╟🎑reshades

[slow star]

Comparing this with tfaa's brutal 20 to 40 fps reduction and most importantly like 2 to 4ms of input delay, I'll take it

[rigid pendant]

for sure

Any idea why Alight is throwing these at me

havent done anything but repath to reshade-shaders\shaders after accidentally removing the path

[slow star]

Probably your texture search path is wrong

[rigid pendant]

whats it supposed to path too?

just reshade-shaders\textures right?

man idk what I was doing today

problem solved

[rigid pendant]

Yo I swear the blurriness from tfaa and stuff bugs me more than the shimmering

Reloading it looks like you're mildly intoxicated etc

Not to mention your frames get yeeted

[rigid pendant]

And with this current setup I actually have like basically 0 shimmer

Seeming like the play for sure

this is the low budget - anti shimmer setup

[misty echo]

HOLEFILLER

didnt know they added me to the reshade fx

[green lake]

Reshade SSDO

[slow star]

@green lake look dude, Deso+wlrt pack

[green lake]

oh

my

god

i need it NOW

[slow star]

dude, it looks extremely good with wltr's pack

[green lake]

look at the sleeves

THE SLEVES

[slow star]

I didnt add anything to the pack but Aydin's Autumn and just tried all of our presets and they look great

its night and day, the wltr pack adds a lot of graphic enhancements

[rigid pendant]

Wow that looks insane, can you get that with gamma, cause desolation is a whole other thing right?

[green lake]

no

desolation is 1.5.1

wont work at all

and the way that the mod adds the many new mods for the guns

[green lake]

can you like ping me where to download it in the desolation discord?

nevermind i found it

12gbs is kinda hefty

nothing close to anomaly custim though

oh dang i thoguht it was on 1.5.1.2

but nah its on just 1.5.1

wait im just yapping

1.5.1.2 is the same as 1.5.1

[rigid pendant]

This is a variant of my preset specifically going for the winter vibes

going to add it to the database now I think its ready

[green lake]

WELP

base desolation doesnt want to install properl

i probably shouldnt have tried putting reshade in there

[rigid pendant]

Tweaked for Aydin's winter preset

Winter Preset with DOF

Regular Preset

Regular Preset with DOF

All now with new and improved Holefiller technology

[slow star]

you need a hand?

i had some issues aswell

[green lake]

i got it working

just waiting for WLTR to install

[misty echo]

so yall just using wltr pack with reshade presets?

[slow star]

oh nice, i sent you more instructions

just in case

[slow star]

Yeah thanks for the suggestion dude!

[misty echo]

no prob, i didnt know of you had added anything to it other than the presets

[slow star]

No just aydin autumn but im gonna switch to summer with Vovkodav's preset

And GTR but it was unnecesary

[slow star]

i also deleted the file " models_weapons.s " inside shaders/r3 for better weap reflections

[misty echo]

gotcha, gotcha

[green lake]

yeah i never realized there was mod support for desolation

so now im gonna hop on it

[slow star]

tag me if you make any screens for it

[green lake]

ok!

so aydins grass and gtr work on 1.5.1 and alll that?

didnt know that

[slow star]

Yeeah but gtr i had to hide the shaders folder otherwise it crashed, i didnt try to delete shaders_cache though

wltr already comes with aydin summer and spring on mo2

[green lake]

ah ok

i dont usually use the GTR shaders folder

i just apply the settings that are in the GTR discord server

-r2_parallax_h 0.024
-r2_gloss_factor 1.5

if only GTR was finished

RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[slow star]

Dobrov🍻

[green lake]

Dobrov is still making textures

he has made textures for vehicles

so there still is hope

[slow star]

Absolute chad

[green lake]

Dobrov pls come back

[normal lily]

Dymn

😂😐you guys got me installing desolation

Every time i disable the brain scorcher i see new mod and restart

[green lake]

its not desolation

you cant get that ttexturepack anywhere

[normal lily]

Was talking about earlier messages

[normal lily]

Looks real nice tho

[slow star]

Im waiting on vovkodav to tell me if it looks good on his end, obv gamma still looks better since it uses the latest graphical enhancements, but it's nice to make deso looking good too

[normal lily]

Pls do share
Would love a half playthrough on it

[slow star]

The weapon system is pretty amazing

[green lake]

yes

and the PIP scopes dont destroy our frames

[slow star]

To satisfy your inner gun-nut it's super fun

[slow star]

true, I've seen that. I wonder how they did it

[green lake]

i think there's a youtibe vid aobout it

[normal lily]

Wouldtit be possible for 1.5.2?

