╟🎑reshades

[outer vigil]

There's gotta be a way to get rid of that ugly banding in the night skies but I've been messing with reshade for over an hour and can't fix them.

[tidal marlin]

try changing from volumetric lighting to screen space lighting

[twin sky]

anyone able to fix weird ghosting / aura around things when using RTGI ? game looks so much better with it but i cant make it look good in movement

[jade shale]

Looks good. Can you post you reshade settings?

[hidden whale]

Looking after the Reshade settings aswell 🙂

[vocal schooner]

hey guys how do I Install golden autumn redux above the Particles Cinematic VFX

trying to follow the instructions but I dont know how to do that

[dawn python]

literally drag it above Particles Cinematic VFX in your mod list, when it is sorted by priority

[vocal schooner]

Okay thanks

[mild yoke]

hi guys, which graphics setting you have and with which reshade goes well?

need a balanced graphics settings, good performance with nice graphics

[mint owl]

Performance with nice graphics

https://tenor.com/view/el-risitas-juan-joya-borja-ratones-coloraos-laugh-meme-laughing-man-gif-24899295

[vapid olive]

Eden turned savage

[mint owl]

Well, I heard Aggressor is pretty good

[tidal marlin]

savage ti (founders edition)

[silent cairn]

Eden

I mean agressor does claim of only ~10 frames drop

[mild yoke]

who said anything about using aggressor? 🤔

[mint owl]

Imagine losing 20fps over a reshade

[vapid olive]

he's just pulling your leg mate

[silent cairn]

[mint owl]

I don't know, everyone swears by this anyway xD

[tidal marlin]

oh god eden can see me using rtgi rn cant he?

[plucky pewter]

I noticed that the default reshade is p. nice with that "fake global illumination" shader someone posted ways back

[mint owl]

I can definitely see it

[tidal marlin]

(in the shadows of 11 ssao plugins)

[mint owl]

23 effects on my side

[tidal marlin]

i see youve played gpu-y overheat-y before

[mint owl]

No I just made my own reshade, results are there, performances... not so much

[silent cairn]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't gamma already tailored for balanced graphics settings

[mint owl]

Jack of all trades master of none

[vapid olive]

it is

out of the box, reshade is set up to be a medium between performance and looks

the more you add, the lower your performance will go

[silent cairn]

Eden pls come back I need you to optimize your shaders

I can't wait until january

[mild dome]

imo the default reshade has way more effects than it needs.

[mint owl]

Yeah, will do whenever I'll be home again xD

[silent cairn]

[mild yoke]

wanted to see which combinations have others and compare, too see which looks better (less grass, more grass, less ambiance light, more)

[mint owl]

Well, depends, both can look absolutely great, now would you rather have a good looking dead Zone or a good looking lush and colorful Zone ?

[silent cairn]

summer, autumn, winter, we have it all

[mint owl]

Spring...

[silent cairn]

Shh

[mint owl]

[subtle relic]

What reshades do you guys use?

[silent cairn]

Eden's reshade with Autumn Harmony

[mild bane]

Is anyone running melting winter with eden’s reshade? If yes is it nice? I still don’t know if I like the autumn or winter look more

[hidden whale]

Do I have to download Eden’s Reshade separately or is it already included on gamma pack?

[mint owl]

I wish

But nope, separately

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[dense plume]

Does anyone know how to fix trees looking pixelated?

I've been like for an hour testing and cant seem to fix it 😦

[regal crag]

I play vannila anomaly and installed Expedition modpack. the thing is the game behaves weird. even before the mod. sometimes its using 60 percet of resources and giving me really high frames and sometimes its using 100 percent and giving me 60 to 70 fps on a 5600xt(2060 equivalent)

any help why this happns

a game like stalker shouldnt take this much resource can it?

[vapid olive]

[frail slate]

on 1080p? you dont

but lower mip bias & AA above 4x do help

[dense plume]

ok ty 🙂

[undone stump]

at some weather, the graphics looks so stupidly good

[hidden whale]

How many fps is Eden’s Reshade + autumn harmony expected to cost?

[glossy pond]

220

[pliant narwhal]

Here's my bin folder. I used aggressor for just the reshade.ini, dxgi.dll, and d3d9.dll. My reshade itself is in the reshade presets folder.

I used aggressor because I was having issues with ssdo in the updated version of reshade. You can disable it if you want reshade up to date, because the setting is very subtle

Alternatively, here's the screenshots of my settings

I am using CS Eden's Autumn Harmony for the textures as well

[lavish relic]

I was trying it. Its very nice. My only suggestion is keeping the colour_grading on vanilla, other wise it looks a bit too "Blue" on cool but its personal preference.

[mild bane]

Nice do you have some screenshots?

[lavish relic]

sorry mate, i dont have it on at the moment, i swapped to a mixture of texture packs at the moment 😄

[vocal otter]

Messing around with reshade

[limber hemlock]

Hi guys how do i enable agressor reshade?

[pliant narwhal]

drag over the files then hit home in game, that will pull up the reshade settings. On the top dropdown find the location of the agressor.ini you just put in the files is

[limber hemlock]

Do i have to download it or just install one from the MO2?

[pliant narwhal]

the one from mo2 isnt supposed to be enabled, it causes problems. Install from moddb

[limber hemlock]

OK thanks

[pliant narwhal]

only drag over the reshade folder to not cause any problems

[limber hemlock]

Alright! Thanks alot man

[pliant narwhal]

Youre welcome

[mint owl]

I actually agree with that statement to be honest

[hidden whale]

How do I apply this? How fps costly is it? 🥲

[cosmic rock]

not really a reshade but does anyone have a good setup for NODs both with reshade and also editing the files themselves

[pliant narwhal]

Just download and move all the files into the bin folder. Im not sure how much of fps loss there is but its very minimal I think

I honestly don't notice a difference in fps with it off and on

[hidden whale]

awesome! ty!

[pliant narwhal]

You're welcome!

[worthy plume]

does anyone know the default keybind to open reshade that comes standard with the gamma packs. im not sure its even installed at the moment

[river flower]

Home

[worthy plume]

yeah i thought so, its not opening, i thought the mod pack installs reshade

[wispy gyro]

guys , cn anyone help me with agresor reshade activation please

[mint owl]

GAMMA version = textures
Go to moddb for Agressor, follow instructions there

[wispy gyro]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/agressor-reshade this is all i could find , dont see any instruction

[mint owl]

It's in there, just need to click on the description to unscroll it

[wispy gyro]

[abstract sparrow]

Trying to unbloom and unblue Agressor

steered too much in the opposite direction and everything is now warm in tone

[wispy gyro]

i have no fking idea what im doing in that agresor reshade something 😄 just press home and keep clicking untill it seems fine

[mint owl]

At this point just start from scratch, that's the equivalent of trying to make the water not wet

[abstract sparrow]

yea honestly i've worked on reshade presets in the past, it would probably be better to just start from scratch

i've already gone too far deep to back out now though

[mint owl]

This kind of reasoning isn't worth it when working on Reshade, especially when it's a dead end

I actually spend about 3-4 weeks on mine xD

And even then, it's quite demanding performance wise

[abstract sparrow]

kinda testing the waters rn with agressor

i'll probably start working on an independent reshade later on

[mint owl]

To be honest, Agressor isn't bad per say, but it lacks consistency and so do many reshade presets out there, they usually break with a type of weathers or at night, people are way too focus on getting the juicy "Stalker 2 Ultra Graphics 2023 sunshine shots"

[abstract sparrow]

I played with your preset and honestly it is the most consistent one I've found tbh

a lot of other presets tend to lean heavily into one direction which tends to cause the inconsistency

[mint owl]

Thanks, I just need some more tweaks for performances, but I kept all weathers in mind for tweaking my preset (except misery weathers because they're way too inconsistent themselves)

They usually make clear sunny weathers shots look amazing but the rest looks bad or bleh at the very least

Not even mentionning any Stalker UI destruction

[abstract sparrow]

that's likely because of the heavy reliance on bloom effects

once night hits its almost always impossible to see, or lit areas glow when contrasting against the night

[stone drum]

which reshade preset is that

[abstract sparrow]

cs eden's preset

[stone drum]

thank you, imma look for it

[mint owl]

Yeah, they tend to think bloom = good graphics, it does look great with the right amount, but overdone, it's blinding

What I hate the most is overluminous sky contrasting with complete darkness on the ground

I made sure that my nights are realistically dark with reasonable lighting (unless it's a moonless night)

[stone drum]

cannot find it lol

[mint owl]

Where are you searching ?

