╟🎑reshades

[steady marsh]

i dont have discord nitro so i cant post my screenshots as they are 4k, unless this server allows posting big file sizes, i can try

[earnest prairie]

could my fps problems be caused my my driver versions

[steady marsh]

have you tried turning down the grass? thats a big fps killer

[earnest prairie]

no fps difference

[steady marsh]

here are 3 quick ones i just took on a new game in rookie village

[vague island]

it looks pretty nice thanks for taking the time to give some screens

this is without reshade right

[steady marsh]

oh no, thats with the reshade my apologies

one sec

[vague island]

the eden reshade? unfortunately it takes me down from stable 60 fps to 45

thats why I dont use it

[steady marsh]

i turned off clarity and unsharp and i gained about 10 fps

[steady marsh]

here are ones without the reshade

[vague island]

maybe ill give it another go thanks for the info

btw do you know what cfg_load grading_vanilla does

its in the readme dummy of cs eden

[steady marsh]

don't know what it does but i did the command lol

[vague island]

i did it but somehow my game looked kind of brown with regular gamma reshade after it loaded

[vague island]

same here

but I like autumn harmony without reshade it feels grim and scary

more immersive in the great swamps imo but ill try eden reshade again tomorrow hope i get same results as you

[steady marsh]

i havent tried autumn harmony, just the golden autumn

i tried autumn season redux but it was too dead for me

[earnest prairie]

i think that gained me like 2 fps 💀

[heavy kayak]

for me that was 5-10 more fps

[astral halo]

What texture packs does everyone like using? If you use one? I see Golden Autumn, Autumn Season, and Autumn Harmony mentioned a lot.

[steady marsh]

#╟🎑reshades message
this is golden autumn with edens reshade

[astral halo]

Definitely looks nice.

Does anyone run aggresor reshade?

[steady marsh]

we dont speak of such things here

[gray egret]

What is the best way to get gamma looking good on 1440p, just wonder if anyone has any tips 🙂

[earnest prairie]

antialiasing should help

[celest nebula]

I want, how do I get

[open ivy]

#old-framerate-optimisation

[steady marsh]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

using golden autumn, read EVERYTHING in the "read me" with that link and have fun!

[celest nebula]

whats a XR file?

what am I doing with it...

[steady marsh]

xr file?

what are you talking about lol

[celest nebula]

its the thing you linked me too the message

idk how to install reshades

[steady marsh]

oh shit wait my bad hold on i gavce you the wrong link

@celest nebula
#🖇old-mods-posting message

[celest nebula]

it says I have to extract something from a downloaded archive, which archive?

[steady marsh]

bro download the read me then read it and follow the step by step guide provided, theres a link just above the 1. Basic Instructions For Everyone line, do as the guide says, then only follow the 1st and 4th "chapters" if you want the game looking like mine

[mint owl]

Don't think so but I would just in case

I think I should add that it's for DX11 only then

[celest nebula]

what does it mean by Put Autumn Harmony JUST ABOVE the G.A.M.M.A. Disabled separator in MO2. Step 6 btw

[mint owl]

You can use cfg_load grading_warm to revert it, but grading_vanilla is better imo

[mint owl]

Well if you have downloaded it, it just means change its place in the load order to match what it's saying

[celest nebula]

what... sorry my IQ is room temperature rn. so 76*F

whats the load order

@mint owl

[mint owl]

Oof xD

Well, whatever you see when you open Mod Organizer 2, the list of all your mods

Which are loaded into the game in a specific order as you can see

[celest nebula]

uhhh huh

[mint owl]

GAMMA has 330+ mods right ?

[celest nebula]

yep

[mint owl]

Do you see the list of them ?

[celest nebula]

yep

[mint owl]

And numbers on the right side under the priority column

[celest nebula]

yep

[mint owl]

That's your load order

[celest nebula]

ok? so what does this do with autumn harmony, there is like nothing in this entire page that says anything about it. do I have to launch my game again?

[mint owl]

Now go all the way down, there should be an "in between" named GAMMA disabled

[celest nebula]

ohh

yeah

I see

[mint owl]

Now, install Autumn Harmony using Mod Organizer 2, it will then appear last

[celest nebula]

ok time to explain how I do that

[mint owl]

Then just make it slide above GAMMA disabled

[celest nebula]

how do I install anything using mod organizer 2

[mint owl]

Ah

Read the FAQ from the readme

[celest nebula]

ahhh shit

[mint owl]

First question I think

[celest nebula]

ok, so now what mod am I installing?

[mint owl]

[steady marsh]

[celest nebula]

room temp IQ sorry

[mint owl]

Autumn Harmony

[celest nebula]

w h e r e, I was never linked a download for that one I have edens final reshaders

reshades

whatevewr

[mint owl]

[steady marsh]

he links it in the read me, open it which takes you to the moddb page, open the google drive from the mod db drive, then install the thing titles 00 and either 01 (golden autumn, my screenshots,) or 02 for a more dead look

its like the 1st step of step 4

chapter 4 i mnean

[celest nebula]

damn

[mint owl]

1st, choose which pack you want to use with my reshade

Then use the link provided to download it

[celest nebula]

1 hour install time...

AHHHHHHHHHH

[mint owl]

But obviously don't follow stuff for Autumn Harmony if you're using something else xD

[mint owl]

Also, there a question in FAQ for this issue

[celest nebula]

got the autumn season redux, anything else I should know?

[steady marsh]

If you specifically want my screenshots follow chapter 1 titled "I. Basic instructions for everyone" and then skip all the way down to "IV. Golden Autumn Redux/Autumn Season Redux users"

#╟🎑reshades message

Read that for a description of what each of the available packs does

so you can download to your taste

[mint owl]

And please, please, do read the installation, do not check the new main menu

If there's the option during installation

[mint owl]

Thank you so much for assistance

[celest nebula]

how do I check how many effects are enabled in game? @mint owl

[steady marsh]

press the "home" key

[celest nebula]

did that part

[steady marsh]

at the top theres a drop down, select edens final reshade

[celest nebula]

thanks

[steady marsh]

go over to the settings tab

[celest nebula]

yeah I got it, 23 running effects and the game looks sick as hell

[steady marsh]

in that first block of information make sure your game ONLY has
.\reshade-shaders\Shaders\qUINT
.\reshade-shaders\Shaders\PD80
.\reshade-shaders\Shaders\

.\reshade-shaders\Textures\

[steady marsh]

No problem, I know you are probably sick of it even after making your beautiful read me

[celest nebula]

sorry, im kinda out of it today

[steady marsh]

if your fps is suffering a bit i unchecked the clarity and unsharp options from those selected 23 effects and gained about 10fps

[raw maple]

I got a GTX 1070 and an i7 7700 with 16GB RAM
Anyone with similar specs could recommend some in-game graphics + shaders settings?
I'm struggling to find a sweet spot over here, have been conservative with my selected filters (using CS Eden's Final Reshade, using no more than 6 filters) but still can't get a consistent 75+ FPS without going lower than 1080p in resolution, which really doesn't look good (am currently trying multiple AMD FSR settings but no luck so far)

[steady marsh]

Have you tried https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/929309266056196096 @raw maple

[raw maple]

I'm disabling core 0, setting high priority, also not going overboard with grass. A lot of the settings suggested there honestly go over the line for aesthetics I'm looking for (like going to the absolute lowest settings for grass), but I did try using all of those and it was still not that big of an impact

[steady marsh]

you using dx11 or dx11 avx?

[raw maple]

Well, using DX8 did help quite a bit, but that looks ugly haha

[raw maple]

I'm switching between those today and haven't noticed much of a difference either

Also tried DX10/DX10 AVX

[steady marsh]

any particular reason why you want 75+ instead of say 63+? Id say 63+ is pretty smooth from my personal experience on here

[raw maple]

Just what I'm used to, I guess. I do like 63+ but I've been dipping below that sometimes too, still

[steady marsh]

considered buying a 4090? i hear that might help a bit

[raw maple]

Rostok kills my FPS pretty hard too haha

[raw maple]

lol that'd be fun

[steady marsh]

solve all your problems there

[raw maple]

Honestly, the CPU seems to be the main thing here, as the game can't make use of multi-core

Anyways, I'm curious what performance most people here expect/get from the game over here, while having it look decent

And of course, what settings + shaders go into that

[sour oar]

Pinged again

Once again beheaded

And thrown under the bus again

[still badge]

Had a few requests to upload my Reshade preset that I use for screenshots for anyone who wants to use them for some zone photography (not really
usefeul for gameplay), examples provided below.

It is based off the original GAMMA preset and uses much of the same settings with my additional tweaks Included:

• Bloom
• Chromatic Abberation
• MXAO (ambient occlusion)
• DELC Sharpening
• Adaptive Depth of field (included with default gamma installation) & Focal DoF (make sure to place the FocalDof.fx in your ...reshade-shaders/shaders)
• Artistic Vignette (also place inside ...reshade-shaders/shaders)

For this to work correctly with the depth you will need to add the following pre-processor definition to your ReShade.ini:

PreprocessorDefinitions=RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_REVERSED=0 found in the [GENERAL] section.

