒

[amber stream]

i default to 0

[naive lichen]

3000 nit yellows!!!

[eternal radish]

reno off / reno on

so the issue exists in vanilla too

i mean i didn't uninstall reno tho

it's just more saturated with reno

[amber stream]

I gotta try the bleaching stuff in this game

[eternal radish]

yeah it's present in vanill also

[eternal radish]

@strange lantern

remind me ur

bg3 mods

🐒

[strange lantern]

for?

[eternal radish]

everything u said aboot

broken stuff

[strange lantern]

oh... I use a Wabbajack

Listonomicon

A dev on my team works on it

but thats more of a full game overhaul type deal

[eternal radish]

don't skyblim me bruv gimme to good

the important stuff

the voice mod

and the idk mod

i already have a pack

[strange lantern]

Gosh has a shadow mod

[eternal radish]

a what now

[strange lantern]

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/17611

lights are now shadowcasting

stops light leak through walls

grass casts shadows

[eternal radish]

holy shit wallsobg dcorrupted everyone

i already got it

[strange lantern]

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/19337

Removes the god awful hero lighting

[eternal radish]

got it

i guess i just mlissed the audio mod

[strange lantern]

yh theres not much else if you already have a pack

I will need to get around

and add in xegtao

and other improvements

[eternal radish]

@strange lantern wait

do u have an armor texture overhaul

cuz holy shit armors are ugly

metal ones

they are skyblim ps3 tier

[strange lantern]

So there was a texture mod

for armour

but patches broke it

[eternal radish]

ya i k now

[strange lantern]

it causes corrupted textures now

[eternal radish]

fucking skyblim

[strange lantern]

I am not touching this game until Larian completely leaves it

I am not working on something only for them to announce Patch ~46823349620-3942-039604-329652-0393462435235

hotfix patch 349520934-0692-30926246

[eternal radish]

"dw guys BG3 enhanced edition is coming

yes i know we said patch 8 was final but

we hate forge so much

he should go back to skyblim

[strange lantern]

enhanced edition isnt coming becasue Larian wanted to leave WOTC as quickly as possible

its also why theres no DLCs

but

They probably will announce EE just to fuck me over

[eternal radish]

i hopez they do just for this reason

[blissful ember]

☝️

https://tenor.com/view/thats-what-im-talking-about-kosine-the-encore-thats-what-im-expecting-thats-right-gif-22193841

[eternal radish]

@amber stream reno vs native

dechroma 50 is less broken

[amber stream]

I’ll add McDonald’s boytoy

[eternal radish]

@floral raft

[eternal radish]

@floral raft

[naive lichen]

Oh so there is a mod already that fixes a lot of the stuff you complained about?

[strange lantern]

For shadows atleast yh, with patch 7 they removed shadow casting for grass and other foliage

which he added back

[naive lichen]

Yeah that with the grass seems really big I saw the pics

[strange lantern]

but shadow casting as a whole is still missing in base game without the mod

light leak is also everywhere

which that mod solves

The only issue with it

[naive lichen]

Yeah

[strange lantern]

utterly destroyes perf in Last Light inn

and parts of Act 3

[naive lichen]

Hm

[strange lantern]

So I am wondering I could get both force shadow casting

and fix dogshit perf by reworking culling / shadows

it destorys perf becasue the game wasnt made to handle that many shadow casting lights

they instead wanted slop lighting

so the only solution is to fix the renderer

character shadowmaps are also abysmal

pixelated to shit

[naive lichen]

[naive lichen]

Is it same in both DX11 and Vulkan ?

[strange lantern]

both APIs, shadow casting destorys GPU

[naive lichen]

kk

[strange lantern]

Vulkan runs better in Act 3 cause thats CPU limited

[naive lichen]

Right

[strange lantern]

probably becasue they rushed out CPU oclussion culling

instead of doing the original GPU base culling

[amber stream]

someone said dx11 with the SK texture stuff runs well

[naive lichen]

What Texture stuff

[strange lantern]

The game is constantly loading and unloading textures

[amber stream]

sk texture caching

[strange lantern]

SK's texture caching solves that

[naive lichen]

Ah ok wtf

[strange lantern]

Might as well implement something similar into the addon if possible

But now I dont know

should I do DX11 or VK

VK has access to FG

but welll

[naive lichen]

Yeah I was gonna ask

When VK

[strange lantern]

Crosire fixed VK FG

and the game has native HDR path so no flickering

[naive lichen]

[strange lantern]

VK has better CPU perf but maybe with fixes DX11 can run better anyways

Gonna start learning Ghidra

Become Nukem lite

[naive lichen]

Bro boutta disassemble the entire game

[strange lantern]

yh for like 5 days before I quit

[naive lichen]

Fr

[gritty summit]

What’s SK texture? Is it a mod for improving textures? I couldn’t find it when I googled

[eternal radish]

the issue is reno

[devout briar]

Special K's texture caching feature

[shut valley]

Does BG3 have FG?!

Never considered it. Maybe because I never made it to Act 3... Haha. 😅

[blissful ember]

Wait, so now FG is compatible with reno ?

[blissful ember]

Wasn't that a PureDark mod ?

[gritty summit]

SK caching, will that help with 8gb VRAM? Does it move textures to ssd or to ram?

[strange lantern]

Natively no, there's mods that add it.

Puredark - works on DX11 but has bad frame pacing and had incompatible with Reno

Someone else - made FG work natively if you use Vulkan including MFG

[strange lantern]

Crosire (creator of Reshade) fixed FG blowing up in Vulkan or not working with reshade.

Reno flickering still happens (that's a trashformer / Reno SDR path issue)

[blissful ember]

That's awesome. Although reno flickering shouldn't be a pb in this game right ? Since it has native HDR.