[stone drum]

your reshade preset =0

oh, google lol

[abstract sparrow]

btw bro I was joking about the eden preset, thats a picture of real life thats been edited to have the stalker overlay

[stone drum]

lmao I fell for it, nice one

[mint owl]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[abstract sparrow]

the download link for the preset is in the text file

[rare ruin]

Is the aggresor reshade enabled as long as its selected in the mod manager or does anything need to be done in the ingame menu

[silent cairn]

It only comes with terrain textures by default, you have to reinstall it for the rest of the stuff

[brittle ether]

that feel when

time to take a quick nap

[brittle ether]

finished a complete fresh instal so Now i have the correct setup for gamma, honestly I may have missed something since im runnin on that 3 am fuel but I cant seem to be able to pull up reshade with home.

[forest vessel]

[brittle ether]

[frail slate]

then its not installed properly

drag & drop .dll files from gamma bin folder to your anomaly bin folder then overwrite with your reshade and delete shader cache folder before launching

[brittle ether]

ey u rite

i really gotta go to sleep

ahaha

[frail slate]

ye. i had that when i first installed a reshade for gamma cause /bin/ contents, including .exe files, didnt get moved on installation

[frail slate]

that too

[brittle ether]

[brittle ether]

ah hell i still dont know whats up. perhaps made a mistake when redownloading everything, will have to look deeper tommorrow

I dont seem to have the bin file for my GAMMA folder so i probably flubbed up somewhere

time to sleep

[blissful axle]

i was thinking of trying a reshade but i wonder if they tank your fps and or performance?

[mint owl]

Depending on the number of effects yes

Most are lightweight but may lack consistency

[blissful axle]

ahh ty fair enough

not worth the trouble for overall play imguessing

[mild dome]

I just run with Bloom + Ambient Light, and then a LUT to make shadows blue

[frail slate]

if you've no frames to spare, your best option is tweaking shader_params

[mint owl]

A good Reshade preset can feel VERY great to play with though

[silent cairn]

I finally tried the full agressor setup to see how amazing it was

it... didn't feel very great to play with

[mint owl]

What was wrong with it soecifically in your opinion ?

[silent cairn]

You HAVE to use the weather it comes with, it's VERY specific what light and sun settings you use (edit: other weather mods might appear too dark)

I had to downgrade my shaders for them to work properly

And it's dark

very dark

only nice weather was clear 1 and 2

[blissful axle]

i mean i got a 3080 and frames are high so i reckon i could

[slim path]

Is there a way to edit Agressor, I just ticked it in MO2

[silent cairn]

The current version of agressor from moddb at least doesn't have that bloom and adaptation memes going on anymore

You can actually see the ground in the foggy weather

maybe that means I installed it wrong

[silent cairn]

The MO2 installation only has textures, either reinstall that or get the newest version from moddb

[slim path]

Eh, I like the setup I have now, if it's just textures that's fine

[mint owl]

Yup, that's what I thought, consistency and clarity aren't great on it, even with it's own weathers

[white gate]

hello, what reshade/graphic mods do u recommend for a vanilla gamma installation. I want to improve the visuals. I have a 1060 6gb gpu and a i3-8100 cpu. Thank you!

[silent cairn]

1060 and an i3 huh

I don't know actually what to say

I prefer a green summer zone instead of the vanilla dead one so maybe that is a visual upgrade?

[white gate]

maybe a mod that improve the trees? the trees are horrible in mi game and if i increase mip bias it looks so pixelated, better but pixelated

[silent cairn]

Mmm the trees are a tough one for sure

[white gate]

i see that aggresor reshade is included in gamma. When i click on home button for change the settings of the reshade anything happens

[brittle ether]

thanks bro

[silent cairn]

The agressor reshade in gamma only has textures, no reshade (it is poorly named in the modlist)

[white gate]

so what can i do with the horrible trees?

[silent cairn]

There are some texture mods in #custom-textures

[brittle ether]

I still believe I did a step wrong, wouldnt reshade work from this settup in the anomaly folder?

perhaps im missing something

[silent cairn]

That is the right folder

[brittle ether]

then now im wondering why isnt pressing home bring up the reshade prompt

[silent cairn]

Are you using laptop?

[brittle ether]

nah pc

[silent cairn]

oke oke

[brittle ether]

yknow when you logon gamma in the main menu, it will say what version of reshade you have at the top

I dont see it at all

so I must have missed a step on instalation?

[silent cairn]

When you start up anomaly the reshade will show up briefly yes

I see you have many anomaly folders there

[brittle ether]

haha yea its just the base anomaly folder and the "gamma" folder

just named it gamma anomly to be next to it since the alphabetical way it goes

mmm ill do some tinkering

I even have the ReShade.INi program there, headscratching why is wont show up

[silent cairn]

The dxgi.dll is the actual reshade program

[brittle ether]

well even then, thats also present

at this point i should probably try a soft reboot and redownload, cant seem to pinpoint where it went amok

[silent cairn]

If you just started the default anomaly from the AnomalyDX11.exe there in your screenshot (not MO2) would the reshade appear?

[brittle ether]

ill give it a try

[brittle ether]

negative

[silent cairn]

[brittle ether]

gonna just reinstal

now im not 3 am deadtired perhaps ill do it better ths time

[silent cairn]

Good luck

[drifting swift]

installing mods at 3am challenge

[brittle ether]

[full condor]

I installed the golden autumn redux from the #custom-textures channel and my average fps almost doubled. Is this because I deleted my shader cache after installing and before running the game? Or is this because that pack is just lighter? Should I be deleting my shader cache periodically?

I even bumped up my grass settings and a few others that people have said are pretty taxing.. still getting much higher fps

[wispy gyro]

can someone post me theyre bin file with shaders ? i have no idea how to make it look better 😄

[drifting swift]

lol, this is me

[sour oar]

Check out Eden’s reshade

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[wide sigil]

Golden Autumn gets rid of the vanilla grass which is what tanks everyones FPS and replaces it with much nicer, much cleaner grass that doesn't tank your FPS. easily one of the best mods ever created

[frail slate]

@brittle ethergot it working?

[full condor]

Yeah that has to be exactly what it is. No wonder. The vanilla grass is so ugly too. Last time I take nice grass in a video game for granted. Haha

[leaden linden]

Vanilla grass you mean > Gardener of the zone? (default grass for G.A.M.M.A) cuz' afaik all other grasses from autumn season, golden, desaturate autumn, etc is a recolored version of Vanilla (anomaly) grass. Correct me if I'm wrong

[white gate]

guys why my trees are like this? i have autumn reshade. What i need to improve my trees?

any recommendation for improve the trees and the grass?

