eternal radish Mar 11, 2026, 8:04 PM

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waiting release

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heihachiPlasma

strange lantern Mar 11, 2026, 9:59 PM

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This is going to be fun

devout briar Mar 11, 2026, 10:04 PM

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strange lantern

heihachiPlasma

strange lantern Mar 11, 2026, 10:20 PM

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VULKAN ADDON

Removed Larian's custom ACES 2 beta grading
Removed the disgusting shadow saturation boosting
Using PsychoTM for tonemapping + Stockman LMS and co
Act 3 crowd NPC fresnal glow as been removed
Added film grain
Added bloom slider
Upgraded RTVs so less banding and UI characters are now unclamped

Instructions

If you had previous .addon and the grading now looks weird, dont forget to hit reset button

Use the following custom reshade.dll (otherwise game explodes). You have to add it to C:\ProgramData\ReShade (or where ever your global reshade Vulkan layer .dll is)
Load VK via using the regular BG3.exe (not DX11.exe)

📎 renodx-baldursgate3-vk.addon64 📎 ReShade64.dll

strange lantern Mar 11, 2026, 10:20 PM

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strange lantern # **VULKAN ADDON** - Removed Larian's custom ACES 2 beta grading - Removed the ...

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@eternal radish

eternal radish Mar 11, 2026, 10:23 PM

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strange lantern <@224536426316824576>

did u fix musaslopp oversaturation ?

strange lantern Mar 11, 2026, 10:23 PM

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Its all fixed

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Larian slop

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Musa slop

eternal radish Mar 11, 2026, 10:24 PM

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@barren marsh

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vulkan addon

strange lantern Mar 11, 2026, 10:24 PM

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Its a mod rewrite

eternal radish Mar 11, 2026, 10:24 PM

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pogg

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@floral raft

amber stream Mar 11, 2026, 10:25 PM

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Fresnal

strange lantern Mar 11, 2026, 10:28 PM

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yes

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Fresnel

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Fresnal

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Let me know how it goes with the addon

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AyyMD memes

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Ultrameme display user memes

barren marsh Mar 11, 2026, 11:13 PM

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Nice

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 12:48 AM

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@low steeple you said no decompilation issues

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you lied

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whyGodWhy

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 12:49 AM

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Bruh

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Your game is cursed

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 12:49 AM

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maybe its my script

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what do you use?

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well I am decomping to .slang

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 12:50 AM

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for /r %%i in (*.spv) do (
    spirv-cross.exe -V --stage comp --relax-nan-checks "%%i" --output "%%~dpni.glsl"
)

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Just this

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 12:50 AM

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patrickNotes

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lemme test

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 12:51 AM

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Its outputing to glsl tho and you need to change the stage type

amber stream Mar 12, 2026, 1:15 AM

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just do everything in glsl gigachad

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 1:19 AM

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Yeah don’t even bother with slang (maybe you can do it with glsl validator exe)

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Compile spv yourself

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 1:21 AM

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but glsl doesnt have pretty colours

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whyGodWhy

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its all just greeeey

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whatever, theres probably an extension for it

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I cba to fix .slang

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yep glsl works

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pepeToast

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Miru saving me #42634562344357

amber stream Mar 12, 2026, 1:38 AM

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strange lantern but glsl doesnt have pretty colours

just set slang as the interpreter with glsl

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bottom right corner

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strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 5:14 AM

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ewww

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they use HBAO

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kekpepehands

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not HBAO+

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just bog standard HBAO

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explains why crevices look like asscheeks and dont shade

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 5:35 AM

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@low steeple I might be getting filtered by this tile system

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they use tile deferred for all the different comp shaders

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you apply some sort of modification and you see square tiles because the other 20 shaders dont have the modifications to account for your change

Soo you get harsh transitions

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 5:36 AM

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Oof

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 5:37 AM

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kekpepehands

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its not like Endfiled where theres a clear env deffered

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or grass deferred

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abysmal

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 5:39 AM

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Did you try taking a capture in graphics debugger yet

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 5:43 AM

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nsight

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but some views are garbage

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maybe this is a VK thing

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some RTVs either dont show up or have this striped then shifted view

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shrug

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 5:45 AM

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looks like swizzled i dunno

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Does devkit show the same

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 5:46 AM

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yep

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not all RTVs

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but the same ones are cooked as nsight

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 5:46 AM

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So its probably what the game writes

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Or I think its view format is wrong

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Since the colors are all fucked up

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 7:20 AM

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this is dreadful to work with

(undraw shader as a comparison)

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even the slightest difference creates massive square mismatches

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couldnt just use a regular deferred

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noooo

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had to tile it all

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CSM RTV shows shadows

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game doesnt cast shadows

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frenzy

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No wonder the whole scene looks flat

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 7:37 AM

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strange lantern CSM RTV shows shadows

I’m pretty sure that’s sun shadow map

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But you can see the environment is lit up by other lights that don’t have shadow map

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 7:40 AM

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right but this is a dark ass cave, that they lit up with some sort of over head light source

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 7:40 AM

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strange lantern CSM RTV shows shadows

Now that I looked at this, it seems like it’s indeed tiled update, tiles that aren’t updated just have garbage as they are never used

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Does dx11 show the same problem

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 7:41 AM

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for?

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DX11 is also tiled

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also lacks shadows

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they gimped shadows as they updated the game

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a modder released a mod to readded shadow casting flags for foliage and other meshes

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instance meshes I think it was

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Larian removed shadows for those with Update 7

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

Nexus Mods :: Baldur's Gate 3

Shadows of the Gate

Adds shadows to various elements: torches, casting effects, vegetation. Fixes erroneous light reflections and light bleeding through objects. Make game more moody. Make game more gorgeous.

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The base game is even more dreadful to look at

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 7:44 AM

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Well lights that don’t cast shadow are the main problem

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 7:44 AM

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light leak everywhere

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oh yh base game has no shadow casting

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at all

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the above mod activates it at the very least

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for some light sources

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 7:45 AM

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I’ve never worked on a tiled deferred game before tho so I don’t know the inner workings

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 7:45 AM

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Stronge

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nor have I

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first time

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I will have to look into it

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I dont know how devs build shaders in this case

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how do you keep up and make sure all the tiles match e.g dont run into the issue I have

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 7:49 AM

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Hmmm I read from AI, doesn’t seem like tiled shading will swizzle the shading so it’s weird for me

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 7:50 AM

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strange lantern I dont know how devs build shaders in this case

It’s automatically build from source with defines for each permutations

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Then their renderer chooses which to use

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So for you you need to edit 30+ shaders but devs only need to change 1

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kekpepehands

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 7:51 AM

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KMS

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 7:54 AM

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Btw are gbuffers swizzled in your capture

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 7:59 AM

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some

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I will need to take a look at the code

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 8:10 AM

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To me it looks like broken view format 😳

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 8:11 AM

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Larian likes to meme

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in their GDC talk they mentioned that the mesh quality setting was a placebo

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because the game had no LODs anyways

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Not BG3 but their previous game

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 8:22 AM

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low steeple I’m pretty sure that’s sun shadow map

other underground scenes have a near black CSM RTV

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and they properly built lighting around it

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e.g not using sun shadow

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some funny business is going on

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 8:24 AM

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Normal lights don’t usually render to a separate shadow RTV, they will just sample their light perspective shadow maps when shading lighting

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Sun lights usually have its own shadow RTV

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 8:32 AM

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if (_36._m0.w > 0.0)
shadowFactor = texelFetch(shadowBuf, coord, 0).x; // read CSM output
else
shadowFactor = 1.0; // completely ignore shadow buffer

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hmm

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so they counted grymforge as = underground

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but they built it around CSM shadows (the map is an open cavern / cave so the sun is meant to still reach)

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which are disabled because = underground

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I am going to test removing _m0.w = 0

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 9:04 AM

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vanilla / modified

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kinda works

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not sure why the pillar on the right is much darker though

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Need to check and see if the other areas get griefed or not

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 9:14 AM

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strange lantern if (_36._m0.w > 0.0) shadowFactor = texelFetch(...