[strange lantern]

yes, game has native HDR swapchain and resources. Musa is just fixing code

[eternal radish]

@strange lantern https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/778539700981071875/1477425276110639254/image.png?ex=69a4b703&is=69a36583&hm=821c2a2a4bdf40f8afb5e515beee532fb0d68557ddca7e83a7d73cf137edb769&

you weren't kidding

wtf is this

i've on ly played one hour in the same area

[strange lantern]

Larian also meme

They mentioned in their talk that their mesh quality setting was a placebo for DoS II because the game has no LODs

[naive lichen]

[strange lantern]

BG3 calling to me

https://tenor.com/view/green-goblin-mask-gif-17747048515581223060

@amber stream you doing anything?

adding boytoy or whatever else

[naive lichen]

[amber stream]

Maybe some day

Unless you wanna do it

This game kind of sucks ass

[strange lantern]

fuk it

[amber stream]

I don’t like games where you have to think

[strange lantern]

avg ubislop player btw

aight babes, let me handle it from here

[amber stream]

[strange lantern]

I swear if these mfs update the game another 75905349045790-623643466262 times

Go work on Divinity

but no, they have to release hotfix #463673452134573463523526 which changes all the shader hashes

oh wait

I can just not update the game because I am on GOG

JESUS CRHOT

@amber stream wtf is their LUT builder the same size as other games entire pathtracing shader

why is it 1800 lines

wtf are they LUTing

[amber stream]

its not that lnog

lots of weird bullshit

like p3

they have gamut compression in there too I think

in the loop

[strange lantern]

I might be doing SDR path

since I want RenderPass

over before it even began

game is just randomly CTDing now

might be some left over stuff from my previous set up

[amber stream]

why wouldn't render pass work with hdr

[strange lantern]

I need swapchain

rn you're doing native HDR without swapchain

for POE 2 I used native HDR but still used reno swapchain for volumetric fog RTV upgrades

so I guess that could work here as well

but that was for Vulkan

I dont know if that works for DX11

they use r8g8b8 for all the UI which causes asscheeks banding (textures themselves are fine and look good)

• I want to see if I can unclamp just the characters in UI (via drawcall index)

[amber stream]

You don’t need swapchain for rtv upgrades

You can see what I did in re4

Utils::resource

[strange lantern]

Ok

Renderpass though?

[amber stream]

Idk never even used it

Probably doesn’t need swapchain

Ai can slop it

[strange lantern]

fantastic

they have 12 different compute shaders that they used for deferred

and each is like +3000 lines

@blissful ember

Their existing AO is full res and also uses blue noise

[eternal radish]

@barren marsh

[strange lantern]

vanilla / Reno

something is cooked

8bit RTV / 16bit RTV

stops the dogshit banding up top

but their blend is asscheeks so there still banding

[strange lantern]

vanilla vanilla (not using off) / Reno

vanilla vanill (not using off) / reno

@amber stream explain yourself

also I still dont understand PQ it seems

why the hell do we need to use PQ

I have a bunch of other mods where not once have I used pq::EncodeSafe

am I dumb

[amber stream]

Was that just in swapchainpass in your mods

[amber stream]

I redid the mod recently to just make it match sdr

As in just tweaked parameters until it looked close

[amber stream]

Shadows aren’t as saturated as sdr

Anyway replace any okfuck stuff with Macleod boynton

[strange lantern]

ahhh yh, most of those are with swapchain since they dont have native HDR

POE 2 is the only one with native HDR

upgrades are grifting me

causes green meshes

abysmal

upgraded both r8g8b8 and r10g10b10 RTVs but character models are still clamped in UI

[amber stream]

It’s dx11 so you can use upgradertvreplaceshader for specific pixel shaders

[strange lantern]

they render the UI character models like normal

but they then blend plus

so it carries the UI characters through a billion shaders

Dunno why its still clamping

thought it was LUT but the game scene isnt clamp

so dunno why character is

something inside of tonemap_sample_lut

[strange lantern]

I am confused, I am using your latest code commit from a week agao

[strange lantern]

this is what the intro looks like

I need to set highlights to 35 to match base game HDR

[amber stream]

what's the issue

I just went with whatever looked like SDR

[strange lantern]

current reno setup is clipping hard

highlights are nuclear

Larian games force HDR

anyway to disable that

theres no toggle in-game

[amber stream]

isn't that just that press any key to continue screen

the rest looks fine

[strange lantern]

nope

illithid ship is also cooked

[amber stream]

I guess you can switch neutwo for reinhardpiecewise

well either that or adjust highlights

I adjusted contrast such that the calibration menu when left uncapped just barely goes up to 10k

[strange lantern]

everyone knows calibration menus are fake

[amber stream]

its running through the lutbuilder

anyway ya I should've tested in game

I guess just make sure in game highlights can reach 10k if you remove neutwo

[strange lantern]

Musa sloppa hours in here

abysmal

truly doesnt respect BG3

[amber stream]

highlights are def brigther than the old version of the mod

but idk I never thought it appeared clipped

like fires are reaching peak

but that's fine

vanilla doesn't blow out or hue shift enough

[amber stream]

the rocks on the right are pink

the leaves look broken

i think that's called an integration error idk

troy could describe it better

[strange lantern]

how about this

we dont use native HDR

and instead use SDR

problem solved

[amber stream]

something something excitation purity

look at the leaves

[strange lantern]

yes

they are cooked

Crimson Desert ahh look

[strange lantern]