[brittle ether]

Nah, had to go to work. Gonna do a ground up reinstall, when I get home

Not doing a 3am complete install again hah

[stiff flare]

you need tot urn off soem mdos to returnt he gren... ness, ill see if i can find the post

[dawn python]

!deadzone

[void depot]

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

[stiff flare]

Yeah that, or, how high is your world details/draw distance inyour video settings? if they are low poly

[white gate]

all maxed

[white gate]

what is soem mdos ?

[stiff flare]

gotot he link Veer sent

[nova coral]

Where can I find the gamma reshade I accidentally removed it replaced with a different one

[glacial spear]

GAMMA\.Grok's Modpack Installer\G.A.M.M.A\modpack_patches\bin

[glacial spear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCyGsNbn7WU

A taste of GAMMA with Expeditions 2.2 shaders and Abnormal weather

[sour oar]

My eyes

[lavish relic]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-my-eyes-cant-unsee-burn-gif-7225082

[light shard]

https://tenor.com/view/sunlight-blind-gif-9818319

Бляя

[wet mulch]

Custom reshade. (I enjoy having a black border in my games, personal preference.)

[light shard]

Looks cool, how does that look at night ? Is it complete pitch black ?

[wet mulch]

Almost, but not completely. Using slightly bright option.

[light shard]

Without touching the contrast ? Just adjust the brightness ?

[wet mulch]

Brightness and contrast are set to 1.

[light shard]

Ahh it’s all too complicated to me I’ll get into reshades later lmao

[sour oar]

You know what they say

When in doubt

Use Eden's reshade

[wet violet]

Hey folks, does anyone know if I should leave skies redux on with Michiko's weather?

[sour oar]

Good q

Is it even compatible with 1.5.2?

Also, it's supposedly compatible with anything as long as it doesn't replace any of the original weather preset config files

[wet violet]

Using this version here
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/michikos-weather-revamp-revised

And yeah, looking at the files it doesn't seem to mess with much.

[mint owl]

Only one way to know I guess

[mint owl]

If brightness and contrast adjustments are complicated, then I suggest not to mess with Reshade at all

[mint owl]

I don't think it's a simple recolor honestly, and they are far better optimised as well

[wet violet]

my game didn't even loaded, investigation needed.

[mint owl]

I can do that, just give me about two and half months to get back on my computer

[wet violet]

In all seriousness tho, I'm mostly curious about the presets, I'm quite happy with your pack + my reshade. Only thing that is bothering me is how saturated the sun shafts are.

[silent cairn]

Time to edit the weathers then

[mint owl]

Hmm, have you tried using GAMMA'S weathers with it ?

Just need to hide the sky db file and the content in configs (environment folder)

[wet violet]

I deleted the weather part of your pack and tried to load like that, crashed. Then disabled and crashed again. I might have to turn some gamma vanilla mods back on

[wet violet]

haha yup

[mint owl]

You'd have to turn Skies Redux, Roadside lensflare and GAMMA'S weathers I think

Then delete the sky db file, any anamflares folder in textures, and delete the weathers files in configs

Then delete shader cache

[wet violet]

Ahhh I def forgot to delete sky db. I'll try again later

[mint owl]

Yeah, crucial file to delete, contains all the skyboxes, of course it would crash x)

[silent cairn]

Do db files delete the original files? I thought the [default] weather configs were there to avoid crashing with broken weather files

But just enabling michiko's and skies redux seems to work out fine

[wet violet]

vanilla only have dbs, it's packed. probably lighter and load faster

[wet violet]

Nice! I'll check it out later

I need to change season in my playthrough soon

[silent cairn]

I don't know how consistent the skies are with the weather though

[silent cairn]

Ah beans you are right, they actually named the db file the exact same than base anomaly...

[wet violet]

db name is the folder name right?

[crisp moat]

How do I go about enabling aggressor grass on gamma?

[silent cairn]

Enable agressor reshade in MO2 and follow this guide:

!deadzone

[void depot]

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

[silent cairn]

Autumn Harmony has textures_sky.db0 file in the db folder, same as base anomaly

[sour oar]

Aggressor

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

Man

People keep asking about Aggressor

[silent cairn]

The newest agressor wasn't too too bad to be honest, just a pain in the butt to install

When I say newest, it hasn't been updated since 2021

[mint owl]

Db files are meant to take priority over simple textures files

[mint owl]

Because the first thing you literally find when typing "Stalker Anomaly Ultra Graphics" is a video WITH Agressor Reshade, I'm not even joking, literal first result on YouTube by Dario Adjucic

In fact, all the videos suggested after typing that are from the same guy with different settings but still with Agressor Reshade each time

To add more, it's crazy fluid since it's base Anomaly with only a few mods, so people would probably think it's good for performances as well, especially compared to my reshade which takes more performances

[plucky pewter]

...Default Gamma looks good. About the only issue I have is someone with enough time and patience on their hands needs to rework specular textures to work with new shaders. Fix the wet fingers issue.

[wet violet]

I had the SOC patch installed, that was crashing my game, I thought that was a patch for soundscape overhaul... XD

[drifting swift]

man

hot take: but aggressor is actually a good reshade

[silent cairn]

A valid opinion. If you like it, you like it

[silent cairn]

I'm currently trying to resolve this very issue

[mint owl]

That a very hot one, but yeah, to each their own x)

[drifting swift]

ay, on that note, someone earlier posted one called "Natural_Vision" it's also really good

[plucky pewter]

Having filtered through the suits, it's definitely tied to actual specular textures, your best bet is to compare and contrast what the shader mod did to flip the settings on their head.

It might be a long undertaking to fix all the hand models by themselves, but guns need it too like the desert eagle.

[mint owl]

To be fair I'd rather use my own work Reshade wise, maybe not *natural vision" but most would break apart here and there depending on weather and time of the day

[silent cairn]

It's mostly tied to enhanced shaders' pbr settings, but SSS might have a part in it too

[plucky pewter]

Shiniest example I found is Sunrise, buggiest example would be the clear sky CS2 starter, dullest example would be SEVA suits. In regards to guns, SKS tactical probably has the best visual setup in regards to specular textures

Having futsed around with them you have to dig into actual textures

There's no other fix

The other option will mess up guns/suits that were properly set up with this or look good

[plucky pewter]

Good luck in your endeavour, but i don't think that tweaking pbr will do anything. Current settings are solid but now you essentially need the textures to adhere to a better or at least unified standard. I'm unable to dig into actual textures or else I'd help out already

Unless the .DDS files are open in a mod then I could probably give it a look-see

Would need to look up tutorials on stalker textures again.

GAH, meant to say "don't think", hate using mobile.

[silent cairn]

I think there are some fundamental errors with how enhanced shaders are handled in the first place in gamma

[plucky pewter]

Really? Hm

[silent cairn]

Like the gloss settings

[plucky pewter]

See, the problem is that there are weapons that look, frankly, perfect with existing settings, it's what screws with me

[silent cairn]

They state that gloss_factor should never be anything else than 0.001 and gloss_min should be adjusted instead

There are min and max settings to prevent some textures going crazy

I will change the actual pbr code if I have to

I'm not gonna go and edit all the textures

Gamma defaults are the exact opposite

Grok did change the shaders settings to match these though

[plucky pewter]

Damn, I was hoping someone would at least fix the CS2 style arms. Do share the settings though, I'm willing to help test

[silent cairn]

I'll use these in my testings

[white gate]

why my trees looks so poor and with no leaves? (i haven't the deadzone mod or the no leaves mod) Vanilla with aggresor / autumn reshade and still looking bad

[void hull]

im not sure if this a reshade problem but my screen is completely dark for some reason

[vapid olive]

!blackscreen

[void depot]

Follow this: #╭📖faq message

[void hull]

thanks man

[sick plume]

for rtgi pascal shaders i need to be patron first to download?