That system with gamma

[green lake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqAj7loSpY0

this is 2 years old

and i dont think this is hat desolation does

but still

[slow star]

I wish!!! that'd be great

[normal lily]

Yeaaa saw this few months ago
Was wondering why nobody has done it for gamma tho

[green lake]

there was

it just isnt activated

and uses 2d scopes instead

[normal lily]

I think soc update mod had a similar system
With good graphics
I think the engine should be able to handle it

[green lake]

its deifinately possible

[normal lily]

Hmm i see

[green lake]

just would need to be ported to 1.5.2 some how

[normal lily]

Would love to learn modding if life wasn't so busy

Btw would texture packs work with deso?? Like zr or adega?

[green lake]

yeah

probably

ZR sucks though

[normal lily]

Noice

Adega is to heavy

[green lake]

yeah

theyre both super heavy ngl

[normal lily]

Zr 0.3 1k been good to me
Bur yea they are

[slow star]

Try Absolute for Anomaly

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/absolute-nature-redux-anomaly-adoptation

I don't know if this one works but let me know
https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/structures-redux

Some of the textures seem to be already used on anomaly by default

[green lake]

it does

but it doesnt really do too much

[slow star]

Gotcha

[hollow acorn]

looks good fam

u get that visual with my pack?

[hollow acorn]

The way they did it is when you scope in, you can change the outside's framerate to be lower that the scope itself, saving fps

[slow star]

Hey man awesome work on your pack. Can't wait to get done with work and try it out properly when i can. Kudos to you!!

[slow star]

Ohh, i see. Its that method. Nice👍

[hollow acorn]

Yea they are creative, and thank you 😁

[green lake]

nope

that was GTR

[blazing swallow]

Hmm, whats most "realistic" reshade rn? I tried Norfair's core_v3 but its a bit too desaturated for my taste, f.e. campfire lights are too pale etc., so i switched to AtmosR++ and it seems fine, but maybe there's something better

[slow star]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1psiAYFNaGSYs2j5Gbd6p67SyVi6PQvhr9vSUOiyFATw/edit?usp=sharing

[slow star]

disable the "Saturation limiter" in the reshade effect list and in the game options, go to graphics> Basic light button and crank your saturation value all the way up

[flat zealot]

Any settings to eliminate road shimmer/blur that occurs from head bobbing?

[misty echo]

honestly i dont notice a difference with saturation limiter on vs off except some luts it makes the sky bluer

[blazing swallow]

What's better, default SSAO maxed out or immerse MXAO?

[misty echo]

imxao for me cause it eats less frames

[slow star]

Well, the difference is when people crank up their saturation slider in the game settings, that's when sat limiter really shines

[blazing swallow]

No differece there for me, unlike AA vs TFAA, so i only care about looks it thus case

[slow star]

you can crank up your sat slider to max and you won't have the ugly ass hellscape campfires and sidorovich/skadovsk lights with that red hellish glow

[slow star]

I use my sat limiter on a specific value for my presets, that won't allow that to happen, while still keeping a decent enough sky and campfire colors

[misty echo]

yeah i run your presets with 1 gamma and 1 sat, idk if its a placebo effect cause you said thats what you do but it looks better to me.