NOTE:

keep in mind this alone will not replicate what I have in these screenshots this was designed to be used with the following:

• 'GOLDEN AUTUMN REDUX' amazing texture pack by FabioConte which can be found in the Mod Posting section.
• In light settings within gamma itself, saturation set to 0.8 as opposed to the default 1.2
• Both Antialiasing settings set to max (High and 8x, respectively)
• Nvidia DLDSR 2.25x (compatible with RTX cards) or 4k Resolution (to mitigate DLDSR from violating your framerate turn Anistropic Filtering to 8x or even 5x).

[steady marsh]

ive got a 3090+5800x gpu sits around 80-88% usage and cpu sits around 10% usage playing on regular dx11 playing at 4k with graphics near maxed out including grass and using edens reshade i get 63+fps, worst fps ive seen is in yantar so far which i still get 63+ in, cordon, swamps, agroprom, garbage, etc is all 75+fps, switching to dx11 avx gives worse performance for me

[raw maple]

Gotcha. Pretty different setup for specs for sure, but it's nice to get some input on this

[mint owl]

🫂

[mint owl]

And then there's Dead City

[steady marsh]

Sounds like a problem for future DJ Dirty Elbows

[mint owl]

I get between 45-60 there with my 3060ti 1080p

Using DX11 no AVX

[steady marsh]

can't wait

[wet violet]

Thanks for sharing! I took your advice on the sharpening a few days back and DELC Sharpening with proper depth reshade config is really fucking good

[sour oar]

I get 50fps in Dead City, 70 early game

[sour oar]

3060 gang 🤝

[covert tangle]

With a threadripper 2990wx and 3090

should i use AVX or no?

[steady marsh]

i mean, you could just test it for yourself, but my 3090+5800x gets worse performance with AVX

[covert tangle]

thanks for the advice, will give it a go

[river flower]

!avx

[void depot]

Actual explanation at the bottom but simply put:

Do you have a good CPU? Use AVX (if you have a crash, it probably means your CPU doesn't support this function).
Do you have a good GPU? DON'T use AVX.
Do you have both? Try for yourself, see what's better.

Actual explanation:
AVX is a way for your CPU to do calculations on a large array of data simultaneously. This is the same kind of job GPUs are primarily meant for.
So if your GPU is decent, AVX is (in most cases) outclassed by the GPU itself. Best way to know which is better for you, personally, is to try both versions and see what does or doesn't crash/performs better.

[covert tangle]

Oh.. good to know, thanks mate

I guess the 3090 is enough to handle it in non AVX mode

will give it a try

i'm playing warfare mode, when firefights start... FPS goes to 10

lol

[river flower]

!warfare

G.A.M.M.A. isn't built with Warfare in mind and Warfare, per se, have bad perfomance, bugs, issues, etc., this is why it isn't recommended.
You can play it if you really want to, but forget about #🔨base-gamma-support, this channel support is only for G.A.M.M.A. vanilla (which basically means no extra stuff at all) and is also used by Grok for bug fixing.
Since G.A.M.M.A. vanilla doesn't use Warfare, you'll need to use #🔨modded-gamma-support.

[covert tangle]

guess i will resume my story mode save

[radiant sky]

I enabled the Agressor reshade in the MO2 menu but didn't see it show up in game? Is there more I need to do?

[leaden linden]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-excited-emotional-sentimental-feelings-gif-20646152

[sour oar]

You lost me at Aggressor

Lost interest

[wet violet]

I knew you were about to get Agressored

[astral halo]

What's the lore behind people not liking aggresor? I am new around here.

[mint owl]

Well, how can I say that...

[mint owl]

You have to download on moddb, this is only ground textures in MO2

[river flower]

Wise choice my man

[mint owl]

Let's just say that it's a bit bloomy and dark at the same time

[astral halo]

Ah I see I see.

[astral halo]

Well I've been using your reshade, really like it man. Great work.

[mint owl]

Thanks, really appreciate it 💙

[open ivy]

one day itll be renamed in mo2

one day

[minor urchin]

Screen Space Shaders - Ascii1457 addon, Enhanced Shaders addon R3zy Detectors Shaders Fix addon, Dynamic Tonemap addon and Cumulative Shaders Pack addon
Which of these shaders make the game look the best without big difference to performace

[mint owl]

Grok has been made aware of that issue but boy do I wish it was renamed already

[minor urchin]

like im trying to delete some to get better fps but i still want the game to look good

[mint owl]

You shouldn't search there for performances, but in that case, Enhanced shaders + Detector shaders fix

But your game will not look good

If there's no crash to begin with that is

[open ivy]

have u tried #old-framerate-optimisation

[minor urchin]

where should i search because thats what it says in #old-framerate-optimisation

[minor urchin]

yeah and without dissabling the those shaders its bout 80 fps which isnt terrible but still

[open ivy]

oic

whats ur setup?

[minor urchin]

r7 5700x 3060 32gb ram

[open ivy]

oic

i am getting around the same fps with a 2070 if that helps

bit lower

i also did this if u havent alr done

#╭📖faq message

[minor urchin]

yeah just did it im in more the 90 -100 fps in rookie village

with all the shaders still ther

game looks great

[open ivy]

yee pogb

[sinful river]

Will adding reshade help me with the fact that in Rookie Village I have about 50m of visibility, and its almost as if the fog creates a white wall beyond that?

[minor urchin]

no increase the world setting

or its just litterally the weather

[sinful river]

trying it now

[sour oar]

Yeah the world render distance setting is what determines that

[raven meadow]

do it 😗

[mint owl]

Later, I'm a busy man xD

[raven meadow]

i thought u were female XD decide already hahaahh also i just installed golden autumn, let's see haha

damn, golden autumn main menu is sick 💦

[raven meadow]

go break all the oil lamps in the Merc base, this shit causes huge fps drops

[mint owl]

I was just kidding xD

Oh you installed Golden Autumn Redux menu ?

[raven meadow]

yeah, it looks insane holy

now i have to rework my reshade

[mint owl]

Good luck with that x)

[raven meadow]

i will share u 2 pictures

1 or 2 ?

[mint owl]

What weather + time of the day ?

[raven meadow]

15pm weather idk sunny i guess xd

[mint owl]

Then 1 is the better choice

[raven meadow]

first pic is with ray tracing

[mint owl]

Sunny afternoon should realistically cast more light, hence why picture 2 is not good

[raven meadow]

yeah

i have to play around with the ray tracing because as it is right now is way too bright

but holy, just enabling that single shader -15 fps XD

[mint owl]

Yeah, you won't get away with it without tweaking values a'd checking multiple weathers + time of the day

See how hard it is to get a performance preset ? xD

[half crystal]

Found this on Reddit, idk what reshade it is

[raven meadow]

i thought it was irl xd

[half crystal]

Yeah same lol

[mint owl]

Because that's IRL

[half crystal]

It’s not

I don’t think

[mint owl]

Okay then tell me where is that place in the Zone ?

[half crystal]

Or I’m just dumb

[mint owl]

It's way to clean and crisp to be Stalker, let's be realistic here

[half crystal]

Ok never mind

[mint owl]

It's just a troll posting an IRL picture

[half crystal]

You’re right lmao

[mint owl]

Reallife.fx shader

[half crystal]

Just looked a little pixelated when I zoomed in

[mint owl]

Because the original resolution is not that great

[half crystal]

I’ve been bamboozled

[mint owl]

It wasn't that hard it seems

[half crystal]

Listen I just thought they had a 4090 or something

[mint owl]

[half crystal]

Also it’s 2 am

[mint owl]

Having a powerful GPU doesn't upgrade the graphic quality of an old game engine to future 2032 games quality x)

Especially when said GPU cost organs

[half crystal]

Well I mean handling better reshade and mods

[raven meadow]

nah man u lying, 3080=doom original game makes it UE5 easily

[mint owl]

Well, found your Reddit page, everyone was really taking the joke on top level xD

[half crystal]

Yeah lmao

[tidal marlin]

lmaoooo

"thats a real photo guys please go outside and touch some grass"

"cant bro, dont wanna risk a conflict with my current grass texture"

[twin sky]

anyone recommend a good RTGI reshade? i have the shaders so i can just copy paste

[raven meadow]

y'all know how to make the weather sunny instead of foggy 24/7 ?

[raven meadow]

yes this is what i use, solaris bloom

[vague island]

thanks, ill try both and see the difference cause when I switched it to grading_vanilla, the default gamma reshade became weird like everything was just brown

[mint owl]

Keep in mind that Gamma Reshade was made with grading_warm, hence why it will look this way

[twin sky]

default reshade that came with gamma + RTGI https://imgsli.com/MTMxMDI5

its a comparison website so you have to click the link

another example https://imgsli.com/MTMxMDMw

i know the AO is pretty stong, gonna tweak it a bit more, i do like some heavy ao tho

[acoustic stump]

Which side is which?

left default?

[twin sky]

left reshade

[acoustic stump]

@mint owl "Set gamma level to 1 while playing" sorry if its a dumb question - where do you adjust this?