[sullen vault]

anyone have any photos of their shader settings?

[frail slate]

Lower lumscale_hemi values might help

With hemi above 0.7 suits have that fake Vaseline gloss on the edges

Damn shame cause high hemi was my best hope at making shadows during noon look natural

[silent cairn]

Could you kindly test these shaders? This should fix the glossy hands and bring out much more detail to a lot of textures including ground and guns. Just place it right after/under Shaders cumulative pack for GAMMA (no need to disable any of the shader mods, this ugly patch overwrites everything). Important: use gloss_factor 0.001 and gloss_min 0.5 and delete shader cache. Edit: removed the download.

As for CS2 body armor the bug is some weird texture glitch that plagued some weapons @wet violet managed to fix: #🖇old-mods-posting message

Maybe he could share the knowledge how to fix the yellow glow against light sources

[plucky pewter]

I'll give it a test in an hour or so and respond with feedback

[plucky pewter]

It feels like it didn't do that much, SKS which was quite perfect before is shinier though, I guess.

though if it makes any difference, I did input those variables while ingame, not before loading save

[silent cairn]

It shouldn't make any difference

Does the shininess go down if you input gloss_min 0.3

[plucky pewter]

moment

[plucky pewter]

Very little if any appreciable difference

[silent cairn]

And, just to be sure, you deleted shader cache before starting the game?

[plucky pewter]

...I forgot that

[silent cairn]

I... kinda forgot to mention that

my bad

[plucky pewter]

Oh for petes sake, loaded same save, rapidly losing sunlight

But, yes, appreciable difference noted

[plucky pewter]

There's slight shine to both objects, now just gotta find the right variables for "sensible" shine

...oh shit son

hol' up

You unfuckered desert eagle

It finally has a shine to it

[silent cairn]

Most guns lost their shine

with Grok's shader changes

gloss_min 0.5 worked pretty well for most of the stuff

in fact I think sks tactical is now one of the less impressive ones

[plucky pewter]

Yeah you'd be right

[silent cairn]

You should be able to see the scratches on the metal better now

[plucky pewter]

Samples of guns I have on hand on this save

K98M is duller shine now as well

would argue SKS Tac still got a decent feel to it

I'd say if you can tweak this a little, this is worth throwing to Grok or into mods

(if you think this needs tweaking)

[silent cairn]

We used to have the guns like this but Grok decided to patch the shaders for some reason, I need to read on the patch notes

Anyway thanks for testing ❤️

I appreciate it

[leaden linden]

Can you post this tweak on #🖇old-mods-posting with the values? So people who want this can easily have access to it?

[plucky pewter]

Hey, thank you because I've been dreading using sunrise series suits because it felt like I was constantly going around after a rain.

[silent cairn]

I need to first make sure this doesn't mess up something royally, there has to be reason Grok touched a lot of these values with such a harsh hand

also I think I need to adjust the water puddles now, the gloss doesn't work too well with them

[plucky pewter]

for now I'll restore values to Groks and wait for your tweaked shaders release then.

I also feel like minimal value sits better at 0.6

gives a soft rimlighting-esque effect (source term, used to it)

[glossy pond]

Does this work w Eden’s?

Or must be default gamma

[lavish relic]

they are not reshade shaders, these are game shaders so will work regardless which reshade you use.

[glossy pond]

👍thx

[vague island]

guys to install golden autumn redux

do I need to install both of these

since I havent seen anything about this in the readme I want to double check

[sour oar]

Just 00 and 01

[vague island]

so like this right

[sour oar]

Looks right

They aren’t in the right location though

[vague island]

latest update says it should be above particles cinematic vfx cause of new implementation of the head dismemberment

which caused crashes if you have both mods and any autumn mods

[sour oar]

Ah

I don’t use Autumn Season my fault

👁️

[vague island]

what do you use

[sour oar]

Golden Autumn Redux

[vague island]

thats what im trying to install

[sour oar]

Oh?

[vague island]

yeah

[sour oar]

Ohhh

[vague island]

isnt this the right thing? xD

[sour oar]

Man I’m kinda dumb in the morning

Yes it is

[vague island]

you havent experienced any crashes?

[sour oar]

I forgot what the base (00) was called

No crashes

[vague island]

ohhh

[vague island]

you probably havent updated gamma in the past week or two right

[sour oar]

No not in the past week

[vague island]

yeah

[sour oar]

That’s why I forgot it was a thing though I know a lot of people talked about it

[vague island]

be careful

I was trying to figure out what it was for a whole day lmao

[glacial spear]

Rejoice!! You can now install the Expeditions 2.2 visuals to GAMMA, among other things and custom modpacks, using this toolset.
#🖇old-mods-posting message
Get your shades ready. It was always meant to played like this!

[swift robin]

Installed Golden Autumn and i noticed this weird gloss effect on the arms and weapon.. Anyway to fix this?

[sour oar]

Expedition 🤮

[sour oar]

Reduce gloss factor in the user.ltx

[swift robin]

These are the current factors
"r2_gloss_factor 0.5
r2_gloss_min 0.001"

[frail slate]

or r2_sun_lumscale_hemi

can tell by the tree on the left that it's pretty high

[swift robin]

hmm its 1.3

[frail slate]

the gloss happens above 0.7 for me

[swift robin]

Okay ill try it out

i should propably set the file to read only?

[sour oar]

Why

👁️

What if you need to edit it later

[frail slate]

no

and you can edit the values via console anyway

not sure if gloss changes w/o restarting though

[sour oar]

Yeah but if you don’t clear shaders cache the difference isn’t as noticeable

So do it in user.ltx so you can clear shaders cache before you start the game

[swift robin]

Okay ill try this because didnt clear shaders at first

The "r2_sun_lumscale_hemi" value keeps resetting to 1.3 after every restart

Now it looks like this

[frail slate]

change min hemi in dynamic tonemaps mcm

[swift robin]

my god thank you!

[frail slate]

do keep in mind that it also makes shadows cast by sun/moon darker

[swift robin]

Yeah i noticed but ill just tweak the other settings

thank yo

u

[frail slate]

gl with that

personally found it impossible to make shadows bright with low hemi without turning everything else into an eyesore

[swift robin]

hemi on 1 seems okay for me

Just enough that the gloss doesnt get disturbing

[wet violet]

I'm going to test the shaders too! I'm about to do a texture testing with the weapon, I think this shader tweaked coupled with some texture tweaking would bring a lot of detail

The issue right now is most of the weapons don't have enough contrast or information on the glossiness map

Someone posted this on the anomaly discord. It's from the vanilla ak74 I think, look how much better it looks

you can feel the layer of dust on top of the metal

[sour oar]

I think there's a point where there's too much detail

Like when your sharpness is too high, you know

It feels wrong because sometimes more is less

Just a personal preference though of course

[wet violet]

It's more about how the detail interact with the engine lighting, the amount of detail is definitely is a matter of personal preference but the texture thing is more of a technical matter, if you don't have the textures properly set up there's nothing you can do

[frail slate]

It's not even a subjective thing though, in this particular case

The guns just straight up have incorrect lighting on them

[sour oar]

I don't even know what's going on so

Ah

I glossed over the stuff and collected that it added more detail

So I pointed out that sometimes it's not the best

[frail slate]

And tbf the lighting on the gun in screenshot above is great

[sour oar]

I'll try it out

[frail slate]

basically

[wet violet]

Some people at the anomaly discord mentioned that modders should you the ak74 as example on how to setup material and textures. That's what I'm doing with my tweaks. XD

[frail slate]

Speak of the devil, that's shakal in the pics there

[sour oar]

So you install this how you would a mod?