[slow star]

It's gonna change for next atmos version, since hippo is dropping ES Colorgrading, right now i'm using 1.4 saturation with one of his tests

So the sat limiter will help a lot

But yeah, you can run any saturation with this effect enabled, try it out

obv running too much saturation makes it look awful

[blazing swallow]

The other thing i noticed with your reshade is that, when TFAA and DRME are enabled, campfires flicker much more intensely, to the point its kinda irritating to look at, even though i don't have epilepsy

[slow star]

That's not my reshade though, its just how drme works, happens on all presets using it.
and it can be avoided with the improved campfires mod from moddb or by tweaking drme settings

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/smoother-campfire-illumination

ever since i used this mod i have never had any other issues with the awful campfire flicker

[blazing swallow]

ill try it then

Is there any specific place in plugin order for iMXAO? I noticed it doesn't really make a difference where i put it. Also, is there any downside to using EyeAdaptation? Ever since i switched to TFAA i dont experience any frame drops and i really like this one, helps a lot with dark interiors

[blazing swallow]

Where in MO2 order does this one go? At the very end (in a separate cat)?

[slow star]

Yeah!

[slow star]

Eyeadaptation prone to Black crushing, but if you dont see it, its fine

mxao: below some effects can make them look weird. Example Bloom or colorgrading ones

[modern cape]

can you install new reshade presets while the game is running?

[flat zealot]

Any settings to eliminate road shimmer/blur that occurs from head bobbing?

[green lake]

now tat im finally home

i can get WLTR

owhooo ok lets try WLTR

[proven swan]

what's the default reshade preset?

[green lake]

on what

[proven swan]

like if you do a fresh install of gamma

whats the basic reshade that is used from the get go

[uneven schooner]

atmosR?

[green lake]

AtmosR

[proven swan]

ok, thx

[green lake]

@slow star

[slow star]

lookin' great

[green lake]

game runs good on 2k

i honestly think i could get away with 4k

[slow star]

smth is wrong iwth the ak texture? increase the settings to max

look at my ak on deso

different ak model but still

[green lake]

yeah i havent got the settigns all up

and why is ssdo off

do i turn that on

[slow star]

Ye

For sss

[green lake]

also what textures were you using

oh yeah

the textures settings were realy low

no wonder everything looked like shit

well

just my sleeves and guns

[normal lily]

Dudeee
How?!

[green lake]

my reshade

and im in 2k

[normal lily]

Look Sawesome ngl

How many fps?

[green lake]

it drops

like

well

idk

idk how bad the performance hit is for people without DSR

probably like 10 frames or more

[normal lily]

Hmm

Wait you are on deso with gtr right??

And wltrs?

[green lake]

just WLTR

[lost ice]

Grass looks so good in some of these reshades, but the kittens and lil doggies that try and eat me don’t care

[real bone]

How do you guys reach this result I am new and would be happy for any help for what mods I should use.

[rigid pendant]

So unless otherwise stated most of these results are just using reshade which comes default with gamma, for a list of the common popular presets with links to downloads / screenshot previews check the database here : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1psiAYFNaGSYs2j5Gbd6p67SyVi6PQvhr9vSUOiyFATw/edit?usp=sharing

[rigid pendant]

^

To use a preset simply locate the download for the one you picked it'll be a '.ini' file, you just need to drop that into your Anomaly\bin folder , example C:\Anomaly\bin

[restive quest]

I'm having such a hard time finding a reshade preset that has natural contrast. Most of them seem to look good in daytime scenes, but at night they're either super washed out, or there's an abrupt transition on shadows between washes out and just completely pitch black.

[past lava]

Looks fantastic, Also did you make that reposition?

[green lake]

no

this is desolation

but I could probably make a reposition similar ngl

[dreamy owl]

Guys, what is the best reshade options to make enemies more visible ?

[past lava]

I see

[dreamy owl]

I absolutely love Anomaly but i could never see people or mutants clearly, i don't know if thats supossed to be like that or my vision is just trash

They all turn black to me when they're far away

[green lake]

none

just get betyer

[wide star]

Could you post the ltx file and reshade settings for desolation? Your shadows are fixed compared to standard gamma

[green lake]

just get my reshade

does all of that

[hollow acorn]

Deed made it for desolation weapons

[hollow acorn]

looks fantastic fam

[restive quest]

When?
NOW

[hollow acorn]

atmospherics

an older version tho

since deso engine is different than efp or gamma

[real bone]

So which one is the best for textures and both reshades? And works well.