Well it’s a matrix of some sort

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No idea

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 9:15 AM

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low steeple Well it’s a matrix of some sort

Oh never mind I thought it was _m00

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Just a constant so I dunno what that is hmm

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 9:16 AM

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strange lantern Need to check and see if the other areas get griefed or not

I think you applied the sun shadows on the spot lights shining on the pillar

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I feel like _36.m0 could just be like sun intensity

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 9:22 AM

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yh so it now makes areas in shadow even more in shadow in other scenes

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AHHNOOOOOO

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time to add SSGI to solve

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yakub

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 9:24 AM

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You need SS trace shadows for hundreds of lights

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despairge

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Maybe just apply AO to lights

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 9:24 AM

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did that

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AO for direct lighting

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since base game doesnt do it

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I should replace AO with xegtao as well

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maybe I can figure out cboofer or hash

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so it only applies to that one area instead of every scene

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game uses the same deferred shaders throughout the whole game

low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 9:29 AM

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Hmmm so it’s just one deferred shading for all lights?

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 9:29 AM

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yep

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well

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theres 20 something deferred shaders

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that make up the scene

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depending on the tile, one does hair, one does skin and so on

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but they use the same shaders throughout the whole game

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low steeple Mar 12, 2026, 9:36 AM

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strange lantern depending on the tile, one does hair, one does skin and so on

Hmm how come they only use 1 then if that’s the case

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 9:37 AM

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shrug

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No idea

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They mentioned in the GDC the whole game was a clusterfuk

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They wanted to fully move over to Vulkan but couldnt

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 9:54 AM

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More vanilla memes to solve

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thought it was broken decomp again but no

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this happens with vanilla shaders

blissful ember Mar 12, 2026, 10:46 AM

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Looking at Forge fixing games live is so satisfying. Who needs asmr.

devout briar Mar 12, 2026, 10:47 AM

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Looking at Forge malding is so satisfying too

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kekpepehands

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 10:49 AM

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If the game didnt use tiled deferred I would have added PT by now

eternal radish Mar 12, 2026, 2:48 PM

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@strange lantern is it normal sk and reshade detect d3d11 api instead of vulkan.11 ?

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 3:00 PM

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eternal radish <@377729668448780288> is it normal sk and reshade detect d3d11 api instead of vu...

Are you running Vulkan

eternal radish Mar 12, 2026, 3:01 PM

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strange lantern Are you running Vulkan

ya

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 3:01 PM

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The game has two .exes

eternal radish Mar 12, 2026, 3:01 PM

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how would i even inject

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sk to vulkan

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locally

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it's not possible right

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 3:01 PM

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Reshade shows Vulkan for me in device

eternal radish Mar 12, 2026, 3:01 PM

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can i still use dx11 texture thingy in vulkan

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i don't think so ?

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so sk is pointless

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 3:02 PM

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shrug

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No idea

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vanilla / fixed shadows / fixed + Bend style shadows additions

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@naive lichen

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we cooking?

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@shy torrent

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With that, I am off

amber stream Mar 12, 2026, 3:37 PM

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need kevin interactive approved bend shadows in every game

narrow scroll Mar 12, 2026, 4:16 PM

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If there's excessive flickering with like black boxes around bright highlights at the title screen (vista of Baldur's Gate city), does that mean I borked the custom Reshade installation or what? I even tried triggering a shader recompile but it didn't fix it. The game definitely runs in vulkan and the reno addon's sliders function, so I don't know what's wrong...

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It's flickering very rapidly between normal screen and mostly balck screen; I hope the screenshots here illustrate is enough:

Baldurs_Gate_3_3840x2160_-_Vulkan_-_6__6_WT_12_03_2026_17_18_35.jxr

Baldurs_Gate_3_3840x2160_-_Vulkan_-_6__6_WT_12_03_2026_17_18_38.jxr

Baldurs_Gate_3_3840x2160_-_Vulkan_-_6__6_WT_12_03_2026_17_20_44.jxr

Baldurs_Gate_3_3840x2160_-_Vulkan_-_6__6_WT_12_03_2026_17_20_56.jxr

blissful ember Mar 12, 2026, 4:34 PM

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strange lantern we cooking?

Wait, did you just ad screen space shadows ?

devout briar Mar 12, 2026, 4:39 PM

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Yeah 3rd one is with SSS

blissful ember Mar 12, 2026, 5:33 PM

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Lesss gooooo !!!

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https://tenor.com/view/what-i-am-talking-about-pointing-smiling-jake-gyllenhaal-gif-15261035

Tenor

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Good sss is so god tier with grass.

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And small rocky stuff

feral tartan Mar 12, 2026, 5:49 PM

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wait is sss already in the new version of the mod? or still to be added

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looks amazing

eternal radish Mar 12, 2026, 6:19 PM

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I'm not even sure bg3 vk is better than dx11 despairge

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I need confirmation

devout briar Mar 12, 2026, 6:38 PM

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Its PITA for Forge to make it in DX11 I think

eternal radish Mar 12, 2026, 6:47 PM

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I get it for new features

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I was thinking about sk texture cache thing

devout briar Mar 12, 2026, 6:51 PM

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Oh yeah idk about that

naive lichen Mar 12, 2026, 7:10 PM

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strange lantern we cooking?

https://tenor.com/view/cooking-gif-10163405812912894400

Tenor

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 10:00 PM

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narrow scroll If there's excessive flickering with like black boxes around bright highlights a...

maybe

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Looking at your screenshots

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RTV upgrades maybe? AMD?

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Also double check that ReShade64.dll in ProgramData is using Ritsu's custom .dll

devout briar Mar 12, 2026, 10:01 PM

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strange lantern RTV upgrades maybe? AMD?

I am gonna shit myself if its AMD again

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 10:01 PM

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if you right click , properties you should see it say 6.7.3 unofficial

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DX11 had these memes

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but VK is different

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it doesnt shit the bed when I upgraded

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I am only doing

r8g8b8a8_unorm = back buffer e.g matches your swapchain res (needed to unclamp upgrade UI)
r10g10b10a2_unorm = needed to unclamp ui character RTV specifically

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This shouldnt grief AMD

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If you're Nvidia and have lackwell card like me, I updated to the latest drivers and that stopped some random black screening / CTDs for me

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wait I noticed the screen looked a bit aliased?

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FSR?

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TAA?

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inb4 its FSR 4 int8 memes

devout briar Mar 12, 2026, 10:09 PM

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AMDrip

narrow scroll Mar 12, 2026, 10:57 PM

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strange lantern Also double check that ReShade64.dll in ProgramData is using Ritsu's custom .dll

I'm on Nvidia, latest driver, on 40 series, Ada. I've copied the linked Reshade64.dll into the ProgramData --> Reshade folder, overwriting the existing one. So yeah, don't know what's wrong.

narrow scroll Mar 12, 2026, 10:58 PM

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strange lantern wait I noticed the screen looked a bit aliased?

I tried disabling DLSS to troubleshoot, so it was native 4K, no AA whatsoever. I also tried using either "prefer layered on dxgi swapchain" or "prefer native" for the driver setting vulkan/opengl present method. No difference.

narrow scroll Mar 12, 2026, 11:00 PM

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strange lantern If you're Nvidia and have lackwell card like me, I updated to the latest drivers...

All my other games work fine, never had CTDs or black screens. I use a single screen. Also just remembered, the reshade UI is a bit green tinted for some reason? Is that normal for this custom dll? I haven't seen this before.

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 11:07 PM

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green tint is normal for Vulkan reshade HDR

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right

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next is log

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send it here

balmy wraith Mar 12, 2026, 11:11 PM

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holy shit - (judging by screenshots only) this is looking ❤️‍🔥

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been meaning to get back to/restart this game tbh

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is there any downside to the VK vs DX11 renderer?

