╟🎑reshades

[frigid spade]

i havent ever loading any gradings so it must be default

[manic sage]

Even with grading warm it looks weird

but I tweaked it quickly

turned off hdr as it was making the image weird

and tweaked your RTGI

looks like this now

with the hdr effect it looks like this

[frigid spade]

how is it differnt for others

makes no sense, im literally looking at it on a 2 day old install of windows all fresh installed

[tidal tiger]

send the modified preset and i'll post images

[frigid spade]

send that preset to me too

[manic sage]

Modified

[tidal tiger]

RTGI (on)

RTGI (off)

[frigid spade]

its not like this on my wifes pc...

i just tried the exact file im using on hers and its not like that

how can it vary so wildly

have you installed 3x shadow cascade exe?

[tidal tiger]

i'm using modified exes for BAS

[sour oar]

I'm a really big fan actually. Personally I would say you aren't using enough bloom though

[tidal tiger]

wat

[frigid spade]

set these to 1 r2_sun_depth_far_scale and r2_sun_depth_near_scale both

i have no bloom lmfao

it shouldnt look this way

just a tiny bit on skybox only

its almost unoticeable

how does it look so borked for others..

[tidal tiger]

was default

[frigid spade]

but then not when i put it on the second pc right next to me

have you guys altered nvidia control panel settings for color and contrast?

[tidal tiger]

where can i find this?

[frigid spade]

right click your desktop, if you dont know then its prob not altered..

i have no idea how its varying so wildly for you. i will say that @manic sage looked about right, he just didnt like how dark his scene was which is pretty easy for the user to lighten/mistakes made by me, but yours is drastic @tidal tiger

still it seemed a bit dark in yours @manic sage, my gun is usually lighter in a scene like that unless im standing directly in a shadow

im guessing some of that is just monitor stuff though, i have a graphics design ips panel so idk

[manic sage]

Okay walk me step by step into installing this

to see where the issue is

Because your screenshots look good

but does not translate at all to my screen

Okay I have all the effects in the reshade shaders folder

I have RTGI latest version with motion vectors (optical flow)

I'll use cfg_load grading_warm

anything else?

[manic sage]

I haven't I have only calibrated my monitor through an outside tool

LG 27GL83A-B (calibrated with X-Rite ColorChecker Classic)

[frigid spade]

ive never tped a cfg in to the console for grading

typed*

that may be the issue?

[manic sage]

Yeah so grading warm is the default for gamma

so I'll use that

[frigid spade]

okay

[manic sage]

any other commands?

right now its garbled up

[tidal tiger]

why don't we join vc, it'd be faster to communicate

[frigid spade]

my r2_sun_depth_far_scale and r2_sun_depth_near_scale are 1

[manic sage]

ok lets do that

[frigid spade]

scope_factor 1

not that that matters

[manic sage]

already have all three of those by default

[frigid spade]

sun rays high, only volumetric checked

.7 and .25

[manic sage]

.7 and .25?

ok got it

[frigid spade]

on the settings for rays

[manic sage]

a little better

but gun is till pitch black

[frigid spade]

is rtgi on?

thats weird for it to be that black with rtgi

[manic sage]

depth buffer working

[tidal tiger]

turn mxao off...

[frigid spade]

not even that black at night lol

[manic sage]

Doesn't help with the black point rn

[manic sage]

Yeah something isn't adding up

[frigid spade]

yeah idk

im kinda frustrated lol

[manic sage]

you use 1440p right?

[frigid spade]

yeah

[manic sage]

even the menu is weird

[manic sage]

drop me your user.ltx file

[tidal tiger]

just updated my nvidia driver and turned the shaderpack for gamma back on

[manic sage]

blinding

[tidal tiger]

RTGI off

[frigid spade]

so odd

grading in user itx says .5 .5 .5

[manic sage]

??

in game

type shader_param_1 and tell me what values come up for that

do that for param_2 and param_3 and param_4

those are the main ones we care about

[manic sage]

do you mean color grading?

your params do not match up at all with grading_warm which is the default for gamma

this is from your user.ltx file

From grading_warm

lets try this again

[frigid spade]

how lmao

i havent changed anything

[manic sage]

you havent messed with them before?

[frigid spade]

gonna have to remake this reshade a bit i guess, nope

[manic sage]

not necessary

[frigid spade]

can you paste yours in?

[manic sage]

just make your own ltx file

[frigid spade]

fair enough yea

i could just upload my itx

[manic sage]

similar to how I make hippoR.ltx and so on

[frigid spade]

try it with my itx

[manic sage]

about to

[frigid spade]

and see if it looks right

kk

[tidal tiger]

loading into a save rn

[frigid spade]

that looks right

[tidal tiger]

so it is your itx...

[frigid spade]

yeah

good to know

[tidal tiger]

also i turned mxao off

since it has some visual bugs

[manic sage]

looks better now

[frigid spade]

good to know

how odd, something i installed must have forced a change

and its just stuck

i almost wonder if that prevented the shader compilation when i was having that prob

[manic sage]

looks better now iits time to critique. At a distance when walking you'll get this issue caused by AO distance its a strobing effect from glamaray easy fix

[frigid spade]

i know

[manic sage]

Thats the only thing I spot rn

[frigid spade]

im trying to fix it

[manic sage]

this fixes it

looks like this now

O

[frigid spade]

okay ty, lemme go do that then

[manic sage]

I've had this issue myself as I've had to fix it for my own preset

[frigid spade]

yeah it was melting my eyes in dead city

[manic sage]

also this

value of 18 fixes it mostly on my end for your preset

[manic sage]

But tbh you're putting yourself at a disadvantage making a preset like this with such weird shader params

as you're having to fight those shader params to get the look you intend for

[frigid spade]

yeah i think i want it default

[manic sage]

Maybe like you said starting over might be a good thing as you'll start with a base of good shader params

[frigid spade]

if i load color grading warm will that work?