[shadow shell]

Best reshade presets for Inverno snow? Currently using AtmosFILM but getting a little bored of it

[restive quest]

I always preferred the way Atmosfear looked. Especially for emissions.

[midnight basin]

also using AtmosFILM right now and i've tweaked it to have a little film grain and CA as well as eye adaptation and toggled off some effects i didn't really notice a difference with

[real bone]

So which one works best

[tawdry folio]

Norfair MULTI_beta reshade pack, Core_3 - very natural, nice looking, universal when it comes to weather and quite bright. Had the same problem as you, with Core_3 its no longer an issue

[dreamy owl]

Is it already included in G.A.M.M.A or do i need to download it somewhere else ?

[tawdry folio]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1162285292070379530

get it here, check the pinned msgs

also keep it mind its been designed with base lighting values (there's a menu for that in game) all set to 1

but ofc adjust according to your display and preferences

[midnight basin]

@green lake

do you want me to go check in army warehouses that has plenty more grass? also how is the sun quality = shadows

[green lake]

its not...

sun quality

it says

Sun shadow quality

lets read that again

[midnight basin]

you said "there's more grass to render and more shadows to cast"

[green lake]

sun shadow

it increases the quality of the shadows

[midnight basin]

okay do you want me to test army warehouses that's all grassy hills?

i can't get to cordon

[green lake]

just

start a new game

lol

[midnight basin]

it's not gonna remove my saves is it

[green lake]

why

would it do thta

[midnight basin]

idfk maybe it wipes the previous saves when you globally start a new game

you've been here for 4 years i just started playing last week

[green lake]

jesus

its been 4 years

[midnight basin]

Sun Shadow Quality: Extreme - 86-87 FPS
Sun Shadow Quality: Medium - 92-94 FPS

again, not a massive performance drop

this is in cordon behind rookie village

(with grass shadows on and shadow quality set to max [1])

[green lake]

thats crazy

still no point though

Sun shadow quality lookst he same at medium

[midnight basin]

disabling grass shadow literally doesn't impact FPS at all

[green lake]

lol

[midnight basin]

maybe it has to restart before it takes effect?

[green lake]

it does

i think

[midnight basin]

let me restart

[green lake]

barely any difference

[midnight basin]

again, 93-94 FPS without grass shadow on Medium looking at the same spot, so nothing changed practically

y'all be following placebos lol

[midnight basin]

low actually looks the best lol wtf

setting to low gains a 1-2 FPS boost

this is very negligible imo

[green lake]

LOw isnt the best

why would you want low

its just a png

[midnight basin]

Sun Shadow Quality: Extreme + Grass Shadows- 94-96 FPS
Sun Shadow Quality: Low + Grass Shadows - 87-88 FPS

[midnight basin]

because i don't need the smoothing, it doesn't make it look any better

in fact that "png" makes the shadow look even more high res

okay what else were you saying massively impacted performance

because again so far tinkering with the advanced settings that aren't rendering or grass made very little impact on my game

(all without AA and AO because i have ReShade effects that do this)

Sun Shadow Quality: Low - 87-88 FPS
disabling every possible toggleable option (detail bump, steep parallax, tesselation, soft particles and water, grass shadows, volumetric light and smoke) have not made even a 1 FPS difference on performance

so you literally might as well have all of this on max so you can say you're running max graphics lol