[steel lily]

having problems with my depth map, only very close items show up (like my hand and gun) on the right

[silent cairn]

You need to reverse the depth input

[swift robin]

does anyone know how to install golden autumn redux Im lost

[sour oar]

Which part are you having issues with?

[swift robin]

I downloaded the file but I dont know how to load it into mo2

[sour oar]

Click this button in MO2

And then press install mod

And then select the folder

[swift robin]

ok thanks

so I did that but it only allows me to open and not choose the mod

theres not anything past the addons file

[sour oar]

Wdym?

You should be able to click on the folder and press select folder

[swift robin]

It only allows me to open the foldee

there is no select folder button for some reason only open

[sour oar]

And opening the folder doesn't just bring you to the next screen of mo2?

[swift robin]

nope

[sour oar]

I just checked and it does for me, what version of Golden Autumn Redux are you using?

[swift robin]

the one in #custom-textures in the moddb page

I think my mo2 might be broken or something because I cant choose mod folders

[silent cairn]

Make sure they are in their zip files and not unzipped

[swift robin]

when I downloaded it it just came as a file and not zipped for some reason

[sour oar]

Like as a .7z file?

[silent cairn]

ah, from the google drive?

[swift robin]

yeah

from google drive

[sour oar]

[silent cairn]

Yeah those are all separated so it's a bit different from Eden's instructions, Eden kindly packed all those files into one file

[swift robin]

Ok I get it now Im an idiot

I was trying to add it when it was an actual file because it wasnt a winrar zip so I was confused lol

[silent cairn]

We can have this back easily by just changing the shader settings

(I've exaggerated the lighting settings here to bring the effect out more)

Default gamma looks like this

[mint owl]

Nice shine indeed

[sour oar]

Mm

[wet violet]

This is using the shader settings? I'm going to test this in a bit

[silent cairn]

This is the shiniest it gets (pointing at the sun with another lightsource nearby)

[mint owl]

What about in rain ?

[wet violet]

This look so much better

[wet violet]

I think Grok ended up changing the shader settings due to environment weirdness, do you mind testing a bunch of weathers to see if anything goes crazy?

[wet violet]

Yeah it's really good, you can see the texture details of the metal. damn

[mint owl]

But this is an important point for sure

[silent cairn]

Yeah this is what I'm trying to figure out, I know rain puddles don't take kindly to the gloss values enhanced shaders needs

At the edges you get the white gloss on puddles

[wet violet]

that looks amazing, the details on the wooden grip texture

[silent cairn]

BUT

this gets rid of the glossy hands

[wet violet]

I mean, I would rather use the shaders the way it's supposed to and fix the other shit instead of the inverse XD

[mint owl]

Then all that's needed is editing the puddles values right ?

There's a separate file

[silent cairn]

Yeah thankfully SSS has a lot of settings I can tweak

[wet violet]

Is this settings in that file you shared?

[silent cairn]

But it might not be "all that's needed"

[mint owl]

It's in the cumulative pack

[mint owl]

Never has been with Anomaly xD

[silent cairn]

Yes, it just overrides all the shader settings plus my settings

[wet violet]

perfect, thank you! You should def post that in #🖇old-mods-posting

[silent cairn]

you could get very similar result by just disabling cumulative shaders tbh but I've tried to adjust the roughness maps and speculars to be "better"

[wet violet]

fix one thing, 537 other things breaks

[silent cairn]

Just gotta find and fix the other issues that comes with this

Besides I don't want to include all the files from ES and SSS, just the ones I changed

[wet violet]

haha hopefully it doesn't break anything, but the difference in quality is absurd

I'm so happy you found this because I was about to brute force the whole thing

Now I can go back and focus on my hd models repack project

[sour oar]

Does it do nothing if you have different gloss factor/min values?

I'm assuming it doesn't of course

[silent cairn]

[silent cairn]

you know what, maybe that fixes it

I'll try

[sour oar]

I'm playing with it on different gloss settings and I don't see it

[silent cairn]

If gloss_factor 0.001 and gloss_min 0.5 doesn't work then it's a lost cause

[sour oar]

I just asked because I wasn't sure if I should've been experiencing it too

[silent cairn]

But I think Hisani tried this and it just made the weapons really shiny

[wet violet]

the min max prob just adds to the base settings

just washing out the specular

[silent cairn]

@wet violet How did you fix the yellow glow on the weapons like we have on the glove in here?

[wet violet]

you have to edit the thm file

[wet violet]

use AXR Toolset, it's pretty simple, the material weight should be 0. Lemme send you a screenshot

[sour oar]

That doesn't look like it's supposed to, honestly

Too contrasted

What did you do to Eden's reshade

[wet violet]

@silent cairn Make sure material_weight is 0. The shinning parts all had some values in that setting.

[silent cairn]

Alright, thanks for the info 🤍

[silent cairn]

Ayyy I'm gonna try this out for nostalgia, I remember how back in the day I thought the first Expedition was the pinnacle of stalker graphics

[pliant narwhal]

Reduced contrast in my reshade to make it not look so dark during storms. Also, before the shadows were way to dark in clear weather at noon. The first picture is after the fix

Here's the files for it. I am uploading to ModDB as well.

[silent cairn]

Looks soft and nice use of AO, I'll give it a try

[pliant narwhal]

Thanks! Let me know what you think

Oh and my basic lighting settings are 1.3, 1.05, 1

[sour oar]

Kind of reminds me of my reshade actually! Lookin awesome

[plucky pewter]

Keeping your shaders + default values, yes, shiny still. I wonder if you can assign unique variables to puddles

[silent cairn]

Ah yes there are like 12 different settings for puddles

[plucky pewter]

If one could adjust the code so puddles use their own unique gloss variables that'd help out a lot

[wet violet]

No problem! Question, what's the gloss settings you're using? I'm testing in game and the materials look more rough

I'm definitely getting the material information now, the difference is night and day!

[silent cairn]

The gloss settings were included next to the download with **bold ** text

[wet violet]

oh you mean this part where it says important?

My baaaad

Weird thing, by attr name, makes sense what grok had in gamma

[plucky pewter]

So I'm curious, how do the puddles look with correct settings? Are they just too dull?

(I wasn't in a location where I could find them immediately when I was testing)

[plucky pewter]

Curses, hard to see on my phone screen

[wet violet]

#define SPECULAR_RANGE 0.20 this is probably the culprit in GAMMAs settings

almost ignoring the glossiness map

[plucky pewter]

Ehhh, all things considered they look alright, like a light rain type of deal

Had to turn up screen brightness to see em proper on phone

I'll probably be playing with your edits then Jaku, doesn't seem like the visual losses are all that much

[wet violet]

there's no visual loss

quite the contrary

[plucky pewter]

There's some in regards to puddles

But it's minimal

I expected actual weird behaviour

[wet violet]

if something becomes less shinny then it's the asset problem, it's easier to fix case by case anyway

[silent cairn]

The puddles don't look "weird", the gloss values just make them look way more glossier than intended in some weathers

Oops didn't mean to reply to that

But now that I have your attention just changing the pbr settings isn't enough, Grok changed a lot of settings in multiple files

[wet violet]

weapons with good texture looks amazing right now.

[wet violet]

I see I see

[plucky pewter]

Comprehensive visual tweaks needed I guess?

[mint owl]

Did you put Volumetric in options as well ?

Looks like screen space shaders to me

You should really try following my readme, it will look far better than this imo

[silent cairn]

[mint owl]

It's worth it to learn

Because right now it looks like a Wish/Aliexpress version of my Reshade x)

[hybrid quest]

Don't see an option to enable fxaa or the like on reshade am I missing something?