[manic sage]

and then reshade on top

[frigid spade]

i mostly just have to lightroom

[manic sage]

Yes but color grading warm is ehhh

try this

[frigid spade]

okay

[manic sage]

Gonna shill my own ltx file

disable your reshade

and just cfg_load grading_warm

screenshot that

then load cfg_load hippoR

and see which one you like more

another option is

cfg_load grading_vanilla

which is what Eden has used in the past

and what I used to use, which is still good

[frigid spade]

kk time to work lol

im also having a wierd issue i have to fix on my wifes pc

no matter what i do her depth buffer is broken

ever heard of that?

[manic sage]

how so

[frigid spade]

its like, glitching all over

it just worked for me without tweaking

when i display depth its just a black gun

[manic sage]

do you have this in your global preprocessor?

[frigid spade]

they arent even there

i cant alter them

[manic sage]

type them in manually

oh you cant?

I had to type mine in manually and then assign the values

[frigid spade]

also i noticed when i turned off logarithmic, i didnt have to alter the ao distance and shape

[manic sage]

interesting

[manic sage]

you mean the settings had no effect?

[frigid spade]

lemme see if itll let me try to type it manually

[manic sage]

lmk which ltx you settle for

[frigid spade]

kk

[manic sage]

grading warm

vanilla

hippoR

no reshade for any of these screens

[turbid wave]

Type in manually then press the edit global preprocessor definitions button to make them take effect

[manic sage]

hippoLR - WIP

[frigid spade]

k i fixed the depth buffer issue now on to the grading lets check this out

[glossy pond]

r these the proper depth buffer settings

[manic sage]

what I use your mileage may vary

[frigid spade]

so you should go to display depth and disable logarithmic, and then ima revert my changes to ao and include that in installation description

it says that its meant to be off

if normal map has lines in it

which it does with logarithmic on

[manic sage]

With

[frigid spade]

i see the lines

on the door

[manic sage]

without

[frigid spade]

go up high in dead city

and look at the ground

your ao will likely break

with logarithmic on

[manic sage]

Yeah i see what you mean

good to know ty

[frigid spade]

or at least you can support a furth ao distance

ya np

[manic sage]

looking good now

[frigid spade]

think im going with vanilla

[glossy pond]

What did u end up doing w the depth buffer? Log or nah

[manic sage]

none

[frigid spade]

logarithmic depth buffer is broken in stalker

you get these lines in the way the depth buffer loads

and its severe at a steep angle

[finite swan]

Hey anyone got a good .ini for stalker gamma?

[frigid spade]

@manic sage you know, i set vanilla but im skeptical this was the only issue as it looks quite similar, but maybe. ill be interested to put out a new version and have people type vanilla and see if it looks right

[manic sage]

You can make your own but it will take you lots of time as It's taken me

you can take mine and use it and repurpose it however you like

be careful though as pushing the shader params too hard can cause godrays to be blue or have blue around them

its a balancing act

[frigid spade]

i wish it was practical to run radiantgi AND rtgi cuz honestly they both hit dif parts of the screen

yeah i can imagine

its just not practical cuz the fps

[manic sage]

I mean yeah but tbh glamaraye GI with RTGI is more than enough

only use radiant if you dont have RTGI

radiant to me is a little underwhelming

[frigid spade]

im having trouble with rtgi flickering when moving when i use its ao and its bounce lighting

feel like a limitation of not rendering at full resolution. is there no way around this @manic sage?

it only happens at half/quarter, or at least severely

[manic sage]

what I use

with RTGI

without

[normal gale]

Can someone share their radiantgi settings ?

[mint owl]

I don't remember having orange grass but for the blue grass and foliage I've just recolored them with max saturation recolor (I think it was tint recoloring) twice in a row (with paint.net)

[full condor]

There is something very odd happening w my scopes

When I initially ADS they look like this

But when I hit the "toggle scope/zoom" button (not my mouse wheel) it gets much clearer

Posted this in the modlist support channel as well

[glossy pond]

That’s just a thing

[full condor]

Is that just the shader driven scopes at work?

[full condor]

I see lol

[glossy pond]

I’m sure it’s not intentional

[full condor]

Yeah I figured

[glossy pond]

But iirc it just happens, could b wrong. Lmk if u find a fix though

[full condor]

I'm going to disable shader driven scopes to see what happens

#🔨base-gamma-support message

@glossy pond

[glossy pond]

Yeah that’s what I meant oops

That it’s just a thing that happens

Ig I didn’t rlly elaborate

[full condor]

It's honestly kinda cool. I can toggle between them at will lol

[silent cairn]

Hippo + Eden

[manic sage]

The collab

I’m curious to see people use my ltx files for their reshades. I wonder what combinations they can make.

[tidal marlin]

this makes me want to rip every single green texture i have out of my load order

[frail moth]

Thanks.

[novel ridge]

I can't get RTGI to work properly, it looks way too bright even tho I used your settings, must be doing something wrong

[vague island]

the combination is too good

where's your screenshot of heaven tho

[novel ridge]

nvm i had to delete the shaders cache one more time

[silent cairn]

By combining hippo and eden the gates have opened

I'm ready to meet god

[vague island]

https://tenor.com/view/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-alzolanskii-gif-19736322

[earnest moat]

where can I find eden's reshade?

nvm found it

[mint owl]

Wait until I make Garden of Eden x)

[frigid spade]

Finally posted my fix for my reshade guys, apologies for the inconvenience. Grading error created inconsistent results.

[vague island]

guys when updating SSS do I need to replace the modded exes I got from github with the ones that come with SSS or no need?

[silent cairn]

Do you want the dof effect? (I assume so since you updated)

As long as you have downloaded the exes in the last 8 days from github you should be good

[spice hollow]

hi guys does expedition modpack shader works on gamma ?