[green lake]

shadows dont look like that though

lol

idk if you're on mars but

[midnight basin]

you're veering off the point

these settings barely do anything for performance

so you might as well put them on max

[green lake]

they do for most people

you just have a nasa computer

[midnight basin]

right lmao

fuckin budget rig from like 2 years ago

and it wasn't up to date even then

[green lake]

how are you getting those frames wtf

[midnight basin]

y'all running 3060s and somehow barely scraping 70 FPS

literally how

[green lake]

idk

just anomaly

im running 30 frames on 4k DSR

[midnight basin]

i have nothing running in the background other than discord and ISLC + core 0 off + DX11 non-AVX (still haven't decided if it's better for frames or not)

i just checked and core 0 doesn't really do anything either

[green lake]

core 0 doesnt do much

[midnight basin]

yeah

[green lake]

anomaly already only runs at like

1 core

AVX should only be ran if your CPU is way better than your GPU

for me with my 3060 it somehow improves my frames

with AVX one

on

[midnight basin]

how would i know though

it's a 2060 and an i7-10700

which one would even be considered better here

they're both mid lol

[rigid pendant]

are we only looking at in game settings to try and discern why theres a gap in the framerates? cause it could literally just be because vovkos reshade is just a lot heavier

[green lake]

yeah im on an i7 too

[midnight basin]

i am only comparing this against my own preset

[green lake]

i7 11800h

[rigid pendant]

some reshade effects absolutely slaughter frames without even providing any visual improvement

i get 30 fps iwth atmos+ and 60+ with my own personal preset

[midnight basin]

i'm using AtmosFILM as base with some settings of my own

i used to use AtmosR++ before

i can screenshot the effects if that helps

let me know maybe i can optimize this further

[rigid pendant]

other minor things can come into play, like the fact that if you use the mask overlay you lose ~5 fps

but thats minor considering its immersive

[midnight basin]

AmbientLight and MXAO have an impact here

i know this for a fact but i think they look good

is there anything i can turn off here that i don't need?

[green lake]

idk how you get 90 frames

[midnight basin]

FilmGrain and CA don't impact performance i checked

SharpContrast + Clarity2 are a 5 FPS impact so i might just not use them

not a big difference

i might just not use AO at all because it's like an 11-12 FPS difference idk

see none of this really matters when night hits in rostok and you drop below 40 FPS

which is why i thought optimizing the regular settings would work but it doesn't really

[rigid pendant]

AO definitely doesent feel worth it

unless you really like your crevices to get shadows

[midnight basin]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[rigid pendant]

😂

im not remotely surprised I get 60 frames

Im using a 7th gen i5

im actually very happy I get 60 frames

im surprised I dont get 40

with reshade active

[midnight basin]

what's your refresh rate?

[green lake]

i havent tried on my native resolution though

im getting 70 frames by upscaling to 1440p

[rigid pendant]

144 LMFAO, my monitor is wasted on this game

but it is what it is

I play at 1440p; tho

[green lake]

i am on a laptop though

with 3060 and i7

144 refresh rate

[rigid pendant]

I hold a solid 55-60 fps at 1440p with a i5 7600k and a gtx 1080

[green lake]

gtx 1080

the goat

[midnight basin]

okay you were right Low does look jagged

i'll just set it to Medium ig

[green lake]

medium is just

the best setting

[rigid pendant]

honestly I find consistent fps to be more important than high fps

[midnight basin]

back to getting 70 FPS in rostok, yikes

[rigid pendant]

if i were at 80 but constantly dropping to the 50s that might bug me

stutters are the worst

[midnight basin]

yeah i don't really stutter like the other folk here i'm very thankful

[rigid pendant]

yep were lucky

stutters are honestly way worse than lowish fps

[midnight basin]

i should really figure out what's better, the AVX or non-AVX versions

[rigid pendant]

by a long shot

[midnight basin]

i don't really know how to test this

[rigid pendant]

boot up the avx version, test the average frame rate over a couple minutes

close game

boot up non do the same thing

if you see nothing then its a who cares

you could test it in a million different situations but like.. i dont think its ever gonna be big enough diff for that to be worth your time

[midnight basin]

okay testing this right now

DX11: 78-80 FPS
DX11-AVX: 80 FPS

i honestly don't know lol AVX might be slightly better?

i was using the same settings and looking at the same spot

[rigid pendant]

I mean you didnt drop into the 70s with avx on

to me that means better

[midnight basin]

https://tenor.com/fDEYOwGZ74r.gif

[rigid pendant]

Have you ever done the pump station mission

the framerate is funny

[midnight basin]

i guess i'm using AVX, my original concern was that these were affecting stability, so for example after some time the game loses FPS in all areas and one version might be losing them faster than another

i don't fully understand what AVX does

[rigid pendant]

honestly your game sounds like its doing really well for optimization, and if youre liking how it looks my advice?