[twin sky]

settings, basic light settings

[acoustic stump]

ahh - had never actually clicked on that basic light settings button haha

[cedar gust]

what is a very nice reshade for a mid tier pc

i want my game to look beautiful

[cedar escarp]

is it possible to get DLAA from GShade to work on GAMMA?, or anyone has some settings for AA from GShade that looks nice?

[swift robin]

how do i open reshade settings?

[dawn python]

Home key

[swift robin]

the windows one?

[dawn python]

no the one above the End key

[swift robin]

what end key

[vague island]

near the page up and down stuff

[swift robin]

i dont have that

[dawn python]

are you on a laptop

[swift robin]

yep

[dawn python]

literally take a photo of the right half of your laptop keyboard

[dawn python]

Is there an "Fn" key on the left hand side?

[swift robin]

Indeed

[dawn python]

hold the Fn key and press Left arrow

[swift robin]

Thanks that worked

now i just have to find out how any of this works

[swift robin]

Any good rehades to replace or improve the GAMMA reshade?

[shy knoll]

eden's reshade

[astral kestrel]

damn, eden reshade really lookin good

[mint owl]

[rapid flare]

Any reshade recommendations for people with HDR monitors or specifically OLED screens maybe?

[vagrant swan]

Seconded 😄

[mint owl]

Thirded

[full condor]

Quad...ed?

[mint owl]

Nah you can be third I was just joking x)

[wet violet]

Rostok never looked better

[wet bluff]

Hi, I have a question about the instruction @mint owl. It says "Select Volumetric instead of Screen Space. Set gamma level to 1.1 while playing". I can't find the advanced settings, only settings ? or is this the regular game settings and not re shade settings ?

[dawn python]

volumetric sun rays i believe

it's in Settings > Visual > Advanced

[wet bluff]

I can only change that from high to low ?

found it!

[wet bluff]

thank you ❤️

[naive linden]

I also have a question when using the melting winters reshade with the body health system turned off the UI is a bit wacky. Is there a way to restore the vanilla UI that is not connected to the body health system?

[brittle ether]

trying Melting as well

[sour oar]

Eden’s Melting Winters reshade wasn’t built with the vanilla UI in mind, so you might experience issues yeah

GAMMA UI or bust my friend

[naive linden]

Well ya im aware which is why I was curious if there was a way to try it out and see

[brittle ether]

curious, but I believed I had followed CS's instructions to a T but when i pull up home to look up the Reshade Options I cant seem to find Winter

[sour oar]

(I say this so Eden can ping me when he’s available and contradict my statement )

[naive linden]

Gamma UI breaks without the body health system a bit

[wet bluff]

I'm Trying Autumn's Harmony and it looks Great! But I am not a fan of the brown body health display 😅

[sour oar]

Brown

That’s a thing??

[wet bluff]

wil show

[sour oar]

Sus, send a photo of your Anomaly/Bin folder

[sour oar]

This just makes me perplexed

What am I looking for

[brittle ether]

Like everything is all here right xD

[mint owl]

You have instructions to revert it to vanilla in readme

[sour oar]

Why does everyone have a body health system from 1980

[wet bluff]

! I thought that was overall revert to vanilla D: Thank you <3

[brittle ether]

perhaps I didnt download it

[sour oar]

But what about the folders

Should only be one

[mint owl]

Nope, you'll find it under Autumn's description in the readme

[naive linden]

So Eden is there a way to bring up a non-body UI at all or does the reshade lock that out entirely

[wet bluff]

Thank you very much, and it looks awesome

[brittle ether]

nothing just showing the Blue Ui

[mint owl]

Do you have the ini preset in your Anomaly bin folder ?

[sour oar]

Oh man that’s a new one

[mint owl]

[naive linden]

Winters looks great tho. Eats up frames pretty good but it looks swell

[brittle ether]

BIngo

found it

I think itll work now gents

[mint owl]

Nope, you always have instructions in the readme to revert back to vanilla body health System for both Autumn Harmony and Melting Winters

[brittle ether]

[mint owl]

In their corresponding section

[wet bluff]

@mint owl One more thing, when you say set your gamma tot 1.1 while playing, is that in the main stalker settings or in the Shader settings ?

[naive linden]

Ya I see that but body health system is not enabled so obviously there's nothing to revert. That's alright thanks!

[mint owl]

It's in basic settings, which you can access only while playing

[sour oar]

Eden when he has to tell people to look at the readme:

[wet bluff]

thanks!

[mint owl]

Meaning a save loaded or a new game

[naive linden]

I did look at the Readme homie

[wet bluff]

ohhhhhh I get you

[mint owl]

Yeah, I'll have to make the settings description more accurate

[naive linden]

I wasn't asking how to revert to vanilla BHS UI that's in the Readme

[sour oar]

Seriously the only issue with that beautiful text file of yours

[naive linden]

Agreed

[wet bluff]

The English language has a lot of room for interpretation 😂 Example, A mom beat her daughter because she was drunk. Who was drunk ?

[mint owl]

So let me get this straight, you want a ui without body health system ?

[sour oar]

[mint owl]

Yeah, even worse in a readme xD

[naive linden]

Yes BHS is turned off so without that there you lose out on the radiation and stam bars. Without the reshade you can disable the gamma hud and get back the vanilla one with that info

[naive linden]

So I was curious if there was a way to get back that raw non BHS hud at all

[brittle ether]

yessir, I have it within

[naive linden]

If not das cool figured it was worth an ask either way

[mint owl]

Hmm, well to be honest it was never made for people not using bhs, best you can do is revert to vanilla hud from mine, then maybe redo your whole disabling bhs thing, perhaps it's just a matter of loading the addon high enough in the load order so whatever you do takes priority

[naive linden]

Ya I understand that it wasn't its cool ill try that out though

[mint owl]

People and their folder naming xD

Is it your GAMMA folder or Anomaly ?

[brittle ether]

Simply clean

[mint owl]

Seems like it's GAMMA folder

[brittle ether]

Gamma

[naive linden]

So revert to the vanilla HD hud then do the disabling tomfoolery

[mint owl]

In that case, wrong place

[brittle ether]

Sorry for scuffed photo

Ahh

[mint owl]

Should be in Anomaly then bin folder

[brittle ether]

Gotcha chief, will try it

[mint owl]

As the readme says in the very first steps in introduction

[brittle ether]

True, though I was assuming my gamma was my anomaly

[naive linden]

What would theoretically happen if I just nuked the UI folder out entirely lol

[mint owl]

For Autumn Harmony ?

[naive linden]

Winters

[mint owl]

You'd lose some map/pda retexture files

Pretty bad deal if you ask me

[naive linden]

Gotcha

[brittle ether]

I'll be honest

i believe my GAMMA folder is just within my ANOMALY folder

like conjoined

[naive linden]

Uh

Hm

Not sure if that's how it's supposed to work there

[brittle ether]

probably not

[mint owl]

Then you're in for a good reinstallation

It's specifically said by Grok not to do so

[brittle ether]

aye thought so

[mint owl]

Just don't delete your Download folder

[brittle ether]

This is the folder I made wayyyy the fuck back in RC1 days

so i def didnt update it to correct standards since then xD

[mint owl]

Okay, maybe you could purge everything and restart from zero

xD

[brittle ether]

is user LTX our keybinds?

if so I just save that and downloads and i should be dandy

[sour oar]

Yea it is but honestly at this point I’d say just make a new everything

User ltx included

[brittle ether]

aight

before I go flushing everything down the toilet

how much of a difference will things look compared to this

Honestly it doesnt look too bad, but like am I missing a large chunk of the experience?

[sour oar]

Not sure

Seems so

[brittle ether]

somehow I finagled the Melted Winter addon and this is the result, may just play around with it a bit and see if its doable

[mint owl]

Well it's close but my Reshade was made for it xD

Should give a more colder snowy wonderland look

[brittle ether]

Thank you for you hard work eden

You the goat

I’ll probably one day do the flush but for now I’ll keep on playing with my jurryrigged setup

Based melted ain’t so bad

[mint owl]

Ah, sure thing then xD

You could use cfg_load grading_cold + my winter Reshade

[brittle ether]

Aye I did, looks really nice

Honestly, And no shade to YAWM, but this is the winter pack I was looking for

[mint owl]

Fun fact, it has some YAWM genes

[mild dome]

I think all the winter mods use YAWM's snow script

[hidden depot]

any advice on the best reshade settings guys?

[mild dome]

It's all down to what you think looks good

[mild bane]

Does gamma have the agressor reshade? If yes how do I enable it?

[mint owl]

It doesn't, download it on moddb

[swift robin]

Is the easiest way to get more effects just to download them with the reshade installer.

@mint owl i loved your reshade but damn it eats fps

[mint owl]

I suppose so, but my folder already have a lot of effects

[mint owl]

Try unticking unsharp and clarity

Should give you some more fps

[swift robin]

ill try once i get this blackscreen fixed and ill reinstall your reshade,

[swift robin]

i meant more like get clarity and vibrance etc since they dont come with gamma

[mint owl]

Ah yes, I did find a reshade shaders package but I don't remember where though

[swift robin]

yeah, i was like eden has shader thingies in his 7z file and i placed them in anomaly and boom black screen

[mint owl]

Anomaly but where ?