[mint owl]

You're probably missing the shader in your folder, meaning you won't see it

[vague island]

@swift robin i'd just like to say youre reshade preset looks amazing, tho im using it with autumn harmony not golden autumn redux

it gives just the right amount of color and life in the game, not enough to over power it

[cloud island]

I changed the PBR code yes

To have a nice use of GGX specular

[vague island]

i'll give a couple of suggestions if its helpful, first I think you need uimask or something cause text (and especially items in inventory) is a little bit blurred or weird looking with all the bloom and stuff and then grainspread.fx gets a failed to compile error for me

[cloud island]

The main issue with shaders is, you set parameters for one thing, it looks nice, but you fuck 80% of the other textures

Check the PPSH with your settings @silent cairn

[sour oar]

PPSH has so many nooks I guess it’s the best to test stuff with

[silent cairn]

I see that little graphical glitch

And I've found even one better:

[plucky pewter]

Still looks better IMO

Just needs some fixes for textures which would probably have issues regardless in those spots

[silent cairn]

I'm preeeeetty sure this is caused by pbr code itself

[plucky pewter]

Huh

[silent cairn]

It's very weird

[plucky pewter]

So it's more complicated than just messing with variables?

[hybrid quest]

just installed the game, how do I add them? thanks

[glacial spear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKqo41r5n00 A foggy afternoon with GAMMA EXP Redux --> Grab GAMMA EXT #🖇old-mods-posting message if you want to try it- To install it takes only in few minutes once you download the Expedition 2.2 addon archive (that takes ages)

[pearl breach]

any guides on how to use reshaders

[hybrid quest]

^

[mint owl]

Just need to find the shader online which will probably have a name like fxaa.fx and copy paste it inside the reshade shaders folder that is located in your Anomaly folder (in bin)

[slim path]

I don't know if I'm just totally inept or too brainded, but I cannot for the life of me find your shaders through google

[silent cairn]

Maybe you are neither! They are found in here: #🖇old-mods-posting message

[slim path]

No I'm both cause I didn't think to search the fucking discord XD

[mint owl]

Yup, it's GAMMA exclusive since that the one I play and I genuinely hate Moddb's system

[strange arrow]

Is it normal for RTGI to leave this black aura around grass and other objects?

Comparison image without it enabled

[ivory arrow]

that's rtgi ao

[strange arrow]

Oh, I feel like an idiot now lmao

[mint owl]

Looks better without it to be honest

[strange arrow]

I know it does lol, my other custom preset I made myself looks even better than this one

[vague island]

Guys where do you get rtgi

[strange arrow]

https://www.patreon.com/mcflypg/posts\

[strange arrow]

I got mine here

[vague island]

thanks\

is it good tho

[strange arrow]

yeye

imo at least

[vague island]

and fps friendly?

cause i couldnt even get to run edens reshade above 35 fps

super sad

cause it looks great

[silent cairn]

That effect alone is about as heavy as eden's reshade

But you can tweak it to be lighter for lower quality

[vague island]

i should probably be contented cause my game looks really really good now imo

honda's reshade is really nice

[silent cairn]

It's mostly nice for screenshots but for gameplay I'm not sure

[vague island]

cant wait to upgrade my pc

[silent cairn]

There is this itch to always try to make this game prettier

[vague island]

been running the old gtx 970 since it released

[vague island]

agreed its like always at the back of your mind

[silent cairn]

Raytracing effects might kill your 970 but you could try this instead: #╟🎑reshades message

[vague island]

thanks i'll give this one a look after work

[plucky pewter]

Can confirm, it's pretty solid

[mint owl]

An obsession for me ever since I have Gamma

[vague island]

Does the glamarye fast effects look nice on default or does it need a bit of tweaking to get it looking good

Im trying it out rn

I tried to make a killing monsters inspired reshade preset for withcer 3 before, ive gotten close but im not that knowledgeable yet

[silent cairn]

I've forgotten how it looks by default

I don't know if the effects it has comes activated by default or not

[vague island]

without

with fake GI

[plucky pewter]

Looked fine for me without tweaks

[vague island]

using it with honda's preset which he recommended to have rtgi with

I shouldnt need the AO since gamma has shader packs that come with it right?

just the fake GI enabled

the AO that comes with it has a weird effect

without AO

look at the building infront

must say the Fake GI looks good

need to wait for a better weather to show it

[swift robin]

where do i get some reshade?

preset i mean

[undone stump]

YAY

[mild dome]

I can't tell the difference

[vague island]

Yeah since its a bit dark in that room the corners of the room become almost black with the ao that comes with it tho

Or I think i sent the same pic without the effect turned on

Cause it looks same to me there but I can tell it ingame

[mint owl]

Not worth the fps cost if it's like that though

[swift robin]

Thanks!

[mild dome]

I just use Ambient Light

[mint owl]

Glad there are working alternatives to my $$ expensive $$ Reshade

[mint owl]

Depends on what you're looking for ?

But more importantly, do you know how to use mod organiser 2 ? Or you are a total newcomer who barely installed Gamma with some troubles and going straight for the Reshade ? xD

No offense really, I'm just filtering so I can give appropriate options

[vague island]

The fake GI is like 3 fps difference for me

Not that much for what it gives imo

[swift robin]

your reshade especially and also in general

[swift robin]

nah im a seasoned skyrim modder i can take it

[mint owl]

Hmm well, I'd suggest using effects that are packaged together, so you can use multiple effects in one and save performances

[mint owl]

Oh, that's good news, finally someone who knows how to read xD Let me link that to you real quick

#🖇old-mods-posting message

Here you go

[swift robin]

thanks

[outer bolt]

@vague island check your depth buffer, glamarye relies on it.

[mint owl]

I actually mostly face three types of people :

• I installed GAMMA, why is Agressor not working when I tick it ?
• I installed GAMMA, don't know shit about modding but please give me Reshade, I won't bother reading the same answered question that has been asked a billion times above, oh and I will ask the same questions anyway regardless

• I can't read, won't bother anyway, give me a Reshade I can install without ANY effort to make Stalker 2

What do they all have in common ? Inability to read or comprehend what a search bar is

[austere saddle]

If you won't make the effort then why should others make the effort to help you

[silent cairn]

Eden is starting to lose hair over this

[mint owl]

I mean I even have a guy reacting TLDR at my Reshads post xD

[mint owl]

The mind of every modder with experience regarding their communities

[vague island]

How would I check this exactly

Nvm saw it

[vague island]

would this be labelled as correct depth buffer

[plain vale]

yes

[outer bolt]

Yes, perfect.

[vague island]

yeah looks like its correct

[swift robin]

@mint owl sorry for the ping but i have a teeny tiny issue with the cfg_load grading_vanilla part, it says cannot open script file

[vague island]

AO has weird effects on the front building tho

[candid mantle]

anyone know how i can get rid of the floor effect, its confusing me with like anomalies: (its like ripples)

[mint owl]

Shouldn't be the case, can I see a screen of your console ?

[swift robin]

i turned the game off and im heading out to eat so maybe later

[mint owl]

Ah, I'll be sleeping now anyway xD

[swift robin]

the game looks amazing with your reshade btw

[mint owl]

But keep trying, sometimes it just works x)

Thank you, I'll try to optimize it when I'll finally return

[cloud island]

Increase shadow map quality using the anomaly launcher

[frigid spade]

edit: had messed up setting in previous post

dof on iron sights(also effects gun at hip, though less) but blurs pda a bit, doesnt mess with scopes or binocs though, have no workaround, turn of dof if you dont want it or set up a second duplicate reshade without dof, make the hotkey in reshade options and tap it when you use pda

put in game ssao to ssao(do not use hbao or hdao, they ruin frames and prevent this from being able to run on 3060ti)
work in progress

[fickle sigil]

where do I get the winter mod

I hate that my game looks like california right now

[vague island]

weird ive been seeing lightsources passing through walls or hills

[sour oar]

Isn’t that just a sun ray?