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that i should/would need to consider before just choosing VK

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 11:12 PM

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DX11 runs like ass

balmy wraith Mar 12, 2026, 11:12 PM

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bc new addon looks amaze

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ok

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so

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sounds like all upside for VK lmao

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^^

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 11:12 PM

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DX11 has CPU bottlenecks on main thread especially if you use Goshko's shadow mod

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Also RTV upgrades broke textures

balmy wraith Mar 12, 2026, 11:12 PM

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yah only just reaquainting myself with the current mod sitch

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 11:12 PM

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which doesnt happen with Vulkan

balmy wraith Mar 12, 2026, 11:12 PM

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wild that i need a mod to add shadows back

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ty mate @strange lantern 🙏

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 11:13 PM

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I am going to make a post in one of the BG3 modding servers

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maybe some smort people can point me to some engine level stuff

balmy wraith Mar 12, 2026, 11:14 PM

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oh lastly - do i care about the layered on DXGI swapchain or not in nv settings?

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 11:14 PM

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shrug

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I have it set to auto

balmy wraith Mar 12, 2026, 11:14 PM

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i have it default to layered on DXGI but thats mostly a legacy default from when SK used to be the only decent HDR option

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 11:14 PM

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The rendering improvements arent in the addon yet

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Since I need to debug and test

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the current pin has fixed grading and I disabled the forced Act 3 NPC fresnel

balmy wraith Mar 12, 2026, 11:15 PM

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i tried to speed read the thread above, it sounds like youre working on future stuffTM that sounds super excite

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this game can defs use any possible improvements to anything lighting related

narrow scroll Mar 12, 2026, 11:23 PM

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Here's the log. Just played a bit and I couldn't find a combination of settings that would remedy it. It's also weird that it affects only certain realatively small elements in every scene. Btw. I really need to go to bed now or work tomorrow will be torture. I hope the log helps you -- and thank you for doing this mod in the first place!

📎 ReShade.log

eternal radish Mar 12, 2026, 11:28 PM

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highlights still going above my peak

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heihachiPlasma

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hardclipping forgeeee

strange lantern Mar 12, 2026, 11:47 PM

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where

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show pic

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becasue I added a roll off

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Unless its some TAA memes

night river Mar 13, 2026, 12:18 AM

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looks pretty clipped

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 12:19 AM

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now set either scene grading to 0%

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or bloom to 0%

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send pic

night river Mar 13, 2026, 12:20 AM

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2 sec

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weirldy enoug the "press any key" part looks clipped as well, but fine in pngs

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jxr works

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 12:23 AM

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Do the same

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set either grading to 0% or bloom to 0%

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then send

night river Mar 13, 2026, 12:23 AM

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scene grade / bloom

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1k/4k nits

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scene grade

Baldurs_Gate_3_3840x2160_-_Vulkan_-_6__6_WT_13_03_2026_01_25_41.jxr

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bloom

Baldurs_Gate_3_3840x2160_-_Vulkan_-_6__6_WT_13_03_2026_01_26_36.jxr

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 12:34 AM

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Their bloom boosts highlights

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and the LUT also boosts highlights

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guess I can try rolling off pre LUT maybe

night river Mar 13, 2026, 12:38 AM

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the main menu is actually fine in the screenshots

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the heck

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 12:38 AM

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ok so visually I guess it looks 'clip' what about graph?

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does it peak over?

night river Mar 13, 2026, 12:40 AM

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strange lantern does it peak over?

it does not

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graph looks normal

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I'm not sure how those screenshots look on your end

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but 1k or 4k nits look just as clipped

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4k peak looks way more saturated tho

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:03 AM

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clipped is maybe the wrong word

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Reno/Vanilla

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looks a bit too blown out

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:08 AM

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I will look into it

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Maybe some Psycho stuff I havent accounted for

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Working on fixing shadows atm

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:09 AM

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night river Reno/Vanilla

this looks almost perfect to me tbh

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if we are talking about that torch fire

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xd

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:09 AM

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Vanilla HDR has some digusting pink hues

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heihachiPlasma

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:10 AM

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looks a bit too blown out to me

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even worse with bloom

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:10 AM

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might be screen?

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i can see almost everything in that flame

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:10 AM

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it's more the torch itself

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where i see less compared to vanilla

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also the flame itself toward the top

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something is definitely funny on my end too

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all screenshots I take are darker than they're supposed to be

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:13 AM

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Hard to capture this shit but I can see almost every detail in it

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ffs pic doesnt really work

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KEKW

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:15 AM

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@eternal radish I need a graph from you

eternal radish Mar 13, 2026, 1:16 AM

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strange lantern <@224536426316824576> I need a graph from you

lemee see

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idk man any highlight

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some can go beyong my 3080 nits

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like

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3300

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i need to find it again

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(it was a joke btw)

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(it's meaningless)

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heihachiPlasma

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:17 AM

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naive lichen Hard to capture this shit but I can see almost every detail in it

ok this is better, i exported the image in SDR via SKIV, the details you can see here are exactly what i see detailwise on my tv, just in hdr

eternal radish Mar 13, 2026, 1:17 AM

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some people go cookoo if the game pushes 500 nits of 460 nits screen

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:17 AM

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i wouldnt say thats too blown out

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thats just right for fire imo

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if you see less details than on that image then its your screen

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:18 AM

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No actually the flame looks fairly similar

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its more the torch part that i see less in

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or rather

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:19 AM

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wym

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:19 AM

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that i think is too blown out

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this part

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:19 AM

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i see

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could maybe use a tad bit more color i suppuse

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:20 AM

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here's 1 with bloom 50

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:20 AM

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naive lichen could maybe use a tad bit more color i suppuse

Ya i'm not actually sure it's even really fixable

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again looks darker throughout than what's on my screen

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and actually better

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what the fk

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:21 AM

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whats it look like with like highlight saturation 51

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:21 AM

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naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:22 AM

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maybe minimally better but yeah i guess forge will have to touch blowout a little

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:23 AM

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night river 1k/4k nits

also this is kinda weird

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but vanilla has the same exact thing

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peak brightness increases saturation

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but it doesn't look any more or less clipped to me

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If anything I see more details in the 4k nits image which makes no sense

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:28 AM

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@low steeple

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camera matrix shifting shadows

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oof

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 1:30 AM

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Thats your SSS?

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:30 AM

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yes

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 1:30 AM

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Looks like the light direction just changed randomly XD

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Sun light direction

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:31 AM

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Doesnt happen to every region

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Will have to debooog

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 1:31 AM

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Does the light dir actually change in the game tho

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Matrices shouldnt make it jump like that

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:34 AM

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Sloppa on my end then

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Let me see

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 1:36 AM

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Maybe you can check cbuffers you are using

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in DX11

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:39 AM

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BRUUUUUUUUUH

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I am a donut

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I am doing viewspace

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not worldspace

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kekpepehands

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uno momneto

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yep solved it

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I was doing stepDir = ivec2(round(marchDir * 3.0))

replaced with

ivec2(round(marchDir * 2.0 * float(i)))

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doesnt snap anymore

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direction is consistent now

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:52 AM

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night river looks pretty clipped

I was in tb400

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im not very smart

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:53 AM

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night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:53 AM

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screenshots looked fine cuz my reshade screenshots halfs brightness for whatever reason

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i cannot

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:53 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/kowalski-penguin-madagascar-penguins-of-madagascar-tap-sign-gif-17679676998214587298

Tenor

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:53 AM

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too real

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 1:56 AM

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night river I was in tb400

DumbPog

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 1:57 AM

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Vanilla flames

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kekpepehands

night river Mar 13, 2026, 1:57 AM

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magical pink fire

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 2:00 AM

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strange lantern I was doing stepDir = ivec2(round(marchDir * 3.0)) replaced with ivec2(round...