[swift robin]

in the bin

but im starting to think this some other reason why this screen is black

[mint owl]

Something went wrong when you did that for sure, you deleted the shader cache in appdata right ?

[swift robin]

oh yeah, but the blackscreen issue has been bothering me for ages so im trying to find a working fix for it since the one with the bot doesnt work

[mint owl]

But it was working before you did the bin thing ?

[swift robin]

it ate roughly 50% in darcscape or whats the map with bandit camp, went from 100-120 to low 50-60

[mint owl]

Yeah, can be consumming for sure, hence why I suggest unticking these two

[swift robin]

oh yeah, well atleast what i loaded into a save, i moved the reshader-shaders folder from yours to anomaly thinking id get more effects for reshade, clarity and what not and now blackscreen, trying to move the gamma user.ltx fix

[mint owl]

Ah

I actually recommend to delete reshade shaders in bin and just copy mine

[swift robin]

so its like my fault not yours so dont worry

[mint owl]

Delete and not overwrite, just in case

[swift robin]

i moved the whole thing from your zip to bin, maybe ill see something, if not imma just reinstall shit

[mint owl]

Yeah, usually it would ask to overwrite, which may not be optimal

[swift robin]

yeah, imma need to reinstall but oh well, so do you recommend your reshade shaders, you would have vibrance and etc if i remember correctly, im happy with vanilla gamma, it just need something little to spice it up

[swift robin]

so i got it to work, and followed dummy proof txt and now its black again

[mint owl]

My folder and reshade are using the kind of effects your looking for, all you need is install it, then use GAMMA Reshade and add effects via meny

[mint owl]

What parts did you follow ?

[swift robin]

the whole thing

installed the whole thing, disabled mods etc

[mint owl]

Yeah but, what pack ?

[swift robin]

eden's final reshade one, vanilla gamma users

[mint owl]

So you followed the 4 steps from the introduction then all steps for GAMMA vanilla ?

[swift robin]

yes

23 effects in reshade and so on, it worked before i did it, also i did delete cache

[mint owl]

That's weird

[swift robin]

i replaced the user.ltx now with gammas one maybe i have a bad setting

[mint owl]

Hopefully

I think something went wrong with your GAMMA installation in general

[swift robin]

should i place the backup bin in anomaly folder and see maybe itll show me somethign

[mint owl]

Maybe, I can't stay connected right now so hopefully your issue won't last

[swift robin]

its fine, i have time to tinker around, ill post if i find a fix

[mint owl]

Sure thing, thanks, and good luck

[swift robin]

look

[frail slate]

I like the way the game looks when the higher the sun in the sky, the higher r2_sun_lumscale_hemi value is.
I found my desired min and max hemi values, but if I understand Dynamic Tonemaps correctly, lumscale_hemi only raises after 3pm which makes it impossible to achieve the effect I want.
Is there something I'm missing, or is Dynamic Tonemaps just not the right tool for the job?

And if that's the case, is Eden's reshade the next best thing?
From what I gather, realistic contrast and subtle volumetric sunrays seem to be his thing too

[swift robin]

idk, i've just set the ambient min lumsclae to like 0.3 and i like it

[silent cairn]

@frail slate You are correct, lumscale hemi starts to increase from min to max only after 3pm. The autumn harmony repack included in Eden's newest reshade does come with new weathers which could be what you are looking for.

[mild bane]

What are the best reshades and texture mods out there? I find the default gamma look is too brown and depressing

[sour oar]

Eden's reshade is a fan favourite

[silent cairn]

There it is

Eden's reshade has nice autumn and winter looks

For summer zone you can just

[sour oar]

[silent cairn]

!deadzone

[sour oar]

You knew it was comin

[void depot]

How to bring back the default look for the Zone: #╭📖faq message

[mild bane]

I can’t find eden’s reshade anywhere does anyone have a link?

[silent cairn]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[mild bane]

Thanks

[opaque monolith]

Good day i am new to the game and able to play around 3 hrs of gamma already. i dont like really the dark-ish vibe of the base game. i saw a video about expendition reshade but saw that it is not compatible in GAMMA.
how can i have something lighter(brighter) color / modern-ish shade in GAMMA?

if you guys have like files pls let me know so i can check them. i saw some file while back reading but that was january so idk if it is still good or obsolete.
thanks for the help guys.

[frail slate]

good shout, it's pretty close to what im aiming for and looks great on its own. gonna keep it for next playthrough though since right now im aiming for a colder, grimier, and less stylised late february look

guess im gonna try to edit dynamic tonemaps logic then, i seen somebody else had some success trying to do it

[silent cairn]

Either that or directly edit the weather hemisphere_color values which is tedious

[leaden linden]

Thank you Eden! Lovin' it

[undone stump]

jesus this old game is beautiful

[covert tangle]

GAMMA Bloom Edition?

[undone stump]

haha why people hates bloom

[quiet lark]

Is Aggressor compatible with Gamma?

[wet violet]

It is but keep in mind that the one installed in GAMMA only have ground textures. You would have to reinstall it for the rest

[quiet lark]

Aight

[wet violet]

I don't use it but I'm guessing you would have to disable a few GAMMA vanilla mods. There might be some posts about it here in disc. 🙂

[quiet lark]

Thank you

[sour oar]

Another one comes, searching for Aggressor

[quiet lark]

Right, is there a reshade similar to Aggressor?

[ruby ember]

Hi, pretty new to all reshade stuff, so gamma come with it own preset? can i change it by download other reshade mod?

[sour oar]

Well, there's Aggressor, obviously. But if you ask me, honestly, you can find better reshades.

[quiet lark]

That's why I asked?

[sour oar]

Hold on, ok, you asked if there was one similiar to Aggressor. Obviously, if I thought Aggressor was bad, why would I recommend you one that is similiar? So, I said, there is literally Aggressor, if you want to use it, go ahead

Then I said you can probably find a better reshade, but I didn't tell you which, because none of them are like Aggressor, which is what you were asking for

Did that clear things up?

[mint owl]

You can use it with GAMMA, just need to download it on moddb and install with the instructions provided

[mint owl]

Glad it does but what happened to your picture sides ?

[steady marsh]

[mint owl]

Well, I could recommend you to use my own Reshade and try with the new Summer addon from Fabio.Conte

From this link https://www.moddb.com/members/pab1oescobar

[steady marsh]

Could also disable the simple autumn retexture and dead bushes to bring back a more vanilla look if you dont wannt download anything

[glossy pond]

Where can I find yours?

[mint owl]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[mint owl]

Just make sure to follow the readme, as for the instructions, since there's none for summer, just follow the ones for Golden Autumn Redux (except that you'll be downloading Summer instead)

[glossy pond]

Thank you!

[mint owl]

Or follow what DJ Dirty Elbows said

If you don't want big downloads

[glossy pond]

the readme isnt dummy proof how do i do this I don't see it in MO2

[mint owl]

You didn't read the post above either did you ?

x)

[glossy pond]

nope

[mint owl]

If you have this line, it means you are following Autumn Harmony instructions when you should follow Golden Autumn Redux

[glossy pond]

that makes a lot more sense

thank you

are there any pics comparing early and late autumn

[steady marsh]

late autum (autumn season redux) is a lot more dead looking

its not what you are going for

[glossy pond]

okay thank you

[steady marsh]

np

do not click the mcm menu one

i saw that picture

[glossy pond]

i did not read the files

thanks again tho

[mint owl]

I updated my post once more

[glossy pond]

so its meant to be in gamma fixes

im glad i could contribute to the extra dummy proof layer

[mint owl]

I'm afraid this won't be the last

[glossy pond]

am i stupid

where on earth is gamma/brightness in advanced

[steady marsh]

how many of these questions do you get per day

[glossy pond]

what is LUT?

[mint owl]

You have to be either on a new game or load one, then go to basic settings, and change it

[glossy pond]

i see

[mint owl]

Why do you need to know that ? x)

[glossy pond]

because i had it on my custom preset and i really like what it added to that one

and this one

[mint owl]

LUTs are post processing effects, some are premade, others you'll have to make one yourself

[glossy pond]

ah ok

this one looks rlly nice

on default

[mint owl]

About one or two honestly, not that much thankfully

[mint owl]

You have multiple ones in that category

[steady marsh]

thats better than i thought, it seems whenever I am around I just happen to see them so i always try and answer when I know the answer because I assumed you got them all the time hahaha

[mint owl]

But I don't do Reshade teaching though x)

[mint owl]

Well, unfortunately there's a few holes in my Dummy-proof, so I get these questions

[steady marsh]

Ah but he does Reshade coaching

[glossy pond]

ah well this one adds nice to it imo

[mint owl]

I did for NightCatOof but that will be the exception, it's a learning curve for a reason xD

[steady marsh]

hahaha yeah i know that was what i was referring to

[mint owl]

Oh I forgot, we get the Agressor question all the damn time xD

[sour oar]

Hehe, I definitely just straight up asked "How do I make my reshade better?" and the rest is history

[steady marsh]

quick, delete the evidence

[static ginkgo]

How would I go about adding the default package reshade effects into anomaly? Any time I target the dx11 version with reshade it ends up closing itself after modify with no option to install any of the settings like the ones from Legacy

[ashen oar]

which reshade are you using?