[silent cairn]

#1037753021322506240 message

[vague island]

yeah I did it only a couple days ago, I updated since the new update fixes the pda dof

im gonna try the experimental 3x shadows

this should impact performance right?

[silent cairn]

I lost like 20 to 30 frames

[spice hollow]

wow so complicated lol

i was reading the quickstart pdf

[vague island]

fuck

[silent cairn]

But I don't use distant shadow culling

[tidal marlin]

does it make them thicc as well as long 🥺🥺😩😩

[spice hollow]

• not sure if my laptop is going to survive those shaders

[silent cairn]

If you want green zone like in expedition you can follow this

!deadzone

[void depot]

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

[spice hollow]

who are you talking to @silent cairn

to me ?

[silent cairn]

Yes

[spice hollow]

oh ok sorry

i mean i litterraly installed the game yesterday

so i m pretty much new with everything

i wanted to improve a little the texture that s how i found expedition, but it is way to complicated to install

i was wondering if they were some basic things i could do through the game setting perahps

[vague island]

idk if the 3x thing is working on my end I dont see a difference, I used the exes tho

is there anything additional I need to do after tht

[spice hollow]

because i have no idea how was the zone before, or on expidition

[silent cairn]

Have you played the game at all yet?

[spice hollow]

1 hour or 2 so far lol

as i told you i installed anomaly yesterday

[mint owl]

Wrong channel, please use #╟🎮stalker-videos📹

[sour oar]

That one’s just one below, probably an accident

[swift robin]

thx

[mint owl]

No problem, it can happen sometimes

[vague island]

wait wtf is this on the wall

the lines

anyone had this with the latest SSS?

[tidal marlin]

might be your depth buffer, check they aren’t in your normals and if they are change your logarithmic global to the opposite of what it is now

[vague island]

depth buffer is correct

[tidal marlin]

whats the normal look like?

the pretty pink one

[tidal marlin]

alrighty so that aint it, are you using different texture packs? might be a bump map vs texture thing. otherwise im not sure pal! sorry

[vague island]

nope

vanilla gamma

removed grulag dead bushes and summer to autumn

[silent cairn]

Do those waves appear with reshade on or off? You play gamma without reshade right

[vague island]

yeah

even with reshade turned off its there

otherwise game looks pretty amazing

thats just reshade sharpening and ssdo

[brazen arrow]

Anyone try the new ascii’s dof sss shaders 12.3?

[sick wigeon]

About to update right now

[vague island]

Theres an even newer one?

[sick wigeon]

Yeah just came out

[vague island]

nvm thats already the version I have xD

thought there was a new one

@silent cairn you use summer by FabioConte right? what does it actually do cause I think it doesnt change grass trees or bushes just adds water and vines? also ground? but I deleted the zzz details like you did before

im tryna look for a good texture for grass thats not vanilla for a little fps boost

[echo hawk]

Is it actually a big improvement to include screen space shadow from SSS? It's left out in normal GAMMA. I'm using reshade and RTGI so I feel like there might be enough shadow as it is lol

[full crown]

In FabioContes summer pack there are also db0 files for detail, ground, levels and lfo, each being 200 to 600 mb big. So there are way more than water and vine textures.
But I also do wonder what textures others here in reshade chat are using since some screenshots are green and lush but look nothing like FabioContes pack. Especially DYNs screenshots always look way different.

[vague island]

Yeah ive seen em but only noticed a very tiny addition or maybe i havent checked enough places

[cold kernel]

Where I can deactivate all the shaders

I like the agressor but my PC is screaming

I deactivated aggressor, but I want the game with anomaly graphics.

[glossy pond]

what r the best preprocessor setting

[rich sentinel]

Well someone warned about the glare on EXP sun

[manic sage]

lol

[sterile ermine]

StorytellerEX tweaked + INVERNO in Jupiter

[echo hawk]

Looks good. I wanted to try storyteller with hippoR itx to see the result.

[sterile ermine]

thanks man, i'm about to install hippo's as well

[manic sage]

That Looks good

[sterile ermine]

thank you, i'm wrapping up your install and i'm excited to try it

[manic sage]

Sounds good!

[fallen mango]

That's a beautiful screenshot

[sterile ermine]

i'll drop these before booting the game again

more StorytellerEX + INVERNO

[manic sage]

That looks really good I’m not sure my preset would be good for inverno but would be cool to see it anyway

[frigid spade]

Fixed the bugs in my reshade causing inconsistency. Need testing but all should be fine now.

[frigid spade]

Its depth buffer logarithmic

turn that off in global preprocessor definitions on displaydepth

This game's depth buffer doesn't support logarithmic. Change to 0. Youll see the dif the most on a dead city roof.

[frigid spade]

3x Shadow cascade is incredible. From SSS mod.

[sterile ermine]

are there console commands for weather?

[manic sage]

Best screenshot of yours yet

[manic sage]

Enable debug mode to mess with the weather

Then when in game

Press f7

Then 3

[frigid spade]

Yeah nights looking real solid

[glossy pond]

what do you guys use as ur depth preprocessor settings?

@frigid spade

[frigid spade]

Turn off logarithmic

Thats the only edit I have done to the depth buffer.

It allows you to crank glam without bugs.

[glossy pond]

so its just this

[frigid spade]

yeah

[glossy pond]

mine was empty so ig not set up before properly

[frigid spade]

gets rid of the lines shifting

[glossy pond]

ok nice

[frigid spade]

same with my wifes

had to write it all out

i has stalker wife >_<

[glossy pond]

amazing

[frigid spade]

lol

[glossy pond]

lmao

do jakus tweaks work on latest sss

12.3 or whatever

i have his for version 12

[frigid spade]

I'd imagine so, arent out yet though

Ah

Yeah idk dont have em myself.

