╟🎑reshades

[sour oar]

Yeah

Very basic but sometimes less is more

[zenith harbor]

It does indeed look a bit better, what's the most popular reshade ?

[sour oar]

Right now would probably be Hippo's reshade

Depends really on what style you're looking for, I can shoot out a few recommendations (Though tbh Hippos is amazing at what it does)

[zenith harbor]

FPS heavy ?

[sour oar]

Hah, the opposite

[zenith harbor]

Most popular i heard was Aggresor / Prospority but that was waayy back when 1.5.1 dropped

[sour oar]

Hippo's reshade is designed to be as light as possible while still looking great

Dare I say looking awesome

But it's not tailored to anything like Golden Autumn Redux or Projekt INVERNO, though I have no doubt it'd still look good

Essentially, 100% choose Hippo's if you want to use the default GAMMA look

[zenith harbor]

Ill check Hippo reshade sound great.

Probably on moddb ?

[sour oar]

Nope

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036172060969410590

Here you go

Download is pinned

[zenith harbor]

Looks veeeery good tbh

Will maintaining that '' dark, eeries '' feel that the zone is..

Aggressor is to bright for me

[sour oar]

Understandable

Yeah Hippo's is built on the dead zone and such in GAMMA

[zenith harbor]

Are you using Hippo's ?

[sour oar]

So it maintains the vibe vanilla GAMMA has, with the dead look, but very enhanced

[sour oar]

Nah, I use my own

[zenith harbor]

Damn you did your own reshade ?

[sour oar]

Yeah, nothing really clicked with me so I spent weeks creating my own

But I think that’s usually how most people start a ReShade anyway

[zenith harbor]

I like to keep it like dark-ish... to fit the game. Not a fan of reshade that make it look like Tarkov, CoD....

[sour oar]

That’s understandable

People have their own preferences obviously

Hippo’s reshade would probably be the best for you then

[zenith harbor]

Yeah once i saved in game ill try it

Thanks for the help

[sour oar]

[past shuttle]

Try Hippos or Cats or Dyn. All are great in their own way. Maybe you search here for a user named Apollo. He did also some awesome jobs with his Reshades. Dunno why he is not here anymore...

And not to forget Edens. But his Reshade will test your PC/GPU/FPS 😉

For my GTX1080 it was too much. 😄

[turbid vector]

Is the adesa texture pack capable of improving fps? (less ram usage)

[rich sentinel]

Still tweaking it, but getting better

[turbid vector]

the grass looks beautiful, how can I have the grass like this? (green)

[rich sentinel]

This is the infamous agressor grass, pump the grass density to 75-85% (Also I increased the green saturation with my preset)

[turbid vector]

I just have to activate aggressor reshade?

[rich sentinel]

No, you need the agressor grass, should be only the levels folder

[tidal marlin]

weird this is only effected long the building, might be a depth buffer conflict?

[random tendon]

I updated to his new beta version and retweaked it. lookin awesome

[silent cairn]

New SSS version again

[sour oar]

[silent cairn]

Debanding for skyboxes

Finally no more blocky skies (maybe)

They touched so many files and I wanted to release my tweaks today

[sour oar]

[manic sage]

Time to get back to the kitchen and cook up your tweaks for tomorrow

[sour oar]

I didn’t get any ReShade work done today just because I had no time

But now I feel like I’m behind for some reason? I dunno

[manic sage]

That shouldn't be the case

Taking a break is a good thing

[sour oar]

Well to be honest I didnt have a choice

But yeah I guess

[silent cairn]

Behind on what? You guys racing?

[manic sage]

Apparently

[sour oar]

No but

I guess my brain is making me think that I should be making more progress each day lol

And when I don’t, I feel like I’m falling behind. Though again, no race

[silent cairn]

Take your time, you are busy with other life stuff

Don't make it into a second job like Hippo did

[manic sage]

It was a second job when I was finalizing the ltx files

I still hate jaku for even suggesting that I do that

Jk

[silent cairn]

The grading is a godsent now and should be default in gamma

[sour oar]

I still have no clue how to set up my own grading

But if I did I feel like I would reach the pinnacle of Golden Autumn

[sour oar]

Oh no

You’ve just given me too much power

[silent cairn]

Can't just click on effects and hope things change

Now you gotta adjust numbers and hope things change

[sour oar]

Level up lmao

In any case. Gonna need to play around with all of that tomorrow

[manic sage]

Be careful not to break god rays

[sour oar]

Oh?

[manic sage]

And good luck nightcat I'll see you in a week when you finalize your ltx file

After working on it for 60 hours lol

I hated that part of my reshade creation so much

[silent cairn]

But you did it

[sour oar]

https://tenor.com/view/the-punisher-gif-22731535

[silent cairn]

(at what cost)

[sour oar]

Right just real quick though

Let’s say I finish the values

[manic sage]

It's messed up my sleep schedule

I used to sleep at 12

[sour oar]

How would I save them as a file? Like just grab them out of my user ltx?

[manic sage]

Now you'll see me upload at 3 am

Cfg_save nightcat.ltx

Something like that

[sour oar]

Aight

Wouldn’t this be fun

[manic sage]

If you want to save yourself the trouble take my hippolr.ltx file and tweak it to your liking

Will save you 30 hours of work

[sour oar]

Changing values with reshade off, and then turning reshade on, checking how it looks there, rince and repeat, and then needing to check the weathers…

[manic sage]

It's brighter compared to hippor which I imagine would be good for your vibrant reshade

[sour oar]

At least I’d assume

I’ll take a look

[manic sage]

Do all the tweaking without reshade

Once you're happy then make your reshade around it

[sour oar]

But I think I might start from scratch, and then pick yours up if I give up hah

Scratch being grading warm though

[manic sage]

I would start with vanilla

Warm is garbage imo

Very washed out

[sour oar]

Huh

[manic sage]

Warm is the default gamma one

[sour oar]

Yeah

Very interesting

[manic sage]

The one that Eden uses which is vanilla is half way good

If you want to have a base

That's where I started

[gritty turtle]

Hippo, whats new in the latest update over the one from yesterda

[sour oar]

Seems like the solution to everything is “make your own”

[manic sage]

Check the changelog

[tidal marlin]

yoinked

[manic sage]

But yeah going too far with the values will break the god rays and the god rays will have a bit of blue around them

[sour oar]

Good to keep in mind

[silent cairn]

I could probably fix that from the other shaders side

[manic sage]

You can literally make your own reshade with the values but you'll break god rays doing so

I just stay at the edge of breaking them

[manic sage]

How so

[wet violet]

hey guys, it's notmal to have reshade tank the performance with dsr on?

[manic sage]

For me yes

[tidal marlin]

yeah both those will cost gpu performance

[wet violet]

ugh that sucks, my reshade is super light and it tanks 30fps with dsr lol

[silent cairn]

Just change some code on the volumetric rays, I'm not sure I haven't looked at it yet

[manic sage]

Once you do I'll go back to tweaking the ltx file

[silent cairn]

[manic sage]

Otherwise most of my work is reshade based for now

[wet violet]

for whatever reason my smaa fx stopped working after I updated gamma so I wanted to try, oh well

[silent cairn]

Maybe I won't touch it then

[manic sage]

Lol why

[silent cairn]

Which parameter breaks the rays? 2?

[manic sage]

Because if you fix god rays then I could easily make a ltx file that is better than my reshade as a whole

Without even needing reshade

[manic sage]

1 -2-3 and sometimes 4

[sour oar]

Just all wow

[manic sage]

Mostly 3 and 1

Going above 1 for shader param 1 can break them as it makes the image clearer

[tidal marlin]

are these blue pixels sorta like highlight/shadow clipping?

[manic sage]

Shader param 3 going down from 1.0 increases luminance

Shader param 2 is offset

And going above 0 for shader param 4 increases contrast

I've posted screens before where the game looks amazing and just as good as my reshade without even having any reshade on

At the cost of the god rays being messed up

[sour oar]

So essentially play around with the values while keeping an eye on the god rays

[manic sage]

#╟🎑reshades message

This was no reshade at all

But the god rays were broken

#╟🎑reshades message

Also here

[manic sage]

Yeah just keep an eye on it

[sour oar]

I was so tired then that when you said effects disabled and sent a picture of all the effects on, I wasn’t sure if you were being sarcastic

[manic sage]

No yeah literally no reshade at all

If jaku ever fixes the god rays then I'll create stalker 2

At no fps cost

[silent cairn]

Sounds like a good deal

[manic sage]

The only thing reshade would be used for would be tfaa and maybe rtgi

But since we're only running those effects you'd have the headroom to do so

Would be extremely ideal

[sour oar]

Damn

Well

[silent cairn]

Well I found the code for it

[sour oar]

I better acquaint myself with all the shader params stuff so I can make something decent that will be overshadowed by Hippo’s great success

To be completely honest though

If using a ReShade at that point was optional I wouldn’t go so far, I’d still use ReShade effects, just cause I want to

[manic sage]

Just give it a shot you'll learn allot doing it which is kinda fun

Well rtgi does so much already

[sour oar]

Like I wouldn’t tweak the shader params so much, but just enough to still rock my current ReShade

[manic sage]

AO, GI, Ray tracing etc

[manic sage]

Fair enough

[sour oar]

But isn’t it behind a paywall?