^

This was also a thing in DoS II

made comparisons difficult

Since I couldnt just toggle off HDR in-game

[amber stream]

ya i took the sdr pics with sk

sdr 2.2 203 nits

[strange lantern]

shit lighting

I hate this games Act 1 lighting with a passion

yh you're right, SDR doesnt have the pink rocks

I will create a HDR look preset

[amber stream]

sdr / reno with forge's fucked up rtv upgrades

sdr actually doesn't have as much hue shifting as reno

but fires are also pink

[naive lichen]

lol why that thing in the middle turn bright green

[strange lantern]

RTV upgrades fukked

[naive lichen]

[amber stream]

sdr / reno

more hue shifting with reno

you can see sky is more cyan

leaves on the left are more yellow instead of orange

[strange lantern]

right so its just the lighting that is abysmal

way too bright

[eternal radish]

U vulkaning or dx11ing

[strange lantern]

Dee Eggs 11

I'll RE the thing

might be able to fix Act 3 perf

[amber stream]

@strange lantern color_output = SplitContrast(color_output, 1.5f, 1.2575f, 0.18f);

change that to this:
color_output = SplitContrast(color_output, 1.5f, 1.f, 0.18f);

[strange lantern]

uno momento

That seems to have solved the neon greens

weird

[amber stream]

if you remove neutwo how does this menu look

does it reach 10k with 100 game brightness

[strange lantern]

yh, If I swap to original shader its 10k and brightness is lower

[amber stream]

ok then ya this is good

see if stronger hue shifting is needed

also swap out for mcdonalds boytoy

i can grant you access to the nexus mod page

[strange lantern]

I think my PC is dying, I just had a kernal crash.

Restarted PC, booted into the game

no more green artefacts

Going to test and see how Psycho looks

[amber stream]

Also make sure to raise the highlights to 50 in onpresetoff()

what's your nexus

or i can just remove the nexus page and you can put the mod on github discussions

[amber stream]

slopshima

[strange lantern]

character looks cool

I dont care bout the game

[strange lantern]

My Nexus empire is growing

Cant wait to put up Crimson Desert

and have a trillion downloads

[amber stream]

first ko-fi billionaire

[strange lantern]

hmmm

I wonder if Trashformer V2 is at fault

maybe its making highlights way to bright

[strange lantern]

@amber stream seems like scene grading is cooking highlight saturation

even dechroma 99 still has giga saturated highlights

gamut clipping?

mofos working with their AP1 bs

[amber stream]

did you get rid of the hue shifting and blowout I built into the lutbuilder

[strange lantern]

prev / new

This is 25 hue shift and 50 purity / blowout

[strange lantern]

nope, let me check

prev / new / vanilla HDR

[amber stream]

is previous after you lowered the highlights

cause that prob messed with blowout

cause I was doing blowout after

[strange lantern]

No, previous is vanilla Reno settings

I swapped to add-on shader as well

I'll test psycho now as well

Born to do rendering

Forced to fix colour slop

[naive lichen]

thank for unsloppening

[strange lantern]

Forge Temp slop drop

• Fixed mewtwo and added PsychoTM (let us know which you prefer)

• RTV upgrades to stop banding (havent fixed UI character model being clamped yet, want people to test and see if RTVs bork the rest of the game)

[strange lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/by-the-nine-im-tweakin-elder-scrolls-skyrim-gif-25519944

Scene Cbooofers / UI character cboooofers

@amber stream how did you find LUTbuilders?

I am wondering if the character uses another one

I dont understand how the scene isnt clamped by LUT but then character is

even though it uses the same shader

maybe its using the ACEScg path

fuk it, I am bypassing LUT for UI

[amber stream]

searched for ap1

[strange lantern]

dump all shaders then CTRL F for AP1?

how did I not think about that

[amber stream]

ya that's what I do for every game

just search for ap1 numbers

[strange lantern]

bretty good

I will keep it in mind, as I had no idea how to find LUTbuilders otherwise

they dont tend to run actively in a scene during a snapshot

Anyways, got HDR output now for UI characters

[strange lantern]

Vanilla / Unclamped

Unclamped character + added regrading to sort of match original (without the LUT the character was piss yellow) since I am too dumb to get their ACEScg LUT working

Vanilla / Unclamped

@amber stream what you think?

Might look better since characters dont have that pinkish/red look anymore

[amber stream]

what is there to get working

which lut are you messing with

[blissful ember]

Why the hell can't we see any on grass then 🥲 .

?

[strange lantern]

in tonemap_lut_sample shader, the game uses two separate LUTs depending on if the cbuffer tells the game its game scene or UI inventory