[glossy pond]

ah ok

[frigid spade]

Hyped on it though. Also really cant wait for mcm integration for settings on SSS

[glossy pond]

id send but i assume he doesnt want it sent since he doesnt even have a wip version out for download

yeah thatll be nice

[sterile ermine]

Yantar with HippoR + INVERNO

[frigid spade]

Reshade would benefit so much from a feature that allows you to w/ a hotkey swap to another preset for an allotted amount of time and then auto switch back and also supported normal toggle. You could bypass some issues with dof effects triggered in games. Could fix inventory AO/GI bleedthrough, all of it.

[sick wigeon]

This with RTGI?

[frigid spade]

Like, can you imagine how smex that would be? lmao. Id jump out of my seat at the patch notes.

[glossy pond]

oh btw @frigid spade do u have a radiantgi ver of ur reshade? i wanna try it out

[frigid spade]

Yep

Its in #1041041642347573368

[glossy pond]

is it just radiant.ini

[frigid spade]

Yep

[manic sage]

Not gonna lie i thought this was real life while looking at it on my phone

[frigid spade]

Right?

[manic sage]

This

[frigid spade]

Can only tell once clicked.

[sterile ermine]

i don't believe so

[manic sage]

Not even with my rtgi?

[frigid spade]

The color correction is basically perfect.

[manic sage]

Wait so my reshade actually works for inverno? Huhhhhh

I thought it would be shit

[frigid spade]

Looks like bastogne in band of brothers or some shit.

[manic sage]

I’m impressed with myself lmao

No idea how i managed that

[sterile ermine]

this is w/o HippoR

[manic sage]

I made this for gamma

[manic sage]

Only the ltx but no reshade?

[sterile ermine]

yeah no reshade

[manic sage]

Okay i was kinda dreading you posting this because i thought my reshade would not be good with hippor

Hmmm

Good to know

[manic sage]

Can you post this on my reshade mod posting?

[sterile ermine]

sure!

[manic sage]

Thank you

[frigid spade]

No smonking

[sterile ermine]

just double checking this is what the reshade ui should look like with yours right?

[manic sage]

Yes all the effects in the middle of the enabled are optional. You can enable or keep them that way. And you don’t have rtgi because you have to get that one yourself

But that Looks good

[sterile ermine]

gotcha, i'll drop this in your posting and check out rtgi with this once i'm back from errands

[manic sage]

Sounds good

[manic sage]

For rtgi when you get it set up if it’s too bright you can decrease the brightness by tweaking image based lighting intensity. Its at 0.02 for base gamma, you can decrease it for inverno which i think you might have to do

[frigid spade]

I use skycolor personally. Which also heavily impacts the image brightness.

[manic sage]

I use both

[frigid spade]

Yea

[manic sage]

Sky set to static as from my experience two and three had a weird shadow on the gun. I might try it again since the logarithmic change

[frigid spade]

"we have stalker at home"

the stalker at home

[glossy pond]

whats your favorite texture packs

[frigid spade]

with the eotech didnt have such a low poly side on it there

im REALLY enjoying summer.

gonna build a reshade for inverno snow soon though.

[glossy pond]

Nice

I’m liking gtr + floral redux and aggressor grass

But most of my good screenshots are golden autumn redux

[glossy pond]

Lookin good

I like the detail on your Gina’s

Guns*

[frigid spade]

I prioritized that above all else actually.

[glossy pond]

graphics settings make a massive difference

underappreciated

forgot to turn off hud

picture also unrelated

[echo hawk]

Damn okay. I'm a bit scared to reinstall with the update in case it fucks the game somewhere else. @frigid spade

[glossy pond]

oh wow i didnt realize how much detail weapon dof took away

[sterile ermine]

lookin forward to this

[frigid spade]

😄

[frigid spade]

I cant wait until the settings for reload dof are released, it will allow me to fix the bleedthrough from the ao and gi a bit.

There's tricks that can be done once the values can be edited. Like extreme blur or subtle blur etc.

Yo I got my name in the sss mod changelog, wewt. I be halp. Looks like he fixed the whole fdda turning off from turning of the dof for em, gotta go grab that.

He added dof for skinning animals too

[ashen horizon]

so i was snooping around in the Anomaly folder and saw in Anomaly/bin/reshade-shaders/textures that there are a few images that are being asked to be replaced with 'my' version of the image. how do i get that? did i skip something in the install?

[sour oar]

What are you trying to install?

[ashen horizon]

like, it's asking me to replace this image with one from a directory that leads to... the same exact image?

[sour oar]

Mm

[ashen horizon]

nothing

[sour oar]

I believe that's for people that make it themselves

[ashen horizon]

it's in the default gamma as far as i know

[sour oar]

Looks pretty normal to me

[ashen horizon]

i mean, in reshade you already have to set up the depth buffer yourself so it would make sense that i would have to set this up myself. it wouldn't be asking me to replace the image myself if it didn't do anything

i'm assuming it wants some reference image that tells reshade how i have my depth set up but google is failing me

@frigid spade i see you like tinkering with reshade, do you know what depthmap.png, Layer.png, Overlay.png, Stage.png and Stagplus.png are used for? (sorry for ping)

[frigid spade]

Pretty sure those are all for putting images/textures as overlays

[sterile ermine]

so i'm trying to set up RTGI, would anyone be able to help lol

[manic sage]

#1036172060969410590 message watch this for a tutorial to set up depth buffer

[sterile ermine]

when i turn it goes wonky

[frigid spade]

enable half res in rtgi

quarter breaks

for me at least

@sterile ermine

[sterile ermine]

this one?

those screenshots are at half

[frigid spade]

yea

oh your depth buffer is off yea

huh

it did this when scoped for me and scope_factor 1 fixed it

but idk why its doing it like that

something has broken your depth buffer

maybe change load order of rtgi?

maybe another effect is messing with it idk

lush

[sterile ermine]

ok so it's something with RTGI, and at the moment it happens if i look too high or too low

[manic sage]

@frigid spade what monitor do you have?

