╟🎑reshades

[silent cairn]

Fool proof installation guide

[mint owl]

Not entirely until next update

But fear not, it is simpler than it looks

@shy pagoda

[shy pagoda]

Ohh okay, then i guess im gonna try this after im done here in 15minutes with my reinstallation of the game xD

[mint owl]

All you need is a pair of functionning eyes

[silent cairn]

And the will to read text

[mint owl]

And a brain

Good luck

[shy pagoda]

Im scared already i guess im gonna prepare you guys for some spam help later on

[mint owl]

If you want the not too dead as in GAMMA, but not too colorful, I suggest Autumn Season Redux or Autumn Harmony

[shy pagoda]

I reat through most of your stuff so lets see how good your documentation is

[mint owl]

If you want some green, I suggest the Summer setup

Well, it has proven useful for many it seems

[silent cairn]

All the seasons at your fingertips

you cannot lose

[shy pagoda]

Can you suggest actually the expedition shaders? do you guys like them :P?

[mint owl]

We don't talk about Spring though

[mint owl]

Tried it, didn't like it much

[shy pagoda]

yea i tried them once but overall i had a shitty setup i guess many things didnt look like in the screenshots here or yt

im trying the autumn harmony perhaps again with the fresh setup then

[mint owl]

Usually if you follow my readme properly and pay attention to the updates on my post, you should get the same result as claimed

[shy pagoda]

I used your Final Eden Reshade and Autum Harmony together, i just remember i had visual bugs inside of the anomaly storms (moonlight and the storm swapped between each other every 2 seconds), do you suggest for the best quality using both together or just autumn harmony or eden reshade?

[shy pagoda]

im just curious as in your readme files you wrote that both is fine together, just wondering if i missunderstood something there english is not my main language

[silent cairn]

Can you elaborate on this please? The storm literally swapped back to starry sky with moon?

[shy pagoda]

yes i used eden final shade + autumn harmony (his repackage) and when the storm started the sun/moonshades and the storm particles swapped inbetween, so i got full storm in one second couldnt see anything and next second moon light and saw clear , and that swapped often 😛

I tried adjusting it with the ingame settings (sun rays etc.) but was not able to fix it

so i tried to delete it

but im installing completly fresh now and try to do it again as clean as possible

[silent cairn]

You get very bright thunder during the blowout storm, which will create strong blinding rays

I will take a peep at this, from the sound of it it has nothing to do with eden's reshade but rather the weather that comes with autumn harmony

[mint owl]

Were the storms natural or you used Debug Weathers ?

[shy pagoda]

Yes that can be possible aswell, couldnt find out where it was really coming from in the end as i think i fucked up my setup pretty well at the start, im gonna take a look and tell you when i finished the installation again

[mint owl]

Could you copy paste the precise line ?

[shy pagoda]

I cant remember at the moment, but i can tell you when im in again 🙂

[mint owl]

It shouldn't be since I checked each weather and besides, it's only a Reshade, the very base of Autumn Harmony is Autumn Season Redux which was made by Fabio.Conte

[shy pagoda]

Ah yea i reat that, not sure just mentioned it 😛 lets see if it was just my setup

[mint owl]

For all I know, if you use debug weathers to use storm weathers, it will glitch into a infinite blinding light

That's an Anomaly unresolved issue

[silent cairn]

of all the weird bugs to have

[mint owl]

Yeah, storms only work if they occur naturally, otherwise, you will lose an eyeball

[shy pagoda]

@mint owl @silent cairn I can also copy paste this into installation issues - just in case you have an instant answer to that

I fucked up my folder with shaders now i fucked up my installation, i guess im a new talent

[silent cairn]

Yup, this is an installation issue!

[shy pagoda]

Allright im headin out with this and get back with my shader stuff later 😂

[silent cairn]

Good luck

[mint owl]

Well, I mostly answer issues people could have with my Reshade here

[shy pagoda]

Npnp i deleted already, posted into installation issue

[mint owl]

I'll be back online in about 8 hours from now x) Sleeping time

[shy pagoda]

Goood nighty then

[tender narwhal]

not really reshade specific but what AA settings you guys using?

[silent cairn]

Just fxaa on

Works pretty well on 2k res at least

bless this new update

[tender narwhal]

my man, what systems settings you using? you working at NASA?

[silent cairn]

Ryzen 7 is my bottleneck for this single-core miracle of an engine

[torpid swallow]

What are the better reshades currently?

[silent cairn]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[glossy pond]

Eden reshade my beloved 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

[glass steppe]

ayo gimme them deets now

[silent cairn]

Newest gamma update had some performance improvements

[glass steppe]

when uhhhh

yeah that

[silent cairn]

Yes, but there is a way to avoid that

hold on

I forgot what the command for it was

[vague island]

guys are puddles gone because of autumn harmony

the puddles come with the particle.xr right

[glass steppe]

!update

[void depot]

In order to update your G.A.M.M.A. installation, YOU DON'T NEED TO DELETE ANYTHING, don't delete anything WITHOUT A GOOD REASON or at least ASK FIRST.

1. Open the installer with admin rights and make sure you have the newest version, which is 3.8. You can get it here if you don't have it: <#📢announcements message>
2. Click Download GAMMA data, wait for it to say "done"
3. Choose between Full G.A.M.M.A. installation" OR Only install G.A.M.M.A. Addons.
   Before you ask: NO, YOU DON'T NEED TO CLICK THEM BOTH. ONLY ONE. AND NO YOU WON'T DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING AGAIN.
   If you're missing something in your mod list, you will, of course.

It really depends on WHAT DO YOU NEED and WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. So, if you don't know the difference, learn it here: <#╭📖faq message>

This is because MOST OF THE TIME, NOT ALWAYS, Only install G.A.M.M.A. Addons is what you need to do, but it really depends.
You can click on Full G.A.M.M.A. installation if you haven't updated for a long time OR if you're missing mods.

Check frequently #📢announcements because Grok will ALWAYS says in that channel what you need to do and what's needed to do.

[silent cairn]

#╟🎑reshades message

wait

you can

create another profile in MO2, just copy the G.A.M.M.A.

oh well

[frail slate]

any suggestions for late february / early march palette?
im thinking dead zone with bits of dull green here and there, so that it only ever feels colorful on the rare occasion its sunny

for reference

E: sry about it taking up so much vertical space

[silent cairn]

Early spring huh

Some sort of mix with graupel, autumn no leaves, and.. green grass maybe?

[frail slate]

a rather cold one, yeah. default retexture + gardener of the zone arent that far off, and neither is ASR, but im missing the dull green part

[silent cairn]

Hold on I think I've seen dull green retexture

[frail slate]

i dont think there's any texture packs that combine just barely leafy trees with dead ones (red forest not included) are there?

[silent cairn]

is snow too much?

[astral cradle]

Anyone have issues where solid objects become translucent with SSDO enabled? Not sure if it's a reshade issue or the AO implementation

[frail slate]

ideally no snow, but thats the grass im thinking of

[silent cairn]

Then I'm clueless

[frail slate]

well, does it make crunchy sound?

that'd be a big sell

[silent cairn]

Yes, graupel does do that

I'm not sure how much snow graupel adds if you choose the textures with minimum amount of it

[frail slate]

im actually curious to try it then. bit of a mix-up, but i never did a winter playthrough before

does it come with its own weathers too?

[silent cairn]

The MO2 installer for it is pretty comprehensive, you can choose what you want it to include

[silent cairn]

You can always hit page up key to enable/disable reshade to check if reshade is culprit of something

[astral cradle]

Oh cool, didn't know that- ty!

[frail slate]

yea, bit daft here, only realized that graupel is the name of the addon after i asked

[glass steppe]

did it effect the reshade at all?

Nice

Time to update for performance

I believe so, but I can do some quick digging to find out

oh you can adjust that

one sec I'll type out a lil explanation

[outer bolt]

@silent cairn What's your reshade/texture setup?

[shy pagoda]

Omg im back, after reinstalling game for 2 hours and troubleshooting i have a fresh clean GAMMA, NOW i need you guys...