Base game does

float3 pre_encoded_color = r0.rgb;
r0.w = cmp(asint(cb0[0].z) >= 20);
if (r0.w != 0) { // if (r0.w != 0) {
r0.w = cmp(asint(cb0[0].z) == 21);
if (r0.w != 0) {
r0.w = max(r0.y, r0.z);
r0.w = max(r0.x, r0.w);
r1.xyz = r0.www + -r0.xyz;
r1.xyz = r1.xyz / abs(r0.www);
r2.xyz = cmp(float3(0.814999998, 0.802999973, 1) >= r1.xyz);
r3.xyz = r2.xyz ? float3(1, 1, 1) : float3(0.327301919, 0.285938054, 0);
r2.xyz = (int3)r2.xyz | int3(-1, -1, 0);
r4.xyz = float3(-0.814999998, -0.802999973, -1) + r1.xyz;
r4.xyz = r4.xyz / r3.xyz;
r2.xyz = r2.xyz ? r4.xyz : 0;
r4.xyz = cmp(float3(0, 0, 0) < r2.xyz);
r5.xyz = log2(abs(r2.xyz));
r5.xyz = float3(1.20000005, 1.20000005, 1.20000005) * r5.xyz;
r5.xyz = exp2(r5.xyz);
r4.xyz = r4.xyz ? r5.xyz : 0;
r5.xyz = cmp(r1.xyz < float3(0.814999998, 0.802999973, 1));
r2.xyz = r3.xyz * r2.xyz;
r3.xyz = float3(1, 1, 1) + r4.xyz;
r3.xyz = log2(r3.xyz);
r3.xyz = float3(0.833333313, 0.833333313, 0.833333313) * r3.xyz;
r3.xyz = exp2(r3.xyz);
r2.xyz = r2.xyz / r3.xyz;
r2.xyz = float3(0.814999998, 0.802999973, 1) + r2.xyz;
r1.xyz = r5.xyz ? r1.xyz : r2.xyz;
r0.xyz = -r1.xyz * abs(r0.www) + r0.www;
}
r1.xyz = max(float3(0, 0, 0), r0.xyz);
r2.xyz = cmp(float3(3.05175781e-05, 3.05175781e-05, 3.05175781e-05) >= r1.xyz);
r3.xyz = r1.xyz * float3(0.5, 0.5, 0.5) + float3(1.52587891e-05, 1.52587891e-05, 1.52587891e-05);
r1.xyz = r2.xyz ? r3.xyz : r1.xyz;
r1.xyz = log2(r1.xyz);
r1.xyz = float3(9.72000027, 9.72000027, 9.72000027) + r1.xyz;
r1.xyz = saturate(float3(0.0570776239, 0.0570776239, 0.0570776239) * r1.xyz);
} else {
r1.rgb = renodx::color::pq::EncodeSafe(r0.rgb, 10000.f / cb0[0].y);
}
r0.xyz = t1.SampleLevel(s0_s, r1.xyz, 0).xyz; // tonemapping

I did

float3 pre_encoded_color = r0.rgb;
bool is_z21 = (asint(cb0[0].z) == 21);
r0.w = cmp(asint(cb0[0].z) >= 20);
if (r0.w != 0) { // if (r0.w != 0) {

// For z==21 UI character with mod active: bypass desaturation, LUT,
// and all intermediate processing. Directly tonemap + PQ encode
if (RENODX_TONE_MAP_TYPE != 0.f && is_z21) {
  r0.rgb = max(0, r0.rgb);
  r0.rgb = ApplyUICharacterGrading(r0.rgb);
  r0.rgb = renodx::color::bt2020::from::BT709(r0.rgb);
  if (RENODX_TONE_MAP_TYPE == 2.f) {
    r0.rgb = renodx::tonemap::neutwo::MaxChannel(r0.rgb, RENODX_PEAK_WHITE_NITS / RENODX_GRAPHICS_WHITE_NITS, 100.f);
  }
  r0.rgb = renodx::color::bt709::from::BT2020(r0.rgb);
  r0.rgb = renodx::color::srgb::EncodeSafe(r0.rgb);
  r0.rgb = ApplyUICharacterReGrading(r0.rgb);
  o0.rgb = r0.rgb;
  o0.w = 1;
  return;
}

r0.w = cmp(asint(cb0[0].z) == 21);
if (r0.w != 0) {
  r0.w = max(r0.y, r0.z);
  r0.w = max(r0.x, r0.w);
  r1.xyz = r0.www + -r0.xyz;
  r1.xyz = r1.xyz / abs(r0.www);
  r2.xyz = cmp(float3(0.814999998, 0.802999973, 1) >= r1.xyz);
  r3.xyz = r2.xyz ? float3(1, 1, 1) : float3(0.327301919, 0.285938054, 0);
  r2.xyz = (int3)r2.xyz | int3(-1, -1, 0);
  r4.xyz = float3(-0.814999998, -0.802999973, -1) + r1.xyz;
  r4.xyz = r4.xyz / r3.xyz;
  r2.xyz = r2.xyz ? r4.xyz : 0;
  r4.xyz = cmp(float3(0, 0, 0) < r2.xyz);
  r5.xyz = log2(abs(r2.xyz));
  r5.xyz = float3(1.20000005, 1.20000005, 1.20000005) * r5.xyz;
  r5.xyz = exp2(r5.xyz);
  r4.xyz = r4.xyz ? r5.xyz : 0;
  r5.xyz = cmp(r1.xyz < float3(0.814999998, 0.802999973, 1));
  r2.xyz = r3.xyz * r2.xyz;
  r3.xyz = float3(1, 1, 1) + r4.xyz;
  r3.xyz = log2(r3.xyz);
  r3.xyz = float3(0.833333313, 0.833333313, 0.833333313) * r3.xyz;
  r3.xyz = exp2(r3.xyz);
  r2.xyz = r2.xyz / r3.xyz;
  r2.xyz = float3(0.814999998, 0.802999973, 1) + r2.xyz;
  r1.xyz = r5.xyz ? r1.xyz : r2.xyz;
  r0.xyz = -r1.xyz * abs(r0.www) + r0.www;
}

{
  r1.xyz = max(float3(0, 0, 0), r0.xyz);
  r2.xyz = cmp(float3(3.05175781e-05, 3.05175781e-05, 3.05175781e-05) >= r1.xyz);
  r3.xyz = r1.xyz * float3(0.5, 0.5, 0.5) + float3(1.52587891e-05, 1.52587891e-05, 1.52587891e-05);
  r1.xyz = r2.xyz ? r3.xyz : r1.xyz;
  r1.xyz = log2(r1.xyz);
  r1.xyz = float3(9.72000027, 9.72000027, 9.72000027) + r1.xyz;
  r1.xyz = saturate(float3(0.0570776239, 0.0570776239, 0.0570776239) * r1.xyz);
  r0.xyz = t1.SampleLevel(s0_s, r1.xyz, 0).xyz;  // tonemapping via LUT
}