[flat phoenix]

wait you are pushing updates to your adaptive shader by editing the post? damn i shouldve known that

[mint owl]

Oh I'm not pushing updates, just adding stuff that can help since I can't directly redo a post until January

It's an answer to a crash with the recent GAMMA update as well as an answer to a frequently asked question lately

@flat phoenix

[flat phoenix]

Oh it's just a final post to put all your stuff in one place?

[mint owl]

Kind of yes

I'm just editing the description because I can't update the readme

[left quarry]

anybody who's running autumn season redux - do you keep grulag's dead bushes on or turn it off?

[mint owl]

Off

[left quarry]

okay cool thank you

i was running golden autumn prior to updating and decided to switch, i'm not used to how barren it looks on redux lol

[flat phoenix]

I'm switching over to autumn season redux after playing golden autumn redux for a while now

[left quarry]

I like the way golden looks but imo it’s a bit too loud for this game, redux gives it a very desolate and cold vibe. Plus with the occasional snow precip it’ll add a little something extra

[gilded elbow]

ok so does anyone know what the default options in the ReShade were or how to make it re-enable the default options?

[flat phoenix]

the default gamma reshade preset might be in your GAMMA RC3\overwrite\bin folder

[gilded elbow]

ok ill look there thanks

[spice plume]

alright for Edens reshade, which pack do you guys use out of the 4?

[tribal lake]

Melting winters for me

Although you can try something else if you want

I just like a new theme for the zone

[spice plume]

ah the winter one might be SICK does it run good?

im thinking my 2070super might not like edens mod too well xD but i got a 5950x to back it up

[spice plume]

got any screen shots of the melting winters? would be cool to see it

[tribal lake]

Only one so far

I might get more screenshots

All at max settings with the cold color grading preset

1 gamma level

[spice plume]

well idk i can actually run this mod. i went from 70fps to 50 in a area where theres legit nothing going on xD

[mild dome]

I kept Golden Autumn but added the snowfall script, so a few weathers get flakes

[spice plume]

so is there any specific settings i can turn off that will give decent/massive boost in performance in game? Eden NUKED my FPS

[spice plume]

whats ur gpu? and res that you play on?

[mild dome]

RTX 2060 on 1080p, reshade doesn't do too much to my framerate, but I haven't tried Eden's yet

[spice plume]

well with me being in wild territory on a top of the train i get 70fps with reshade and i get 50fps or less with edens. i am at 2k res tho

[mild dome]

Yeah, I mean Eden's has a lot of shaders active

[spice plume]

ya it does

i might try the winter one?>

maybe it will be better on performance

[silent cairn]

If you are using the autumn harmony one, load it before Particles Cinematic VFX 3.5 1.1.2 BOTZ YAWM in mod organizer for more frames

[spice plume]

how much better is the fps?

ium using the golden autumn one

im

[silent cairn]

Ah, I have no clue if it helps with that one

[spice plume]

about to find out, honestly if i wasnt saving money for my own place id legit buy a fucking GPU right now

[silent cairn]

This game is very (single core) CPU hungry, I get like 5-10 more frames just by closing my browser

[spice plume]

it barely touches my 5950x

xD

8% is the max it gets too

[silent cairn]

Are you playing on AVX?

[spice plume]

but it does max my gpu out

and no

im about to try it tho

[silent cairn]

!avx

[void depot]

Actual explanation at the bottom but simply put:

Do you have a good CPU? Use AVX (if you have a crash, it probably means your CPU doesn't support this function).
Do you have a good GPU? DON'T use AVX.
Do you have both? Try for yourself, see what's better.

Actual explanation:
AVX is a way for your CPU to do calculations on a large array of data simultaneously. This is the same kind of job GPUs are primarily meant for.
So if your GPU is decent, AVX is (in most cases) outclassed by the GPU itself. Best way to know which is better for you, personally, is to try both versions and see what does or doesn't crash/performs better.

[spice plume]

with AVX on LOL it uses less of both and i get the same FPS THE FUCK

[sour oar]

What are your specs?

[spice plume]

5950x and 2070super, playing at 2k res

[sour oar]

I’ve never had it use that much GPU before

[spice plume]

this is MORE than enough to push this game over 60fps but its just not happening

[silent cairn]

Did you do the Core 0 untick trick?

[spice plume]

ya i think so

cant remember ill check now, might re enable it

[silent cairn]

Aight

[spice plume]

i mean i dont think it does much in my case

[silent cairn]

Eden's reshade is very GPU heavy, might need to untick some options there

[spice plume]

i might just not use it until i get a new gpu in a few months,

[sour oar]

I wouldn’t recommend just mindlessly unticking stuff..

[spice plume]

have you used the winter one yet?

no its not unticked

i could try it tho

ya it doesnt do anything

[glad steeple]

I have no effects haha. I downloaded edens final reshade but after pressing home I see no effects after selecting his reshade. I loaded game. yup nothing. anyone have this happen? I tried searching answer and reading his FAQ

I wont spam this issue. I'll just leave this pic for reference. Thanks

[sour oar]

Kinda sus

Have you updated your reshade?

[silent cairn]

Show me your settings tab in reshade

[swift robin]

Its the effect for helmet/mask from settings

[silent cairn]

And your reshade-shaders folder is in the Anomaly/bin folder with the other reshade files?

[glad steeple]

okay now I have lots of effects but none checked

[silent cairn]

Even if you select Eden's reshade again from the Home dropdown menu?

[glad steeple]

I hate putting more pics up but yes lots of boxes and none checked

[silent cairn]

What in the

Replace the Eden's reshade .ini files again from Eden's installation

Maybe the ini files got saved over when you had nothing selected

[glad steeple]

you da man 🍻

23 active effects

[cosmic geyser]

Hey guys ive been poking around shaders lately, not really a massive fan for the most part, im already pretty happy with how gamma looks, i thought expedition looked amazing on a video i saw, but even with all the reshade stuff off everything was totally borked for me.

I found this readme on setting up simple simplicity graphical settings i was gonna try with some reshade stuff? The list usually looks like (texture pack)+(enhanced shaders color 1.5)+(screens space shaders) and sometimes a thin or 2 extra.

I was also looking into some other thing what was it

agressor reshade? I think i tried it but i messed up a step or install and had to do a bunch of recovery to get my settings and everthing back how it was

I also have seen some mentioned of clearing the shader cache? But i distinctly remember when i was first setting up either anomaly or gamma there was a warning in one of the readmes/instructions that said, make sure u never reset the shader cache or it will fuck all this up

and now that im seeing suggestions to wipe the cache and cant remember what the hell it was that told me never to do that im like almost barely conflicted 😛

[sour oar]

You have to clear the cache in a specific way for it to work

You just go into your Anomaly/appdata folder and delete the shaders-cache folder

[sour oar]

Lol good you would have been severely disappointed if Aggressor had worked heh. I would really recommend one of Eden’s reshades, as those are the peak of what’s out there

[silent cairn]

Always clear the shaders cache after installing/modifying shader related stuff. Not sure if a mod changes those? Clear it anyway. If a mod tells you not to touch it then that is a huge yikes in the sense of how the mod functions in my opinion. Empty shaders cache gets rebuilt on game launch ensuring you have the shaders exactly as you wanted in your mod organizer setup.

Since GAMMA already comes with Enhanced Shaders and Screen Space Shaders, installing Expedition graphics is tricky because it has its own version of those and states that those mods are not supported.

[cosmic geyser]

well when i tried expedition im pretty sure it was vanilla anomaly with expedition thrown on top? i mighta had a couple other mods but i dont think it was gamma, yeah i installed the like full modpack of expedition before i finished setting up anomaly then jumped ship cuz it was just borked

So clear cache everytime i tinker? Theres nothing int here settings wise i want it to retain at all then? Okay, yeah expedition and agressor dont really impress me, i dont think anything will, im thinking about trying some of the more performance friendly stuff, i think i even saw this pretty jaw dropping like retexture deal that is pitched as a non reshade graphical almost overhaul u can do for similar effects and not much of a hit on performance comparatively

agressor im sure will work but i think i heard something about an agressor lite that i may prefer or something similar that wont have a 10fps hit or whatever quote i was reading

[silent cairn]

Stalker is not too appealing by default, sometimes when the stars align you get those "wow" moments though

[cosmic geyser]

but i mean if im not messing with SSS and um the screen space shaders how do i make sure they are working? I dont have any SSS options in the drop down for any of the good settings i see in the SSS mod page, i dont have any experience tinkering with the enhanced shaders thing so idk if i can even tell via tinkering

[cosmic geyser]

Yeah, i was kinda wanting to set up one of the autumn things and a winter thing, then a performance one and a meme one with super messed up graphics and models 😄

gotta try out a good performance one that helps a bit with the lighting and stuff

or i guess figure out*

[silent cairn]