Because here's how it looks in Clear2 weather

not like your screens at all

[frigid spade]

are you using dif weather or something?

i have an IPS panel, asus something or other

[manic sage]

IPS panel as well

gamma weathers

[frigid spade]

i am confused on this disparity tbh

i just had another install it and it worked right for them, looked just like mine

idk why it seems to vary so much, but it does

people have dif color configs for their dekstop etc

and their monitors i bet

seeing you can mess with it on there too

i have just been fighting this for like 3 days now and at this point im burnt out

i have set everything i have to default as far as i can tell, i have 2 sets of images as evidence that its working so any further disparity is just gonna be down to monitor model, desktop config etc

it could potentially have something to do with your rtgi version vs mine?

[manic sage]

I have .35 which is the latest

[frigid spade]

33

here

[manic sage]

but let me try your radiantgi reshade

[frigid spade]

kk

[manic sage]

because with that one there should be no difference

[frigid spade]

yea

i just have 0 special stuff goin on so i cant imagine what the deal is

are you running summer and gamma weather or are you running summer weather

[rich sentinel]

@frigid spade I tested the preset here on my end, don't really know if something is wrong

[frigid spade]

cuz mine is build to not use the "base" file for summer

[rich sentinel]

This is the game atm, no reshade, only textures

Your preset

Don't know if something is wrong in the effects

[frigid spade]

it looks like the weather is the issue

like somehow my weather is dif

[rich sentinel]

Gonna test again with default gamma weather

[frigid spade]

thats how i have it

clear2

[glossy pond]

dont u use summer weather

[manic sage]

Its better in your radiant preset non rtgi

[rich sentinel]

Clear 2, gamma weather, skies redux, no texture pack 2PM

[manic sage]

but not fully there

[rich sentinel]

Radiant

If I disable lightroom it looks better

[frigid spade]

whoa wtf i just adjusted my weather in game and it changed all my weather forever

like none of it looks how it used to

like it overwrote something

and now im getting your results..

there is some sort of atrocious mod error im experiencing

cuz now it looks too green and stuff like yours on the exact same weather i was on before

im gonna have to remake the whole thing over again now

for the 3rd time lmfao

[manic sage]

Gotta start fresh lol

[frigid spade]

like literally all my weathers just changed, the brightness of the skybox, everything

all i did was select clear2

and now clear 1 is dif

what a shit show

[manic sage]

tbh it seems like you might be having all sorts of issues to be safe maybe reinstall gamma from scratch?

[frigid spade]

i literally have never done anything to the weather

[manic sage]

backup some stuff and do that

[frigid spade]

yeah i guess i got to

i mean it seems fine now thugh

i closed a reloaded

and it looks exactly like the screens you guys posted

all the weather just overwrote with some other mod

i dont have any weather mods what could have done that

[frigid spade]

didnt wait for rain to fill but those are the dif weathers now

ima upload this and see how it is for people and if not ima reinstall later i guess

was able to remake that so fast actually cuz of doing this so many times lmao

apparently ive comitted my lightroom changes to memory @manic sage

[manic sage]

yup because it all looks good

I just want to see it on my screen

[frigid spade]

ya one sec im gonna upload these

try that

[manic sage]

drop the non rtgi as well

so i can try both at the same time

[frigid spade]

they have a seperate lightroom gimme a sec

[manic sage]

ok ok

[frigid spade]

now that my weathers are fixed im having a super hard time getting a good mix, gonna take me a while, prob post tomorrow

or in a couple hours idk

[shy knoll]

reshade recommendations for a midline pc?

[sour oar]

Hippo's reshade would do wonders for you

[shy knoll]

[sour oar]

Looks amazing with a very low fps reduction, though I don't know the exact numbers

[shy knoll]

you are a legend, do you have a link maybe?

[sour oar]

All day mate

#1036172060969410590 message

[manic sage]

You should also link yours

[manic sage]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036360481100795924 for a vivid take

[sour oar]

Ah you know I'd love to mate but I don't know how much fps it takes

[manic sage]

I think yours is pretty lightweight, I think I saw somone saying it was similar to mine

in the fps department

[shy knoll]

thank you goats

[sour oar]

Very chad move by the way

Reminds me I should probably change a few things up and release another version

[manic sage]

I'm all for choice, I don't aim to be the only reshade on the discord

[silent cairn]

I want more nightcat reshades

[manic sage]

Agreed

[manic sage]

You could even use my ltx file as a base to build your reshade on top of

the ltx file helps a lot in my case

repurpose that ltx file, rename it, I dont really mind

[sour oar]

I honestly have no clue how the shader params stuff works so 👀 Maybe

[manic sage]

Yeah I give anyone permission to reuse anything I post for their own need

I'll only have issue if they somehow start making money off of it

otherwise go nuts

[silent cairn]

For only $1.99 you can have my Hippo's Final Reshade (all made by me)

[manic sage]

Lmao or they open a patreon

and start selling the communities reshades

[sour oar]

For only $2.99 you can have my Hippo's Final Reshade (all made by me) (all made by me)

[silent cairn]

[manic sage]

for $15 you can have MY SSR TWEAKS NO MORE PLASTIC SHEEN ON THE GROUND made by me JAKUR

[silent cairn]

[manic sage]

lol

[silent cairn]

The true irony is that you just switch the gloss values and that's it

that's the tweak

[manic sage]

lol

[sour oar]

https://tenor.com/view/knowing-better-kb-know-better-gif-25459195

[silent cairn]

oh right there was a new sss update huh

[manic sage]

Yeah

I havent updated

[sour oar]

Lol same

I keep hearing it mentioned but I can't be bothered

[manic sage]