I need a clean installation of shader that doesnt fuck up my game too much and maybe not too hard as im kinda fresh here
also any other mod suggestions to improve the gameplay or is needed in ur opinion or gamma features i should activate?

[glass steppe]

So for a speedy lil guide here:

1. Open up NVIDIA Control Panel
2. Navigate to Manage 3D Settings and click the tab labeled Program Settings
3. Click A__d__d and choose your specific Anomaly DX file (Default would be: anomaly\bin\anomalydx11avx.exe)

From here, there are a couple settings I recommend changing for your overall experience (Warning: your mileage may vary)
Turn on Low Latency Mode and change Power Management Mode to 'Prefer maximum performance'
I have zero idea why the second setting has any effect on a desktop but it does.

Here you can also turn on FXAA if you'd like.

Once you've added Anomaly to NVIDIA Control Panel, apply any settings you've changed then bounce over to Global Settings.
From here, navigate to DSR - Factors. Open the drop down menu and select any resolution options you want.
This does not change your monitors resolution, but forces resolution options in the added games.

Bam, next time you load Anomaly you'll have access to any resolution you selected.

I uhhhhh I used to write guides for stuff a lot lol

I wrote one in this chat yesterday lmao

I drew it lol

Zag man is such a dope character

[glass steppe]

Eden's has been great for me so far

Got my 48th clear yesterday lol

It's well worth

lmao

[shy pagoda]

Can you send me the link to it again i cant find it (like last time -.-) 😄

Btw is it worth it to download 4k texture packs?

i saw they are huge but not sure if they work well

[glass steppe]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[shy pagoda]

Cheeers!

[glass steppe]

Also I use 4K textures and still get hella frames

[shy pagoda]

Can you send me those u use with eden together that work 😄 i dont want to reinstall my game again like last time xD

would rly appreciate

[glass steppe]

tbh I actually don't know lol

[shy pagoda]

what kind of 4k texture pack are u using then :P?

[glass steppe]

I may have just borked something so lemme double check my stuff then I'll let you know lmao

[shy pagoda]

Sure 😄

Btw how can i open reshade if i dont have a "HOME" key on my keyboard any command perhaps i can type into the commandline?

to open it

[glass steppe]

Fun fact

I wrote a guide for this yesterday lol

It's the most recent pinned comment

[shy pagoda]

loooooooool

hahahah its true, there it is xD what a coincidence

[glass steppe]

I ran into the same problem lmao

[shy pagoda]

well great then lemme change that 😂 thanks alot

[dawn python]

also i all but guarantee that if you are on a laptop, Fn + left arrow will be the same as "Home"

or Fn + PageUp if you have a dedicated page up

[glass steppe]

I just use a nonstandard keyboard layout lol

[shy pagoda]

im on a usual keyboard 😛

[shy pagoda]

strangely i just have edens final winter reshade + his final reshade.ini inside and non of both have [INPUT] defined, im in the anomaly /bin

[glass steppe]

It's further down

Took me a sec to find too

[glass steppe]

ope, may have to show hidden files

[shy pagoda]

Ahhhh fuckkkk

[glass steppe]

one sec I'll explain that too lol

[shy pagoda]

Ah no i have that aswell

i got every invisible data shown,

[glass steppe]

did you boot the game after installing the shader?

[shy pagoda]

yea

went alrdy in

[glass steppe]

hmmmmm

[shy pagoda]

here got shaders cache in appdata

so it loaded something i guess

[glass steppe]

Remove the search parameters and lemme see what your folder looks like

[shy pagoda]

Thats my /bin in Anomaly

sorted for size

[glass steppe]

alright gimme one sec

[shy pagoda]

Allrighty

[glass steppe]

what's in the optional folder?

[shy pagoda]

just a user.ltx from eden i didnt delete it there yet

[glass steppe]

alright we gonna cheat

Imma DM you my ReShade.ini file.
Slap that into the folder

[shy pagoda]

hahaha ok

[glass steppe]

yeah but I think I reinstalled it wrong after Eden cuz I can't tell any difference, so I'm working on that lol

[shy pagoda]

Do you have any name for those retextures? Cause i cant find any online

[glass steppe]

GTR

[shy pagoda]

the beta?

[glass steppe]

I'll post a link in a sec after I send you the ini lol

[shy pagoda]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/global-texture-rework-beta

[shy pagoda]

sure thanks!

[glass steppe]

that's the one lol

[shy pagoda]

Ahh tell me how it is or what you think about it if you have it running, im too scared atm to try it out atleast today

bc im happy eden and autum are running ant not sure if they like each other with this texture pack

[glass steppe]

I backup everything so if it utterly breaks I'll roll it back lmao

bada bing, bada

boom

got everything working again

[shy pagoda]

does make GTR a big difference you would say and was the setup easy or anything to pay attention to? @glass steppe

[glass steppe]

delete certain conflicting files lol

But imma be real with y'all, without the shader it's defo worth it.
But with Eden's installed, it isn't really worth the hassle. It's super minor

@mint owl made a shader so competent that the texture rework is practically negligible

[shy pagoda]

@glass steppe thanks for the feedback, i wanted to download it already but if cs edens stuff is so great i will stay with my setup now

[glass steppe]

It took like 40 minutes to get the texture stuff to work and I may actually like default more in some spots lmao

I got GTR to work with Eden's Shader

but it's a pretty minimal shift

[shy pagoda]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/cinemavfx3-7

I gotta say this makes a really nice difference

i bet you all know it already just throwing it in here

works with cs eden and his autumn overhaul

[glass steppe]

👀

tbh I'm pretty new to modding stalker, so this is new to me lol

I've just been modding games in general for like

[shy pagoda]

Ohhh then u will love that one

[glass steppe]

always

[shy pagoda]

the effects really look way way better on guns etc

just gotta be careful with the particle effect on drop bloods that one causes me a crash when i shoot an enemy so i leave that one out

[glass steppe]

I'll do some digging later and let ya know :)

[glass steppe]

@shy pagoda testing the VFX stuff now. You said you're having stutter issues with it?

[frail slate]

oy, Jaku, if you're there, which grass would you pick for those early spring visuals with graupel?

graupel dead grass / gardener / vanilla, or something else?

[shy pagoda]

Yea wrote you pn, gotta test if i play around with the dynamic and static objects if it helps, it doesnt stattors all the time

[glass steppe]

Testing out weathers, times, and anomalies rn.
One thing is for certain, my current settings are scary at night

makes my nods feel more useful tho lol

[wet violet]

I'm pretty sure that mod is in gamma and cseden's pack. Be careful though because it's conflicting with the new dismembering system and will crash the game.

[shy pagoda]

Its already in there :0?

when i added it it looked different

[sour oar]

Because some parts are overwritten to prevent issues

[shy pagoda]

ohhhh....

[sour oar]

[glass steppe]

ope

[shy pagoda]

yes you made me sad now 😦

[glass steppe]

wrong emote

[shy pagoda]

im still trying it out with the mod @glass steppe u have seen anything yet that bugged?

[glass steppe]

but funnier

[shy pagoda]

xD

[glass steppe]

not as of yet

[shy pagoda]

allright me neither first missions done with 2 weathers

[sour oar]

Well, I'm no expert so I can't be sure how bad it gets

[shy pagoda]

yea lets see haha

[sour oar]

But I'm guessing it's in a specific place for a reason

[shy pagoda]

i had some error in the swamp but have to test again if its true

[glass steppe]

I'll head over to the swamp

[shy pagoda]

yea go to the camp and try to shoot 1-2 people in the head

[young lake]

hi, can anyone recommend a good reshade for gamma?

[sour oar]

My time to shine

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[young lake]

well are there any pics i can see?