} else {
r1.rgb = renodx::color::pq::EncodeSafe(r0.rgb, 10000.f / cb0[0].y);
r0.xyz = t1.SampleLevel(s0_s, r1.xyz, 0).xyz;
}

The LUT clamps the UI characters below even 203nits

theyre around 120-140nits

🤷‍♂️

This is right above where you did your processing for the main scene lut in the shader

[strange lantern]

Working on fixing RTV upgrades, it's griefing shadows and terrain decals atm

Deferred lighting shaders are the same for the whole game

So no permutations and needing to redo everything a billion times which is good

[strange lantern]

@worthy belfry Larian uses Burley

And I found a shader that's 9000lines

[worthy belfry]

burley is better than lambert ig

[devout briar]

Is it normal for games to have multiple deferred lighting shaders and huge shaders? Or BG3 is just the exception. Didnt touch anything other than falcom so idk

[strange lantern]

This is a BG3 thing

9000 lines is insane

All their deferreds are compute shaders as well

Well most games will have multiple deferred passes

Midfield has new ones per location

Luckily environment and grass/foliage are just two shaders but then you have permutations per area

BG3 has no permutations (outside of changing graphics settings) but they are really long

Fixing decomp is going to be fun

[devout briar]

Dreadful

[strange lantern]

BG3 uses no screenspace shadows either

So you have a bunch of stuff that could be an easy win

Just receive no shadowing

I slapped in Gosh's shadow mod

And yep the perf is abysmal in Act 2 Haven

I will debug what's causing it

But my guess is, since everything is going into CSMs now, the game can't cope and dies

[eternal radish]

@strange lantern glitch

[strange lantern]

Yes, causes by RTVs

I am working on it

It's dogshit, the Tab inventory button that shows multiple characters

Has different resolution dimensions depending on how many characters are in the party

Resources cloning didn't work either

Going to have to do per shader upgrades

Dogshit game, why would r8g8b8_unorm resources grief

And because they carry the Blend of the inventory characters across multiple shaders that don't even have anything to do with UI or characters

It could very well mean we're fucked

Because if I upgrade the RTVs for a shader that contains UI character blend but the shader contains terrain decals well good luck. Your decals are now all broken for whatever reason.

[eternal radish]

can you make hard clip relatiev to peak

it always overshoots

[strange lantern]

Uncooked DX11 to solve extreme gamut saturation on highlights

• Gentler roll off so highlights dont brickwall as much

• Theres an option between Neutwo or Psycho tonemapping

• Removed RTV upgrades so the game doesnt blow up (until I fix the issue) UI characters will be clamped again

Working on Vulkan addon in the meanwhile

[strange lantern]

Opus has been decompiling the 9000 line deferred for about 1hr now

Decomp tools utterly bork it

[naive lichen]

[strange lantern]

After this I am running an nsight trace to debooog what's killing perf with Goshko's shadows mod

I don't believe I saw a 9000 line deferred shaders without the mod

So something must be severely bloating it

He did mention adjusting the shaders using toolkit

[worthy belfry]

think the longest I've seen is like 2,000-3,000 lol

[strange lantern]

3000 is about standard for raytracing

But 9K is wtf

[worthy belfry]

and that was for the fake subsurface scattering in slime rancher 2

[strange lantern]

Dafuq

[worthy belfry]

game is weird

[strange lantern]

@worthy belfry

look at this

even Opus cant decomp this

ogre

I have to use .asm and reassemble to .cso and load that

[worthy belfry]

oh yeah compute shaders usually don't decompile right

[amber stream]

Use the dxvk decomp

That’s what I did for death stranding

[strange lantern]

where is it again?

just to double check I have it

[amber stream]

uh idk

[strange lantern]

think I found it

[amber stream]

ill upload it

ok nvm

[strange lantern]

decomp.exe

[amber stream]

not decomp.exe

[strange lantern]

this?

[amber stream]

looks like it

its converting to spv

this is what I use:

@echo off
SET "folder=%CD%"

FOR /f %%G IN ('dir /b /o:n "%folder%\*.cso"') DO (
    call :decompile "%%G"
)

GOTO :eof

:decompile
SETLOCAL
SET "file=%~1"

REM Extract filename without extension
FOR %%F IN ("%folder%\%file%") DO (
    SET "base=%%~dpnF"
)

dxbc_compiler.exe "%folder%\%file%" --spv "%base%.spv"
spirv-cross.exe "%base%.spv" --hlsl --relax-nan-checks --shader-model 50 --hlsl-preserve-structured-buffers --output "%base%.hlsl"

ENDLOCAL
GOTO :eof

[strange lantern]

time to test

[amber stream]

also requires fixing the inputs

like the bindings and stuff

[strange lantern]

thats fine

having to fix the whole 9000 line shader is abysmal

https://tenor.com/view/cringe-gif-24107071

[amber stream]

is that with the dxvk decomp?

[strange lantern]

yes

same issue as with 3damigo

[amber stream]

🐐

[strange lantern]

shit game

[amber stream]

time to get the spvasm

[strange lantern]

shit shaders

[amber stream]

should just mod vulkan anyway

who neds the rtv upgrades

see if renderp ass works with vulkan

[strange lantern]

Time to use GOAT Ritsu's renoVK

do what I did with POE2

Upgrade RTVs

(hope they dont blow up)

[strange lantern]

christ all mighty

@worthy belfry this shader has a lighting loop

per material type

so its 6x the size

utterly destorying perf

the other shaders maybe load 30 light buffer SRVs

this one loads 320

its running duplicate lighting sections 7 times over

60% identical shadow code slop

[worthy belfry]

wtf

[strange lantern]

So if we fix it

Light loop copies goes from 21 (7x3) to 6(2x3) we need two seperate loops since foliage is different from the others. The rest are identical code.