I have the latest main version

just not the minor patches

[silent cairn]

Just more DOF stuff

[manic sage]

yeah pretty much

[sour oar]

I was never a fan of the DOF on reload and such personally

Nice touch but I think it's awkward to use in combat

[silent cairn]

Good thing they have all these settings for it you can adjust, it is such a per-person effect

Which makes me a bit scared of what Grok is gonna do with it

[sour oar]

https://tenor.com/view/sweating-nervous-paranoid-gif-4974019

[misty raptor]

anyone know how to reset to default gamma reshade? I turned it all off in the reshade menu and I dont know what should be on normally

[shy knoll]

i know this isnt exactly reshade related, but anyone have any recommendations to help with stuttering? (i have the mo2 setting on)

[silent cairn]

You are right, this isn't reshade related. Check these: #old-framerate-optimisation and/or #│🔧troubleshooting message

[silent cairn]

#╟🎑reshades message

[manic sage]

@silent cairn Adding an optional blooming HDR effect that has been tamed with revail top and bottom

In action

Without

With

Without

[silent cairn]

How does it affect the sky differently in these examples

[shy knoll]

[silent cairn]

also I assume clouds ruined your first comparison

[misty raptor]

dont know why, but my toggle names are different than yours

[silent cairn]

You can copy the G.A.M.M.A.Reshade.ini in GAMMA\ .Grok's Modpack Installer\G.A.M.M.A\modpack_patches\bin to your Anomaly\bin to reset the reshade

[manic sage]

Without and with

Bluer sky

[silent cairn]

I'm curious about this part

is blooming hdr like emphasize

nvm I'm an idiot

[manic sage]

I am confused

Whats kinda interesting is that without blooming hdr around the sun

the sky isn't as blue

Without

With

[silent cairn]

I guess that's the "blooming" part

[manic sage]

Yeah

revail really helps to tame it

otherwise its like this without revail

[silent cairn]

But why do you want this effect

[manic sage]

I dont really care for it

I'll add it the optional effects in the middle

effects look like this

[silent cairn]

I mean it looks neat

[manic sage]

default is like this

I mainly just add on rtgi and its motion vector

sometimes clarity

thats about it

without rtgi

with

in fog weather without

with

I think rtgi really shines in foggy weather

without

with

[silent cairn]

The grass looks kinda wack with the rtgi AO though

[manic sage]

I agree I still need to fine tune it

[silent cairn]

Actually can I have your blooming hdr? I wonder if it touches the skybox the same way Eden's blooming hdr + hdr does

[manic sage]

sure give me a sec

How does the grass AO look now?

[silent cairn]

Better

[manic sage]

I think Eden's HDR darkens the image and blooming HDR brightens it and saturates at the same time

because he has luma fade start and end to sandwhich them in between

a different take than revail

Here you go @silent cairn

[silent cairn]

Appreciate it

Ahh yes THE BLUE

[manic sage]

DA BLUEEEEEEEEEE

Still playing around with how much of the effect I should remove with revail

currently at .8

and I can remove more from hdr itself

[frigid spade]

think ive almost got it >_<

its gonna be dif, my weathers got edited somehow ive had to completely redo it

i had some serious stealthing issues

[silent cairn]

Stacking blooming hdr and regrade for maximum blue

[manic sage]

lol

So the implementation is good to post?

I have it ready

[frigid spade]

what is storm 2?

psy storm or what? its causing this gnarly constant lightning strike

[sour oar]

One of the weathers?

[manic sage]

Debug mode breaks storms fyi

[frigid spade]

ah good to know

was wondering

even being in debug mode at all?

or just going in weather editor?

[silent cairn]

How does it look for you? Might make things too vibrant for my taste but the implementation is

[manic sage]

Good to know you think that because i pumped down the saturation even more

[silent cairn]

Switching to storm weather through debug, just having debug mode on doesn't break it if it occurs naturally

[manic sage]

It’s an optional effect anyway for those that want more visual flavor

[frigid spade]

yeah im seeing that it breaks, brutal too lol

[rocky locust]

my game looks off, how i 'fix' this

[tidal marlin]

da ba dee da ba dye shade

[rocky locust]

running defult settings

si there any option in the rehard to make my game look beter?

[sterile ermine]

StorytellerEX (+Ambient Light) and INVERNO

HippoR (+ambientlight, HDR, Dehaze, Aspect Ratio, and LocalContrastCS) and INVERNO, no RTGI

[spice hollow]

@sterile ermine where to get those reshades please

[sterile ermine]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/storyteller-reshade-1-0-anomaly-151

[sterile ermine]

Check #1035807043933720576 for Hippo Reshade.

[normal gale]

The constant lightning. If you press play its stopped. I had the same thing. Without pressing play. Its like paused. Its weird

[vagrant pebble]

How does one share the graphical settings file to another?

What's the file that contains all the settings of another user

[vague island]

it isnt, my logarithmic was already at 0 so I tried to put it at 1 and put it back at 0 again the lines were still there

[clear girder]

if I disable simpleautumnretexture can I load a previous save and/or do i have to do anything else when I disable it

[mint owl]

Delete shader cache in appdata

!shader

[void depot]

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

[fallen mango]

I see that RoN Seems we've got a whole 5 servers in common

[mint owl]

Just copy Clear 2 for all weathers to get the EXTRA maximum blue on top of it

[fallen mango]

Hey I just grabbed the RTGI breakfast tier, I'm in the discord with beta access, if I now stop supporting on patreon will I still have the beta access or do I need to keep it up

[echo hawk]

download first, then unsub. but im pretty sure you will have access to it for a month and then also the new update at the end of that month.

[fallen mango]

Alright thank you, are there any files I should download in addition to the Reshade GI Beta_0.35?

[echo hawk]

im not too familiar with his other files but certainly you might as well grab them while you have access and if a reshade eventually requires it, then youll have it.