[sour oar]

Eden left on a.. vacation? Before he remembered to

But if you just search in screenshots eventually someone will be using it. I think Madirex posts screenshots with it all the time

[exotic topaz]

what should i turn off again if i want to use agressor reshade? i forgot, i just returned and ready to be traumatized again

[sour oar]

Me when someone mentions aggressor:

[young lake]

why tho

[sour oar]

Imo, it's not great

[mint owl]

I updated my post yesterday, it's because of the shader file in it

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-dicaprio-cheers-the-great-gatsby-coupe-glass-toast-gif-10657915

[mint owl]

Thanks x)

[mint owl]

It would require the dead trees from vanilla GAMMA, with the grass from Dead Zone probably, but not sure, but damn does it look like a sad day in my country x)

[mint owl]

But it's already in GAMMA, and I actually say in my updated post to load any addons downloaded from my readme (Autumn Harmony, Golden Autumn Redux, Autumn Season Redux, Melting Winters) before/above Particle Cinematic VFX xD

[mint owl]

Not before I remembered too xD Actually I was running out of time, but yes I'm on a wedding vacation

[mint owl]

Follow the instructions below, but you'll have to download it from moddb again

!deadzone

[void depot]

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

[mint owl]

You can use the search bar, try filtering screenshots channel with "eden" as a keyword

Should give you more results easily

[mint owl]

Which is why I've put the instructions in the updated post, to prevent that crash

[weary forum]

greenish, desaturated tonemapping, also disabled ingame smaa

[sour oar]

That sharpness

[weary forum]

Why wear a pair of glasses when you can wear f o u r o f t h e m

BF2042 Tonemapping, or at least I tried

[silent cairn]

Yeah this is where I have no clue, dead grass I guess, but with vanilla you could go the green route (would just need to lower grass density wayyyy down). Edit: actually gardener does come with some green grass so maybe that one.

This is technically eden's reshade + silly dof

[mint owl]

I don't have 10/10 vision simulator x)

[sour oar]

[silent cairn]

[sour oar]

Oh btw Jaku, is there an update coming for the shaders you sent a few days ago? I've just began to notice the shiny puddles at the edge of the screen haha

[manic sage]

nvm I didn't read

[silent cairn]

Oh yeah I found a setting to reduce that specific effect

But... I'm pretty sure this same thing happens even with vanilla shader settings

[sour oar]

True, I think it might just be amplified? Though it's negligible if you aren't paying attention

[silent cairn]

A lot of weird things happen at the edges of the screen

[sour oar]

Unfortunate truth

Btw anyone been having issues with small white dots appearing at like vertexes and such?

It's a bit hard to describe but very noticeable

Ah wait

It's just lighting putting one pixel of sunray in a corner, and it's always the one corner and I always see it

[silent cairn]

[sour oar]

Rostok is cursed seemingly

[manic sage]

Yes no idea why

[sour oar]

Specs?

[manic sage]

Penis size~~ while you're at it~~

Forget I asked

[sour oar]

[manic sage]

shiiiittt, you're a horse

horses don't stutter

[mint owl]

Can you try saving, then use debug mode to delete common squads, if your framerate goes up again, then it's from a too much populated Zone

But my Reshade can feel taxing for some people

Do you play in 2K? 4K?

Nah, it's just FHD 1080p

So your stutter isn't normal, too much grass density or rendering distance ?

[silent cairn]

For me it's hard to say what is "normal" stutter in gamma

[mint owl]

It's in settings, advanced, grass density

[unkempt marten]

change shadow map to lowest on your anomaly launcher, MAKE SURE YOU ARE PLAYING IN WINDOWED BORDERLESS

[sour oar]

Borderless

[unkempt marten]

it goes against everything I have ever learned but my stuttering in rostok was completely gone after I made the change

[unkempt marten]

guy on youtube recommended to fix stuttering and it did, completely.

[exotic topaz]

i want a greener Zone, what should I do fellow stalkers?

[silent cairn]

!deadzone

[void depot]

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

[vague island]

guys is this correct

ascii's shaders supposed to be redundant?, I also removed the shaders from autumn harmony

[silent cairn]

Shaders cumulative pack for GAMMA contains the shaders from Enhanced Shaders and SSS

[vague island]

oh aight that makes sense

how do I set rainy weather btw

I want to just check if puddles and wet surfaces are back forme

[sour oar]

Use debug mode

[vague island]

f7 doesnt work for me

[sour oar]

Did you enable debug mode in the anomaly launcher?

[vague island]

nope

ill do that

I turned on debug mode in the launcher f7 still doesnt work for me

do I need to do anything else

[sour oar]

I don’t think sooo

I’m not sure

I’ve never had that issue before but I heard people talking about it

[versed night]

are you launching the launcher from MO2?

[vague island]

yeah

then I click save settings

[versed night]

Try doing all that, but launch the game from that launcher too to see if f7 works, i've seen some people where they close the launcher after hitting save but it doesn't save

[vague island]

aight

hmm

i got the debugger towork

i still dont have puddles

the floor looks wet tho

but anything else the surfaces arent wet

ill try deleting shader cache again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGFXxkxOVcA arent the puddles supposed to look like this

[mint owl]

The rain has to be natural

The one from debug weathers doesn't form puddles

Whether it's rainy or stormy, if it's through debug, you will never see a puddle

[silent cairn]

This is false, you just have to press the play button in weather editor after selecting rain

But natural rain will work for sure just no need to wait for it

[silent cairn]

I think I've finally fixed most of the issues I had with the engine shaders, the puddles don't look disgusting anymore

[vague island]

you edited SSS?

[silent cairn]

Yeah

[vague island]

thats very nice

I dont think I even remember puddles cause I installed autumn harmony instantly

the aliasing on the dead trees were too much for me

in vanilla gamma

[silent cairn]

They look great with Grok's shader settings, most of the people won't have to deal with this

[vague island]

lemme test out the puddles and press play rn

eey finally

is this a puddle

[worthy summit]

i would love to try it out, i'm still using your shader tweak from before

[silent cairn]

That's a puddle

[vague island]

i did the console command ssfx_wetness_multiplier 10,10,0

do I need to revert this?

[silent cairn]

Yeah

Well, unless you want to change how fast they appear and disappear

[vague island]

boy oh boy the satisfaction I just felt after seeing these puddles

[silent cairn]

They are so good

[vague island]

how do I revert them back to normal

I just needed to know they work otherwise I cant play the game xD

the OCD wont let me

[silent cairn]

Let me check what is the gamma default

1,0.3,0

[vague island]

thanks

also should I disable debug mode when I play

or can I just leave that enabled

[silent cairn]

Only if you don't plan on running invictus runs

[vague island]

what are invictus runs btw

ironman mode?

[silent cairn]

Ironman on hardest with 1 extra life I think

[vapid olive]

exactly

1 death allowed, hardest settings, no debug

[vague island]

aight i'll disable debug mode

[silent cairn]

[plucky pewter]

Think you could throw me the download for 'em?

I wonder how good the dull seva suits will look with 'em since I switched your older shaders off for a bit

[vague island]

yeah also your games looks really good, are you using autumn harmony?

[silent cairn]

default gamma

[vague island]

bruh my debug mode is bugged earlier i cant enable it

now i cant disable it

its still there even after unticking it and saved it

[silent cairn]

If the texture is dull from the get go you will not see any improvement (see normal SKS or AS Val Tactic). My settings just remove the broken glossiness and display the bumpmap as intended.

That would be the next goal, but I'll give you the current version if you want it

[vague island]

what do you guys set your gloss factors at

[silent cairn]

Vanilla gamma gloss_factor 0.5 and gloss_min 0.001

I'm not sure you can even change them

Same deal, gloss_factor 0.001 and gloss_min 0.5 (or 0.55/0.6 depending on your taste), delete shader cache. If you get problems with this just DM me directly.

[plucky pewter]

So the bumpmap isn't displayed correctly?

weird

but thanks

also they are dull-ish but CS-2t does seem quite decent, might look better with these shaders

[silent cairn]

Nope, which is why the guns and the terrain look quite smooth in vanilla gamma

Maybe "not correctly" is a wrong term here, but it lacks a certain "oomph"

[wet violet]

I've been using 0.7 XD pushing that spec to the limit haha

[silent cairn]

I'm good with words

[wet violet]

Do you have to place after sss too?