Shadow eval copies goes from 21 to 1 function

unprecedented amounts of sloppa

[strange lantern]

time to see whats up

[naive lichen]

[strange lantern]

OK

tested fellas

turns out CPU is getting hammered

Vulkan doesnt have this issue

[naive lichen]

98x3d gamers on top

[strange lantern]

time to move addon over to VK

[naive lichen]

[naive lichen]

[strange lantern]

just having reshade hook means this scene gets hammered as well

doesnt happen with vulkan

VK also has the FG addon

so its just superior

I can then just ctrl c + ctrl v Miru's xeGTAO implementation from Endfield

and make BG3 use it

[naive lichen]

Forge boutta cook his magnum opus with this game

[strange lantern]

uhhhh

I kinda dont want to work on it atm

well maybe

[strange lantern]

Let me see how the deferred shaders decompile

SPIRV tends to be less cooked for VK

because DX11 is over

and I cant edit asm

too much stuff already going on

VK almost 3x the perf in this scenario

[devout briar]

Endfield could never

[naive lichen]

vk can be goated at times

[strange lantern]

RDR2 be like

Endfield's VK meanwhile is the same perf as DX11 +- whilst having atrocious stuttering

@dull cobalt

Should I waitTM for your build

I don't think BG3 will have the same devkit shenanigans as POE 2

luv me generic NPCs all looking like they're covered in oil because of specular light leak

[dull cobalt]

You're fixing their native HDR, right?

You don't need the SDR upgrade path

[strange lantern]

yes but I will also be using upgrades

[dull cobalt]

Normal upgrades should work fine

[strange lantern]

game needs RTVs to unclamp UI characters

so thats fine?

[dull cobalt]

Yeah

New build adds resource cloning mainly for swapchain proxy

It has some render.hpp fixes as well, if you need that in the future

[strange lantern]

ok

time to cook I guess

[strange lantern]

Will still need to see CPU side

Act 3 is CPU limited

5090 sitting at 65% util

[naive lichen]

[naive lichen]

when are you adding PTGI ?

[strange lantern]

First I fix raster

the above doesnt need PT to fix

its just raster sloppa

also remove this dogshit hero light from the character and NPCs

makes everyone glow

[naive lichen]

yeah

i dont get why this is still being done so much

[strange lantern]

I thought this mod removed it but no, it just disables the rim lighting

[naive lichen]

why do you want all characters etc stand out from the world so much instead of them looking as if they are part of it

[strange lantern]

there was another mod that competely removed all extra lighting on characters

[strange lantern]

Larian explained it in their talk

normies couldnt find characters or something

[naive lichen]

lul

[strange lantern]

so they wanted to highlight them

[naive lichen]

https://tenor.com/view/osho-democracy-regarded-but-the-people-are-regarded-osho-democracy-gif-9277714038565725969

[strange lantern]

brainlets intentionally making my games worse

[naive lichen]

but yeah this shit is hideous

almost all games i play i disable or tone down stuff like hero lighting, and those ultra fake lights for dialogues with mods

[strange lantern]

its all just fake 'film' style setup

but what they dont get is rl has perfect lighting

when you add spotlights and co to a raster based game

all the characters just look off

or you have a horror game where the character is constantly lit up

even though you're meant to be in pitch blackness

BRUH

I removed probe GI from this scene

So all the crowd NPCs literally just have a whole ass layer of specular on top

for no reason

[strange lantern]

This might be another one of these

Maybe they intentionally made them all oily so players know its just a crowd NPC

Found the shader responsible

on / off

@naive lichen @devout briar

why?

Diddy party lubed up

[naive lichen]

hell yeah

[chilly token]

yooo nice people!

@amber stream ur mood no longer working?

why @strange lantern trying to unslop imma lost something?

wanna start the game

[strange lantern]

Musa cant into the game

too smort for him or something and he doesnt care for the game

His current addon on Nexoooos has issues with cooked gamut causing extremely saturated highlights

[strange lantern]

This fixes it

I am working on Vulkan addon now since it has better perf (especially when using Goshko's shadow mod)

• working on unslopping other rendering stuff like the above characters frensal rim lighting, unclamping UI characters, improving lighting/ AO ect

[chilly token]

Mods are supported for Vulkan?

if I remember well there is a mod on Nexus for character lighting

[strange lantern]

My mod setup is working on Vulkan

loads faster as well

[strange lantern]

yes I do remember there being one, the one I linked here only removes rim lighting

but it still keeps the hero light

The previous one removed all lighting so characters were lit up soley based on scene lighting

[chilly token]

is it no longer available?