[fallen mango]

Thanks for the help

[frigid spade]

Been up all night reconstructing my reshade after finally finding the real issue

My weathers had been edited and all messed up, like partly was more like clean etc

so my entire reshade is broken

[icy jungle]

Hi, where i can find agressor reshade please ?

[sour oar]

https://tenor.com/view/so-it-begins-raining-rainy-day-théoden-lord-of-the-rings-gif-16521230

You can find the mod page on moddb

All the instructions are there

[icy jungle]

Ty guy

[manic sage]

I had a feeling something was up

But I’m glad it’s all figured out now

[frigid spade]

Yeah I am almost done mixing color and I'll have reupload

I am gonna be uploading my RTGI one first cuz I just wanna get something out there, and then I'll adjust my radiantgi version, its quick anyway.

The event has shown me some serious limitations I was under because of weather color being mixed up.

[amber topaz]

how do i install a reshade in my game

[rich sentinel]

Read pinned messages.

[frigid spade]

alright its up -__-

needs some work still, gotta dial it all back in

but wanted to get something out there to not have that old mistake what people were attempting lol.

rtgi only for rn

couple hours for radiantgi

[sour pumice]

Ok so looking at the Fabio.Conte "Stalker Anomaly Seasons Redux Pack" and in the installation intructions it says to copy the contents to the "mods folder (Mod Organizer 2)" where can I find this folder?

[sour pumice]

Is this the mods folder in the GAMMA RC3 folder?

[sterile ermine]

LMFAO fuck yeah

[sour pumice]

And is there a better guide on how to install texture reshades? The one on the Fabio.Conte Mod DB page is barebones, same with what Grok has provided in the Linked Items in #custom-textures

[rich sentinel]

Do a manual install with MO2, move the addon above Particles Cinematics, disable Gamma Weather, Roadside Lens Flares, Simple Autumn Retexture and Grulag Dead Bushes. (Also you are asking the questions in the wrong section)

[mint owl]

Lastly, it's a texture pack, not to confuse with a Reshade which is just post processing effects

[tidal marlin]

when creating your own reshade, is it best to think of each effect kind of like a layer in photo manipulation? so for example, having something like colour correct as a base, then tone adjustments to that, then adjustments to darks (ssao i would assume), highlights, and finally effects to marry them all together like smaa/clarity/rtgi? i’m not really after answers relating to the individual effects, just seeing how to conceptualise what a good reshade is compromised of.

[manic sage]

Depends on the amount of effects, load order of the effects is the biggest thing. But to answer your question the first thing i try to get right is color balance, then highlights, then black level, then fun effects

It’s a general take but that’s pretty much it

Oh another thing having a good monitor is important only if you’re trying to share your reshade. Making a preset on a shit monitor is asking for trouble

Because at the very least people can agree on what is generally color accurate.

Though panel variance is something to keep in mind, such ips, tn, va, oled, etc

[tidal marlin]

yeah totally, i had an idea last night to take a vanilla screenshot and use camera raw filter to adjust the screen grab, translating those setting into reshade, but i quickly found out that creating a vision in a 3d scene is a whole other beast

[manic sage]

Have you tried to make luts?

[tidal marlin]

i have an acer x34 with properly calibrated 6 axis and icc running. i use this for design work so it might need some tweaks to be ideal for making reshades?

[manic sage]

No that’s very good

You don’t need to do anything to that monitor

[tidal marlin]

i haven’t, are there any good guides to get the hang of it?

[manic sage]

Yeah search on YouTube for reshade luts

Whole guides on the topic

[tidal marlin]

ok dope, i’ll check that out later tonight, and try some simple builds to try and get a hang of effects load order and how it all goes together

thanks mate!

[manic sage]

Any time it’s very easy once you get going

[manic sage]

Now shader params though, are a nightmare. Bump one value up a bit and you break something unforeseen lol

[tidal marlin]

i learned this the hard way playing with console settings a while ago, it’s dangerous how it auto populates parameters after typing like 1 letter haha

[manic sage]

Lmao yeah it’s nuts

[tidal marlin]

“what’s this? sun_far_bias? that sounds silly. let’s make it hmmmm 5000.0”

https://tenor.com/view/overheat-computer-explosion-boom-spark-gif-17323916

[manic sage]

Lmao

[whole patrol]

Best grpahical settings?

[glossy pond]

agressor reshade 2022 best graphics ultra 4k HD

[glossy pond]

reshade hit strelok hard

[manic sage]

lol

[timber warren]

https://mnml.jp.net/i/roouw.jpg

[timber warren]

https://mnml.jp.net/i/aiag2.jpg

[slate grotto]

this one has a whole creppy vibe

[celest bough]

So, is there a way to use the shaders to make indoors areas brighter, I keep needing the headlamp or night vision inside despite it being bright outside

pitch black inside

[vagrant pebble]

damn this looks good could i get the links and instructions on how to make my game look like yours

[tawdry coral]

do you have ambient occlusion or ambient light on?

[celest bough]

I solved it, It just took some brightness adjustment along with fully bright masking

[tawdry coral]

awesome

[bitter edge]

Hippos reshade with arcanebloom and technicolor + golden autumn texture pack

[vagrant pebble]

Could anyone help me with this reshade?

one of the cough @violet cargo Ruined my graphical settings

[manic sage]

Have you tried the latest release? I’ve added a tweaked blooming hdr as an optional effect that saturates the image a bit and increases the bloom a tiny bit for the sky.

Just make sure blooming hdr is in between both revail effects

[vagrant pebble]

so where is all of the links and instructions on how to add this reshade?

looks really cool

[manic sage]

#1036172060969410590 message

[vagrant pebble]

thanks

[bitter edge]

oh really

thanks baby cakes

[manic sage]

Yup!