Dont touch anything and enjoy what you got

cause it sounds like its working well

start going too far down the rabbit hole and you might end up wishing you just left it LOL

[midnight basin]

i am only doing this because i get 39 FPS in rostok once night hits and it's borderline unplayable since i'm Duty and i have to be here a lot

[rigid pendant]

nothing you can do about that

Im duty too, ya just gotta deal

[midnight basin]

i tried lowering the active NPC amount but that just makes other areas stutter

because the offline alife loads into your reality bubble more often

[rigid pendant]

Ask yourself this, does it really matter if your fps is low when youre running to turn 5 missions in to petrenko?

If you arent getting poor fps whenever youre actually fighting things then youre already like doing better than most people

[midnight basin]

yes, absolutely lol, most of my loot organizing, item acquiring, weapon setting up, and travelling to other areas for quests is done through rostok, it's a major chunk of gameplay for me

[midnight basin]

true but i'd like all aspects of the game to perform well if possible

[rigid pendant]

Yeah but you have to remember

what this engine is

and how many mods are being loaded into it

[midnight basin]

i have been considering maybe turning NPC flashlights at night off

but that would fuck me over in night combat

[rigid pendant]

Im wondering why your fps at night gets hit so hard

cause I get worse fps in the day but my night frames arent that bad even in rostok

i get like maybe 48-50 in rostok even at night

if you could just get your frames to more in the 50s and less in the 39s than that would probably be a lot better for you

[midnight basin]

i think it might have to do with KVMAS and how the high-detail models get lit up under the headlamps maybe?

[rigid pendant]

Yeah definitely something to do with non vanilla additions

[midnight basin]

and god forbid it's night AND raining

[rigid pendant]

well, when its raining the mask overlay loses you even MORE frames

cause its doing the water droplets and stuff

so at that point the mask overlay is losing you 10 fps

disable your mask overlay in rostok

[midnight basin]

yeah but i like that mechanic i wouldn't turn it off

[rigid pendant]

🤷

just do it in rostok

😂

[midnight basin]

nah i'm not gonna be jumping in and out of menus constantly i wanna set this up once and for all

i think i've reached a good point with Sun Shadow Quality at Medium rather than Extreme and turning off these 3-4 ReShade effects

we'll see

[rigid pendant]

If youre going to spend 30+ minutes in rostok inventory managing, etc spending 2 seconds in the menu for the extra 10 fps in the city seems like a pretty good solution

but its up to you

end of the day though the engine is like barely making use of cpu power or something like that so it doesent surprise me

[midnight basin]

i'm trying to think of other possible solutions that would not negatively impact the game like lowering NPC/mutant populations or despawning characters

[rigid pendant]

you could lower pop slightly in ZCP, I dont mess with those settings cause I like the zone to be really lively

In fact I think i have stalker pop turned up .5

[midnight basin]

i hear it makes a big difference in performance yeah

[rigid pendant]

It didnt for me but thats almost certainly because im just bottlenecked

so I just went for a higher pop

[midnight basin]

i haven't messed with population settings but i did enable some of the cut mutants

not like it should matter

[green lake]

your frames are literally fine

you dont need to be doin any of this

[midnight basin]

39 FPS is not literally fine

by the way i hope you guys aren't using Borderless like some YTers out there recommend because that also fucks your performance

[green lake]

what

[midnight basin]

what

[green lake]

you just said you were getting 90 frames

[midnight basin]

i also said i was getting 39 FPS when night falls on rostok and that's nearly unplayable

it doesn't matter that at day i can go over 110 FPS in some areas if the lowest performing area fucks me up

[green lake]

39 fps is NOT unplayable

lmao

[midnight basin]

it is for me

[green lake]

ur crazy

[midnight basin]

obviously i'm playing it but i hate doing that

[green lake]

why

its not bad at all

[midnight basin]

no i just have standards lmao

[rigid pendant]