[silent cairn]

Place right after cumulative shaders

[wet violet]

perfect, thanks for the update!

Also, do you guys change your SSS settings? My ao feels almost non existant rn

ao and sss feels very dim for me

[mint owl]

Somehow when pressing play it resume the weather that was already there right ?

I can assure you I've tried and it never worked for me

[silent cairn]

No it will resume the weather you have selected but update time of day to what the game is running

Works for me every time

[wet violet]

one thing about the puddles, the water feels a bit milky, maybe it's too reflective and it's catching the sky too much?

[mint owl]

Welp, if it works it works I guess x)

[silent cairn]

This is how it used to look like

[vague island]

is this default SSS?

[silent cairn]

I hate how the worst it gets is literally during rain1 and rain2, the rest is perfect

No, default SSS in default GAMMA looks perfect

[vague island]

oh aight

[silent cairn]

Or rather the default shaders, Grok has edited the SSS

[vague island]

there a fix to this blocky shadows? on my gun

its more apparent in video

I remember a video the author posted saying he fixed this in SSS

[silent cairn]

Newest SSS has some sort of shadow fix for guns but I think they refer to the shadow squares

I don't know if increasing your shadowmap size and shadow quality helps

[plucky pewter]

I think it depends on the gun as well, I've noticed some guns actually uh...

Some guns weren't done up properly so the smoothing's fuckin' broke

Saw only one but can't remember which one off the top of my head

[silent cairn]

The double barreled shotgun?

[plucky pewter]

That one I don't know if its a texture or smoothing

Smoothing is more noticeable when you can kinda spot polygons/triangles incorrectly aligned and since the shine is relatively even they stand out

[silent cairn]

I checked the textures and didn't see anything suspicious there

[plucky pewter]

Weird

I've seen a similar issue on the silencer that AK12 2016 can take

though that one might be just badly done spec

[silent cairn]

lemme check

[plucky pewter]

The smoothing issue...christ which gun was it, I can't remember off the top of my head, I noticed it and just wrote it off in my head

I doubt its something that can be fixed without wholly redoing the model but it was small enough I recall that much

actually, shit, you can see those smoothing issues on the image above lol

the sight

you can see how the polygons all connect at one point and the shadow unevenly covers them

you can actually kinda tell that its triangles all connected at a central-ish point on the side

[silent cairn]

This?

[plucky pewter]

Yeah, smoothing errors usually end up looking like that in worst case scenarios, unless that is how the shadows look which...

It'd be real damn weird if they did

[silent cairn]

There are quality settings for these, you can increase the steps

Though I don't know if that helps

You have a sharp eye

[plucky pewter]

I'm also not used to how shadows work in this with the enhanced shaders, some of it might just be something else mucking up for all I know.

[ember halo]

Hey noob question, but any idea how to make the zones look more green/less brown. Game was green and vibrant last night but after getting/updating mods it went to this meh brown.

[silent cairn]

!deadzone

[void depot]

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

[plucky pewter]

Yeah probably just need to disable the mods again

[ember halo]

thank you

[silent cairn]

You could try this

[wet violet]

Will give it a shot later

[plucky pewter]

And no matter what it still feels better even if the CS-2t arms are still quite dull, it's really great honestly

[lofty path]

i have a problem

my surfaces look waaay to bright idk what to do i dont find any setting that fixes it neither the brightness option

im using Expedition shaders

[shy pagoda]

tbh for expedition this looks right 😄

I used it yesterday its bright as heck but you can kinda try to lower overall gamma (reshader options are for sure a way aswell, but not sure where to tweak it - as the rest will be too dark otherwise)

but maybe some experienced shader masters are here who can fix that

[wet violet]

Exp reshade have a color correction node that lower the contrast and adds brightness to the mids, try turning the effects off one by one to see which is doing that

I don't remember the name

[lofty path]

i dont have any effects turned on at least i cant find any

maybe im overlooking something

Nevermind i found the fix

[lofty path]

@shy pagoda u have to use some console commands and then it looks beautiful

[silent cairn]

I'm curious why it doesn't work for you the same, I wish we could test it

[vague island]

Yeah pressing play worked for me

The puddles are actually so nice

I was in agroprom and it was raining heavily while I was tryna get stashes

Everything just looked right

The puddles were realistic

[silent cairn]

The puddles were an amazing addition

@wet violet Have you shared your reshade anywhere yet?

[sour oar]

That's weird, it doesn't work for me either

[rich sentinel]

So I made some presets

[glossy pond]

how to make hands less glossy? using @silent cairn s wip sss tweak and it happens w all my presets

[mild bane]

does this mean in the game folder or in the launcher? (autumn harmony)

[lavish relic]

launcher... tick the box to delete the shader cache, only has to be done once

[clear raft]

Hey, I'm using RTGI in my preset. When using scope there is visible, transparent "afterimage" of unzoomed object. Is there any fix? As I checked it's related to reshade ambient oclusion setting.

[lavish relic]

I had that with Glamayre fast effects shader which has a fake GI in it. Was something related to the AO "shine" setting.

DUnno if the RTGI shader has anything like that, but just play around with the sliders, see if it changes

[clear raft]

only AO setting in RTGI causes this visual bug. Under certain value (very low anyway) the second image is invisible (nearly).

[versed night]

I'm attempting this, did the name change but when i try to open the filter thing with nvidia in game it says unsupported. Does this still work another way?

Just had to restart geforce experience ig, works now.

[tacit rapids]

iam liking #1 and #3 the most. i think #3 looks really good, i like the colours

[rich sentinel]

Can send you the preset if you want

[tacit rapids]

sure, iam going to try them out when im home tomorrow. 🙂

[versed night]

Been messing around with freestyle, man does it change the look of the game drastically.. i kinda got heated by constantly being pushed around... and this sorta happened..

I know this isn't really the place to post it but

[tacit rapids]

you are using the exploding bullet thingy?

[versed night]

Yup. 100% forgot i had it on cause im on parsec doing this over the cloud and it's latency is kinda bad for stalker, can't aim well enough so i just test and mess with stuff.

oof, freestyle makes NVG's terrible to use if there's any light in the area nvm i just don't know what i'm doing yet

[glacial spear]

you can try lower** r2_sun_lumscale_hemi** to 0.3 and r2_gloss_factor 0.2

open game console and type r2_sun_lumscale_hemi 0.3

[lavish relic]

When i do that, the values reset after about 3 seconds... dunno why =/

[glacial spear]

what are you playing though? the default gamma?

[lavish relic]

yep

any of the r2_sun commands just reset to what ever default value is

[glacial spear]

if I am not mistaked it's because of the tonemap adaptor mod that changes the values based on time of the day

[lavish relic]

ahh

can i just disable that mod in the manager or is it done through in game menu?

[glacial spear]

there is a mcm menu for it, try disabling it from there first

[lavish relic]

👍 cheers bud. I'll try that when i can get back on the game

i've been looking through every file i can think of thinking something was in read-only mode or something 😄

[versed night]

Does anyone else use the SSRTGI, and if so what's a good setting for it?

[wet violet]

Not yet, I switched to Michiko's weather so I want to make some adjustments, then I can make a version without shaders I can't include then I can share 🙂

[vague island]

To what value did you change it to cause I get this thing on buildings not the scope, i just turned off the ao part of the shader cause i didnt know how to fix it

[swift robin]

Cool presets, really liked 1 & 2. Will be thankful if u would send the files to me.

Btw, are u using other mods besides the 337?

Because ur clouds look much better than mine!

[glossy pond]

@mint owl does ur reshade look different on fullscreen?