[strange lantern]

Dunno, I am trying to find it

it was on nexus last I remember

[amber stream]

forge wants to add more stuff

[chilly token]

I think I have it on my PC, gonna check for u tomorrow if u don't find it

[strange lantern]

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/14364?tab=files

It was this

So theres a newer way to solve this

read the mod page

it comes packaged with a bunch of other stuff that if you dont care about

editing shader to remove the lighting is difficult since theres no one shader responsible for it

I guess I can look into just making a mod via toolkit to remove the lighting

[strange lantern]

rest of this scene is also dreadful

metal armour scraps glowing as if hit by direct sun light

even though youre in an underground cave

[strange lantern]

would you look at that

VK decomp works perfectly

DX11 is washed

[naive lichen]

[naive lichen]

they look a bit tooo dark here lol

like that guy walking down the street is good

[strange lantern]

mod is removing all character lighting

guess crowd NPCs dont count

[naive lichen]

hm

[strange lantern]

I will look at these deferred shaders

I might just be able to adjust character light directly

[strange lantern]

You have to be shitting me

https://tenor.com/view/by-the-nine-im-tweakin-elder-scrolls-skyrim-gif-25519944

[D:\Jenkins\workspace\Repo\FW4\Release\Stable\LSProjects\Framework\Code\RenderAPI\vk\err\Errors.cpp 39 rf::vk::err::Error]: [rf::vk::GPUDevice::WaitForFence] vkWaitForFences failed with error "VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST"

I think this was the same issue as with POE 2

@dull cobalt

its ogre

going to have to run a debugger via VS studio

wait, I can run VK debug directly

Its Musa slop OnInitSwapchain thats at fault

hmm acktually renodx::mods::shader::Use is also causing crashes

[strange lantern]

yep

renodx::mods::shader::Use casues CTD, comment out, stops the CTD

push constants are fried?

I will try and debug later

[strange lantern]

not push constant it seems but rather VkDescriptorSetLayout

looks like base BG3 also has VK sloppa code

so base code + reshade addon is killing the game

[strange lantern]

Anyways, If I use renodx::mods::shader::use_pipeline_layout_cloning = true; game blows up with a black screen and crashes

if I dont use cloning the game CTDs on main menu

I will look into docs later and rerun validation layer

see whats up

Maybe you will be able to fix issue on your end Ritsu

Something something cant preserve VkDescriptorBindingFlags

BG3 uses a fuk ton of bindless resources

[foggy ember]

jfc I have no idea what any of this is about but I'm enjoying it

thanks man

[strange lantern]

🤏

this close to ragequitting

[dull cobalt]

Vulkan too much for you?!

Got the code pushed somewhere so I can test?

Btw slang lets you printf values and read them through the validation layer
https://docs.shader-slang.org/en/stable/external/core-module-reference/global-decls/printf.html

[strange lantern]

One sec, I will upload so you can double check if I am a pleb and forgot a very basic thing

I tried ctrl c + ctrl v poe 2 and that also CTDs on load

VUID-vkCmdBindDescriptorSets-pDescriptorSets-00358 errors about VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_PARTIALLY_BOUND_BIT

Seems BG3 really hates Descriptor

@dull cobalt

https://github.com/SGTForgery/renodx/commit/e9d8d420ac8d8a85be41a60c166ca2aee6eff7f6

let me know where I oofed

but TLDR is that I tried

• with cloning
• without cloning
• tried copying extactly what endfield and POE do (since both work)
• tried removing as much as possible, shaders, addon.cpp and shared.h side

[strange lantern]

VK debug gets me this

either the game black screens

or CTDs

with .addon loaded

devkit and shader hotloading ect all work

removing renodx::mods::shader::Use stops the CTD

and with that I am off to bed

Clanker mentioned something about fixing reshade side

[dull cobalt]

Worked without issues with my new codebase, just cleaning stuff up

[strange lantern]

[naive lichen]

[dull cobalt]

Branch's updated

MUST USE SWAPCHAIN V2.
Swapchain v1 is no longer supported

[strange lantern]

ok time to test

[dull cobalt]

Pushed a fix for resource upgrades, and some annoying devkit asserts

[strange lantern]

strange, this doesnt hook reshade for me

This older one hooks but CTDs ofc

[dull cobalt]

Oh I'm facing an issue where it only detects Reshade.ini when it's in the same folder as Reshade64.dll

Thought it was from my side, weird bug. I(Codex) will look into it

[strange lantern]

anyways

addon werks now

ty... back to malding at the game

but yes, I had to add reshade.ini and both .addon / devkit to the ReShade folder in ProgramData\ otherwise it wouldnt hook

[dull cobalt]

It's a reshade regression, I'll inform crosire

Here's a fixed dll, bug's too annoying

[strange lantern]

[strange lantern]

OK, VK grading and co is all in now

going to work on RTV upgrades again

SDR / Vanilla HDR / Reno Psycho

[strange lantern]

@amber stream sama, I fudged something, LUT is causing pink/magenta highlights for red highlights

100% scene grading / 0% scene grading

I think I understood what you're doing in LUTbuilder but I am not 100% sure

Also appears to cause white artefacts in the pink highlights

[amber stream]

In the lutbuilder I basically just did a custom curve with custom saturation and blowout

You could just do the psycho tm grading stuff to match it

[strange lantern]

so whats the point of editing the lutbuilder?

I understand in other games its to stop a trillion grading perms from spawning

here?

[amber stream]

The lutbuilder does tonemap in bg3

So we skip it entirely

It’s their custom aces2 beta shit

[strange lantern]

from the talk right

[amber stream]

Ya

[strange lantern]

right I see what you mean

the scene now has raised shadows if I bypass their ACES stuff

thats fine I will just regrade to match

[amber stream]

ya you can tweak the regrade outside of the lutbuilder

then move it into the lutbuilder when you're done

so its free

[strange lantern]

I will do that

[strange lantern]

OK so at first since I skipped everything other than the LUT itself a bunch of stuff wasnt applying and I was still having some slight shadow raise