I feel like I keep hearing about that

But I can’t be bothered to check

[manic sage]

It is but you could easily find it for free online

[sour oar]

Ah

Last thing before I sleep

How does one use Lightroom?

Is it an effect or something different?

[wet violet]

it's an effect that have most of color grading controls in it

you can do a lot with only one effect and then add extras if you need, it's pretty good

[sour oar]

Awesome thanks

Heading to bed and gonna keep all of this in mind for tomorrow

[shrewd shuttle]

Hi there. Anyone have the hippo reshade settings floating around?

[uneven jay]

hey guys, i have about 60 fps drop when using hippo (light), compared to basic gamma shaders. is that normal?

[manic sage]

not normal

[uneven jay]

i managed to fix it, looks like i messed up some settings

[loud geode]

Wich ones? I had this same issue

[uneven jay]

turns out my fps just went back to normal because all the shader options got unticked xd at this point i have kinda given up

[hybrid oriole]

Any list of good reshades?

[sour oar]

Depends

[lime salmon]

Any photo realistic ones ?

Not too colorful but not too discolored

[sour oar]

Uhhh

Wow I got so sidetracked

Yeah Hippo’s would be the closest to that

[manic sage]

#╟📸screenshots message

[hidden hamlet]

Sorry if this is a really stupid question, but for the reshades in mod-posting where there is not a message pinned to jump to (for downloading updates/versions), is there a better way to jump to the top of a post rather than using the home key...?

[rich sentinel]

I use Page UP until it gets there, don't know if there's another method

[hidden hamlet]

Would it be totally obnoxious and out of line to request pinning the update messages? (Genuinely not trying to be a bother, but it would perhaps be easier to try them out and stay current with the work if it is pinned.) : )

Treading carefully, because I'm a bit new and don't want to step on toes. Much respect either way.

[rich sentinel]

Well in my case I would pin the messages, but I don't have the permission to do it, but yeah, when the log gets messy its hard to find what you need in it.

[hidden hamlet]

Thanks for taking the time to answer, I didn't realize permissions were required, and that totally explains why some do not have pins and some do.

[silent cairn]

Yeah we need to ask mods to pin the messages, this is quite the oversight from discord to not have "jump to top" button

[hidden hamlet]

No kidding!

[sour oar]

Can’t wait to go home after a long day and spend six hours tweaking shader parameters

[sterile ermine]

anyone have an idea why my normals cut off at the rear of the weapon? I'm thinking it could just be this specific ISG AK

[manic sage]

you have ingame AA on

turn off AA

restart your game

also its only an issue if you have effects like RTGI on

[sterile ermine]

hippo you're an actual god

[manic sage]

My newest reshade update is no longer in beta, cumulative patch notes from the last stable release to today's upload.

[slate sedge]

recently re-downloaded gamma and I'm trying to get my favorite Shader, Piknik, to work. I swear I'm doing it just like I remembered, but in game only 2 settings are appearing when i turn it on. Were some changes made to applying reshades or did I just forget how to download them?

also sorry if this wouldn't be an okay place to ask this, since I know how we all are about smooth brains constantly asking for help. I just didn't wanna to clog up the chats meant for genuine bug reports and whatnot

[swift robin]

How to get Hippo’s update? Scroll up forever to original link?

[sour oar]

Pin

[glacial spear]

guys it seems I read somewhere not sure where maybe here, that you can use NVIDIA image scaling by changing the filename of anomaly exes to some other game which is supported officially by NVIDIA. anyone knows or heard about it?

[chrome spindle]

does anyone know if expedition is compatible with gamma

[primal verge]

Yes
It was renaming anomaly exe to eurotruck2.exe or something like that

Edit: it's literally in the pins of this thread....

[glacial spear]

thanks a lot

[glacial spear]

there is a merge of both if you want to try https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1037753021322506240/1037753021322506240

[chrome spindle]

Ahh it requires ext, I don't know how to get that and instructions were to unclear, I'll just find something else. Thanks

[glacial spear]

I can help with the ext install if you wish to

[chrome spindle]

Ok sure

[exotic moon]

Anyone know and comparison with different shadow maps res and stuff?

[runic timber]

!new

[void depot]

YOU HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO THE SERVER.

If you have just joined the server, read this: #❗❗newbies-read-this

If you've been in here for a while, launched the game AT LEAST ONCE, yet still have this badge - 🔰 - near your nickname and (rightly) don't understand why half the server is gone, carefully read here (you need to remove your Newcomer role): #❗❗newbies-read-this

DO NOT REMOVE THE NEWCOMER ROLE IF YOU HAVEN'T LAUNCHED GAMMA SUCCESSFULLY AT LEAST ONCE. YOU WILL BE PUNISHED FOR DOING SO.

[left lynx]

hey guys where can i find eden reshade download url?

[silent cairn]

#🖇old-mods-posting message

[silent cairn]

Higher shadow map means less of those shadow "waves/ripples" on the ground

[tidal marlin]

working on the low light scenes in a reshade i am putting together. the grading ltx also comes from me.

a few more from yantar, im quite aggressively shifting the green hue, as you can see.

[exotic moon]

ty

[tidal marlin]

and the shader parameters without the reshade

input, suggestions, etc would love to hear em

actually tbh i wont listen just tell me its nice

[silent cairn]

It's nice

[tidal marlin]

ahhh there it is

daddy approves

your tweaks are next level btw
insane stuff

[glacial spear]

I wanted to see how the exp shaders compares against an heavy duty reshade preset in terms of performance. The comparison is very superficial, mind you, it's just one video in one spot.

On the left you have Autumn Armony installed as per instructions, disabled all GAMMA shaders mods (ES, SSS, etc) and enabled EXP shaders and EXP reshade

On the right we have the Autumn Armony with the GAMMA shaders and Eden Reshade

the difference is noticeable. up to 30FPS (50%) more from exp shaders considering the image quality is on the same level, but also not that stable in comparison to gamma shaders' pack. I don't think the reshade is the culprit, more likely the gamma resahde are more expensive for some reason

[sour oar]

Looks nice man

No but really keep it up

[rich sentinel]

No Reshade

Custom one I'm tweaking

[slate grotto]

STRONGER BANDITS

[tardy light]

where can i see the recommended settings for gamma reshade?

[chrome spindle]

can someone help me, I can't download EXT for the life of me, it has me going into my inner files and places I didn't even know where there, and the instructions don't really help

I might just have to switch to EFP, they have an easier reshade downloading from what I heard. Though I have to admit this modpack was really fun and I'm sad that I might have to leave it 😢

I have an idea, will it work If I just painstakingly individually download every gamma mod and run it through Mo2 into a Anomaly file that has Expedition already on it?

[full crown]

What do you mean? Gamma reshade comes calibrated the way it's supposed to be.

[full crown]

Am I understanding you correctly that you want Gamma with Expedition graphics? If yes, you should be doing this: #1037753021322506240 message

If this is not helping you enough, I can't help either. It's complicated, and no, the other way around won't work either, except you are an expert in merging conflicting mods.

Aside from that, there are plenty of reshades and other visual mods that work with Gamma which make it way more consistently good looking.

[chrome spindle]

ok

[glacial spear]

why is so hard to do a cd "D:\G.A.M.M.A. EXT" ?

[mint owl]

Technically my Reshade preset is indeed fps taxing so not using it will bring back at least 20fps

[glacial spear]

I have a video of your reshade with exp shaders and it runs still better than with gamma stock ones

[mint owl]

Have you tried with Hippobot's preset as well ? Should run better than mine either way ?

[glacial spear]

I haven't tried yet, I was just messing up this afternoon to see how it would look like the exp shaders together with one of those seasons' modpacks and I noticed this drastic performance difference. I am not sure why gamma shaders are so expensive.

basically exp shaders are just ES and SSS even older version that gamma has but they 'say' customized

[mint owl]

Ah yes, customized, but they don't tell in which way ?

[glossy pond]

looks sick bro

[swift robin]

Completely new to reshade but trying to work on making something gloomy yet beautiful

Without

With

Not much difference but I'll have to work on it

I'm gonna work on it heavily but I'm trying to go for like a silent hill meets the last of us vibe

[swift robin]

Something like this mans game would look amazing imo

[amber topaz]

im going to download reshade for stalker but idk willl it mess up my game since i have gamma installed...will it work after that(im going to install clear sky shader)

[molten hawk]

it wont mess anything.