[lofty path]

yep that worked the only problem im having is that the Sunrays are huge they take up the entire screen when i look at it, any fix for that?

other then that its working really well

[glacial spear]

I could not figure out yet how to reduce the sun intensity. I have looked at the weather files but had no success, sun_shafts_intensity param only reduce the shaft not the brightness of the sun. It has to be another parameter but I have not found yet. I don't have much time. You can look into the EXP Edition Weather mod for these kind of files if you feel brave

[lofty path]

well it looks like this to me i couldn figure anything out too

ill try some commands maybe

[glacial spear]

that's a shader that creates those JJAbrams lens flares, what I meant when is too bright is this

[lofty path]

oh mine looks completely different is it expedtion then? cause i idnt have any effect enabled in reshade couldnt figer out how to get that lensflare off

[glacial spear]

this happens to me as well, what I meant is that in some weathers type (sunny and clear) early in the morning the sun is too bright, like in the picture I shared , and I wish to tone it down

all shaders effect are in engine, there is just 3 very light reshade effects enabled. that's all

[versed night]

Is there a set of mods that compliment the default look of the game with the deadzone stuff turned off?

[mint owl]

I don't think so, it's just a Reshade

[versed night]

@mint owl So i'm using your reshade, will it still look good turning off the deadzone stuff? Or is there anything you recommend adding with that stuff off?

[mint owl]

It's all in the readme, it should quite well in any settings, you could try the Summer option (same link as Golden Autumn Redux despite not being listed), same instructions really, just make sure to load the addon before/above Particle Cinematic VFX in your load order

[versed night]

know if there any screenshots of this in action before i some how end up breaking my mod list changing stuff (i have bad luck with this LOL i ruined my previous skyrim modlist cause i messed it up )

[mint owl]

Unfortunately no, but I believe @silent cairn is using this setup

[versed night]

For the downloads, i get the one labeled Summer? Gonna pre-download it now so i can have it ready when i wanna give it a go

Or do i need this and the base one?

[mint owl]

Yeah, it's no more complicated than installing Golden Autumn Redux

But base one as well

[versed night]

I've never messed with a reshade before

[mint owl]

Loaded before

[versed night]

So i get this, then the summer one and load it after?

[mint owl]

Just trust the instructions from the readme + my updated post

[versed night]

ok, idk if i have the updated one

#🖇old-mods-posting message this the latest one?

okok, yeah i got this. How is the autumn one, the chance of snow sounds fun since it's just about winter here for me, and snow do be coming

[mint owl]

Well, Autumn one is the most used by people here, filter screenshots channel in the search bar with "eden" as keyword to find some screenshots, as for winters, works great but I had two people out of all ctually having issues with the HUD

Melting Winters is using my winter version of Reshade

If you find it too blue you can use cfg_load grading_vanilla instead of cold

[exotic topaz]

my water is pixelated/jittery, what could be the cause of this?

i have the same kind of problem before

[mint owl]

AMD card ?

[stiff flare]

Shit, i knew how to fix it, i think tis steep, uhh

ills ee if i can turn a settign back on x.x

[silent cairn]

Did you open the in-game console and switch the gloss values around? r2_gloss_factor 0.001 and r2_gloss_min 0.5

[mint owl]

My friend @sour oar needs a guinea pig, you up ?

[silent cairn]

Yesss

[sour oar]

👀

I’m getting of my computer in a minute or two but that should be enough time to send it over

[silent cairn]

free malware?

[sour oar]

Yes!

Always

No no

[exotic topaz]

yeah

[unkempt marten]

does anyone have some nice ReShade presets or a different shader recommendation?

[sour oar]

https://tenor.com/view/kinda-funny-cracking-knuckles-getting-ready-greg-miller-gif-14429632

Check out Eden’s reshade:

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[mint owl]

Thought so, seems AMD related

[versed night]

Uhh. So i switched to the autumn stuff.. idk if this screenshot can show it well

but there's like towers of blur? around my army warehouses?

[sour oar]

That’s normal?

It’s an anomaly

[versed night]

i've never seen this before in my 80 hours of gameplay

[sour oar]

It’s also in Dark Valley on a hill

It’s a psi thing

[versed night]

what anomaly is it wtf

[sour oar]

Idk but I stepped into it once and died so

[versed night]

it's not doing anything to me, and i only noticed this switching from deadzone stuff to autumn

[sour oar]

Idk I’ve always had this

With and without reshade

[versed night]

a tower of blur, maybe looks like heat going all the way up?

[sour oar]

Maybe it’s just an effect to trip you out and when I died it was from something else? But I’m not going near jt

[sour oar]

Yea, it’s like the burner anomaly while not active going all the way up. I’ve only ever seen it in two locations, Army Warehouses and Dark Valley

[versed night]

Huh.. i don't like it. It's weird and it was never there before i stg.

But yeah they don't damage me, they're in the towers and 1 is in the train tunnel at the warehouses

[mint owl]

I noticed that as well, specifically in Army Warehouses Freedom base

[mint owl]

Maybe it's a wrong fx effect, did you try loading it before Particle Cinematic VFX ?

[versed night]

op it was loaded after, i moved it before now, loading in.
Ok loading before that made them go away, i think it had something to do with the vine stuff?

[mint owl]

It's about Particles for sure, don't know which ones

But Grok said to load it before for a reason

[sour oar]

Mine are loaded before

Slightly sus, maybe my game is borked

[mint owl]

Too much Reshade borked your game, I recommend dumping your work and install Aggressor right away

[sour oar]

Aggressor will solve our problems

I’ve been having second thoughts about it, but.. no. Aggressor. Big aggressor. Save us from our sorrows, we are it’s children.

I just need to remember.. remember my past.. no. Aggressor. Our saviour.

[mint owl]

The new Rock to worship

[sour oar]

Yes lol

[mint owl]

Screenshots available right now

[silent cairn]

Yup, this is psy anomaly effect from hollywoodFX the autumn stuff uses

[silent cairn]

*Agressor

[sour oar]

Oh no

Please oh Agressor

Forgive me for my trespasses

As we forgive those who trespass against us

And lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil

Agressor

[manic sage]

So my reshade preset has been finalized visually, time to trim the number of effects to claw back the 6 fps I lost. I had to add more effects to the preset to fix some issues with it for the time being.

[silent cairn]

Lost 6 fps where in the game exactly? Can you look straight down in-game to ease the load on your cpu and test how many frames you lose this way?

[royal pulsar]

can you share your shader config and wich one you are using??

[silent cairn]

Eden's final reshade. Other than that I'm not sure what you are referring to

[silent cairn]

This is due to the sun flare settings and files expedition comes with (suns.ltx and anamflares textures possibly). Easiest way to get rid of that effect is to replace the sun flare with some other mod (e.g. Roadside's Lens Flares).

[royal pulsar]

ok but there are like 4 different reshades there

[silent cairn]

Autumn Harmony is my favourite of the bunch

But I sometimes post screenshots here with the summer one

[royal pulsar]

ok

[mint owl]

@royal pulsar Technically that's not Reshades, I have two Reshade presets but 5 options for textures pack (6 with Summer that I didn't add on the readme) just make to read my post as well to avoid a few issues after GAMMA'S recent updates

[subtle breach]

Is it normal for re shade shaders to not be in presets for a full install

[patent otter]

i tried to use another shader packs and now my screen is completely black, is there a way to go back to the old one?

[mint owl]

#1026866080347603065 Try to ask here

[mint owl]

Have you tried this ?

!blackscreen

[void depot]

Follow this: #╭📖faq message

[swift robin]

What are the original ReShade settings, when you install GAMMA for the first time? I Messed around with them, without taking a screenshot of the original ones

[patent otter]

thank you Mr Eden!

[mint owl]

[cursive shale]

So i am a bit confused on how the agressor reshade works, I enabled it in the MO2 but does that actually do anything or do I need to do something else? I tried to scour the discord before asking but cant figure it out

[mint owl]

#╟🎑reshades message

[swift robin]

Absolute legend, cheers!

[mint owl]

How did you scour it ? That's a meme question at this point in the server, has been massively asked

GAMMA has only the ground textures in MO2, to get it fully you have to download it from moddb

[cursive shale]

tried just looking at FAQ, and any channel that might have the answer, sorry for the repeat question then

[mint owl]

Oh just need to type agressor in the server's search bar

[cursive shale]

sorry I feel quite dumb, Im searching the discord using the search bar but still cant quite figure it out. So the aggressor in the MO2 is just for the ground but i want the reshade; however, on the moddb page for aggressor it says its only for anomaly 1.5.1. Again, sorry if this is an over asked dumb question.