Why do you round it hmm

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hmmm also ivec2?

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Should the direction be float2 in screen space or float3 in viewspace/worldspace

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Usually marching is done in viewspace tho so I'm not sure

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 2:05 AM

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soo my current implementation is actually a cope 2D one

I use round and ivec2 because of texelFetch

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You're right

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I need to re make it to use viewspace 3D

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I told you

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I am a donut

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kekpepehands

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 2:06 AM

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No sampler?

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Oh wait you cant use linear sampler because its depth sampling

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 2:16 AM

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Maybe I am also doing it a janky way, right now I am editing the deferred shaders

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I should just make a separate comp shader

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then combine SSS with CSM RTV

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 2:20 AM

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Yeah you can steal the bindings from current bound descriptor tables then do a compute pipeline

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 3:42 AM

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WIP RENDERING TEST

Improved CSMs / fixes for applying to Grymforge and Underdark
Screenspaced shadows
AO modulation for direct lighting
IBL modulation

📎 renodx-baldursgate3-vk.addon64

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I jumped back and forth between the acts

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werksTM but there might be some glitches

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so I am putting it out as a test

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 3:45 AM

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strange lantern # **WIP RENDERING TEST** - Improved CSMs / fixes for applying to Grymforge and ...

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:33 AM

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Posted 1hr ago in BG3 modding server

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no upvooootes

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no replies

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nada

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https://tenor.com/view/it's-over-over-it's-gif-3551756699416095564

Tenor

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 7:46 AM

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

Tenor

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:46 AM

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I scrolled through some pics

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SDRlets are living on another planet

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Baldurs_Gate_3_Screenshot_2026.02.12_-_13.16.27.40.png

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Baldurs_Gate_3_Screenshot_2026.03.12_-_22.15.17.42.png

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KMS

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 7:47 AM

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tired_wojak

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:47 AM

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any sort of custom map just looks like this

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 7:47 AM

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peak

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:48 AM

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I dunno if its because they forgot to generate CSMs or what

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zero shadows

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RD_Betrayed_Astarion.00_01_02_40.Still020.png

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 7:49 AM

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ohgod

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:49 AM

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disgusting colours

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 7:49 AM

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ive never seen this game in sdr

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:49 AM

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Game's grading is a meme

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 7:49 AM

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did you fix tm

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:50 AM

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No, I have been shitposting in another server

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 7:50 AM

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blasphemy

dull cobalt Mar 13, 2026, 7:51 AM

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Can you push the updates? @strange lantern

narrow scroll Mar 13, 2026, 7:52 AM

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narrow scroll Here's the log. Just played a bit and I couldn't find a combination of settings ...

@strange lantern I've have posted my log some hours ago, sorry I didn't directly reply to you. I tried the new WIP build and the dark sqare flickering is still present.

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:53 AM

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I bet RTX HDR would slap soo hard on this

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:53 AM

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dull cobalt Can you push the updates? <@377729668448780288>

Sure, let me do it

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:54 AM

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narrow scroll <@377729668448780288> I've have posted my log some hours ago, sorry I didn't dir...

let me see

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uhh

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RTV upgrades are borked on your end

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completely failing and spamming the log

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shrug

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As you why

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Dunno

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Anyone else having the same problem

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wait

narrow scroll Mar 13, 2026, 8:01 AM

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strange lantern RTV upgrades are borked on your end

I have sucessfully been using such upgrades for other games via liliums shaders, so don't know what this could be. Any guesses? As stated, every other game works fine, icluding ones with renoi mods.

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 8:01 AM

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you're running special K

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I see it in the log

narrow scroll Mar 13, 2026, 8:02 AM

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strange lantern you're running special K

SpecialK is not running for this game. I install it locally for the ones I want to use it with. Should not be in log, unless SK does something I don't know it does.

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 8:04 AM

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:12:10:278 [10108] | INFO | Successfully compiled 'C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Special K\Global\ReShade\Shaders\ShortFuseFilmGrain.fx' in 0.003000 s.

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I dunno

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Maybe SK is interacting with the vulkan layer or something

narrow scroll Mar 13, 2026, 8:05 AM

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strange lantern Maybe SK is interacting with the vulkan layer or something

Oh that! It's just the folder I centralized my reshade shaders in.

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 8:05 AM

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log is spamming 448 "Resource already destroyed" warnings

narrow scroll Mar 13, 2026, 8:07 AM

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strange lantern log is spamming 448 "Resource already destroyed" warnings

What driver setting could theoretically do that? Off the top of my mind: I use YCvCr444 as my output color format for my display.

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 8:10 AM

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@dull cobalt https://github.com/SGTForgery/renodx/tree/Vulkan

GitHub

GitHub - SGTForgery/renodx at Vulkan

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

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Ritsu might know

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Maybe I am doing something bad

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I am using GoG version of the game

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but that shouldnt effect shaders

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Unless Steam overlay is playing tricks again

dull cobalt Mar 13, 2026, 8:12 AM

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Log isn't showing anything super weird

narrow scroll Mar 13, 2026, 8:13 AM

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strange lantern Unless Steam overlay is playing tricks again

Yeah, I try to disable any overlay I don't use. I have steam overlay disabled. Always.

dull cobalt Mar 13, 2026, 8:13 AM

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I'm reworking resource upgrades anyways, wait for that

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Though that's not a resources issue imo

narrow scroll Mar 13, 2026, 8:14 AM

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Btw. do you mind uploading a couple of versions, one without the 8-bit upgrades, and one without the 10-bit ones to see which one is at fault?

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 8:16 AM

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Sure

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@dull cobalt not sure if you notice in the previous commit https://github.com/SGTForgery/renodx/commit/88361a930efcf2d88424a955cec9e14633ea7092#diff-1e7de1ae2d059d21e1dd75d5812d5a34b0222cef273b7c3a2af62eb747f9d20a

GitHub

feat(bg3-vk): RC1 + lighting shaders · SGTForgery/renodx@88361a9

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For CMakeLists.txt‎ I added glsl compilation

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so you dont need to do glsl to .spv before hand, cmake does it for you

dull cobalt Mar 13, 2026, 8:20 AM

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This'd break any game that wants pure glsl

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 8:20 AM

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oh

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kekpepehands

dull cobalt Mar 13, 2026, 8:22 AM

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What's wrong with slang?

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 8:22 AM

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borks deferred shaders

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cba to figure out decomp issues

dull cobalt Mar 13, 2026, 8:23 AM

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Makes sense. Most likely it's a glsl -> slang issue

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 8:24 AM

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The other shaders are fine

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but .slang chokes on the 8000 line deferred

amber stream Mar 13, 2026, 8:25 AM

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pure glsl is goated

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 8:26 AM

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me omw to do 4 way

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.spvasm

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.glsl

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.slang

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.hlsl

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pepeBigBrain

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No r10g10b10a2_unorm upgrades

📎 renodx-baldursgate3-vk.addon64

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No r8g8b8a8_unorm upgrades

📎 renodx-baldursgate3-vk.addon64

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@narrow scroll

eternal radish Mar 13, 2026, 9:31 AM

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strange lantern # **WIP RENDERING TEST** - Improved CSMs / fixes for applying to Grymforge and ...

should we remove the shadows mod

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or it won't conflict

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 9:33 AM

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they work together

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I cant set shadow casting inside the shaders for light sources, thats engine side which is what the shadow mod does

narrow scroll Mar 13, 2026, 9:59 AM

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strange lantern No r8g8b8a8_unorm upgrades

The one without 8-bit upgrades fixes it for me. The one with 10-bit works flawlessly.