I get it klip its a massive contrast to what youre usually getting, but you might not ever get GREAT performance in rostok but im assuming youd be much happier getting 50-60 then 39

just gotta figure out how to optimize it so ur getting that in rostok

[midnight basin]

exactly

but i don't think i can do better than what i've got right now

other than perhaps switching the ReShade preset

[rigid pendant]

you can its just something to do with your non vanilla additions doing something at night, cause my fps isnt that bad at night

[midnight basin]

it's probably KVMAS

[rigid pendant]

try just straight up disabling headlamps at night one night

and see what happens to your frames

[midnight basin]

yeah i'm gonna do it tonight

do you guys have experience with disabling some of the shader mods

i wouldn't disable SSS but maybe some of the others?

[rigid pendant]

I don't, when I first installed gamma I did the recommended fps optimization of disbaling those but the game looked so bad and my PC isn't THAT bad so I went back and turned them all on + reshade

[midnight basin]

okay, that's what i suspected would happen, thanks

[rigid pendant]

But that was with all 3 AND reshade disabled

Like I can't speak on how it would look with just say enhanced shaders disabled

And then what fps gain that could maybe result in contrasted to whatever visuals you might lose

U would just kinda have to test it yourself

[midnight basin]

yeah i'm just scared of breaking shit like i know one of these mods is perhaps in charge of the grass looking the way it does or weather even

[rigid pendant]

Exactly

[midnight basin]

i wouldn't want to compromise the quality necessarily

[rigid pendant]

Things looked funky for me

My advice is don't mess with the mod list

Except for like

Do you have meat chunks prefetcher enabled

Should help performance

[midnight basin]

i don't have the prefetcher enabled because it says it requires 12 GB of free RAM and i only get that if i idle with nothing open on my PC

so it's probably not the best idea

like i have 13.7 GB free when sitting at the MO2 screen, when does it require that memory

before launching the game?

[rigid pendant]

I'm honestly not entirely sure, I might be the same as you but I've been using it with no crashes

For like a whileeee

Try it out lol

[midnight basin]

hmm idk let's see

oh yeah that crashes the game

now i remember

you can't use that with KVMAS

[rigid pendant]

Oh

Loll

[midnight basin]

it explicitly said that when installing the mod i'm just a dumbass

[rigid pendant]

Well atleast that's something you don't have to worry about

[midnight basin]

also it seems to do the prefetching when loading into the save FYI so ig that's when it needs that memory

[dreamy owl]

Can anyone recommend me their favorite lightweight reshade settings ?

[thorny vortex]

can try my Lut based reshade ive been working on

[green lake]

there isnt any

just use what you like

[real bone]

No retextures?

Is their a way make the texture look sharp and clear

[midnight basin]

bro the textures are already looking good what's the issue

you could try Absolute Nature or Structures Redux for Anomaly but they're either already integrated or they're outdated or you might not see a difference with them on

[misty echo]

not sure if he's talking about foilage or all textures

[midnight basin]

he might be talking about models which is actually a reasonable ask

otherwise i don't see any issue with any textures in the zone currently

[real bone]

retextures for nature

[misty echo]

just reinstall aydins

[midnight basin]

what's the problem with how nature looks

it's super crisp and detailed

you can get different color presets by reinstalling Aydin's Grass Tweaks like @misty echo suggested

[real bone]

Ok thanks for your tip

[midnight basin]

how can anyone think this foliage looks bad lmao

[real bone]

this is vanila?

[midnight basin]

yes

with heightened grass height and density

everything you need is already inbuilt into the pack

this is a different color preset

[real bone]

ohh

how do you get this result

[midnight basin]

1. increase grass height and density
2. use a ReShade preset with the right colors and sharpness/AO/AA

you can open the ReShade menu by pressing Home in-game

[real bone]

Which ones would you recommend

[midnight basin]

this one is using AtmosR++

[midnight basin]

this one is using AtmosFILM

both were tweaked by me to add additional effects or remove ones that were too graphically demanding/unnoticeable

[rigid pendant]

High grass height looks good but you can't see cats and shit

[midnight basin]

yeah but it's pretty uwu

[midnight basin]

in this screenshot i'm crouching the grass is not actually as tall as you are

and in the other one i'm on a slope

it's not really that bad

[real bone]

So when people post their screenshots its vanila with a reshade

[midnight basin]

or with different model/gun packs yes

the snow screenshots you see are of Project INVERNO or YAWM

did you install GAMMA?