[royal pulsar]

What post is the one i need to read?

[eternal bluff]

i'm going to try out the agressor reshade do i have disable anything in mo2?

[mint owl]

Hasn't been updated but will work just fine with 1.5.2

No problem really

[mint owl]

!deadzone

[void depot]

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

[mint owl]

Follow this

[cursive shale]

ah okay, ill look into some youtube install videos. Thanks!

[mint owl]

Just my post which contains the readme for my Reshade

[eternal bluff]

thank you

if theres a red x on mo2 did i do it wrong? i added the folder to mods

[mint owl]

It means the folder is either empty or not containing a gamedata folder

You need to add the archive itself if it has a gamedata inside

[eternal bluff]

i'm lost lol

do you mean like the contents of the folder instead of the folder itself?

i think i may have figured it out

i replaced the reshade folder in gamma

idk if thats correct but yeah

[mint owl]

Okay, what's exactly is in the downloaded archive?

[silent cairn]

[eternal bluff]

can you hop in one of the voice channels

rq

[mint owl]

I'm in phone won't work since I have no mic, but a screenshot of the content should do

Basically, a reshade should not be installed in MO2 unless specified otherwise

[mint owl]

Oh, it's agressor

[cursive shale]

i actually just got agressor working

[mint owl]

Then please enlighten x)

I probably know but it's better from someone using it

[cursive shale]

so you just open that reshade folder, take all those files and drag drop them into your bin folder of anomaly

[eternal bluff]

bruh

[cursive shale]

it will ask for an override and you are good to go

[mint owl]

Welp that was it

Enjoy your free bloom

[eternal bluff]

well i put it in the gamma bin folder and my game is running fine but i think ill just do that too i hope it doesnt mess it up lol

[mint owl]

[cursive shale]

however all the boxes in the reshade menu wont be turned on, so look at the moddb page and it shows you which boxes to have on

[mint owl]

Correct me if I'm wrong but did any of you typed Stalker Anomaly Ultra Graphics in youtube by any chance ?

Before choosing a Reshade I mean

[eternal bluff]

nah i was just looking through this chanel

[mint owl]

Dario Adjucic ?

[eternal bluff]

i saw someone post it earlier and i thought it looked good overall

[mint owl]

Ah

[silent cairn]

What they didn't show you is how the game looks 90% of the time

[cursive shale]

actually i cant find the screenshot of what boxes to tick in the reshade menu, being tired sucks for memory retention

[silent cairn]

Or how the inventory looks

[cursive shale]

agressor makes it very dark

[mint owl]

[cursive shale]

so now im wondering if i wanna swap back to the gamma reshade how do i do that. Imma play with agressor for a bit first tho

[mint owl]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-spider-man-j-jonah-jameson-jjj-fun-gif-16881310

[cursive shale]

im assuming just and addon update in the launcher

appropriate reaction there eden

[eternal bluff]

well maybe i just wont install it right and just keep it as is lol no harm done 🤷‍♂️

[cursive shale]

i think it looks quite good, but rn in my game its foggy as hell so cant really see that pretty sun

[mint owl]

Well, I guess there's no harm in trying, some people actually like it

But the lighting balance is really bad imo

[cursive shale]

yeah i just wanted to see what it was all about, if i do wanna revert back do i just do an addon update in the installer?

i can see why youd think that for sure

[mint owl]

People tend to overestimate agressor because of a few well placed screenshots, reality is often disappointing

[eternal bluff]

do you have a reshade you reccomend?

[cursive shale]

i think the base one is quite good

[mint owl]

[cursive shale]

just wanted to try aggressor so yeah

[mint owl]

Well yes

[cursive shale]

almost like the base reshade was made with this mod pack in mind, hmmmmmm

[half basin]

Hello, where can I get the reshade presets?

[mint owl]

But saying right now what Reshade I have in mind would be unethical

[cursive shale]

just tried doing an addon install and i dont think it changed anything in terms of my reshades? So how do i go back to the base gamma one after i mess with agressor for a bit?

[mint owl]

Ah, here we go again xD

#╟🎑reshades message

[cursive shale]

i forgot to do admin rights...

[mint owl]

You can find a copy of the bin folder in the GAMMA installer folder

[cursive shale]

thanks eden

yup, just found that, its in the modpack_patches folder. Does that do anything else to my game or is there another folder im looking for?

[mint owl]

You should delete your shader cache in Anomaly/appdata

Then have a look at this

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[cursive shale]

ah, plugging your own reshade i see

ill look into it, just gotta make sure i dont break everything cuz i tend to do that

thanks for all your help again!

[mint owl]

Yup, has proven itself time and time again

There's a reason my name is mentioned 600+ times and my Reshade is pinned

https://tenor.com/view/waltwhite-breakingbad-say-my-name-gif-7259290

[cursive shale]

[mint owl]

However, if this proves too taxing in performances for some reasons, feel free to try this new Reshade preset by Hippobot #1036172060969410590 message

[cursive shale]

okay wait not im paniking, so you said to delete my shader cache folder in my anomaly folder right?

i copied that bin folder over to reset everything and did that, now the game wont launch

[mint owl]

Yup, it's named shader cache

[cursive shale]

so i deleted it but now my game wont launch

hmm

[mint owl]

Hmm

[cursive shale]

imma try just reinstalling anomaly i guess

i just tried launching the vanilla anomaly exe and it wont work either

[mint owl]

Something else installed in MO2

?

[cursive shale]

nope

[mint owl]

!crash

[void depot]

Send your crash log where it was asked, not inside the #🤖bot-commands if you're here right now.
It's inside your Anomaly folder, this is the complete path: Anomaly/appdata/logs.
This is what you could find:

1. xray_yournamehere.txt
2. xray_yournamehere.log
3. xray_yournamehere

You just need to send this file where it was asked, drag and drop inside the Discord channel, Discord will handle it for you.
Make sure you're not using any extra mods.

[cursive shale]

i just saved my savedgames folder and doing a fresh anomaly extract, run it then try it with the mo2 so that should fix it

this is why i shouldnt have touched anything. My own hubris is my downfall

[mint owl]

Hopefully ? x)

Technically it's more about rookie mistakes

[cursive shale]

should i just do a full gamma install too probably

[mint owl]

Argh

Well, sure thing

But DON'T delete your Download folder ever

[cursive shale]

yeah i only deleted the contents inside my anomaly folder

but not the gamma install folder or even the root anomaly folder on my drive

so the paths should be fine

[mint owl]

1. Extract a fresh 1.5.1 Anomaly and patch it to 1.5.2
2. Put it at the root of the intended drive you want to install it to
3. Launch the game once then quit it
4. Extract a fresh GAMMA RC3 folder and put said folder at the root of the new drive, alongside the new Anomaly one
5. Keep names the way they are just in case, meaning no fancy names
6. Make sure you have latest GAMMA RC3 with the latest installer before anything
7. Go to .Grok's Modpack Installer and launch G.A.M.M.A. Installer.exe as admin (hopefully no false positive)
8. Click Allow Powershell scripts, wait until it's done, then Launch MO2
9. There will be an error, click ok and browse the folders, go to Anomaly folder (where bin and appdata are) and press select
10. Once MO2 is launched, close it and close the installer
11. Now put back your download folder in GAMMA RC3
12. Relaunch the Installer as admin, click update GAMMA data, wait until it's done, it can take a moment
13. Once it's done (it will tell you in the installer), then proceed to do a Full Install GAMMA, wait until it's done and check the window for any potential errors, if nothing appears in it (stays black) then you're good to go
14. Once it's done, close the installer, launch MO2, click ok for the error, it should launch MO2 with GAMMA profile, 333 addons, try launching the game afterward and see if textures go brr

You could do that

That's my emergency checklist

[cursive shale]

thank you, im just following the thread on how to do a fresh install of gamma

would that suffice?