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So... it seems it is the upgrades. Now there's only the question why it does work on your end and not on mine. Interesting indeed. I'll post logs for both versions -- perhaps you can make something out of them.

narrow scroll Mar 13, 2026, 10:02 AM

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strange lantern No r10g10b10a2_unorm upgrades

Here are the logs for both versions:

📎 no-8-bit_ReShade.log 📎 no_10-bit_ReShade.log

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 4:03 PM

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mostbased

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 4:48 PM

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oh no

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this is pure sloppa

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@low steeple they used screen-space normals from dFdxFine / dFdyFine for bias direction. Temporal jitter shifts screenspace derivatives as you move the camera ofc so the whole CSM flickers and has shadow acne

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why would they not just use gbuffer normals?

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anyways I switched over to gbuffer normals

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and that fixed the digusting acne and flickering

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 4:52 PM

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strange lantern <@262441995153178625> they used screen-space normals from dFdxFine / dFdyFine fo...

For AO?

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Dunno which purpose its used for

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ddx and ddy are used to generate vertex normal from depth

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usually

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 4:54 PM

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strange lantern <@262441995153178625> they used screen-space normals from dFdxFine / dFdyFine fo...

If it has TAA jitter you must account for the jitter offset when reconstructing viewspace position

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 4:55 PM

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strange lantern and that fixed the digusting acne and flickering

Thats so weird, I dunno how they shade things in BG3

novel lion Mar 13, 2026, 5:24 PM

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strange lantern # **WIP RENDERING TEST** - Improved CSMs / fixes for applying to Grymforge and ...

do ya all play bg3 on vulkan?

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 5:24 PM

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I rewrote the addon for Vulkan now

novel lion Mar 13, 2026, 5:24 PM

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ah I see

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 5:24 PM

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Has better perf and stability

novel lion Mar 13, 2026, 5:25 PM

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I prefer dx11

I feel tht half of my mods ll break in vulkan

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I ll try vulkan l8 tho

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 5:25 PM

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Mods work for me

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I am using Listonomicon

novel lion Mar 13, 2026, 5:25 PM

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Iam still on my manual modded run xD

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 5:50 PM

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low steeple If it has TAA jitter you must account for the jitter offset when reconstructing ...

so this is what they did

The CSM shader reconstructs position as _4 * _130 jittered ray × unjittered depth, but they never unjittered the ray direction.

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mismatch causes the flickering

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 5:51 PM

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_4 * _130? Ngl I don’t understand

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CSM sampling doesn’t need any ray marching

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 5:52 PM

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let me record, maybe it will make more sense

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 5:53 PM

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Usually they do world space position * light projection matrix for CSM uv

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That world position is usually reconstructed from screen uv and depth.

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If the use a jittered screen to world matrix to do that, it would be fine

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 5:55 PM

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The CSM RTV is showing jitter, then in the deferred shader they unjitter their UVs before ray interpolation

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but they dont unjitter CSM

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so as I understand

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the mismatch causes flickering

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as you move the camera

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and it casues acne

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 5:56 PM

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strange lantern The CSM RTV is showing jitter, then in the deferred shader they unjitter their U...

It should jitter in the csm rtv yeah

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So should the deferred lighting rtv

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Basically everything before TAA should jitter

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 5:59 PM

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low steeple It should jitter in the csm rtv yeah

Btw I meant the shadow mask in screen resolution, not the csm thenselves

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Dunno why you would unjitter that in deferred lighting hmmm

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 6:00 PM

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strange lantern the mismatch causes flickering

Is this from your SSS?

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Or the game’s shadow maps

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:01 PM

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games CSMs

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 6:02 PM

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Bruhh

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Can you show the csm temselves

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:02 PM

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low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 6:02 PM

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Like the square texture

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:03 PM

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I need to open up nsight

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oh yh why doesnt VK show textures used by a shader?

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just an API thing?

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it only shows RTVs

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 6:05 PM

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VK in devkit yes. It’s hard to track resources in dx12 and vulkan

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You can click track all/descriptors in devkit

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It might show but your fps will be gone

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:07 PM

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strange lantern

Using lightdirection as bias normal also solves this but then the shadows are wrong and other meshes get acne because of uniform bias for all surfaces regardless of orientation

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so I dunno

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trying to figure out a fix for this

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but yh, the base CSM RTV flickers, has acne and does these half shaded triangle thingy on the meshes

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Doesnt apply to all surfaces or meshes

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just some

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 6:10 PM

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Maybe they are using the ddx ddy to calculate the slope for slope bias

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Maybe if you post the shader

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:10 PM

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CSM?

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sure

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 6:11 PM

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Yeah

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:11 PM

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📎 0x8AD4A32B.frag.spv

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 6:12 PM

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I mean the glsl

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Stronge

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:12 PM

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kekpepehands

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uno memento

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 6:13 PM

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strange lantern

rip that noisy ao/shadows

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:13 PM

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📎 0x8AD4A32B.frag.glsl

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:14 PM

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naive lichen rip that noisy ao/shadows

I was being a dumbo and forgor to use pre LUT colour for hue correction

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I fixed it now

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so no more pinkish flames and lava

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 6:14 PM

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woagcool

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:15 PM

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I was applying hue correction on the LUT which was giga pink already

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it corrected a bit but not fully

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now its solved

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as for the clipping I am not sure

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LUT is at fault

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and their bloom

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I can rework bloom but LUT I dunno what to do

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 6:23 PM

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That’s so large

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Stronge

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 6:30 PM

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MiruGPT solve problem

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Make no mistakes

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heihachiPlasma

naive lichen Mar 13, 2026, 6:34 PM

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KEKW

novel lion Mar 13, 2026, 6:39 PM

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does act3 textures unload fo ru guys v fast?

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like the houses unload so fast

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i tried eveything

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:/

low steeple Mar 13, 2026, 6:42 PM

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low steeple That’s so large

I couldn’t make much sense of it, it calculates the vertex normal then compare the light direction and that normal and does a ton of flags with that

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And sometimes they added bias to the position for something

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Then they sample the shadow maps with some noises in 9 taps

strange lantern Mar 13, 2026, 7:00 PM

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tired_wojak

eternal radish Mar 13, 2026, 10:47 PM

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looks gud

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ur mod

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it looks bery gud

strange lantern Mar 14, 2026, 4:34 AM

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Trying to get xegtao working

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its crashing the game

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whyGodWhy

blissful ember Mar 14, 2026, 12:52 PM

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We believe

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🤑

devout briar Mar 14, 2026, 12:53 PM

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strange lantern its crashing the game

Skill issue FBI

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 10:23 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/tuff-gguh-ai-baby-sona-meme-gif-15767759709245242383

Tenor

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nearly 2000 texture bindings

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for one shader

dull cobalt Mar 15, 2026, 10:24 AM

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That must be a bug, no fucking way

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 10:24 AM

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it just repeats 16x16 square tiles

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with different colours

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This is in Act 3 as well

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the other acts dont have this

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"Man I wonder why Act 3 runs like ass"

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Want to figure out how to force 4096x4096 for the CSMs

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base game's highest shadows only go up to 2048

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which shimmers the hell out of foliage and other fine detail

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@low steeple is it possible?

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or does this have to be an engine side change

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 10:34 AM

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strange lantern Want to figure out how to force 4096x4096 for the CSMs

Vulkan?

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 10:37 AM

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yh

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 10:39 AM

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Hook create_resource call

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You can check https://github.com/Filoppi/Luma-Framework/blob/d661ddc6f0e7cb7e4383aafd1bc266375a87a192/Source/Games/Persona 5/main.cpp#L1063

GitHub

Luma-Framework/Source/Games/Persona 5/main.cpp at d661ddc6f0e7cb7e4...

Luma is DX11 games modding framework based on the ReShade Addon system. Multiple mods are currently included, the biggest one being Prey (2017), which refactors its post processing rendering phase ...