[shrewd crystal]

anyone can give me some filter settings or something to make my game better?

[hidden hamlet]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1035807043933720576

[shrewd crystal]

also,i downloaded a reshade,but how do i like "activate" it? cant really find any tutorials on youtube

[hidden hamlet]

With all due respect, there should be plenty of written and video tutorials. But, the process you are looking for is to:
download reshade
install it (you have to point it at the specific executable when you do)
then you put the reshade shaders in the ./reshade-shaders/Shaders/ path
then put the .ini profile for the reshade settings (if you have one) next to the exe you installed reshade for, in our case, the Anomaly/bin folder.
Hope that helps.

also, if you downloaded and can run gamma, just hit the 'home' key in game, and you will see the reshade menu, and you can start playing with the included stuff. That should get you started.

[shrewd crystal]

thank you

[swift robin]

A lot of the shaders that are good here come with directions, like I use inverno with hippos shaders and then when I want a change I use Hippos ADGA texture thing or w/e it’s called@ and they all come with instructions

Like Barney style directions you can’t screw up

[eternal bluff]

hippo reshade

[leaden ferry]

Hey guys so I want to make my stalker gamma fresh install look better. I have an RTX 2070, what can I do? I heard of reshades, but which one would be better? Any mods to consider?

[sour oar]

Depends on what you're looking for

Is there a particular style you have in mind?

For example: realistic, vibrant, lush, etc. etc.

[broken pollen]

Bro is playing in 360° fov

[eternal bluff]

lol

[sour oar]

Just released a new update for my reshade, complete with a custom made grading and everything :)

[eternal bluff]

realized i was using the wrong reshade. heres hippos reshade with the adega texture pack

[crisp sundial]

Hi! Who can suggest good reshade? As in the screenshot

[sour oar]

@naive linden

[naive linden]

So this didn't work ^^^ but anyway I have a home key, reshade has always worked for me. On this latest update pressing home is doing nothing at all. Anybody have any ideas why?

Ope nvm

Just like suddenly

Works

Lol

[sonic oriole]

Guys, I prolly did smt and it turned every texture in the game to black again
Forgot how I fixed it last time 😦

[silent cairn]

!blackscreen

[void depot]

Follow this: #╭📖faq message

[sonic oriole]

Not that black, the sky is still visable, just the rest of the textures are black :/

[silent cairn]

step 2 from that guide

[warm slate]

Anyone know if there's a way to get the default cfg for the gamma shader? Im using the Hippo and wanna compare

[sour oar]

Default for gamma is grading_warm

[warm slate]

thanks!

[glad zodiac]

is there a way to switch the filters to reshade from gamma when pressin home on key board

[wraith charm]

I installed hippo and adega as well, and it doesn't matter which preset I use, it don't feel like getting a different, better look. Are you playing in 1440p with high AA, or did you install RTGI, did you do the step in the Nvidia Control Panel? which preset are you using? If it´s "Hippo_R", do you or anybody else know, what to do with the weather.ini.. Do I need to put it in the same directory as the presets, and enable it via console as well, or just drop it in the bin folder? Also, do you have to enable the hippo preset everytime you boot up the game, same with "Jaku's Shader Tweak" and the gloss factor settings? Also, if I want the normal GAMMA presets back ,and I were to delete the files and put back my original reshade_shaders folder, would I need to enable the original presets. Sorry for all the, probably not particularly smart, questions, but it doesnt say in the readme and wasn't able to find answer(s) yet.. is this even the right place to ask all these questions, or should I ask directly in Hippo Mod next time..? Well... if you or anyone else knows, I'd really appreciate the help, thank you

[eternal bluff]

i’m not using rgti or any of that. just using the basic settings of hippor, i’m playing at 1080p have not messed with my nvidia control panel too much. i did not mess with the weather.ini either. as for the console thing just drop the ltx file in your appdata where your user.ltx file is and open the instructions to find the corresponding cfg command and make sure the directory matches the one shown in the screenshot

[wraith charm]

thx for the answer! interesting. I think it looks really good on your Screenshot. Like I said, I use hippo(R) and adega as well and play on 1080p but it doesnt look anything like that. Also took my time and did every step very carefully, so I have no idea where I fucked up.. maybe I do a full Gamma and then addons installation again, if I can't get it to work properly. (And you didnt touch the weather .ini that comes with hippor at all yeah?). Cheers bro

[full crown]

I don't see any weather.ini in hippos reshade

And you only need to load the .ltx (jakus and hippos) once.

[wraith charm]

In the HippoR folder, there is an extra Folder including the HippoR CGIM Weather.ini

[full crown]

That one is just a different hippor preset if you are using CGIM weather.

[wraith charm]

oh okay, I thought it belongs together with the hippoR preset. Thx for your anwers mate!

[full crown]

If something doesn't quite work with installing a reshade, most of the time the problem is that people don't delete reshade-shaders and just replace it with the new one. Or they forget to delete shader cache.

It's also possible that your shader paths arent set correctly but that is described in-depth in hippos readme

[eternal bluff]

make sure your reshade paths match the one in the photo as well

mine didnt match on the install and had to manually add them

[wraith charm]

I did all that. Like I said I read the guide really carefully and did as instructed

[wraith charm]

maybe thats the problem

[wraith charm]

I wasnt quite sure if that was right or not since there was only one example.

[full crown]

Oh wow, I thought the reshade paths screenshot is described in hippos readme but isn't really.

I had to add TFAA as well, wasn't loaded.

[wraith charm]

the instructions aren't really clear are they, or am I just stupid? 😄

[eternal bluff]

you should add them all no matter which preset you're using'

[full crown]

They were pretty clear for his earlier versions. But he adjusted so much that it's probably outdated.

[wraith charm]

hmm okay, I will def look into that again, because that would be the only thing that would make sense, since I didnt tweak anything there because it looked alright, but maybe it isnt^^

concerning the load order, in MO2 I put "adega" just above the "Gamma Disabled" seperator.. does the position of the Mod, matter at all, since the updated particle file.. if you know what I mean^^

[eternal bluff]

it says in the instructions to place it above the particles effects thingy

[full crown]

If you are using the updated particles you can place it at the very bottom.

[wraith charm]

there was a fix, and after that it says you can place it below, so the dismemberment mod works properly

[eternal bluff]

what does that do exactly? putting it lower on the load order i mean

[wraith charm]

okay

[full crown]

If you look at MO2 the load order means that the files at the top get loaded first. This also means that a certain file from one mod at the top will get overwritten by a file from a mod at the bottom. Which is obviously bad if it's not the file you want to be loaded.

[wraith charm]

sweet, alright, I´ll have a look at the reshade path stuff and hope that will do the trick. Thanks again guys

[eternal bluff]

[wet violet]

Hey guys, is anyone having issues with glamarye and scopes? I'm this giant offset on the geo when zooming in witht he mark8. I didn't notice with other scopes though, I need to do some testing

it's subtle but it gets distracting af with darker lighting

[glad zodiac]

anyone here use aggressor shader ?????

[sour oar]

I'm sure it won't be hard to find someone who does

[glad zodiac]

what shader do u use ?

[limpid bone]

My dude, NightCat makes his own reshade check it out: https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036360481100795924

[glad zodiac]

i thought i saw him post about his mod im looking for a good shader so thx @limpid bone @sour oar

[sour oar]

[thick tendon]

When it comes to the inbuilt game AA, just disable it entirely. I only play with SMAA high and AA off. A bit of distant tree shimmering (honestly this is less an issue if you use a texture pack that actually has leaves) but it’s otherwise not that big a deal.

[thick tendon]

It’s the 2D scope support in SSS options causing depth buffer mismatching that the ReShade shader depends on. https://youtu.be/FpSiEWSerGg

[wet violet]

Thanks for the video! I honestly don't remember we had this mismatch with older SSS versions? Funny thing is it stopped happening for me, I loaded the game today to test different scopes and everything seems to line up. I'm going to test using the show depth/splitscreen you did to make sure.

[heady pebble]

Yes, it is caused by the two different zoom levels (inside & outside of the scope). You can eliminate it by setting scope_factor 1.0 (default: 0.66). I honestly like the effect and don't use reshade shaders that can cause it (any AO or RT shader).