[manic sage]

Just make sure the effects stay in this load order (except for clarity which is above reveil top and under sharp contrast #1036172060969410590 message

And clarity is also optional

[vagrant pebble]

well Hmm. I think i did something wrong

or am i missing something

[manic sage]

Did you do cfg_ load hippoR

[vagrant pebble]

ye

I have set the HippoR in the "home"

and did the command on console

And the game looks, well Bland

even did the thing in the nivida panel

[manic sage]

Ingame setting set to volumetric?

[vagrant pebble]

yep

I could show you my settings if you want

[manic sage]

Show me your reshade effects

[vagrant pebble]

Reshade effects?

You mean like the home button thing?

[manic sage]

Yeah

[vagrant pebble]

alr

Everything?

[manic sage]

Yeah that’s right, and what about your gamma setting?

Is it at 1.0

[vagrant pebble]

I was trying to maybe fix it, and this is how it is currently

btw this is 100% pure gamma modpack

nothing installed

Just the modpack itself no aggresor no nothing

maybe that's the issue?

[manic sage]

Nope, that looks right.

[vagrant pebble]

well hm

[manic sage]

Show me your in game Sun settings?

[vagrant pebble]

i didn't even touch them i just set volumetric and left these settings

those are defualt settings i believe

that must be the issue then?

Well?

Ig Please dm, me once you have some free time maybe you can resolve the issue.

[manic sage]

This is how my game looks

Heres my user.ltx incase you need it

I'm not gonna be free for the next 8 hours or so

[stuck grotto]

could i make this game better looking somehow?

[vagrant pebble]

you on?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/927860562677878795/1042428538361495645/image.png

any chance to make my game like this?

[vagrant pebble]

first off activate windows

[stuck grotto]

one day i will babe

[manic sage]

No i won’t be on for another 8 hours or so

[vagrant pebble]

But you're on rn

[manic sage]

On my phone

[vagrant pebble]

right.

hold on

I got a question

[vagrant pebble]

Does this file

share like everything?

Like game settings and the "home" settings?

[stuck grotto]

or just try radian reshade @vagrant pebble

ima try it right now

[vagrant pebble]

radian reshade?

got any ss?

[stuck grotto]

looook

wait

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1041041642347573368

here

[vagrant pebble]

hmm

is there like a document with all instructions?

hippo had it explained quite good

[stuck grotto]

i dont know im tryint to install it now

[vagrant pebble]

hm

[stuck grotto]

fucking hell its confusing as fuck

[vagrant pebble]

fr

what the hell am i even suppose to download lol

[stuck grotto]

man i dont even know where to start

the only thing i did

was

unistalling the reshade

and im stuck

[vagrant pebble]

hm

Idk what to do

[stuck grotto]

im gonna cry in a minute if i dont get help

@vagrant pebble the hippo reshade is cool too

I might try that one

and its much easier to install

[vagrant pebble]

Well yes

but after i was done

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/927860562677878795/1042823383169118248/TET.png

didn't look quite good

[stuck grotto]

ew

wait

[vagrant pebble]

yeh

[stuck grotto]

ima try with mine

and see

then

[sick wigeon]

you made sure to cfg_load (whichever version you are using) ?

[vagrant pebble]

.

[sick wigeon]

?? This isn't default gamma settings

[vagrant pebble]

yeah

[sour oar]

Did you disable the right mods?

I’m assuming the radiant ReShade is with deadzone stuff disabled

[vagrant pebble]

idk

i just followed the hippo thing

and it ended up with looking nothing like these screenshots

[sour oar]

Hold on

Which one are you using?

Hippo reshade or radiant?

[vagrant pebble]

hippo

[sour oar]

Hm

Then I can vouch that you messed up somewhere along the way

You’ve already tried clearing your shaders cache?

[vagrant pebble]

i did everything as the instruction said

i cleared my shader cache at the first launch

[sick wigeon]

Could also just be the weather?

[vagrant pebble]

don't know

[sick wigeon]

Try messing around with different weathers / times in debug

[vagrant pebble]

i think i made an oopise

hm

[fallen mango]

Nah looks good

[vagrant pebble]

Tru

so how do i fix it

[manic sage]

lmao

[stuck grotto]

reinstall the whole reshade

and do it again

[stuck grotto]

my thing is working

so u done it wrong

@vagrant pebble

[vagrant pebble]

It's pitch black

[stuck grotto]

for you?

man

u gotta do it again

[vagrant pebble]

for you

[stuck grotto]

all over

for me?

[vagrant pebble]

iyeah

look

[stuck grotto]

i had emision

and its raining

and

look

[vagrant pebble]

still can't see nothin

[stuck grotto]

what u mean

then your monitor has some weird settings

cuz i can

everything clearly

[vagrant pebble]

i mean i see something

but its still super dark

[stuck grotto]

its your monitor settings or gpu

[vagrant pebble]

Well, merceneries are blue But not that blue

[manic sage]

lol how

The clown zone

[sour oar]

Love your reshade man

Personally I’m not too sure. I think it’s not really blue enough? I like blue

[vagrant pebble]

looks goofy

I just can't get my game to look good

Any of you has any good reshades?

[sour oar]

Why I’m so glad you asked

[vagrant pebble]

I litterly don't wanna play when my game looks like a fucking circus

[sour oar]

You like saturated stuff?

[vagrant pebble]

Idk

I wanna get my game to look

More live ig

Less blue

[sour oar]

Works for me

[vagrant pebble]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/920013807479296042/1042649025763082270/AnomalyDX11AVX_2022-11-16_23-33-17.png

something like this

[sour oar]

Hm now

That’s something you’d achieve with either Hippo’s ReShade or the Radiant one

[vagrant pebble]

the screenshot been posted by Dyn

#╟📸screenshots

[sour oar]

Ah ah

Or that one too

[manic sage]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1040976594199642162 dyns