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How to filter out the shadowmap resource during its creation

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 10:40 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/dawg-gif-9809482320226184314

Tenor

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let me get hammon diffuse in then I can test

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 11:30 AM

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Reno HDR / Reno + improvements

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Added Hammon Diffuse
Probe now has AO modulation
Horizon occlusion
Specular occlusion

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 11:34 AM

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XeGTAO?

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 11:34 AM

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havent added it yet

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HBAO isnt too bad actually

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its 720p as well

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but is actually good unlike Endfield

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its just missing on grass and foliage

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which I sort of went around by adding AO modulation to the deferreds

devout briar Mar 15, 2026, 11:35 AM

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Doesnt this looks weird?

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 11:35 AM

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stopped lightleak

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 11:35 AM

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devout briar Doesnt this looks weird?

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

Tenor

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this is what I mean by their tiled deferred

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one slight mismatch and its ogre

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basically the backside of the leaf should be in shadow but the very edge is handled by another shader

devout briar Mar 15, 2026, 11:37 AM

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Holy jank

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 11:38 AM

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yh

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its abysmal

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I sort of test the main deferred since it handles most of the scene lighting

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then if it works, I will go ahead and update the rest of the 18 shaders

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kekpepehands

devout briar Mar 15, 2026, 11:40 AM

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Larians new game will come out and it will look 500x worse than Forge's BG3

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 11:40 AM

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cope they will use RT

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pepepray

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What I am currently doing doesnt even have a perf hit

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its all just utilising whats available to us but isnt being used

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Vanilla HDR / Reno

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its also insane how pink this game is

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@worthy belfry I dont even bother with grading contrast any more

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hammon diffuse is the subtle contrast booster

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and I think I know why most games still stick with lambert

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hammon in SDR doesnt really look that good here in BG3 atleast

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HDR its great

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but SDR just makes the scene look brighter

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 11:51 AM

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strange lantern and I think I know why most games still stick with lambert

Huh I thought most modern pbr uses burley diffuse

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Cyberpunk and dying light games

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It’s a bit darker than lambert in general

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 11:53 AM

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low steeple Huh I thought most modern pbr uses burley diffuse

heihachiPlasma

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every single one I have checked is lambert sloppa

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UE5 is all lambert

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BG3 uses burley which is why characters look pretty good

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 11:58 AM

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devout briar Doesnt this looks weird?

lmao

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its not even my issue

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base game has the same jank

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devout briar Mar 15, 2026, 11:58 AM

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frenzy

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 11:58 AM

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luv to see it

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my code improves on it if anything

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but it depens on the location and camera angle

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this is probably caused by whatever causes that shadow acne in Grymforge

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"No way... look how good Ray Reconstruction is in BG3"

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think I fucked up my mod load order

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oh this is a nice find

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their sky irradiance cubemap applies uniformly onto a scene

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so another source of light leak

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and wow

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game doesnt use inverse-square of light curve

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they use pow(1 - (d²/r²)², falloff)

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 12:57 PM

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umm wat

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I thought DX only supports up to 16k

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 1:14 PM

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burley / hammon

devout briar Mar 15, 2026, 1:16 PM

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strange lantern umm wat

What is that kekpepehands

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 1:17 PM

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no clue

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RTV view is utter garbage

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looks like a mega texture or something

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that or a bug

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becasue I swear DX and VK have an upper limit of 16k

eternal radish Mar 15, 2026, 1:21 PM

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strange lantern Reno HDR / Reno + improvements

https://giphy.com/gifs/suns-collin-gillespie-dunn-nation-hBC9oFlHV191F3Lb92

Giphy

Dunn Nation

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 1:53 PM

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devout briar What is that <:kekpepehands:1409649023870173377>

oh no

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I can only have 32 floats (128 bytes)

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heihachiPlasma

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Time to merge the toggles

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but I cant merge until I know all the tiles match

devout briar Mar 15, 2026, 1:55 PM

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Do you regret going into this? kekpepehands

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 1:58 PM

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no

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gigachad

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 2:58 PM

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jeezers

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I found their hero lighting

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time to disable that shit

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First view = normal
Second = kill all area lights
Third = kill all probes
Fourth = kill both area lights and probes

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So I guess the mod only disabled area lights

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which caused the probe to darken it too much

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if we disable both for the character we gucci

worthy belfry Mar 15, 2026, 3:11 PM

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strange lantern <@759531177328508949> I dont even bother with grading contrast any more

based
tried using hammon is halo slop and it broke stuff lol

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:11 PM

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giga glowing?

worthy belfry Mar 15, 2026, 3:12 PM

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got a lot darker

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and more shimmer tm

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:13 PM

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what is the hammon math in hlsl

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:13 PM

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// ============================================================================
// 3.1 Hammon 2017 Diffuse BRDF
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Earl Hammon Jr., GDC 2017
// "PBR Diffuse Lighting for GGX+Smith Microsurfaces"
//
// Drop-in replacement for Lambertian (albedo / PI) that accounts for:
// • Single-scatter Fresnel darkening at grazing angles
// • Multi-scatter energy compensation between microfacets
//
// Designed to pair with a GGX NDF + Smith height-correlated geometry term
// on the specular side so total surface energy is conserved.
//
// Parameters (all expected saturated [0,1]):
// NdotL – saturate(dot(normal, lightDir))
// NdotV – saturate(dot(normal, viewDir))
// NdotH – saturate(dot(normal, halfVec))
// VdotH – saturate(dot(viewDir, halfVec)) (== LdotH by symmetry)
// roughness – perceptual roughness [0,1]
// albedo – surface base color (linear)
//
// Returns: albedo-weighted diffuse contribution, ready to multiply by
// NdotL * lightColor.
// ============================================================================

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:13 PM

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i mean in hlsl syntax XD

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:13 PM

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float3 HammonDiffuseBRDF(
float NdotL, float NdotV, float NdotH, float VdotH,
float roughness, float3 albedo)
{
// ---- Facing term --------------------------------------------------------
float facing = 0.5 + 0.5 * VdotH;

// ---- Rough surface approximation ----------------------------------------
// The term (0.5 + NdotH) / NdotH can blow up at grazing angles where
// NdotH approaches zero. DivideSafe only catches exact zero, so tiny
// values like NdotH ≈ 0.0001 still produce ratios of ~5001.
// Hammon's original GDC 2017 presentation uses max(NdotH, 0.1) which
// caps the ratio at (0.6 / 0.1) = 6.0, preventing bright glow artifacts.
float rough = facing * (0.9 - 0.4 * facing)
* ((0.5 + NdotH) / max(NdotH, 0.1));

// ---- Smooth surface approximation (Fresnel-weighted) --------------------
// pow5(1 - x) expanded manually for broad shader-model compatibility.
float oneMinusNdotL = 1.0 - NdotL;
float NdotL5 = oneMinusNdotL * oneMinusNdotL;
NdotL5 *= NdotL5 * oneMinusNdotL; // (1 - NdotL)^5

float oneMinusNdotV = 1.0 - NdotV;
float NdotV5 = oneMinusNdotV * oneMinusNdotV;
NdotV5 *= NdotV5 * oneMinusNdotV; // (1 - NdotV)^5

float smooth_val = 1.05 * (1.0 - NdotL5) * (1.0 - NdotV5);

// ---- Single-scatter: blend smooth ↔ rough by roughness, ÷ PI -----------
float single = lerp(smooth_val, rough, roughness) * 0.318309886; // 1/PI

// ---- Multi-scatter energy compensation -----------------------------------
// Approximates the additional energy returned by light bouncing more than
// once between microfacets. Multiplied by albedo² because each bounce is
// attenuated by the surface color.
float multi = 0.1159 * roughness;

return albedo * single + albedo * albedo * multi;
}

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basically this

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:14 PM

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I think

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It becomes very dark in @worthy belfry 's case is because you need to multiply pi to the lighting (or albedo)

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:15 PM

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yes

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for existing games with lambert