[wet violet]

Ohhh that explains why it went away for me, I was testing Hippo's Reshade last night and I think his config file sets scope_factor to 1. XD

I wasn't using any ao fx on my preset but glamarye is so freaking cheap for what it does

[thick tendon]

There's might be a way to mitigate this if one can nail down the shader used for the effect and bypass it with reshade effect shader toggler (https://github.com/4lex4nder/ReshadeEffectShaderToggler) but it'll be dependent on if said shader can be identified cleanly

You can do the same thing with fog shaders when combined with AO/RTGI/etc but only if it's not being mixed in with other stuff (which is fairly common)

[heady pebble]

It would be neat if someone comes up with something like ENB Helper for Reshade and Stalker that automates preset / effect switching dependent on certain ingame circumstances.

[thick tendon]

it can be done with the effect toggler if the shader is able to be isolated but yeah a more native solution that communicates with reshade based on game events would absolutely be preferred

[storm nimbus]

How do I get rid of this glossy look on organic textures like grass and stuff when it isn't wet

[molten hawk]

r_gloss min something like that.

[storm nimbus]

Its already on min

[molten hawk]

there is 2 value about gloss console command. @storm nimbus

[storm nimbus]

I have it set to min 0.001

[molten hawk]

it fixed the problem for me so cant tell you.

[storm nimbus]

when you changed the value did you have to restart the game and delete shader cache?

[molten hawk]

@storm nimbus didnt restart, just lower the value made it directly.

[storm nimbus]

yeah didn't change anything for me

[molten hawk]

well cant tell you then, it did for me. :/ it was very obvious during rain and at night with nvg ON.

[pale quest]

hey im trying to install nightcat shaders and in the instructions it says "finally, select the preset". To do this, do i select it from the dropdown menu in the Home menu of reshade, replacing the gamma reshade.ini?

like this?

[molten hawk]

from here yeah. where you show.

you can change the preset here, it wont delete gamma one.

[pale quest]

thanks. it also says " In game, press "home" key, go to settings, beside "Effect search paths" make sure all folders are selected

.
To quickly do this, copy and paste "reshade-shaders\Shaders" each time after adding a new path, and then select
a missing folder. Finally, select the preset. Enjoy!"

what ive done here is correct, right?

not sure if i was supposed to completely replace the shaders folder during installation or just combine the two. i combined the two, nightcat shader folder with default stock gamma shader folder

[molten hawk]

well i never have to do that manualy as the first thing i do is install reshade with every effect then drop the reshade ini i want to use.

[molten hawk]

cant tell you i never do it that way.

install reshade when you see the effects, i do > uncheck then check all then next. then i drop the ini where i need to. > no problemo.

@pale quest i always manually install the reshade and select uncheck then check all ( about effect ) finish the install.
Then drop the reshade ini i want to use where i need to drop it, and.. thats all.

have to go.

[pale quest]

Do you have any idea why my borderless window screen is not centered? Its stuck off to the side and bottom of my screen. Its at the correct resolution though, icant move it

nvm i fixed it, had to put it in windowed and move it

[silent cairn]

Both gloss_factor and gloss_min to 0.001

[short knot]

anyone got a good reshade that complements, Project INVERNO?

[swift robin]

if you have ssr on turn it off

[neat kite]

Is the aggressor reshade in mo2 the full one ?

If not how can I get the full one ?

Cause rn I have the one in the loader enabled and it really didn’t change anything

[hidden hamlet]

Is this a good place to ask about the Summer season texture mod? I don't see it on the shared drive location or on moddb. Is it in another location or has it been taken down for maintenance or something like that?

[river flower]

No, only grounds

[river flower]

Moddb

[manic sage]

When you make it onto the community gallery of EFP

[manic sage]

Time to make a reshade preset for project inverno @thick gorge I've been putting it off for way too long

[manic sage]

@rich sentinel trying to perfect the snow color

@jagged token

[rich sentinel]

Well you know the work for balancing the whites

[manic sage]

Mhmm regrade is so good for that

I just took my hippor preset and tweaked it from there

here's base hippor for instance

Very easy to tweak

[stuck skiff]

game still looks like this even after following all of the steps in the faq

[manic sage]

If this isn't snow @jagged token then I don't know what is

[stuck skiff]

anyone know what I should do?

[noble lotus]

Can someone help me? the shader update is not working, when I load the weapon there is no background blur

[sour oar]

what reshade are you using?

[sour oar]

go into MCM, you can turn weapon reload blur there

[stuck skiff]

i wasn't using any reshade just the default gamma one

[noble lotus]

but it's already active

@sour oar but it has no effect

[stuck skiff]

messed around in the reshade myself and then this started happening

[sour oar]

well, what did you change?

[sour oar]

do you have the new EXEs?

afaik you need them for blur to work

[noble lotus]

@sour oar no, how do i get them?

[sour oar]

It should say that in the bottom left

Just update

[stuck skiff]

i added bloom and LUT and did some color stuff as well as color gradients but i reverted everything to default and it's still like this

[sour oar]

They were included in the latest update

[sour oar]

You cleared shaders cache after right?

[stuck skiff]

yeah

[sour oar]

[noble lotus]

I just did the full update like grook asked, but I don't know how to get the new EXES

[sour oar]

well

[sour oar]

do you see this in your game or no?

to check

[sweet merlin]

!k98

[void depot]

1. Go in this folder: GAMMA RC3\.Grok's Modpack Installer\G.A.M.M.A\modpack_patches
2. Copy these three folders (check pic)
3. Go to your Anomaly folder
4. Paste these three folders (check pic)
5. Overwrite/replace all if asked
   It won't delete your save files.

Here is a picture for reference: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1012510897136222293/1013951079538495528/k98.png

[noble lotus]

thx

[wraith charm]

here is a link for the .exes Grok provided it to me yesterday. But the update contains the new exes anyway, so you would just need to update the game

[wraith charm]

oh just saw you had that convo already^^hope it does work for you now. Just so you know, the DOF effect might look kinda sex, but it´s kinda impractical when you´re in a shootout with either Stalkers or Mutants tbh^^

*sexy

[glacial spear]

I have just released a new ext profile to install all seasons mods out there https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1046191308403916890/1046191308403916890

[molten hawk]

try levels effect in reshade black to 0 and work with white only.

[manic sage]

#1036172060969410590 message i didn’t need to do that

But thanks

[edgy cedar]

It’s def more of a content creation tool emphasizing animations. It’s cinematic but yeah, not practical

But that’s only in the heavy animation moments. I actually like the DOF tweaks to stuff like my weapon and environment.

[orchid basin]

@rigid shore IMAX as u said. by default

[manic sage]

lol

[cunning thistle]

does someone have CoP installed? I tried to test Jaku's shaders on there but any dx10/11 give me the "your video card doesn't meet game requirments" error but i have 1080ti

also tried to ask on other discords for help but they ignored me

[rigid shore]

Do you have AA running on top of that?

[rigid shore]

Have you asked Jaku?

[orchid basin]

i just turned off DSR because apparently its not needed

in game AA off . SMAA max

x4 nvidia because x8 cost me 10-15 fps

[rigid shore]

How's it looking?

[orchid basin]

clean

[cunning thistle]

no but any shaders give me that error, i was wondering if someone knows about this error

[orchid basin]

in game AA is not worth the performance it eats

x2 is maybe ok in terms of perfromance but x4 is just NOT

x8 is totaly out of this planet

[cunning thistle]

override or enhance?

[orchid basin]

enhance

i would go for x8 if i had stronger GPU

[cunning thistle]

kk, for some reason i had only overRIDE (lol) for CoP

[orchid basin]

im runing it at 2k so 1080 would allow me for more

[cunning thistle]

ye, i play on 25 inch so 1080p is fine with high AA on most games

sometimes DSR to 2k is really nice though, really crisp image

[orchid basin]

imma just check how it runs without DSR

stalker eats more than fcn cyberpunk at 2k lol

[clever helm]

question, how do I go about editing gammas graphics settings though nvidea?

[orchid basin]

control panel

program setings then add Anomaly with Dx your using

10 fps more without DSR at the start

This looks crip, feels better too somehow

[cunning thistle]

you can go even deeper into tweaking with Nvidia Profile Inspector, with various framelimiters n stuff

[orchid basin]

for sure but my knowledge is very limited in that stuff

[cunning thistle]

yeah it's not easy, but just putting it out there for the aficionados

[orchid basin]

imma harass my pc with that DSR stuff now

@glacial spear yea. in game AA eats a lot of performance ad do almost nothing

nvidia x4 AA does better job

if your pc can handle it go for x8

in game SMAA max

[manic sage]

I tried ingame smaa low and max

low and max do the same thing

go in clear weather and enable and disabled smaa in console to see the result and difference first hand

[orchid basin]

really. thats maybe my not expiernced eye . i would say it does something

[manic sage]

Try to enable and disable in console

looked virtually the same to me

[orchid basin]

command ?

[manic sage]

type smaa

should come up as an option

[glacial spear]

I have an rtx 3080 laptop I should handle it, cp2077 runs at max, raytracing on at 60 fps. yet this game...