[mint owl]

Yeah, it's more or less what is above

Except you save your Download folder elsewhere before the purge

To avoid losing hours

[cursive shale]

download folder?

i saved my savedgames folder

[mint owl]

Yeah, in GAMMA RC3

[cursive shale]

oh okay so you are saying to move my downloads folder out first

[mint owl]

Yeah

So every addons of GAMMA you downloaded won't have to be downloaded again

[cursive shale]

okay so i copied the downloads to my desktop then just delete it from the gamme RC3 folder, just wanna be triple sure

[mint owl]

You copy that big folder out then delete GAMMA RC3 altogether

Then follow the steps above

[cursive shale]

ah

[mint owl]

When the time will come, you'll have to put your download folder back in

[cursive shale]

okay i see that step in the list you gave me above

[mint owl]

Yup, all you need is there, your GAMMA installation will be good as new afterward

[cursive shale]

perfect, thank you again!

[mint owl]

No problem

Fortunately I'm more explicit when it comes to the Reshade installation

So you won't have to face this situation again from a misinstalled reshade preset

[cursive shale]

yeah i just scrolled through that massive wall of text you have for your reshade

ill look into that after i get my game working

[outer latch]

@mint owl hey man, just installed your reshade and autumn harmony pack, it looks gorgeous and easily strains my gpu at 90-100%, well done!

[eternal bluff]

anyone know or have an idea on why my game is doing this lol

[mint owl]

Thanks, if you wish a less taxing preset, try Hippobot's preset here

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[outer latch]

Nah I just gotta turn down 8x supersampling lol

[mint owl]

Just make sure to load Autumn Harmony before/above Particle Cinematic VFX in your load order

[keen flume]

Hello anyone know how to improve antialiasing? i am getting a lot of jagged edges even with max antialiasing

[vapid olive]

turn it off ingame and use NVCP

[glossy pond]

Yes

[manic sage]

I lost 6 fps compared to an older version of my preset because I added effects like smaa, bloom, etc. Its about 3-6 fps depending on the luminosity of the scene. I just say 6 fps because I would rather aim high than lower in terms of getting more performance.

[loud geode]

Hello, I have installed Golden autumn redux but this looks dark af. I tried basic light settings but this is still daaaark. Anyone know how to fix this?
and its not night

[mint owl]

Something went wrong during your installation, I suggest posting in #🔨base-gamma-support if you had this issue as well before Golden Autumn Redux

[keen flume]

i have it on but still getting jagged edges

😦

[mint owl]

Have you turn on SMAA in settings ?

[loud geode]

could it be because he is not in this place in MO2 ?

[mint owl]

Shouldn't be, you disabled all required mods right ?

[loud geode]

yes

[mint owl]

Oh yes, place it before/above Particle Cinematic VFX then delete shader cache in Anomaly appdata folder

[loud geode]

how to place it there?

[mint owl]

Just drag it in the list until it's right above

[civic lichen]

hey, where can i find the various reshades? want more vibrant colours

[loud geode]

this dont work :/

[mint owl]

Sort by priority on the right side

[loud geode]

i mean i cant place this

[loud geode]

oh thanks dude

[mint owl]

Should be able to now

[loud geode]

okay lets see

[mint owl]

Deleted shader cache ?

[mint owl]

#1036172060969410590 message

You could try this one by Hippobot

[silent cairn]

This reshade is also pretty sweet: #🖇old-mods-posting message

[mint owl]

[silent cairn]

Make sure you deleted your shaders cache and it is loaded after/below Shaders cumulative pack, if that doesn't work tell me what armor that is and I'll take a look at it myself

[loud geode]

uh i forgot

[mint owl]

[loud geode]

yeeaah man i got this

thank you

❤️

[mint owl]

It's fully working ?

[loud geode]

yep it is

[mint owl]

[silent cairn]

Prove it

[pulsar tiger]

which reshade do u guys recommend for gamma? I keep hearing about PROSPERITY a lot

[glossy pond]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[little axle]

by any chance guys, do u have some good presets for agressor reshades or what to set for good-looking stalker?

[unkempt marten]

where do I go to install his reshade

[vague island]

is this a normal weather?

[rich sentinel]

@mint owl What weather and season are you using right now?

[sour oar]

He’s not using any right now

[unkempt marten]

Are there more settings in the gamma reshade I am missing?

most of the settings are useless

[cosmic vortex]

Yeah the reshade part confuses the heck out of me. I'm using the default gamma reshade and I'm trying so hard to find options that people have mentioned before (like FXAA or SMAA which I'm supposed to enable in the reshade window cuz in game version bad?) but no luck. It feels like I'm missing something here. Is there a preset one of you fine people could link to/upload so that reshade noobs like me could have a good looking game? It's also easier to modify an already made-for-eye-candy preset than trying to build up something good from nothing with 0 knowledge on what does what exactly 😅

[glossy pond]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[unkempt marten]

thank you, are there any showcases of Eden's reshade?

[glossy pond]

Mot from him, but you could probably find some by searching “eden” in this channel and screenshot

[unkempt marten]

I mainly just want to keep the default gamma ground textures but have trees that aren't dead simply because even with high anti aliasing they look bad

[unkempt marten]

I have the gamma reshade fine tuned pretty well and it looks great. Just cannot get over the trees

[glossy pond]

Oh that’s not the reshade, then you should install a different texture pack

Eden’s won’t help with that

[unkempt marten]

I know just figured his reshade and textures might fix that for me but the autumn textures aren't what I'm looking for. Reverting to default textures also changes the ground textures so I guess I will look for another solution

[glossy pond]

Isn’t there a summer pack

[void laurel]

This preset has a couple of missing filters like FXAA https://www.nexusmods.com/stalkeranomaly/mods/26 The RTGI is working for me.

[vague island]

hmmm this is the first time ive seen ugly sky using autumn harmony

is this a part of it? it seems fake looks like a picture pixelated as fuck

is there a way to improve this maybe use the skies redux that comes with gamma?

[keen flume]

Hey guys I realized that there is no night time on my game, how do I enable it?

[sour oar]

What do you mean?

I have never heard of someone not having night time

[outer bolt]

Is this blue tint?

[sour oar]

Could be yeah

That or you played with shadowsmidtoneshighlights and made it too blue

But I doubt it lol

[outer bolt]

Yeah, its only like that with clear1 and clear2 weather.

[swift robin]

Could be a shader issue. Try deleting the shader cache in appdata before launching gamma and in-game type into the console cfg_load grading_warm

[outer bolt]

Still blue. I did the !bluetint also, nothing changed.

Ok fixed it finally.

Turning Skies redux back on fixed it.

[subtle breach]

is it normal for everything to look this dark in gamma?

pretty dark shadows

[royal pulsar]

@silent cairn can you share your video preset settings?

[mint owl]

It's normal, this weather is called CGIM Original I think, which uses sky boxes close to the original trilogy

[mint owl]

Right now nothing, but usually either Autumn Harmony or Golden Autumn Redux, I'll try more the Summer pack when coming home

These weather are made by Fabio.Conte and part of it, not all are great but I like the diversity

[mint owl]

Yes, same page as Golden Autumn Redux actually

[mint owl]

Just follow kassovie's link below your comment and you should be more than fine

[mint owl]

Keep in mind that some of the weathers you'll see won't be good sometimes, they are included by the author and trimming it down is beyond the scope of a Reshade

[zealous dagger]

Very normal

[royal pulsar]

@mint owl i installed your autum shaders, but i got lost in the hud part there are files location that i do not find

[craggy tiger]

should the ground texture be like this?

looks off

[subtle breach]

@zealous dagger ok thanks lol I was tripping out I was like why is everything so damn dark and gloomy but I like it

[mint owl]

It should all be accessible when double clicking Autumn Harmony in MO2, just ignore the part with the brighter HUD, it's an oversight

[mint owl]

You enabled "Agressor Reshade" in MO2 thinking it was a Reshade ?