Texture and weather mods have a huge impact on how the game looks and feels

[cosmic geyser]

yeah def

when im talking about my setup im thinking graphics in general but when im talking about reshade i think i usually say reshade or the name of it unless im being vague rn

i liked the look of this simple simplicity graphical settings addon and was it global textures rework? im worried anything like the autumn stuff or even too much of the global texture rework might get laggy or w.e

ill have to try out edens and then i just saw a sugesstion for prosperity when it comes to shader stuff

[silent cairn]

SSS unfortunately doesn't have any ingame options yet (other than enabling SSDO and soft water), but if you installed GAMMA correctly you have them working

Global textures rework was heavy on the frames at least for me

[cosmic geyser]

i was looking at SSS tho like the normal one has like

im looking agan and im brain dead but i swear i saw a drop down for the like shaders or sun rays or lighting that he was showing to set to a specific like reflection mode or some other alternate SSDO thing? That i dont have

brb

[silent cairn]

Oh? I'm curious

[cosmic geyser]

Sry yo feel like i just got punched crazy hard in teh gut, imma break for a little bit, but i can get back to you the second i find out what it was i saw or if it was something like me mixing up 2 mods i was looking at last night? Im planning to play for at least a couple a hours and working on mods/graphics for at least .5 or 1hrs before hand if i can

made sure to keep all my tabs open i was working on last night so should be easy to figure out

also thanks for the replies guys ❤️

[silent cairn]

Take care of yourself

[cosmic geyser]

thanks 😄

[mint owl]

Ah I spend my life in godmode so I didn't see that much xD

[swift robin]

oh it still is on in godmode, depends if you have facegear, on a uw its nice little effect

[silent cairn]

@cunning jay Make sure your depth buffer is set up correctly to fix the screenshot issue

try playing with these values (copying these settings might not work / don't even exist for you)

And make sure you have the newest reshade version

[cunning jay]

Thank you

[cosmic geyser]

Yo this looks cool, i was having trouble with my screnshotting via reshade i think. I had to use the take screenshot before and after to get something close to what i was seeing? Is using stuff like windows+prntscreen or using the default screenshot keybind in gamma not ideal or something? Ive just been using default or prntscren to ms paint

[cosmic geyser]

Yo i looked over some of the stuff, gonna look over the enhanced shaders and color grading info again next, it seems like on the moddb page for SSS that its saying to get and tweak a lot of the stuff ur gonna wanna go into all these like config files to adjust things which is why the whole set it and forget it approach threw me off. But the main thing i think was i was confusing the SSDO SS SSR rain puddles and stuff in the install process as a setting in game. However i thought there was some drop down menu similar to like SSDO options the tick boxes but let u switch from like SSDO or some settings to be able to toggle on the rain puddles shader somehow. Maybe i was also looking at vids that i closed, or maybe it was just me mixing up the install process with the make sure its working setup process after it, surprised by that tho tbh

[silent cairn]

Pretty much any method of screenshotting is fine. Using reshade's screenshotting is handy because the screenshots just appear in the folder you've set:

[cosmic geyser]

Ah for sure, yeah the in game screenshot thing just dumps into the install folder i love it

i hate having to navigate folders to go to documents or weird places

[silent cairn]

I remember watching some SSS videos where the dev pulls out the in-game console to write some parameters like ssfx_wetness_multiplier for puddles

And you are right the SSS install process asks you which effects you want to install and you have to select them

[weary nebula]

added Golden Autumn redux via mo2, seems like I lost the wet surfaces, is there a way around it ?

[silent cairn]

Removing the deffer_impl_flat.ps file that comes with the BASE mod for it (gamedata/shaders/r3) fixed this for me

[weary nebula]

fixed it, wet surfaces and puddles are back, thank you 🙏

[cosmic geyser]

nice

i think im gonna have to setup my own preset since its like theres something wrong with every reshade i can find for this game, i think im also finding out that i like a lot of the GAMMA stuff as is. I just want like slightly more realistic lighting and less darkness without washout and possibly with negligible fps dmg since im seeing so many ppl claim good performance with shaders tuned properly or even lower performance with like SSS and other things?

A lot of ppl love their like tinting and bloom. I dont mind the atmosphere of a constantly stormy or overcasty zone but for me it sorta messes with my immersion especially when ppl have this specific setting cranked where u look at the sky and everything gets too bright way too fast, and u look at the ground and everything looks too dark all of a sudden? Or is it the inverse of that? Anyways i found a relevant setting i think that can significantly impact how slow/fast that happens resolving i think that issue with the shaders that have it.

[silent cairn]

I think you perfectly described agressor

Thanks to enhanced shaders we have these in-game console options that can change how the game looks without ever even having a reshade on

[flat phoenix]

@mint owl the readme states gardener of the zone can be used with autumn season redux. I'm guessing it can also be used with your autumn harmony repack since it uses autumn season redux as base?

[tacit saffron]

asking here because the other channels have heavy influx.. any fix for tree foliage/aa? watching videos on youtube it seems fine for most people, but for me its pixelated, looks so bad when they are moving. had this months ago on gamma, dont know why. tried all AA/SMAA settings, but no changes visibile. im playing native on 1920x1080

I remember there was a state of the game it wasnt like this, also before grok removed all the leaves on the trees. now everything above mid of my screen (e.g. trees etc) is stopping me from playing too long. same with some objects when they're too far

[eager swan]

Hey, has anyone of you here have heard about Glamarys fake gi shaders ?

It doesn't seem very well know around, but i've been using it for quite a long time a it's very nice

not as "wow" effect than with Pascal Glitcher but well... it's much less taxing

https://github.com/rj200/Glamarye_Fast_Effects_for_ReShade

[silent cairn]

Lowering texture MIP bias helps with this

[silent cairn]

I use this for simple AO that doesn't show through fog, very nice shader

[eager swan]

yeah indeed, the added ao, after tweaking, enhanced quite well the game's one

[native meadow]

After instal screen space shaders my screen was very dark and i know is completly black, how to fix?

[native meadow]

Weird things doing after sss instalation. Pls help me someone

[radiant finch]

!blackscreen

[void depot]

Follow this: #╭📖faq message

[native meadow]

How to instal sss? I instaled with mo2 and nothing happen?

Okey after fresh sss instalation its again black screen, so how to instal pls help…

[glossy pond]

was wondering why edens reshade wasnt working

i did not enable the seasons redux mods in mo2

🧠

[random shadow]

vzorvalsya komp, chto delat'?

[flat phoenix]

#🔨base-gamma-support but what do you mean install, gamma should come with screen space shaders already?

[native meadow]

https://youtu.be/vrMjvYcSPnY

[sour oar]

GAMMA comes with SSS though

[native meadow]

So how ppl get those graphics?

[steady marsh]

don't have potato PC

Video has some extreme bloom going on with a strange color grading/filter to it as well imo

[native meadow]

I have rtx 3070

Where to change this filters and gradings?

[steady marsh]

You need a Reshade my friend

[native meadow]

Its already instaled. So i need to download something or what?

[mint owl]

Oh right, I suppose you could yes, but at this point you can just use Autumn Dark on GAMMA, same result x)

[mint owl]

Reshade is installed yes, what they mean is a new Reshade preset, there's plenty on moddb

[flat phoenix]

press home key in game

[sour oar]

Wellll

I mean yea you will have to no matter what

But maybe you shouldn't be making a reshade when you're very new to them

[native meadow]

True, thats why i asking for your help. Maybe its some good presets?

[mint owl]

Then something went wrong, it's supposed to work regardless if you follow the basic instructions at least

[cosmic geyser]

Wait what thats wild, is there any documentation on these commands so i can find more stuff or learn more about them? Im probably gonna forget about this stuff unless i like go through some steps of learning or setting up stuff.

Also could use some help in general... ive been poking around shaders and stuff. But i was wondering if its normal that my screen space shaders for gamma says it has a conflict where its redundant? It seems like its not even being used because of either shaders cumulative, enhanced shaders or both.

I just wanna make sure i didnt do things wrong, or that if SSS is actually completely overwritten wouldnt i wanna remove or fix that?

[glossy pond]

I didn’t enable the retextures, not my brightest moment

[mint owl]

Yeah but the Reshade is pretty much standalone, packs are only suggestions for it in the end

[silent cairn]

Shaders cumulative pack for GAMMA does override default SSS because it has Grok's personal edit to the SSS settings. So it has both SSS and enhanced shaders in it (and some others). You can disable it to get default ES and SSS settings.

[cosmic geyser]

Oh so its just needing SSS for like ref then? Or is it just so u can disable the gamma shaders in favor of the stock SSS stuff?

[silent cairn]

The thing is if you disable it you will get not just stock SSS, but ES and beef's NVG's as well

[wind cairn]

Im using the @mint owl Autumn harmony but the loading screen didnt change? Any ideas?

[silent cairn]

If you want your own SSS settings you can just install it again and place it after the cumulative pack and override things in there

[cosmic geyser]

Wait so without the cumulative i get beefs NVGs and with it enabled i dont??