[orchid basin]

go for it

[manic sage]

Stalker am I right, the king of fps drain

[clever helm]

so disable any AA in gamma and use the control panel only?

[orchid basin]

or try it at see if u see the differnece

[orchid basin]

yea. i had cbp at 2k rtx and with stalker i need to look for compromise lol

[manic sage]

lol

[orchid basin]

maybe not 3080 water cooled but still does the job

[glacial spear]

I want to use program settings, those exes are all I need to tweak right

[orchid basin]

go with browse

ADD from anomaly folder dx youre using

[cunning thistle]

There is no benchmark level or command for that is there? Would be useful to record statistics.

[orchid basin]

im just loking at debug counter or steam. and how my card behave

[clever helm]

should I use SSAO in game?

[orchid basin]

youre using reshade with it ?

[clever helm]

yeah, the one gamma comes with that is

[orchid basin]

i would use because its plain without it

[cunning thistle]

ye it works, but it's not reliable as a benchmark level would be

[orchid basin]

agree

[glacial spear]

to tell the thru it's mostly cpu bottlenecked and gamma even more with all the mods that adds scripting. I would normally run at 100 fps + if not for the scripting running everywhere

[manic sage]

Very true

[cunning thistle]

that's good though, cpu's are crazy powerful these days

[manic sage]

I wonder how a 3d vcache cpu like the 5800x3d and the future 3d variants for the 7000 variants would run

[cunning thistle]

bro, i was about to say the same thing, fr

[orchid basin]

i mean i have now 4x 4k DSR and no performance issues. is it placebo or something ?

[cunning thistle]

maybe when the sun hits hard or different levels it might tank fps hard

in CoP i get 20-30 fps when the sun is out, 200+ when it's not... 32 bit

[orchid basin]

@manic sage yea, there is no visable impact with SMAA it was late back then i guess

[rigid shore]

Sorry to bring this back up, I've tried everything from updating the launcher to 2x full installs and cannot get this to appear on my main menu 😦

@orchid basin does that appear on your main menu ^^

[sour oar]

:(

Uhh hold on

[orchid basin]

nah. didnt pay atention to that, is it important or something?

[sour oar]

https://github.com/themrdemonized/STALKER-Anomaly-modded-exes

Try downloading it directly from here

[rigid shore]

Thank you!

[rigid shore]

Modded EXEs as far as I know, just wanting to make sure everything is 100% up to date

[orchid basin]

DOF is working and doppler so i guess its all good

last few days im not playing, only updating my game

[molten hawk]

you need to select the exe depending on wich direct X versions you use.

[rigid shore]

Success! Thanks all

[sour oar]

[orchid basin]

its just it ? just writen info ?

[sour oar]

You need the confirmation in the bottom left to make sure it works correctly

[rigid shore]

No idea I just don't like being behind with this sort of thing

[orchid basin]

any sign thats its not beside absence of those letters ?

[sour oar]

Not that I know of

Your DoF in SSS probably won’t work though

[orchid basin]

it does

[sour oar]

You need them for it to work properly

If it works I mean hey

More power to you mate

I wouldn’t risk it though personally

[orchid basin]

burh. xD ok, fine i will do that

[clever helm]

any recommendations on making this look better? (particularly the trees)

and things in the distance

[glacial spear]

I tried, not noticing any difference

[molten hawk]

@clever helm very first thing to do is to get >>> 1.1.0_Groks_Optimized_Graphics_Patcher

[clever helm]

is there any compatibility issues with it with other mods?

[molten hawk]

no, this is just value about tonemap and stuff like that, nothing else, but i saw an improvement about the color space after using that mod.

[clever helm]

sounds great, I'll probably download that right after this quest lol

[molten hawk]

let me know. 🙂 and no problem about crash and stuff like that as again its basicall comand console with better value. about tonemap amb/hemi.... so no risk at all again.

[zenith marsh]

so i got DOF enabled, the modified EXE files, enabled within SSS but still no DOF, what should I do?

[molten hawk]

the dof from anniverseray does not work ? @zenith marsh

[zenith marsh]

nope

[molten hawk]

noice... @zenith marsh there are dof in reshade otherwise.

[zenith marsh]

but i want to try out the new featured one 😢

not sure why its not working

[molten hawk]

from what i saw its a very close dof, dof are meant to be used at mid/long distance this make you win some frames.. see in the mcm menu about dof option thats all i can tell..

[manic sage]

I really wish there was a reshade repository similar to the texture packs such as this. It would cut down on the amount of dms me and other reshade makers get asking where to get said reshade.

[molten hawk]

use mediafire upload there any new reshade you made drop the dl link of your mediafire and voila.. @manic sage

[manic sage]

That's not what I mean

[deep horizon]

Ive been trying to get TFAA working in reshade, i have Quint_Motionvector enabled as needed but when i enable TFAA ist just black screens.
Has anyone had this issue when trying to load TFAA through reshade?

[slate grotto]

Also would be easier to people test new stuff without having to be here 24/7

[manic sage]

Exactly

[manic sage]

The main thing is making sure to match the reshade paths the same way as in the screen provided

That's been my foolproof fix on my end

[astral halo]

Y'all like Frozen Zone or Project INVERNO better for the winter experience? Figured I'd change it up, tis the season.

[deep horizon]

yeah, the paths are correct, it reports an "implicit truncation of vector type" error.
im like Uhm

The reshade itself just stated to place it in the shaders folder

[manic sage]

the error is harmless

yellow is nothing to worry about (mainly meant for the author of the reshade effect to fix)

hows your depth buffer @deep horizon

[deep horizon]

i believe it works, Display Depth shows the depth fine, nothing is weirdly upside down. I tried testing with RTGI and that works without any issue since that needs the Depth Buffer to be working

[manic sage]

Mmmm yeah then getting TFAA to work is just troublesome atm

its a known bug on their github

so don't feel too bad if you can't get it to work

but sometimes it will randomly work

[deep horizon]

yeah, i figured that since its still very early.
I saw it recommended in another channel here about fixing the AA so i wanted to give it a shot haha

Funny enough, using GuassianBlur helps with the jaggies on trees,
Ill take that W

[manic sage]

Nice I'm glad you found something that works for you

[slate grotto]

more a project inverno myself, both are nice but inverno to me are less agressive in some textures with the winter side

[orchid basin]

@manic sage im still diging in this because my curiosity is stronger than my will to stop. Do you visually can tell the difference tweaking nvidia AA? I thought that i see but now, looking at GPU usage and fps variance i doubt that nvidia AA is applying. What is your thought proces behind in game AA and nvidia AA?

[manic sage]

The main thing I notice is the transparancy set 8x

[rich sentinel]

You boys did some benchmarks with AA on vs off?

[orchid basin]

benchmark is pointles if u cant see the difference. numbers vs visable differnece

[wispy palm]

whats the best reshade guys :D that my 2060 can handle atleast

[orchid basin]

hippo and his modified texture pack rocks

[wispy palm]

I like what I see in screenshots

[orchid basin]

try it out i recommend hippoFILM preset but tbh there is so many different shaders that its easy to get lost

[wispy palm]

I'll find this on moddb correct?

[orchid basin]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036172060969410590

pinned

first link is reshade secon texture pack

[wispy palm]

Oh, alright, on my way to install it :)

thanks

[orchid basin]

read carefully

[wispy palm]

will do

[orchid basin]

@manic sage u did such a good job with FILM that i cant change it back. NOICE. Even R feels off . What a

[wispy palm]

How low do I need to put it to keep dismemberment?

[orchid basin]

only thing you need to do is to put mod pack above particle mod in mod menager then open texture pack in mod menager and drop there particle file from jaku overwrite and you good

[orchid basin]

this is explain what jaku file do, not how to instal

[twin karma]

is it safe to update reshade?

[orchid basin]

u don need to do that if you mean the info that is showing after main menu appear

[twin karma]

that and i was just wondering if i updated it will it crash the game

also im wondering about the modded exe files, are they okay for gamma

[orchid basin]

#╟🎑reshades message mododed exes

[twin karma]

thanks

[balmy portal]

Is there a way to reset gamma reshade settings to default?

As in the settings that were in when the pack was installed?

[devout whale]

!k98 in #🤖bot-commands may help

[pale quest]

If i update to the latest patch, will it uninstall my reshades and mods?

[sour oar]

The mods yes, you will need to back those up

The ReShades no. However if your ltx is wiped in the update, you’ll have to redo any cfg_load commands afaik

[eager glen]

Hey friends, which antialiasing settings in nvidia control panel should I tweak to remove the jaggedness for trees? Should I use the settings in shader settings instead?

ive always kind of just put up with it but it's killing my experience

[hollow scarab]

Im unsure if its related to reshade or some setting in video, but since the new anniv. update and patches NVG's are alot fuzzy then they were before. Like the final tier bino'z i have are super fuzzy. Does anyone know how to adjust this?