[vague island]

yeah

through a wall

behind this are pipes which the sunray cant pass through

also this someones flashlight going through a little gap from the floor and the wall

[sour oar]

Sus

[frigid spade]

ah zone, i drink pond yes?

[vague island]

autumn harmony + honda reshade + glamarye fast effect GI

[undone stump]

i like this haha

[undone stump]

this mine

[glossy pond]

where do i install glamarye

and that sss thing

[wraith flicker]

Guys I messed up and didnt make a copy of the default reshade, any way to get the default config back without reinstalling the whole thing?

nvm, found the default config in the github rep

[vague island]

first image has the reshadde as well btw, its just different weathers

[swift robin]

How can I install Edens reshade? From where?

[sour oar]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[swift robin]

Got it thanks

[glossy pond]

where the honda reshade at

[wind haven]

is there a way i could disable the reshade altogether?

it kills my framerate too much

[sour oar]

The base GAMMA one?

[wind haven]

yes

[sour oar]

It should only impact you by like 1-2 fps, maybe 5, from what I remember

[wind haven]

oh well my fps is getting shit on compared to normal anomaly

[sour oar]

Well there ARE 337 active mods

[glossy pond]

this is normal for edens reshade right

im like tripping i cant tell if this is how its supposed to look or not

[mint owl]

It's one of the misery weather, pretty sure

[sour oar]

Yeah looks to be

But I also think they added some extra addons

[mint owl]

Whether it's the case or not, misery weathers are usually the ones feeling out of place most of the time

[sour oar]

I don't know if it ever worked but I remember him asking about some other effects, though misery weathers are an entire case of their own

[glossy pond]

ah ok

was wondering bc every now and then i feel like im either crazy or everything looks somewhat flat

[mint owl]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/g-a-m-m-a-style-modern-ui-reupload

Also Honda's Reshade is part of this addon so you can download it for the Reshade only

[glossy pond]

thank u

[mint owl]

You can try comparing the places where you feel like that

[glossy pond]

locations or weathers

[mint owl]

Both I'd say

In fact that would help to determine if the issue is on my end

Or if it's entirely because of misery weathers

So no need for full comparison, just places with Misery weathers on

[glossy pond]

alright ill @ u when i have a chance

to change weather i need debug mode yes?

[sour oar]

Yes

[maiden void]

Are there more fps friendly textures for Gamma now that I think about it?

Because as much as I love how Gamma looks, it's too much for my potato fossil pc and getting less expensive textures would do the trick so I can also use reshades

[mint owl]

Try Golden Autumn Redux in #custom-textures

[abstract wigeon]

what is a good reshade preset for a mid-tier graphics card?

[maiden void]

Alright

[mint owl]

Worth a try

[maiden void]

Looks nice

[mint owl]

Is that the one ?

[glossy pond]

well 3 of them look extremely similar

Clear3 and I think partly3

[mint owl]

CGIM Original is basically using weathers close to the old Stalker trilogy (I think ?), but I suppose changing the Reshade doesn't change it much ?

[glossy pond]

clear3 cloudy3

[mint owl]

So it maybe is only weather related ?

[glossy pond]

maybe yeah

ig im just tripping

[heady pebble]

Dynamic Tonemap can make these ugly weathers a alot worse though.

[mint owl]

I'm actually not disabling it, I don't want to add an extra instruction to my "over complicated readme"

[mint owl]

No new effects ticked or new addons ?

[glossy pond]

i did install jaku's wip shader tweak

but i dont have it loaded and i deleted shader cache and reset user ltx settings it needed changed

[mint owl]

How did you reset your user ltx ?

[glossy pond]

i just changed the two values that the installation required changed

the two gloss settings

back to default vals

those were the only things changed there in the first place

[mint owl]

Oh, so nothing else was ever changed even in Reshade ?

[glossy pond]

i added the glamarye reshade thing but its not ticked

would that affect it?

[mint owl]

As long as you have the 23 effects from my Reshade, and nothing else and no duplicate, nope

I think best option would be to compare with Honda's Reshade

[glossy pond]

will do

also, whats rtgi? how do u get it in gamma?

[mint owl]

Officially it's a patreon exclusive shader from Pascal Glitcher

[glossy pond]

ah ok

wow honda looks quite similar to regular gamma so far

not that thats a bad thing

[nova fiber]

if I'm going to use or make a custom preset do I have to reinstall over what is already given or do I just get the shaders and drop it in?

[glossy pond]

any advice on how to fix this? currently using honda reshade

[sour oar]

I believe someone posted a thing yesterday or so that helps with that

[sour oar]

Muaha!

This might fix your issue @glossy pond, install how you would a mod

[glossy pond]

Thx

[mint owl]

Wait, before that you undid the settings I did in my Reshade ? Like cfg load and volumetric ?

The test would not be real otherwise

[mint owl]

I think you'll find plenty on moddb, just use the Reshade keyword in the addons section

You could try Prosperity ?

[glossy pond]

I did not do anything

I just added Honda preset and the bin files

[mint owl]

Yeah

That's not how it's supposed to be

Unless Honda's Reshade instructions are telling you to use volumetric instead of screen space or vanilla grading

@swift robin Maybe you have some instructions regarding these settings ?

[glossy pond]

oh right didnt you have specific settings you needed for ur reshade

[glossy pond]

how do u reset the grading vanilla thing?

[mint owl]

Vanilla GAMMA uses cfg_load grading_warm

[glossy pond]

thank u

Honestly looks better with vanilla grading

[mint owl]

But again, not sure

[glossy pond]

To my taste

[mint owl]

I mean, it's for Anomaly in the first place right ?

In that case I guess the grading is vanilla

But I'll wait for Honda to explain a bit more

[languid sonnet]

hey was just wondering as this is my first update with edens reshade on do i have to reinstall the reshades and stuff like new?

[sour oar]

No

Just make sure the mods you need like Golden Autumn Redux are enabled if you're using them of course

[languid sonnet]

Ahhh thanks and this is another thing but if i copy my user.itx and paste it afterwards ill keep all my visual settings and keybinds and stuff right?

[sour oar]

Yeah, I like to drag the user.ltx out into my desktop, update, and then drag it back in

But yeah as I was saying besides the user.ltx, if you're using any seperate mods make sure you save your MO2 settings so you don't have to set them up again

[languid sonnet]

Ok cool I'm probably gonna do that cuz I always have to change it back after i update

[orchid abyss]

aggressor reshade addon + reshade preset, yay or nay?

[sour oar]

Nay >:(

Try it if you want but the addon only changes the grass and ground textures

[orchid abyss]

what would you suggest: get the addon and use a different preset like prosperity?

or just prosp by itself?

[sour oar]

I wouldn't recommend Aggressor in any situation but that's just me

[orchid abyss]

roger

thx comrade

[sour oar]

You know what they say though

When in doubt, use Eden's reshade

[orchid abyss]

edens? hmm, ill have to check it out, is it in the textures chat?