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or Burley

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thats already there

worthy belfry Mar 15, 2026, 3:16 PM

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ah lol

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:16 PM

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Halo is phong so lacks it

worthy belfry Mar 15, 2026, 3:16 PM

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yep

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:18 PM

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ngl thats a really weird fresnel, my knowledge is only up to date with burley XD

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And albedo multibounce I think in games they compute it from GTAO now

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HBAO might not be physically correct for multibounce tho

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:22 PM

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strange lantern burley / hammon

Yeah burley is always dark even in direct light

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Very weird

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Lambert vs burley

worthy belfry Mar 15, 2026, 3:26 PM

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hammon in the beast when? (:

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:27 PM

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low steeple HBAO might not be physically correct for multibounce tho

Dont think they use GTAO in TF2

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its HBAO+

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:27 PM

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beast is burley same as dl2 i think

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Yeha

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all new games use gtao then use it for multibounce albedo

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:27 PM

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ah ok

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Hammon made the diffuse model for titanfall 2

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:28 PM

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or use RTAO

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any physically correct AO can do it

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:28 PM

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low steeple Lambert vs burley

doesnt convert energy

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from what I understand

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Hammon noted this in the presentation

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which is why he developed hammon diffuse

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:29 PM

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float3 AOMultiBounce( float3 BaseColor, float AO )
{
    float3 a =  2.0404 * BaseColor - 0.3324;
    float3 b = -4.7951 * BaseColor + 0.6417;
    float3 c =  2.7552 * BaseColor + 0.6903;
    return max( ( AO ).xxx, ((AO * a + b) * AO + c) * AO );
}

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:29 PM

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to solve short commings of both lamber and burely

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:29 PM

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Just this

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disney version of burely tried to do energy conservation which is what dl2 uses

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// Disney diffuse BRDF as in: http://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2012-shading-course/burley/s2012_pbs_disney_brdf_notes_v3.pdf
// with the conservation correction factor from: 
float3 DiffuseBRDF(float NdotV, float NdotL, float LdotH, float3 albedo, float roughness)
{
    // Disney diffuse with energy correction factor from Frostbite
    float energyBias = 0.5 * roughness;
    float energyFactor = -0.337748344 * roughness + 1.0; // lerp( 1.0, 1.0 / 1.51, roughness );

    float fd90 = energyBias + 2.0 * LdotH * LdotH * roughness;
    float lightScatter = SchlickFresnel(1.0f, fd90, NdotL);
    float viewScatter = SchlickFresnel( 1.0f, fd90, NdotV);
    return albedo * ( lightScatter * viewScatter * energyFactor * INV_PI );
}

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stolen from cyberpunk

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gigachad

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what specular model does hammon use then?

worthy belfry Mar 15, 2026, 3:33 PM

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hammon is basically oren-nayar built to work with smith ggx iirc

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:39 PM

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yep

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its meant to be a drop in replacement for existing lambert

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or Burley

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assuming you have smith ggx

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or the standard cook terrance setup

low steeple Mar 15, 2026, 3:42 PM

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So what else you cooked

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 3:43 PM

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a bunch of stuff

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just making sure they all work

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with the tiled deferred

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going to disable hero lighting now

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and try to stop windows from leaking light

blissful ember Mar 15, 2026, 4:26 PM

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strange lantern and try to stop windows from leaking light

Isn't that the point of a window though 😅 ?

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Since its transparent and stuff 🥲

strange lantern Mar 15, 2026, 4:32 PM

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well you see

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larian doesnt do that

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they treat windows as glowing light sources

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to light up interiors

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so the interior leaks light colour whilst on the outside the window is dark

eternal radish Mar 15, 2026, 6:01 PM

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@strange lantern overshooting by 200 nits heihachiPlasma

dull cobalt Mar 15, 2026, 7:31 PM

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@strange lantern I wanna test the new resource cloning system, lemme know if you update your branch

novel lion Mar 15, 2026, 11:19 PM

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@strange lantern how stable is vulkan for u compared to dx11 hm?

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 8:31 AM

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heihachiPlasma

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bruh I come back and theres 3 pings

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 8:32 AM

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Mr.Popular

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 8:33 AM

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eternal radish <@377729668448780288> overshooting by 200 nits <:heihachiPlasma:1413691312984559...

ok this is strange, @amber stream I dunno if their bloom is doing some funky. Even when I set the tonemap_lut_sample shader to vanilla (e.g untonemapped) and then used Lilium's, it was still going over peak

That or theres an artefact on the swapchain or something

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 8:34 AM

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novel lion <@377729668448780288> how stable is vulkan for u compared to dx11 hm?

more stable, DX11 would have a 1/8 change to randomly crash either in-game or on start up

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DX11 was also slower to load in, either on start up or into a save

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VK doesnt do that, it just werks

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and has better CPU perf

amber stream Mar 16, 2026, 8:35 AM

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is it not just sharpening or something

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causing peak to go over

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

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could be, they have DLSS sharpening but it shouldnt be used if you have newer than DLSS 2

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unless dio forgor

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to update

amber stream Mar 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

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oof is dlss running after tm

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

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heihachiPlasma

amber stream Mar 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

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aa after tm will also make it go over

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

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fuk

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could be

amber stream Mar 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

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that means its not real overshoot anyway

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 8:38 AM

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Yh, I fixed the borked hues now by using pre lut colours

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all I have left is the brickwalling

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I dunno whats causing the highlights to brickwall

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their LUT

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and their bloom are doodoo

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I guess I could set a highlight roll off in the lutbuilder

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but then Dio wont have his 4K nit yellows

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 9:26 AM

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vanilla / rendering

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#

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a decent chunk of lightleak should now be gone

eternal radish Mar 16, 2026, 9:33 AM

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wow crushing black levels gj

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noice

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smort

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the allegations will never stop

amber stream Mar 16, 2026, 9:36 AM

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strange lantern Yh, I fixed the borked hues now by using pre lut colours

boo

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skippping grading

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 9:37 AM

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pepeBigBrain

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lemme go back to pink flames instead

amber stream Mar 16, 2026, 9:37 AM

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are you skipping 2.2 emulation

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don't need that shit anymore

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 9:37 AM

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oh no I am not entirely using pre lut colours

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just for hue shifting

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to fix flames

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 9:41 AM

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eternal radish wow crushing black levels gj

heihachiPlasma

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game has no gi other than dogshit probes

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which leak light

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pathtracing gaming cant come soon enough

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anyways, here I am also using the darker Shadowland mod

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so it makes everything blick anyways

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Banilla shadowlands are brighterr

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WIP Rendering Test 2

Using prelut colour for hue shifting (stops all forms of pink sand, cliffs and flames
Added more stuff
Hammon BRDF
Toggle for fake hero lighting

📎 renodx-baldursgate3-vk.addon64

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 9:46 AM

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strange lantern # **WIP Rendering Test 2** - Using prelut colour for hue shifting (stops all fo...

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

Tenor

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that vanilla fake hero lighting is something

eternal radish Mar 16, 2026, 10:01 AM

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strange lantern # **WIP Rendering Test 2** - Using prelut colour for hue shifting (stops all fo...

gtao where

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pt where

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heihachiPlasma

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 10:02 AM

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I will need to add GTAO or atleast upgrade HBAO to use full res

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its causing low res artefacts now with all my stuff

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 10:02 AM

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strange lantern I will need to add GTAO or atleast upgrade HBAO to use full res

Can you even upgrade to full res without engine stuff?

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 10:02 AM

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yes

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what Miru showed

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you can hijack RTVs / textures

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assuming the game doesnt blow up from it

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 10:03 AM

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Might try that on horizon

dull cobalt Mar 16, 2026, 10:03 AM

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Finally clean addon code 😭

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Endfield addon traumatized me

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 10:05 AM

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kekpepehands

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@devout briar

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 10:10 AM

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dull cobalt Endfield addon traumatized me

pure sloppa game

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 10:14 AM

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strange lantern you can hijack RTVs / textures

Well you can also just update_descriptor_tables() of the currently bound tables with your own resource views that point to a full res resource

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Pretty much what I did with the DOF in endfield, without having to recreate the pipeline

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But if you more resources than what the game has then you will need to clone and modify the pipeline despairge

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 10:19 AM

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devout briar Can you even upgrade to full res without engine stuff?