[gritty turtle]

Have you only been having it recently, or before the most recent update as well?

[hollow scarab]

@gritty turtle yes after the update.

[gritty turtle]

could be a DOF issue. Do you have it on or off?

[hollow scarab]

It wont let me shut it off unfortunately

[gritty turtle]

!dof

[void depot]

It's the new DOF effect. You can turn it off:

1. Open the game
2. Go in MCM Settings
3. Search SSS Settings
4. Turn off Weapon DOF

[gritty turtle]

Try this and check again

[hollow scarab]

they've been off. The one thats new in the general advance video settings wont uncheck when applied

unless its this one too?

[gritty turtle]

I think you might need to ask in support, I thought it might be a dof issue, but I'm thinking I'm wrong now

[primal verge]

ye but that's to fully disable them, i think dof depth is configured badly out of the box, because even pda text is blury when you bring up pda closer to your face

[hollow scarab]

ah that makes sense

[rigid shore]

Speaking of DoF, does anyone know a way to adjust the base intensity of the DoF effect when reloading/using weapons?

It is possible to adjust DoF for walking around and aiming, but doesn't seem to be possible to adjust how blurred the screen becomes when reloading/using items

To elaborate, I would like to tone it down a fair amount, so it gives a very subtle amount for cinematic effect, rather than super strong blur which I find quite overpowering

[full crown]

Most settings in nvidia control panel don't have an effect on Stalker Anomaly if you use directx11. Putting SMAA on ultra in-game does work but is extremely inefficient. You will get the best results with reshade shaders.

[orchid basin]

make sense since my gpu doesnt care if i set x4 or x8 or turn it off completly in nvidia control panel. same usage

[rigid shore]

Happens to you too?

[rigid shore]

This makes so much sense now

[orchid basin]

yea, unbothered GPU mate. Not a single bit by x8

[rigid shore]

Running the new 6090 I see

[orchid basin]

bruh. i wish xD

[rigid shore]

Resolution: yes

I saw you delete that

[silent cairn]

Only by editing the code atm

[orchid basin]

im lost , still dont know yhat you ment lol. 3 hr of sleep not good

[rigid shore]

No worries!

[pure ginkgo]

Guys, any idea why my Jaku's improved shaders stopped working? Everything was fine till I messed a little with the graphic settings and it stopped working. Obviously i reverted the changes to the previous state but the shader still doesn't work

[rigid shore]

Was just making a joke that you can run 8x with no performance loss, saying you had some experimental 6090 GPU or whatever

[orchid basin]

aaa. that joke. IMAX

GPU so big that you need dedicated shelf on the wall for it

[rigid shore]

EXACTLY

[restive plover]

does anyone know ho to remove the reload / weapon blur on hippos reshade?

[silent cairn]

!dof

[void depot]

It's the new DOF effect. You can turn it off:
1) Open the game
2) Go in MCM Settings (press ESC - Mod Configuration Menu)
3) Search SSS Settings
4) Disable options you don't like
If DOF doesn't work even though the options in MCM are turned on, do !k98 in #🤖bot-commands.

[rigid shore]

@manic sage - having some fun with your FILM preset! Have added another vignette to amplify the mask effect, dialled back some of the saturation to get a natural feel. Thanks for taking the time to put these together and writing out all the instructions

[manic sage]

Yeah no problem! Looks good, I only made it exaggerated to resemble the Hassleblad XPAN camera

You get the gist

My favorite camera of all time as every shot looks as if it comes from a movie, skill pending ofcourse

[orchid basin]

this looks absolutely STUNNING

[haughty mesa]

good shit

[rigid shore]

Holy shit

[eager glen]

Thank you very much sir, i see some conflicting opinions on using NCP vs shader settings, but i'll try your suggestion!

[unkempt shadow]

Hey, I assume that this is the right place... Since last update, the colors in game changes. Assumption again, it seems like the game is trying to keep some kind of color balance overall, and thus changes individuals colors whether I'm looking at the ground or the sky.

Needless to say, it's really ugly, I would like to disable it if possible

[molten hawk]

@unkempt shadow you can try that one. https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/100-groks-optimized-graphics-patcher

Only do from step 3 ONLY. so >>> 3. Extract the archive of Grok's Optimized Graphics Patcher to the Anomaly directory (where you can see bin, appdata, gamedata folders etc). If it asks for dynamic tonemap script replacement, accept.

[brazen pagoda]

how enable SS shader?

I just reinstalled the game and I don't remember how to activate the shader, it was some exes and some folders

[devout whale]

!k98 in #🤖bot-commands

[storm nimbus]

How do I fix this black grass

Also how do I get rid of this sparkle on the ground?

[slate grotto]

try changing the r2_gloss_factor

[silent cairn]

Gloss factor should be 0.001

[storm nimbus]

Worked thanks!

[mild dome]

Newest version lets you do "cfg_load gloss"

[azure dragon]

Hey where can we found some preset for the shaders I don't want to mess with my game 😅

[empty orchid]

Anyone got a tutorial on the basics of making a reshade

[vapid field]

Do I need to run cfg_load every launch?

[mild dome]

Nah

[primal verge]

Nah just once

[slate grotto]

At https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1035807043933720576 we have some nice stuff. Check out what cater to your taste

[elfin tree]

do I need to upgrade to this version 5.5.1 and if so how? I don't know how to install it and I don't want to do anything stupid because everything works great : https://reshade.me/#download

[rare swan]

madirex told me i didnt need to do it

[mild dome]

Is there a good way to lower how bright skies are during rainy weather? Maybe a specific texture pack?

[swift robin]

I'm getting a bunch of black dots around npc's heads. anyone know how to fix this in reshade menu?

Looks fine at night with a flashlight on them

[rare swan]

what preset file do i select for the reshade setup (reinstalling reshader from dx11 file, didnt have all shaders on G.A.M.M.A reshade)

[rare swan]

i dont see any black dots anywhere

[swift robin]

Zoom in on the day photo , its all around the npcs head. im guessing its a brightness setting

[rare swan]

i see some marks around his hairline and under the cheekbones but it just looks like poor wrinkle effect, i have no idea sry

it doesnt look bad imo-not saying you should settle hope you figure it out dood

[vapid field]

looks normal to me

[swift robin]

it only looks pixelated out during the day. this one is from night

so you are saying the dark black specticals around the hood and face are normal during the day?

it almost feels like a godray issue during daytime

[echo hawk]

Oh I see it. It's like very bad sun shadowing from the hoodie or something.

[vapid field]

looks like the shadow of the hood?

maybe your gfx settimngs aren't very high?

[swift robin]

good point, it only occurs on stalkers with hoods

it's trying to blend a shadow under the hood? I don't know

[swift robin]

yes

should i crank textures or is this a lighting issue?

[vapid field]

I don't believe it's lighting

I don't think it's a real shadow I just think it's part of the npc model

[swift robin]

@vapid field Do you get the same thing?

[vapid field]

i''m not in game right now

[swift robin]

what mod are you using for that snow?

[sour oar]

Inverno or graupel iirc

[swift robin]

okay thank you!

[flint galleon]

loving hippo's reshade already

[orchid basin]

Could it be? Usless settings ?

[vale flume]

@worldly raptor Not that you asked, but I have some screenshots of my personal reshade that I would consider vanilla+

[worldly raptor]

looks nice

[molten hawk]

@vale flume how many reshade effect you use actually ?

[slate pebble]

Moving few sliders and enable few things and that game looks gorgeous

[split flicker]

What kind of a setup do you use to have so much grass

[slate pebble]

turn off mod Autumn no leaves and LOD fix, gardener of the zone, grulag's dead brushes

[full crown]

Pretty sure they wanted to say what an insane setup of a computer you need to have grass density this high.

[slate pebble]

RTX 3080, 12700k, 128gb ram

[full crown]

128gb ram? What the hell do you do? Visual effects for ILM?

[slate pebble]

I'm working with AE and PR a lot so I need more ram

[slate pebble]

Even 128gb is not enough

[full crown]

lol, so I wasn't far off with my guess 😄

[slate pebble]

I had 16gb before but AE was running like dogshit so I boosted it just bit 😄

[slate pebble]

But game runs pretty much same with or without trees and bushes enabled. I didn't saw any performance issues

[versed python]

Using Aggressor reshade, my Inventory is pretty dark; any settings that might help with that? Basic light settings via Anomaly doesn't really change much

[sour oar]

Essentially, stop using aggressor

Made with only looks in mind (didn’t really hit the spot there though), and is ass for gameplay and especially ruins the UI

[slate pebble]

add brightness in shaders but it will brighten also a game

[sour oar]

If you send the list of effects aggressor uses, I can direct you to which you can turn off to generally fix that. But again, it’s not great

[versed python]

This is what I've been using. Just played around with a few settings; nothing too major.