[craggy tiger]

yes is it not lmao

[mint owl]

Nope, it's poorly named

[craggy tiger]

lol thanks

[mint owl]

Should have been called Agressor Grounds

[royal pulsar]

ohhh

i found it, thanks

[mint owl]

If you want the true Agressor Reshade, you'll have to redownload it from moddb, follow it's instructions and also follow the instructions below

!deadzone

[void depot]

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

[mint owl]

Now is it worth it, I wonder

[royal pulsar]

ok, so, let me check if i understand the instructions right, i do not need to install the groks body, just replace it on autum with the options there, correct?

[mint owl]

Yeah, just need to follow what it's saying and the normal HUD should be back

[royal pulsar]

what if i want the redux version one

or the dots one?

[mint owl]

Redux version one ? Can you elaborate ?

[royal pulsar]

the one that the hud is blue colored

https://media.moddb.com/images/members/5/4464/4463365/profile/UI.1.png

[mint owl]

Then it's none of my business anymore, but spoiler, it won't work properly, because of no radiation bar

And it won't display properly either, I tried

[royal pulsar]

what i havent found is the brighter version of the hud

anyways, i can get the zone back to default with your reshade @mint owl ?

this is how it is supposed to look, @mint owl ?

[mint owl]

Which is why I say you can ignore that one, it's ab oversight

That's the original HUD yes

As for the rest, it seems to be what I intended

[glossy pond]

Intellect

[restive quest]

Anyone have any good Technicolor settings?

[keen flume]

Anyone knows how to fix this?

[sour oar]

Change sun ray settings to.. not volumetric?

Or is the darkness the issue?

[keen flume]

Yeah sun ray was the problem

i deactivate it and it worked

[mint owl]

Still looks unnaturaly dark

[naive linden]

My game often looks this way even with no reshade loaded. Just the contrast all out of wack when the sky is that cloudy white color

[mint owl]

Yeah

Meaning something went wrong with installation

Should look nowhere near that, even in cloudy weather

I suggest you go to #🔨base-gamma-support and tell them about your issue

[naive linden]

Oh Eden wanted to let you know that I've just started using that performance reshade you linked me a few days ago. Looks nice and so far I see 0-5 frames lost at the most. Will have to test more for better feedback in the proper channel.

[silent cairn]

It should look like this

[naive linden]

Ya it usually does just every now and again I'll load into an area and it's all off on the contrast

[silent cairn]

What was the reshade Eden linked by the by? If you don't mind sharing

[naive linden]

#1036172060969410590 message this bad boi

[mint owl]

Sent your feedback to the mod thread for the author, thank you

[naive linden]

Ill for sure keep playing around with locations and lighting and see how she goes

[vague island]

Alright understandable

[versed night]

Is there anything i can do to improve the ground here? It's 6am in the game, sky is bright but the ground is just so dark

lmao wait now that i posted it in discord on my secondary monitor it's alot brighter than it looks wtf

man my main monitors color settings are way out of whack

all the "game visual" settings in it are all bad

[silent cairn]

Also could be just how the weather is set, changing light settings to fit this could break a lot of things

[versed night]

no it's 100% my monitor, i changed it's visual settings and it's a lot better but the colors are off

i need to learn how to color correct and all that for my monitor but i can never get something that looks good

[silent cairn]

Google your monitor, maybe someone in the internet has made the correct settings for it

[versed night]

idek what monitor it is, i've had it forever, i got a new one arriving tuesday

[glossy pond]

@mint owl how much do you think nvidia color settings will affect your reshade? Realized yesterday I’ve had my nvidia GeForce experience digital vibrancy at like 90% for the longest time for tarkov

[manic sage]

Very!

90% is a lot, would you say your game is very vibrant?

[manic sage]

What monitor are you getting?

[versed night]

LG Ultragear 2k 165hz 32in

[manic sage]

Very nice! Thats a good monitor out of the box you dont need to calibrate it unless your very picky

I have an equivalent 27 inch lg monitor and I only calibrated to increase the contrast ration to be 1:1050 instead of the default 1:850

[versed night]

Getting brand in new box from a friend for well over 50% off it's msrp too

[versed night]

decided to just finally do it. color calibrated, got an icc profile. my eyes are watering now, it looks so much better

[manic sage]

Very nice!

one of the most important upgrades besides increasing settings to get your game to look better

[silent cairn]

Don't forget to do this with your new monitor as well, no matter how well calibrated out of the box

[manic sage]

https://www.amazon.com/X-Rite-EODIS3-i1Display-Pro/dp/B0055MBQOW if you're feeling spicy, get something like this. There are cheaper options, the reason why is because no two monitors even being the same panel will have the exact same color reproduction

So simply getting an icc profile from the internet can sometimes make your monitor worse than out of the box

[versed night]

i don't think i'll go that far lmao. It already looks more than 5x better

Now i just need to try a ton of reshades to see which one i like the most, only have cs edens rn

also i think it's time i needed more green in my zone, getting tired of the dead trees

[mint owl]

I have no clue, I have an NVIDIA myself but my screen colors are pure enough for me

[mint owl]

This dark at 6AM ? What Reshade are you using ?

[versed night]

yours

[manic sage]

Try tweaking the "level" effect in the reshade menu

[versed night]

well, let me correct, yours with nvdia's SSRTGI

[manic sage]

oh

that could be your issue

[mint owl]

My 6AM is nowhere near this xD SSRTGI might be the reason

[versed night]

but i messed with that and it didn't change much, even turning it off

[manic sage]

ok try tweaking the level effect

the default is 10

turn it down to 4 and lmk how it goes

or increase your ingame game from 1.0 to 1.1

[versed night]

Let me load back and mess with it

[manic sage]

I had that issue before on my color calibrated monitor in some weathers

levels was the culprit or simply increasing the gama from 1.0 to 1.1 can help that

Though try the levels effect first

[versed night]

ok just as i go through it. Army warehouse, 5:30 on the dot.

[manic sage]

Default CS Eden?

[versed night]

Toggling SSRTGI doesn't change the darkness at all, just adds a bit more to areas where shadows should be

yeah i haven't messed with anything in reshade, so it's default

[manic sage]

Alright

[mint owl]

Hmm

[versed night]

oh default black point is suppose to be 10?

mines at 5.

[manic sage]

Yes

oh

[versed night]

10 makes it darker so

[manic sage]

okay yeah turn it down to 4

and then increase ingame gama to 1.1

if its not there yet

but tbh you might have something else wrong in your setup

[mint owl]

Weird still, light is supposed to get on the ground overtime

[versed night]

with gamma 1.1

a lot better

[mint owl]

With adaptive tonemap

Yeah, I recall saying that 1 or 1.1 gamma level depending on preference on the readme

I play with 1.1

[manic sage]

Increase the levels back to 5 and keep gamma 1.1 seems like it would look good on your monitor

[versed night]

yeah i've trying not to up my gamma, i like dark areas that have no lights being pitch black for the realism and making going underground absolutely terrifying

[mint owl]

But I use a Samsung Odyssey G7 as a monitor

[manic sage]

Isn't that a VA panel

[versed night]

How is it?

I planned on getting that if it goes on a nice sale in the coming weeks

[manic sage]

so blacks probably look different than ips panels

also higher contrast ratio

[versed night]

oh yeah they 100% will look different cause its va panel

[manic sage]

Top tier monitor

I'll only upgrade to an OLED panel or mini-led panel if they come down in price

[mint owl]

Yup

[manic sage]

or if they make them in the 27inch size

[mint owl]

I'm loving it honestly

[versed night]

What did you use before?

[mint owl]

An old iiyama screen

[manic sage]

How does RTGI affect the look of your game, I've been curious about it before.

and whats the fps cost

from ticking it on and off

[versed night]

I like it. I can show you some comparisons in the spot i tested it on. As for fps, lemme check at my current location

[manic sage]

I might make a seperate preset for RTGI users if the fps cost isn't crazy high

[versed night]

53 to 57. I'm on a R9 5900x, 3080.

and i used medium quality for it

[manic sage]

mmmmmm

comparison shots?

[versed night]

let me go to somewhere like rostok tho, that's where it'll hit the hardest

let see if this even shows the difference in screenshots