[sour oar]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

The only pinned message in #🖇old-mods-posting for a reason hehe

[glass steppe]

is there a way to remap the reshade menu button outside of the game?
I use a 90% and I don't have a home button >.>

[sour oar]

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

[glass steppe]

that does not fill me with confidence lmao

[sour oar]

I'm not sure honestly

[glass steppe]

FOUND IT

So for future reference -

If you don't have a 'HOME' button on your keyboard (ie. Using a 90%, TKL, 75%, 70%, 60%, etc) and you need to change your keybind, you can do so pretty easily.
In the 'anomaly/bin' folder, there is a file called ReShade.ini
Open that up and locate the section labeled [INPUT]
Look for the KeyOverlay=36,0,0,0
This is the required keycode for the Home button.

Go to keycode.info/ if you want to get the keycode for a specific text input.
Shift+F2 is 113,0,1
I use num subtract, which would be 109,0,0,0

EDIT: As a preemptive explanation -
The four numbers in the keycode serve different purposes.
The first number is your given keycode (ie. 36 = home, 113 =F2)
The next three are modifiers in this order: ctrl, shift, alt
So if you want the keybind to be, say, SHIFT+L it would be 76,0,1,0
ALT+SHIFT+F12 = 123,0,1,1

[mint owl]

@prisma path Can we pin that message here ? Quite useful honestly

[prisma path]

I may dm when I circle back to the binos and scopes in a while, I can't get it to pull beefs and there's some shader stuff I'm just probably stupidly missing. If you don't mind

[sour oar]

Nobody better suited for the job it seems

[mint owl]

Sure thing but I'm probably clueless outside of Reshade effects and loading screens making xD

[silent cairn]

The keycode thingy is really useful

[silent cairn]

You can also bind keys to toggle single (or multiple) effects. For example for rtgi effect slap KeyRTGlobalIllumination@qUINT_rtgi.fx=46,0,0,0 in the beginning of your effect ini file to toggle it with delete key

[glass steppe]

I added an explanation of how the keycodes work

Short and to the point lol

[swift robin]

could you send a full screenshot?

[glossy pond]

I will have to tomorrow but essentially it seems the contrast is sometimes extremely high in the dark?

Maybe that’s a separate issue but that’s also something I noticed

[swift robin]

propably, It is just a reshade so what could go wrong with Gamma data?

[sour oar]

Did this not work?

[silent cairn]

I need to update that file

It has some issues I've since ironed out

The darkening thing is I believe from SSS mod, technically nothing to do with reshades. Edit: nevermind I have no clue what I'm talking about

[sour oar]

It fixed any issues like that for me so I linked it to him is all

[silent cairn]

Wait it does?

[sour oar]

Yeah man

[glossy pond]

It did minor things

It helped w the gun

But there’s the remaining issue which I never mentioned of nights basically being very visible, not bright but like everything is outlined

[sour oar]

I had an issue where because my shadows were tinted blue the entire gun became blue if you looked up on some weathers, it fixed it for me mostly

[glossy pond]

Not sure how to explain

[silent cairn]

I know exactly what you mean

[glossy pond]

Yeah I don’t think that’s your shader file

Bc I used yours with Eden’s reshade two days ago just fine

[plucky pewter]

Update for it? 👀

Can't wait to grab it

[undone stump]

anyone using technicolor ?

[mint owl]

Careful, technicolor can alter your UI colors (items, main menu)

[undone stump]

ah.. i see

[mint owl]

You could try technicolor 2, but not quite the same

[undone stump]

is it available in gamma filters built in ?

[mint owl]

Not sure, I added effects in the folder on my own

[outer bolt]

Anyone know how to fix this weird weather/sun rays lighting?

[outer bolt]

But is there no other alternative? I like using volumetric..

[silent cairn]

There are r2_sunshafts_value and r2_sunshafts_min console commands, but other than that you'd have to tackle the weather configurations directly if you wanna keep on using volumetric with less intensity

[mint owl]

I don't have such issues with my sun rays tbh

[frail slate]

oh? do elaborate cause this just might be what i've been looking for

been tweaking shader_params on the dl and its always one step forward, two steps back

looks a bit like grading_default

[swift robin]

I messed up default Gamma reshade settings. How can I revert it back?

[silent cairn]

#╟🎑reshades message

[silent cairn]

Do you refer to the lighting in the room or the lighting on the gun?

I was tweaking the shader_params to adjust the room lighting to extremes to demonstrate how other shaders affect the lighting on the gun

[swift robin]

Thanks a lot.

[frail slate]

i meant the lighting in the room

gun is an afterthought for me atm. im trying to make shadows brighter and make the colours less washed out without shitting on everything else in the process

closest i got was this (14:15, clear_1 gamma weather), but there's still plenty thats wrong with it

[silent cairn]

shader_param_2 is good for making shadows brighter

[frail slate]

speaking of that one, have you noticed different nooks and crannies in guns having unrealistic pop to them when its dark at y values in x, x, x, y below 0.04

[silent cairn]

lemme check it out

I see what you mean

With 0.01:

0.04:

(this is stupidly hard to see in discord)

[frail slate]

yep. this is gonna be even more stupidly hard to see since i didnt zoom in

[silent cairn]

oh yeah I see it

[frail slate]

obviously these values are all borked, i just had them saved from previous testing where i 1st noticed this

[mint owl]

I usually do that through Reshade but maybe that can be good for saving performances

[silent cairn]

I'd do most of the color grading through params 1-4, it's basically the same thing but in-engine and well, we are already paying the frames by using ES

[mild dome]

You can do those from the console?

[kind torrent]

What reshade presets do you guys use

[silent cairn]

Eden's, of course

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[mint owl]

[mint owl]

Will take a look for future Reshade stuff I think

[frail slate]

sure would love to see somebody who knows what they're doing have a go at it

as is, me tweaking it is just throwing shit at the wall to see if it sticks

[lofty path]

would it be possible to install expedition 2.2 shaders to gamma?

[mint owl]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

Everything you need to know

[lofty path]

thank you

[shy pagoda]

what you guys think about Stalker Expedition graphics / as shader? any experiences on it?

• how compatible is it with the gamma basic version so with the 336 mods, im trying to find a good looking setup at the moment

[mint owl]

Expedition has some good shaders but honestly it doesn't hold a candle to GAMMA or EFP in terms of gameplay, it's basically Anomaly with a few tweaks, most of it is the graphic part

As for compatibility check the link I posted just above

[shy pagoda]

Ah i just wanted to use the graphical part, i checked ur link above i wanted to use textures etc

I want to play gamma mainly but some addition to graphics a nice overhaul overall without tweaking too much

[mint owl]

Alternatively there is a link on EFP discord with just the graphic part

[mint owl]

Expedition merging is actually a more complicated process

What do you want in terms of season, colors etc ?

[shy pagoda]

Mhh im not quiet sure actually haha, i want some suggestions 😄 Im lookg through whole forums yt etc but not sure what is compatible andeasy to implement in the end

i dont like the dead trees for example from autumn it shouldnt be as colorful as agressor thats way too much

[shy pagoda]

oh i guess i dont do that then, as i just reinstalled whole gamma after i crashed my whole game xD

[mint owl]

Well... I may have a solution

[silent cairn]

I do believe strangerism's GAMMA EXT (from the link above) does give you only the graphics of expedition (textures, shaders, reshade and weather)

[mint owl]

[silent cairn]

unless they changed it

[mint owl]

They have read the link for Strangerism post though

[silent cairn]

[mint owl]

Yup

That's the link I gave

But oh well, a bit of self sponsoring won't hurt me

[shy pagoda]

What is it :D!

[mint owl]

[silent cairn]

I mean

DO I HAVE THE RESHADE FOR YOU

[shy pagoda]

Yea i saw that, i just thought after eden said its more complicated that i better dont do this stuff xD

[mint owl]

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