[sour oar]

Oh boy

Well

So many effects that do the same thing wow

Anyway

Try disabling levels, levels plus, LUT, tone map and watchdogs tonemap

[versed python]

Brother I see buttons and I press them

[sour oar]

This just makes me sweat looking at it

How much fps does that soak

[versed python]

Just checked, about 3-5 when idle

Those settings being turned off definitely helped, the UI is still a bit too dark for my liking, but I'm going in the right direction

[sour oar]

Probably more tbf

Genuinely mate

If you're planning on making your own reshade, don't use Aggressor as a base

[versed python]

Do you think building from the GAMMA reshade is the way to go if I want something a bit more vibrant?

[sour oar]

Building from nothing is probably the way to go, but

GAMMA reshade as a base isn't too bad

What exactly are you looking for? Something autumn-y? Green and lush? Or just an improved dead zone?

[versed python]

Honestly, a good mix of autumn/summer I suppose. Perhaps a bit more Autumn

[sour oar]

You could try using a texture pack like Golden Autumn Redux

That's what I did for my reshade, but I certainly leaned really heavy for the autumn side

You could use the texture pack and then repurpose it into slightly summer by messing with shader params and such

[versed python]

I'll give it a try; would you mind supplying a link if you don't mind?

[sour oar]

Aye

#custom-textures message

[versed python]

Thanks so much, I'll give it a try here shortly

[molten hawk]

luma sharp and clarity together > nope + fps loss and clarity is better.

clarity radius at 2 clarity strenght around 0.85 start at 0.80 and see up to 90/95 no need more...

Also select linear light.

[manic veldt]

Does anyone use expeditions graphics with GAMMA? Or do you have something you could recommend instead? I'm trying to push my 6950XT a bit

[slate pebble]

This is literally all you need

I run this preset I made and it looks amazing. It remind me battlefield 3 caspian border style

tiny bit green and blue but not oversaturated. Every scenario looks beautiful, fog, clear weather, rain

If you want make your style, first play with cinetools then play with sliders and lut pack. Filmic tonemap is amazing as well. Then play with brightness and saturation and contrast

[manic veldt]

What is Aggressor reshade? I often see it mentioned around here

[slate pebble]

I dont use any aggressor reshade

[slate pebble]

You don't need any.. just play with sliders there is everything you need

[manic veldt]

What you posted are settings for the base reshade?

[slate pebble]

Those are my settings, screenshots of game are above

[manic veldt]

Looks pretty good

[slate pebble]

but I'm using sRGB calibrated monitor so you can have different results with same settings.. best way is make it how you like it

[manic veldt]

Still looks pretty good on my Odyssey G7. Do you use texture mods to replace the default autumn ones?

[slate pebble]

No I just turned off default "no leaves" mod

[manic veldt]

You turned off just the 4 mods that are mentioned in the FAQ right?

[slate pebble]

Game is more immersive when you cannot see enemies in bushes that easly

yes

[manic veldt]

Agreed

Aren't autumn texture more defined btw? I got a huge performance boost when I disabled them. But that was on my old rig

[slate pebble]

Renegateds start shooting me in swaps and I was like WTF where it is coming from 😄

[manic veldt]

Couple that with identification distance and there you just got paranoid lmao

[slate pebble]

I didn't see any difference in performance with or without

[manic veldt]

Weird. In any case the game looks very good despite its age, save for the NPC faces. I wish something could be done for that

[slate pebble]

It looks beautiful.. but run like shit

100% gpu and 10% cpu

[manic veldt]

90% of that is due to Xray being single threaded

[slate pebble]

There should be some good soul that could fix it.. with todays rigs we should have 200fps

[manic veldt]

Yeah but it's not that easy. It would probably need a whole new engine

How many fps do you have with your setup?

[slate pebble]

around -60-90 but sometimes its smooth and sometimes it run like shit even with 80

[manic veldt]

Fuck

[slate pebble]

It depend where I'm and whats it happening

[manic veldt]

You have a good rig too

[slate pebble]

2 years old build

[manic veldt]

Still a 3080 and 12th gen cpu

I have a 13700k and 6950xt I hope I'll get decent frames

[slate pebble]

60 should be fine

I was wondering how could 4090 handle this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPkP5-ptkQk LOL 130fps

[manic veldt]

4k ultra though. Still low for such a beast but not too bad

[slate pebble]

I would be fine with 130 😄

[manic veldt]

@slate pebble btw since you have a 12th gen Intel CPU how do you identify P-cores to set affinity?

[slate pebble]

what do you mean? I don't touch anyting.. game runs like garbage literally no cpu load

[manic veldt]

You're supposed to set affinity away from core 0

[slate pebble]

It's doesn't do anything in performance

[manic veldt]

Idk. I've heard it does, I've managed to identify them using Process Hacker

[primal verge]

Its mentioned in #old-framerate-optimisation , but i'd put it in "maybe it works" category.
I've played this game with all cores and ticked off core 0 and there was no difference in my case.
Game still ends up running like garbage (dropping fps by 50%) in some areas after playing on the same save for a while.
Otherwise steady 100 throughout.

[rare swan]

trying to make my game look decent with the GAMMA reshade and it just feels impossible any tips?

i also get these weird rgb colours in the embers from this flame anomaly in the duty camp in army warehouse

[indigo dune]

can someone link me the Golden Autum please

[mystic skiff]

@indigo dunehttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/golden-autumn-retexture-v10

[indigo dune]

does Eden have a tutorial for installation?

i’m not good at this stuff lol

[tidal marlin]

im running it on a 3080ti, i7-11700kf, 32gb ddr4, and getting 80 on a good day. i do, however, insist on having insane person amounts of grass so that is probably my bottleneck

if the game optimised how it handled just grass, it would probably get 140fps on 30 series

[mint owl]

I do but it's possibly outdated

Also it's for Golden Autumn Redux, here it's Golden Autumn Retexture which is different

[sour oar]

Possibly

[mint owl]

Well, the Reshade is definitely outdated but installing Golden Autumn Redux shouldn't be

[cloud island]

It’s single threaded

[slate pebble]

And we all wish it wasn't

[cloud island]

Yep

Grass is killing your frames

[slate pebble]

I noticed grass did do something when I touch grass settings with autumn no leaves

but when I didn't touch it and even with mod disabled, performance is same, or I just didn't feel any difference

[tidal marlin]

as i turn up grass density even higher

[mild dome]

AREA's version of the engine is supposedly multi-threaded

[tidal marlin]

just when i think people are taken this nearly 20 year old game to its limits, something like this pops up

[ember rock]

so uhh anyone got some graphics recommendations for me i5 8400 3070 16gb ram

[tidal marlin]

decent rig, just leave everything at default and only tweak things with intention

[ember rock]

i want the game to look surreal

[tidal marlin]

delete shader cache, install custom textures, drop acid, load game

but for real thats a bit of a vague goal, youre better off pinpointing things that you want to change. ie. grass colour, shadow depth, etc. soon enough youll have the big brain skills to do whatever you want

[ember rock]

just want it to look like a game that came out in 2022 triple a 60fps 1080p

[tidal marlin]

delete shader cache, install custom textures, drop acid, load game

[ember rock]

i dont know how to do that lmfao

[cunning thistle]

trial & error is the best way to learn imo

except when dropping acid ofcourse

[ember rock]

u make it sound scary

[rare swan]

anyone here get blue and green lights in embers from anomalies?

i noticed it at the duty camp anomaly then i saw it again at some thermal one

i can get a video of it, its definitely the embers themselves they move in the same way

[tacit furnace]

so fellas

how i le snow le game

[shy knoll]

does autumn season redux still exist? i clicked the link to the drive and i might just be dumb, but i'm not seeing it

[sour oar]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/autumn-season-redux1

isnt this it?

[mild dome]

@manic sage Luma fade?

[mild dome]

There's a non-snow version included so I think that's the most up-to-date now.

[manic sage]

luma fade start and luma fade end

[rain wind]

whats the load order for this?

[shy knoll]

yeah whoops haha, thanks

[mild dome]

Weird, can't seem to get luma fade to work. It doesn't activate regardless of what the sliders are at.

[swift robin]

anyone know what option is needed to fix the black little dots around NPC face. I only really see it when they have a hood on.

it looks like some kinda pixelated shadow...

[swift robin]

Any help is appreciated

[rich sentinel]

I don't know if it works, but you can try to increase shadow resolution on anomaly launcher

[swift robin]

Thx I'll try it.