I went back and re-applied just vanilla GammaCorrectHuePreserving and GamutCompress to the LUTbuilders again. That solved the raise

prev / readded

SDR / Reno

Doesnt crush to hell and retains shadow detail now

[amber stream]

did it look crushed in other areas

[strange lantern]

yes, Nexoooos all complained that gamma 2.2 looks crushed with Reno

[amber stream]

riperoni

[strange lantern]

so I fixed it now

it doesnt have the smeary blue look in shadow anymore

which I dont know how the game has it considering its ACES 2

[amber stream]

fuck ton of saturation in shadows

[strange lantern]

ahh

yh thats all solved now

no more pink cliffs

fires arent pink

reds are good now

I will clean it up and it should be good now

Vanilla HDR / Reno

Disgusting

Almost looks like I skipped a LUT

but its just their cranked shadow saturation

https://tenor.com/view/cringe-gif-24107071

@amber stream once you Reno you cant go back

[amber stream]

[strange lantern]

wow

I think this was it

this was one of those things that just ruined the game's visuals for me

and now I know what it is

Vanilla looks like a cartoon in comparison

[night river]

holy shit, that's so much better

I ended up playing the game with saturation way down cuz it looked so weird

[strange lantern]

Vanilla HDR / Reno

I did the same

I had a cope reshade shadow desaturate

becasue something was just off

its geniunely terrible, I am comparing vanilla and you see giga green shadows in forest areas

[night river]

it looks so comically bad in comparison

[strange lantern]

@naive lichen

Magnum opus lite

[naive lichen]

sheesh

[strange lantern]

@dull cobalt how to upgrade RTVs?

I did

void OnInitDevice(reshade::api::device* device) {
std::vectorrenodx::utils::resource::ResourceUpgradeInfo upgrade_infos = {};

upgrade_infos.push_back({
.old_format = reshade::api::format::r10g10b10a2_unorm,
.new_format = reshade::api::format::r16g16b16a16_float,
.ignore_size = true,
.usage_include = reshade::api::resource_usage::render_target,
});

upgrade_infos.push_back({
.old_format = reshade::api::format::r8g8b8a8_unorm,
.new_format = reshade::api::format::r16g16b16a16_float,
.ignore_size = true,
.usage_include = reshade::api::resource_usage::render_target,
});

renodx::utils::resource::upgrade::SetUpgradeInfos(device, upgrade_infos);
}

Game clamps UI character models via both formats

but its not applying

I am guessing I have to fully use swapchain v2 instead of just renodx::utils::resource::upgrade::?

[strange lantern]

I somehow managed to brick the game

even removing the addon causes a black screen

fixed, dunno wtf that was

[strange lantern]

I think I figured it out, resoures upgrade now and it shows up as cyan

[strange lantern]

Finally unclamped UI characters

black screening was caused by lackwell driver randomly shitting themselves not the addon

thanks Jensen

VK is superior once again, upgrading RTVs doesnt grief terrain textures or causes that shadow NaN Dio sent

[strange lantern]

UI no longer looks like cancer

vanilla by comparison

we are getting close to full unsloppification

[strange lantern]

Oh no

I am just about done with Vulkan RC1

Then I noticed shadows look strange

Lvl up screen has abyss shadows

Act 3 shadows are all glitched, constantly popping in and out

Removed everything bit by bit

New Ritsu Reshade is borked

https://tenor.com/view/tense-table-smash-mad-gif-13656077

Reshade 6.7.3 bug maybe

without reshade hooking

Ritsu can debooooog

I am off to bed

actually malding right now

[naive lichen]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-meme-gif-14922675818058709477

[dull cobalt]

Try this
#1454963368870809786 message

Dont rule out any number of weird ass bugs, vulkan path is a bit convuluted

[strange lantern]

werks

we're soo back

well lvl up screen is still fried

but at the very least shadows for game scenes work now

[dull cobalt]

Caused by reshade?

[strange lantern]

Yh

Removed everything one by one again

Do you need some info?

The specific in-game resource, RTV that sort of thing

I'm not sure how to track down what's the cause

@dull cobalt disregard

Nvidia driver issue?

dunno wtf is going on

That or a VK bug with the game

it randomly either displays properly or doesnt

Don't worry about this, it's not reshade or add-on caused.

Issue with base game shader / CSMs I think

The latest reshade you posted fixed game scene shadows bugging out, that one was reshade based

[dull cobalt]

For future issues, logs with DEBUG_LEVEL_1 & DEBUG_LEVEL_2 enabled should be enough

[dull cobalt]

Is this with no reshade at all?

[strange lantern]

yh

base game issue it seems

maybe shader corruption

let me try redoing shader cache

this is something

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/14364

Somehow this mod corrupted or borked VK

and caused the above in the lvl up screen

what is weird I ran the unmodded non MO2 version of the game and I still had this issue

welp, time for me to dig into the shaders and solve the hero lighting myself

[strange lantern]

@naive lichen what this mod did was completely remove lighting on characters which also includes scene gi / bounced lighting

which is the the characters all look dark

[eternal radish]

hmu when ready

[strange lantern]

today

shadow bug is now solved

grading is all in

RTVs are all in and working

Let me add controls for film grain and bloom

then I can post here

If the addon works and doesnt blow up, I will update Nexooooos

then work on rendering improvements

[eternal radish]

hmu when rendering improvments

texture packs work in vulkan ?

[naive lichen]

Yeah that makes sense, not great then

Can you add the GI back for them?

[strange lantern]

well the mod is breaking lvl up screen in Vulkan

so I am not using it anymore

I cba to research how to make a mod for BG3

[strange lantern]

Dont see why they wouldnt

I am using wabbajack mod list

all the texture there seem to work

[eternal radish]

i use one too

but not the same

the other one

the one ok for new players

iadded some textoore packs

[naive lichen]

https://tenor.com/view/its-over-its-genuinely-over-seal-sad-seal-breaking-news-gif-243396507301445550

[strange lantern]

Game looks soo much better it is unrealTM

(I forgor to remove gamut compression)

removed it now so highlights have INNNZZANE COLOOURS