[silent cairn]

No, you still get beefs NVGs, it's included in the cumulative

[cosmic geyser]

okay cool making sure, scared me for a sec 😄

i think ill just modify it as is rather than trying to mess with stock SSS but i may try to compare the 2 options just in case

im pretty happy with the gamma graphics and performance at least compared to most other stuff, but i wanna tweak it to perform/look just a smidge better for my setup u kno especially if im gonna try streaming this in the future

[silent cairn]

Or copy the file that you are modifying and make your own little patch mod

this way you won't lose anything if Grok changes something in the cumulative patch

[cosmic geyser]

Also ur saying lower in the order overwrites stuff higher up? Isnt that like the opposite of how load order stuff usually works, like bethesda and um idk some other games do it like games on steam?

Ive been avoiding moving things around in the load order because i think ive seen that mentioned before and didnt know whether to believe it lol

[silent cairn]

Lower as in lower in the list

[cosmic geyser]

yeah lower as in physically below other things, gets priority? or at least overwrites the stuff higher up?

[silent cairn]

below is a better term I guess

[cosmic geyser]

right below

cuz like say for skyrim special edition, everyone says to move the more important things that u dont wantt overwritten at the top of the list rather than the bottom

[silent cairn]

Same thing here

[cosmic geyser]

Oh wait really? I thought u were just saying the items below others in the list overwrite the ones abocve? Thats why i got confused and started askin ><

Cuz cumulative is below SSS right? And thats overwriting SSS?

[silent cairn]

uh

wait

Sorry I misread your skyrim comment

[cosmic geyser]

all good

just gotta make sure i hear it consistently the way im being convinced it is so i know im not like doing it wrong still somehow potentially lol

i had assumed before this and one other game i think that all mod loaders pretty much did a top to bottom in priority thing but it sounds like on here the ones below are getting priority?

[silent cairn]

Mod organizer deploys mods starting from top so the bottom one gets deployed last

[tacit dew]

can i ask for the default gamma shader option cuz i accidently unticked all of them =((

[tacit dew]

thanks bro

can i ask what is the original beef nv option for gamma ?

[silent cairn]

I think it might be the exact same thing to be honest

[cosmic geyser]

u mean in MO2 or like in reshade somewhere? I havent seen the NV stuff in reshade that i know of, but ive read the reason why the NV addon is so good is because this guy knows what hes doing, but also because hes using specific shaders on the NV scopes that activate so you can get all the realistic effects and lighting etc. If its off for some reason i cant recommend having it on more. It should be on by default though, make sure ur not looking at a redundant thing or duplicate addon if u installed it manually on top for some reason

So i think i messed up my reshade reinstall last night. Ive fixed most the stuff, plan on reinstalling/fix installing the reshade again or potentially even a fresh gamma install just in case i wanna go through each step of tuning again to make sure im not missing anything.

Anyways im wondering if there is a fix for this issue when enabling the reshade options via HOME, my normal in game cursor sometimes goes away, sometimes doesnt, but the cursor i need the windows style one for reshade stuff is all messed up DPI wise, like there isnt raw input reading or like smoothing has been turned on somewhere

it also doesnt track 1:1 when the in game cursor magically starts moving around again

i think it thinks my resolution is off or some overlay may be broken, hoping someone has heard of this issue before and has a quick fix, if not i plan to do other stuff anyways that will fix probably

[tacit dew]

i found it but thanks btw

[cosmic geyser]

oh dang i was too slow 😄 anyways appreciate the thanks, have fun with yo game yoooo!!!! ❤️

[tacit dew]

but btw

[tacit dew]

the wet surface and ponds are from screen space ?

[cosmic geyser]

Yeah i was reading through the moddb page for SSS and it says in the instructions how to set up the ponds and even tweak them to build/dissipate faster after/during rain events

i believe it said u need to make sure soft water is on, and then u might need to do some console commands or reshade thing? I havent gotten to that step of todays work towards getting the game performing good and looking really good at the same time, need to learn all this stuff if im gonna try and have a couple presets for fun/streaming or whatever else i may wanna do, i think itd be funny to have a meme preset with wacky oldschool graphics and messsed up stuff maybe bugs too, then a high performance stream mode one, and a lower performance HQ mode for off stream

so i better know what im doing right? lol

inb4 bumbling idiot breaks more things 😄

[cosmic geyser]

Hey jak sry to ping u, is it okay if i ping for questions i think u know the answers to? I wanna know if uve encountered a weird cursor issues where its not tracking properly with the reshade menu up and open, my cursor keeps getting lost off screen or cropped somehow?

[tacit dew]

thats too much tweaking for me =))

[cosmic geyser]

yeah sry bout that, i always assume everyones up to me on messing with windows files and stuff and willing to do it, its not that easy actually huh... i gotta remember i used to do freelance computer repair so i have experience messing with programs, bios, config, drivers, diff stuff right, i mean i even taught myself to use OBS studio and thats pretty complicated and ever changing 😄

also sry if i get wordy, tend to filter less when im tired

[silent cairn]

The mouse just goes wherever it pleases with reshade + stalker, I just kinda live with it. Haven't had the DPI issue though...

[mint owl]

It's in the right place ? Nothing is overwritting it ?

The screens are in textures/intro

[tacit dew]

some times i dop it when too much tweaky stuff accquired

[cosmic geyser]

yeah

so the mouse being wacky, all over the place, not tracking 1:1 is just something ppl live with? I swear it wasnt this bad before, it used to consistently just function as it should b4 im pretty sure ><

also thanks i was just looking for any feedback on that to try and figure out if i wanna look into doing anything about it

i should used reply 😛

[wind cairn]

Maybe I downloaded the wrong thing, all I’m seeing in the autumn harmony 7z pack is dab and gamedata folders

db*

I have autumn harmony above disabled in MO

[cosmic geyser]

How big are the reshade preset files? I would love to save my files as backups but not if theyre huge

[mint owl]

You need to install the archive via MO2 and enable it before/above Particle Cinematic VFX

[wind cairn]

Ok I’ll take a look, thank you

[wind cairn]

Do i need to disable particles cinematic VFX? I have the archive enabled above it but still getting standard starting screen

[mint owl]

It's Autumn Harmony for sure right, are the files in textures/intro folder there ?

You need to keep Particles Cinematic VFX enabled though

No other mod added ? Did you uncheck all the mods I said in the readme ?

[wind cairn]

Its Autumn Harmony for sure, dowloaded from the link in your Readme_dummyproof notepad. I dont see the textures/intro folder though. I think thats the issue. I did uncheck all the mods listed and no other mods are installed

[sour oar]

Isn’t that the wrong spot for it?

[mint owl]

Can you double click on it and tell me what's inside the textures folder ? A screen will be good

[mint owl]

And yes it's the wrong spot

Try make it load just before Particle Cinematic VFX

Right above it

[wind cairn]

Particles Cinematic VFX is located in GAMMA Fixes, so its above it

ahhh i see

[mint owl]

xD

My bad

wasn't explicit enough

Then show me what's inside the textures folder

[wind cairn]

Do i double click in MO2 or the archive?

[mint owl]

MO2's one

Or right click then informations then filetree

Same result

[wind cairn]

Here lies the issue, no textures folder

not sure if i can post links in here but i got it from mega.nz/file/uigXlLQY#0OOFVJkjSACg3ukVuHlX7wclR20t5gxG3WxqusiwPz8

@mint owl

[wind cairn]

thank you

[cosmic geyser]

When messing with shaders and toggling on the clear shader cache thing to make sure everything stick, should i just leave on the tickbox to always clear the cache or should i avoid doing that cuz im lazy?

[silent cairn]

!shader

[void depot]

To clean your "Shader Cache", don't use the option in the Anomaly launcher.
Go in this folder: Anomaly\appdata, you'll find a folder called shaders_cache, delete this folder and launch the game normally from MO2, using your preferred DX.

[wind cairn]

@mint owl Intro folder is filled with files for all the zones

or a bunch of them

Ok im dumb, its working XD

[cosmic geyser]

oh dang wow thanks jaku that woulda been a problem and a half i imagine especially since i manually moved shader files and folders around in an attempt to recover a borked install of some reshade tut i was following lol

trying to clean it all up get it back to normal, then i think illmake another install for something similar maybe the same but ill be able to compare and test base gamma vs a modded gamma i set up

[mint owl]

Yup, as intended, but what got it working ?

[wind cairn]

Maybe it was the order of where i had it but i didnt do anything and when i loaded into game its working

[mint owl]

Definitely the load order

[wind cairn]

on another note, should your alternate main menu still be working? Have it located RIGHT below gamma UI. Still getting standard animated main menu

[mint owl]

Yeah, try putting it last, above the disabled addons

[wind cairn]

failed to invoke 'open C:/Gamma/GAMMA RC3/mods/Edens_Alternative_Main_Menu/gamedata/textures/ui/ui_actor_main_menu.dds': Noapplicationisassociatedwiththespecifiedfileforthisoperation. (0x483)

getting that error in MO2

[mint owl]

I have no clue, it was workinh well while GAMMA has a static main menu, but since the new animated one, I don't know,I would have to do some research but I can't before January, so best bet would be to ask Grok

[wind cairn]

No worries, just thought I would ask since you were around. Thanks for all the help

[mint owl]

@astral kestrel new Reshade teaser

Damn Discord absolutely destroyed the picture quality xD

[river flower]

CS Eden is the weapon to stop Metal Gear

[mint owl]

I played Metal Gear Solid 2's ending way too much, that's why

[slim path]

Is it going to be called the touch grass reshade?