[swift robin]

It only happens during the day. At night it looks fine... Wonder if its a Sun rays quality option?

[iron elbow]

Yo boys I downloaded project Inverno and I got everything but theres no snow on the ground? anyone know why?

[rich sentinel]

Can be, never really payed enough attention to it

[swift robin]

Looks ok now. So I believe it was a mixture of the Sun rays and the Shadow Map. I cranked shadow Map to full and disabled god rays. Thanks for help.

[swift robin]

anyone know what is causing my bino's to look green?

[swift robin]

figured it out.. disregard

[median marsh]

how do i make my game look gooder?

[sweet cove]

reshades, texturepacks

[cunning thistle]

high resolution + anti-aliasing

personally like 2k res with around 2-4 aa, gotta keep fps above 60 atleast

[patent thicket]

I personally need a better rig

[swift robin]

Definitely need a texture pack but I'm a fan of gamma ext so far

[drifting shore]

Can someone help me install a reshade?

[sour oar]

Which one?

[runic grove]

any suggestion on the graphic and reshade settings?

[lilac storm]

any texture pack for that high quality surfaces textures?

[rich sentinel]

any tutorial on running agressor reshade?

[vague portal]

anyone know which is the best snow/winter mod to use?

[mild dome]

The newest INVERNO looks really good

[vague portal]

I like inverno but it makes the pda kind of white and snowy and it’s very hard to see marked stashes and missions

Is there a way to change that or maybe a mod that lets u change icon colours on pda?

[full crown]

I'm using this, never had a white stash icon.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/visible-pda-map-icons-bigger-and-brighter

Just remember to put it in front of 184- Body Health System as it will break your hud otherwise

[vague portal]

Thanks

[vagrant pebble]

Hey i got a question which mods in the mo2 i must disbale if i want aggresor grass and ground textures?

is it those 2? https://gyazo.com/25932369eab17db6b7a9a908b1190218

[lament moth]

Whats the best shader mod?

[primal verge]

does it say exactly which texture mods you should disable in the install instructions?

[full crown]

If you want a coherent visual experience,
these two, grulag's dead bushes and autumn no leaves LOD Fix.

Although you have to keep in mind that agressor grass is the lushest grass you can get. It looks great but sometimes doesn't fit the rest of the flora.

[vague portal]

trying to play with project inverno. i have dowloaded it off moddb but where do i extract it to?

[regal briar]

Hi guys
any reason why brightness change is not having any effect?
😐

it's a fresh install, no changes made to default mods

[half mist]

The slider doesn't work

[regal briar]

soo, no way to make the game brighter ?

[balmy lodge]

anyone got good reshade slider settings they want to share?

[blazing swallow]

yo, could someone with relatively "realistic" settings share their gamma reshade ini? I can't be arsed to play with all these sliders ;_; don't care about performance either

[sour oar]

check it outtttt

#4

[sour oar]

check out hippo's reshade in #1035807043933720576

[wind bane]

i updated to reshade 5.5.1 and now my screen is black

what have i done

[tidal marlin]

!blackscreen

[void depot]

Follow this: #╭📖faq message

[wind bane]

yep just had to delete shader cache

[cloud island]

Gz

[clever helm]

yes

I have GTR agressor reshade, agressor grass and agressor ground, looks pretty good all together

but disable autumn and gardener since they conflict with what the other mods change

[safe hemlock]

expedition its what I use I suggest you mess around with some of the settingshttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/expedition-graphical-overhaul-addon-for-anomaly-151 drop it in your anomaly folder for gamma here is a vid on how to install it suggestions and the best filters but just saying for me ppxx ssdo makes my game crash every time I try to check it on and the tips and suggestions are for regular anomaly not gammahttps://youtu.be/Vz_6VZlsB7c also ignore that the images are low res its cuz I'm using snip and sketch and as I said its custom so just use whatever shaders you want and mess around with the settings for me it looks good enough

[woeful veldt]

why do my screenshots look like this?

also, nice radar stash

[swift robin]

this shit confusing

i cant figure out how to download hippoS

[woeful veldt]

here #1036172060969410590 message

[sour oar]

Dunno why they’re faint until you click, but the inventory is dark because of your reshade. Though that’s not what you were referring to

[woeful veldt]

it's the hippo reshade I'm using

weird, i've used reshade before but this didn't happen

[sour oar]

Clearing shaders cache doesn’t change anything?

After, try disabling ReShade to see if it gets fixed, and then reload the shader params to vanilla to see if those affect it

Though iirc the shader params shouldn’t change inventory

[manic sage]

Something is wrong

Shader params don't touch inventory or hud

[sour oar]

Figured

[manic sage]

And my reshade doesn't even add any darkness besides a black level of 1

[woeful veldt]

huh

thanks for the intervention

[manic sage]

So it can't be from the reshade or shader params

Hmmm

I'm also at work so can't help much

[woeful veldt]

I'll go try different graphic settings

[drifting shore]

Can someone help me install a good reshade?

Does fabio conte's reshade work?

@thick gorge : D

[manic sage]

I don't see why it wouldn't

[opaque turtle]

Followed the step by step install for the hippoS reshade. Everything worked great to start. Wanted to see if I could increase grass density. Moved the number up a smidge and then restarted my game. Can't reload the game now. Is there some conflict between the shader? I wanted to edit the user.tx file to reduce the grass numbers back to what they were, but I can't figure out which one on here is for grass.

[manic sage]

No there is no conflict must be something else

Simply delete your user.ltx and get a new fresh one from gamma

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[vale flume]

I meant to get back to you sooner about this. I will try to remember to send you a screenshot tomorrow

[molten hawk]

not for me i have my own, but your game looks very dark. thats why asking.

[vale flume]

Yeah, I used two different settings. Brightness/Contrast and Low/Mid/High shadows iirc

[molten hawk]

i see. @vale flume

[willow pike]

I disabled all effects in home key tab and now i dont know what is default gamma preset. Anyone can help?

[tidal marlin]

you can find a fresh one in your G.A.M.M.A.Grok's Modpack Installer\G.A.M.M.A\modpack_patches\bin folder

[marble valley]

guys need some help, started the game up today and its super dark, prob some shaders bugged out anyone knows how to change it back ?

[elfin thorn]

activate windows and I'll help you

[zinc sluice]

so this might be a weird bug, but i reinstalled anomaly and gamma today, (twice) but i dont have a reshade installed/downloaded with it? can i use the reshade files /installation from the reshade website?
never had this before.

[sour oar]

Wanted to run some zero to hero Invictus today but looks like I have work to do on my reshade

[sullen zinc]

does someone have the orignal gamma reshade that comes with the mod? mines is all messed up.

[silver epoch]

Have a look into GAMMA\.Grok's Modpack Installer\G.A.M.M.A\modpack_patches\bin

[small mist]

I noticed some talk about ray traced global illumination and I searched RTGI for it in here, but discord search is a mess. Is there anywhere I can read more about that? Is it included in GAMMA's shaders by default or do I need something 3rd party?

[gritty turtle]

RTGI is a paid effect iirc

Not included in gamma by default for that reason

[tidal marlin]

this, you need to sub to the Pascal Gilcher patreon for access but imo after @silent cairn changed the muh fuggin game with the shader edits, it is basically superseded in stalker (however it is a fantastic plugin for many other games)

[tidal marlin]

change your screenshot output to jpg, something is forcing darks in your screenshots to be transparent in png

[tidal marlin]

had a further dig, looks like this little guy here is the cause. have a look and see if this is checked or not in your reshade settings. png is nice to use bc it doesnt have jpg compression.

[woeful veldt]

just tested this, I changed to jpeg and the issue is gone

[long path]

!deadzone

[void depot]

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

[spice violet]

ey does reshade comes with gamma automatically or do i gotta install it seperately?

[devout whale]

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[loud mantle]

Do I have to update reshade manually? When I load up the game it says update available go to reshade.me

[sour oar]

How many effects

[viral prawn]

average 1.3ms GPU hit on a 3090, adaptive sharpen is the most consuming one, so if you replace that with your own sharpening or don't want sharpening at all it'll help performance

[sour oar]

Last one if you don't mind, any screenshots with inventory open?

[viral prawn]

No prob

[sour oar]

Assuming it's not as blurry in-game of course

Well, looks great, nice work!

A fan of the green-ish hue in some areas, but I will always be a slave to the Autumn lol

[viral prawn]

thanks fren and SAME! thats why i tried to make the fallish colors pop too

[sour oar]

To be fair, it's difficult to capture that same feeling of Autumn with dead zone enabled

I didn't even bother, just went ahead and based my reshade on Golden Autumn Redux haha

[viral prawn]

Looool fair that new autumn mod on the db looked good, are you running that? or dead zone stuff