It will be hard in vulkan/dx12, because it's not possible if the resource you are overriding belongs to AO

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despairge

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 10:22 AM

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low steeple It will be hard in vulkan/dx12, because it's not possible if the resource you ar...

The game I will be trying it on is DX11 is that fine then?

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 10:25 AM

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DX11 much easier

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 10:37 AM

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low steeple DX11 much easier

Hmm actually no, overriding on resource create is just as hard in dx11. I was thinking of "switching game resource to your own resource" XD

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 10:44 AM

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WIP Rendering Test 2

Using prelut colour for hue shifting (stops all forms of pink sand, cliffs and flames
Added more stuff
Hammon BRDF
Toggle for fake hero lighting

(Added corpses and Material ID 7 characters to also be affected by hero lighting toggle)

**Instructions for Vulkan are below **

#1466367902923096105 message

📎 renodx-baldursgate3-vk.addon64

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 10:44 AM

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strange lantern # **WIP Rendering Test 2** - Using prelut colour for hue shifting (stops all fo...

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@naive lichen

feral tartan Mar 16, 2026, 11:00 AM

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looks awesome, is this meant to be used with the shadows mod?

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 11:00 AM

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yes

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I think you can use it separately

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but it might also spawn new permutations for shaders

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which I cba to edit every single one of them

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If the game used a regular deferred system it wouldnt be as much as a hassle but right now I need to match multiple tile deferred shaders

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oh wait

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I should probably added instructions for VK every pin

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 11:05 AM

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strange lantern

This also works consistently, the mod ones either break with VK for some reason or randomly toggle on and off depending on save load, location ect

frank flare Mar 16, 2026, 11:12 AM

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strange lantern

i have a feeling most players would want hero lighting turned on lol

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 11:13 AM

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They dont know ball

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 11:14 AM

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Well I aint most players

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

Tenor

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Again, per the GDC Larian added it becasue 'muh visibility'

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but it looks atrocious

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TW: Warhammer 3 also did this but it was caused by LUT mismatching gamma or some BS

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caused all the unit models to glow

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Anyways, theres a toggle so

if you want = use

if you dont want = dont use

frank flare Mar 16, 2026, 11:18 AM

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strange lantern Again, per the GDC Larian added it becasue 'muh visibility'

that's what I'm saying, normies would want it

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and larian added it for them

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i wish it was an option in the vanilla game

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 11:47 AM

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strange lantern but it looks atrocious

Make the intensity a slider

foggy ember Mar 16, 2026, 11:48 AM

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Forge this is unreal, cheers

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 11:50 AM

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I am going to work on fixing this highlight brick walling now

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 12:34 PM

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foggy ember Forge this is unreal, cheers

feral tartan Mar 16, 2026, 12:40 PM

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it looks incredible in game. In dark scenes (like the opening area) I can't see shit but it may be skill issue - also not viewing in a dark room rn

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 1:08 PM

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Forge gonna make me play 4th run of BG3 doomerWojak

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 1:28 PM

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@worthy belfry @low steeple I tested out the laplacian texture blending I found in that paper

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pretty good

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vanilla / laplacian

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so I am using it here on the terrain gbuffer shader

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 1:29 PM

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Hmm what does it do mainly

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 1:29 PM

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paper is here https://jcgt.org/published/0014/01/02/

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 1:29 PM

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My phone screen is too small to see xd

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 1:30 PM

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frenzy

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lemme give you a tldr

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So standard texture blendinghas an inherent problem where no single blending radius works for all frequency content.

You tend to have either
• Small radius → sharp, but low-frequency features show a visible seam
• Large radius → smooth, but high-frequency details lose contrast/ghost

Paper's solution is to to the following

Split textures into frequency bands using the existing mipmap chain as a Laplacian pyramid, then blend each band with an appropriately sized radius

• Low frequencies → wide blending radius (smooth color transitions)
• High frequencies → narrow blending radius (preserve sharp detail)

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it also helps to solve seems

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https://jcgt.org/published/0014/01/02/supplement_demo/

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they have this live demo

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in game for me it looks like you've almost applied a higher AF amount

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the terrain just has more detail and almost like a subtle local contrast

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kinda looks like micro shadow detail as well

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 1:49 PM

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Huh interesting

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Does it only work with multiple textures blending

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 1:50 PM

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yes

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since if you dont have multiple blends then its pointless

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I think I saw it mentioned somewhere that you can use it for tonemapping

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like you make multiple mipmaps

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and you can use it to preserve highlights better

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 1:51 PM

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Yeah I dunno about that one, it’s like local contrast

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 1:51 PM

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that might be it

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I guess you can use it as a local contrast for colour base stuff

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 1:53 PM

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Although I might help with more advanced perceptual tonemap ping, I’m no expert on that. Need Kevin to explain to us peasants

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heihachiPlasma

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 1:54 PM

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kekpepehands

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I will probably try messing around with it in Crimson

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or it might be good for games like Wilds

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where the whole game is just washed out

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Nier

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 1:55 PM

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Will you be able to finish BG3 till crimson or will you leave it unfinished

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 1:56 PM

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'finished'

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pepe_omegakek

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 1:56 PM

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💀

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 1:56 PM

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I will probably post WIP 3

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and thats all you lot get

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until I return 4 months later

low steeple Mar 16, 2026, 1:56 PM

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When is CD releasing

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 1:57 PM

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19 i think

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 1:57 PM

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19th

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so this thursday

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 3:13 PM

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https://tenor.com/view/ts-pmo-ngl-gif-11910576611451267173

Tenor

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never beating the anti soul gas allegations

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 3:43 PM

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zamn

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they have the full TLoU2 eye rendering setup

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eyelid + eyelash shadowing

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Iris parallax refraction

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Limbal darkening

devout briar Mar 16, 2026, 3:44 PM

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It cant be all slop ig

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 5:07 PM

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anti soul gas is INZANE

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native HDR / Reno Dee legs

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frenzy

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near 1nit raised black floor

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This will be a slider users can adjust for volumetric fog

frank flare Mar 16, 2026, 5:17 PM

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strange lantern native HDR / Reno Dee legs

Larian probably made that choice on purpose

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and hey Forge, awesome job with the shadows in the game

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 5:17 PM

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frank flare Larian probably made that choice on purpose

every dev makes that choice nowadays

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they all love slappering everything in volumetrics

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despairge

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mfw when I walk into a room in rl and dont have a constant haze as if the whole building was on fire

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where is that meme

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let me find it

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zero contrast because everything just has a permanent grey haze

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shy torrent Mar 16, 2026, 5:26 PM

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Grey haze sounds like a fire ass weed

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 5:32 PM

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ofc the Dutchoid is just thinking about the devil's lettuce

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kekpepehands

naive lichen Mar 16, 2026, 5:33 PM

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strange lantern

Dang

naive lichen Mar 16, 2026, 5:34 PM

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strange lantern <@380859926680961024>

Wait did you manage to get it to work ??

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 5:34 PM

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strange lantern

so this is caused by them having broken portal marker code

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abysmal

naive lichen Mar 16, 2026, 5:34 PM

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They seem to be GI affected now? Not completely dark?

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 5:34 PM

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yes

naive lichen Mar 16, 2026, 5:34 PM

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POG

strange lantern Mar 16, 2026, 5:34 PM

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You have a toggle in reno dee legs menu

#Baldur's Gate 3

VULKAN ADDON

Instructions

WIP RENDERING TEST

WIP Rendering Test 2

WIP Rendering Test 2