[silent cairn]

I got the eden sneak preview

[opaque monolith]

Idiotic question. Is that really in game graphics? How to get that kind of graphics

It look realife ish but the feel is like ingame

[swift robin]

testing a new atmospheric reshade

unnamed currently

[swift robin]

does the alternative summer texture have any problems that i should know of before i install it

[mint owl]

Yup, you can mostly get it by going outside

[mint owl]

Jaku's image is ingame for sure

[mint owl]

No issue that I know of, just make sure to load it RIGHT ABOVE/BEFORE Particles Cinematic VFX in your MO2 list

[swift robin]

thanks

[swift robin]

do i need the anomaly's season redux base mod or just the summer mod

[mint owl]

Both, the base first, then summer next

[swift robin]

thanks

[opaque monolith]

@silent cairn can you help me make my game look like that? 🙂 i have i5-9600k and 3070ti 32gb ram. still waiting for my 13thmonth pay before i upgrade to i9 13k

[versed ferry]

Did someone tried RTGI?

[devout whale]

does anyone have some screenshots made with Fabio.Conte's Summer Retexture? (#custom-textures)

[silent cairn]

I used the texture pack Madirex just mentioned above and cranked up the grass sliders

[opaque monolith]

Thanks jaku and madirex. another noob question. is there a youtube guide or simple guide to follow for applying this to gamma? i am worried i might destroy the modpack

[tidal marlin]

summer first, then golden autumn

[devout whale]

What's better in your opinion?

[tidal marlin]

personally i think golden autumn is more interesting. enemy camo works a little too well in summer

[clear raft]

My reshade setup compared to vanilla (link with slider comparision)
https://imgsli.com/MTMxNDMz
https://imgsli.com/MTMxNDMy

[cloud pecan]

Hey, i messed with the shader panel , moved sliders enabled and disabled stuff, and i ended up messing everything up.
Is there a way to revert everything back to normal?

[tidal marlin]

1. Go in GAMMA RC3.Grok's Modpack Installer\G.A.M.M.A\modpack_patches\appdata
2. Copy the user.ltx file you'll find in there (note that every change made by you in your user.ltxwill be reverted to default)
3. Paste this file in Anomaly\appdata

[outer bolt]

@tidal marlin Hey using Fabio.conte's alt-textures, does the 01. Golden autumn redux also need the 00. Anomaly Season's redux? I just slapped the Golden autumn redux in my MO2 and it seems fine without the 00. base?

[tidal marlin]

it does, but be sure to go into its files after installing to disable shaders and ui elements

good to check both texture mods actually to disable any shaders or other edits you dont want to overwrite the gamma mods

yooooo also with the golden autumn textures, set your ingame cfg_load grading_warm damn thats TOASTY

[cloud pecan]

that did not revert the settings i made in the "home" panel

[tidal marlin]

do you mean in-game settings or somewhere else?

[outer bolt]

@tidal marlin Ok thanks! I will try it in a bit

[cloud pecan]

I mean the shader panel, when you press the "home" key. That's what i want reverted to original settings

[tidal marlin]

ohhh reshade, youll have to grab the gamma reshade ini from in groks modpack\gamma\patches\bin\gamma reshade.ini and pop that into the bin folder in anomoly

[mint owl]

Technically speaking, GAMMA does use grading warm by default

[cloud pecan]

alright i'll try that

[tidal marlin]

oh true? i didnt know that, i was using hollywood because im clearly devoid of taste

[mint owl]

So that's one less change to do

Hollywood is good in some ways, mostly cold settings such as winter addons imo

[tidal marlin]

yeah it actually looks quite nice with the greener summer textures

[mint owl]

I personally use grading vanilla as it makes the colors, especially dark tones more defined, it's definitely noticeable at night

[tidal marlin]

ill give that a go next time night passes

[cloud pecan]

@tidal marlin Cheers it worked , thanks!

[tidal marlin]

no problem pal, enjoy

[outer bolt]

Anyone know how to fix depth buffer?

[silent cairn]

Enable DisplayDepth in reshade and follow the instructions

Your game should look like this

[plucky pewter]

I'm going to ask the same thing as the previous person, running on AMD hardware and this is what I have -

[outer bolt]

@silent cairn Yo thanks, but my global preprocessor definitions is empty. Reinstalled reshade too

[plucky pewter]

I tried everything I could, and setting all the points to 0, still gives me that image

[silent cairn]

Take a peek at the add-ons tab and play with these checkboxes:

[plucky pewter]

does not work or do anything

I've tried that as well

I can flip to what looks to be overhead view but of course that's the wrong one

[silent cairn]

It looks like this when your depth input is reversed (for me), weird that reversing that option doesn't fix it

[plucky pewter]

maybe it's bugged, is there a way to force it via ini editing?

the reshade shader to display depth keeps saying it's set to 1

actually, is syntax important for inputting the override?

That might be screwing with me

[outer bolt]

@silent cairn Ok i finally fixed it! Thanks a lot! @plucky pewter mine was like that too. Try to manually type all of these

[silent cairn]

Once you change the value the reshade should reload all the effects again

[plucky pewter]

I guess I will try all upper case in case it is sensitive to that

yep, fixed

[silent cairn]

[plucky pewter]

Something that might be worthwhile to put into FAQ in regards to reshade since I think default reshade does make use of MXAO?

and if the buffer is knackered, that might not be showing up correctly

[outer bolt]

@silent cairn Last question. Is there anyway for my screenshots to not go in overwrite folder? I changed the directory already but still going into overwrite first every time.

[silent cairn]

I believe MXAO isn't activated anymore in the current default gamma reshade

[plucky pewter]

That's MO2 related thing so you can't do much about it

[silent cairn]

Do you mean this thing:

[outer bolt]

Yes

[silent cairn]

Mmm maybe changing F12 to something else might fix, otherwise I have no clue

[outer bolt]

Mine is on printscreen, and still goes into overwrite

[silent cairn]

F12 works for me

Print screen might be hijacked by MO2 like Hisani said

[faint shale]

i need some shaders please.

[glossy pond]

Is Eden’s supposed to be pitch black at night

[cursive turret]

Try going to settings - visual - night and change ambient night brightness. Default should be slightly bright nights. Change to medium or very bright and see what you like

[opaque monolith]

i finally got the autumn mod. just another question. my game look like its kinda darkishh. how to make it naturally lighter?

[tacit dew]

can i ask for the original beef nvg options cuz i kinda fucked up the mod =((

[outer bolt]

@tacit dew here you go

[tacit dew]

finally thanks brother

[paper forge]

how can i change the grass mod in default gamma? im trying to add aggressor reshade or expedition.

[swift robin]

send me random reshade presets

lol

[outer bolt]

@swift robin Eden's Reshade #🖇old-mods-posting message

[swift robin]

cool

[sharp tree]

Could anyone help adjusting the settings? i wanted higher contrast but shadows are becoming DARK, like rly dark. had some fun with few options but i am a bit lost. Should i tick ambient light back again ?

[mild dome]

You could try setting the screenshot folder to somewhere outside the Anomaly folder, I guess

[mint owl]

Is there a moon ? If not it will be really dark

[mint owl]

What do you mean by grass mod ?

[glossy pond]

no

oh is that a thing that can happen

[mint owl]

Yeah, on rain2 nights

[mint owl]

Moon isn't present so flashlight or nvgs are mandatory, on other weathers, especially clear weathers, the moon does provide a good enough lighting

But irl, moonless nights are very dark if not pitch black

[glossy pond]

ah ok it wasnt raining so

[paper forge]

@mint owl nah im just tryna make my game look less brown

[mint owl]

Oh, in that case, there's a few possibilities

!deadzone

[void depot]

How to bring back the default look for the Zone: #╭📖faq message

[mint owl]

Either follow this, or do this and install Golden Autumn Redux or Summer from Fabio.Conte

See #custom-textures

[mint owl]

Well, maybe not rain2 then, but if there's no moon, then there will be no proper light source aside of stalker's campfires or headlamps

[pliant narwhal]

I'm still tweaking this but it looks pretty good. It is pretty dark at night but I never liked how bright the nights were in gamma. if its raining during midnight its completely dark though. I might keep it because it looks realistic. What do you all think?

[silent cairn]

Looks good, not too saturated or overexposed

[pliant narwhal]

Thanks, I wanted to use adaptive tonemap to help with the dark nights. But it made the lights too light. There wasn't much difference between the blue sky and the clouds in the first picture.

[silent cairn]

Adaptive shaders require some tweaking for sure

They usually just make sky too bright and ground too dark with default values

[pliant narwhal]

yeah, I did some comparison shots with adaptive and non adaptive and only in the nights did adaptive do better. I tried tweaking it a bit but couldn't figure it out

Heres the nights without adaptive

Forces me to use a flashlight, which I kind of like. Makes it seem more spooky

Thats during the rain 1 weather setting

the one from the first 3 was clear 3