[real bone]

yep

[midnight basin]

did you try playing around with the graphical settings?

[real bone]

Not really but now I understand

[rigid pendant]

this is vanilla

vanilla gamma foliage looks CRISP

[midnight basin]

the important thing is not to turn off Sun Shadow and not to disable sun rays or volumetric lighting

the rest you can lower or disable

also do not uninstall any of the shader mods or ReShade itself from MO2

[real bone]

ok, Is their any gun packs that retexture most of the guns

[midnight basin]

try not to decrease rendering too much or you'll get pop in

[midnight basin]

check out https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1181027142331535480 although you'll have to start a new save for that

for HD models you can use https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1143233268595044493

that too requires a new save and some mods to be disabled

read the installation instructions carefully if you opt into that

[real bone]

Ok thank you so much.

[midnight basin]

cheers 💪

[midnight basin]

that's AtmosGAMMA right

or whatever they've made specifically for the pack

[rigid pendant]

Nah that's just my reshade with aydins summer

Was more so just agreeing that the foliage that comes with gamma is

[real bone]

howwww

[green lake]

reshade

[real bone]

Which one

[green lake]

mine

[real bone]

nice do you use any gun texture mod

[green lake]

no

[real bone]

This is vanila with your reshade

[green lake]

yep

just my grass setings are different

[real bone]

Its perfect

[midnight basin]

keep in mind some screenshots are taken at higher resolutions and with higher graphics for flair and people don't always play that way

[real bone]

ok

[green lake]

its all default

(im on 4k/2k)

[midnight basin]

i'm not talking about yours

[green lake]

you were

but ok!

[midnight basin]

if you say so, surely you know what i say and mean better than me 🤷‍♂️

go back to your 30 fps my guy

[misty echo]

[green lake]

im at 60

but ok!

[midnight basin]

oh no someone's lying

[green lake]

lets take a nother read

"4x DSR"

did i say just now that i am on 4x DSR?

nope!

im on 2k with normal frames now

😄

[midnight basin]

yep so that means people deliberately go out of their way to increase graphical fidelity for screenshot-taking

original point still stands

thank you 👍

[green lake]

yeah i know it does

lmao

i agreed from the start!

😄

lets try reading slowly next time, ok?

[midnight basin]

[green lake]

👍

my reshade definately was not made for inverno

This looks better

[real bone]

HOW

[midnight basin]

ReShade preset (AtmosFILM) + DynaHUD (hides HUD automatically) + tweaked graphical settings (mainly grass, sun rays, FoV)

• bought the gun for 33k and attachments for like 7k more and then hit the inspect button in Army Warehouses lol

[real bone]

once again thanks

[midnight basin]

👌

[crystal tulip]

How made a winter mod?

[green lake]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1118326896296480799

[rich badge]

Nice

[glossy grotto]

Edited the "exposure" for the viewing pleasure of the photograph, made the moon a tiny bit brighter and the colors of the picture a bit colder, and damnnnnnn, it looks scenic

SMAA on Ultra, AA on 2x and like 3-4 basic shaders with slight edits made to them

I do, however have it tuned a bit "darker" in-game when I play in terms of brightness

[cosmic kraken]

does anyone have a copy of the original atmosR++.ini file? I accidently ruined mine and forgot to make a backup

[glossy grotto]

Pretty sure this is unedited, as I have never loaded/edited this particular one

No idea why it says AtmosR instead of including the + icons, lemme try again, if it still says AtmosR with no ++ signs, just disregard it and put them in yourself. It should be the same file. Just wanna be 100% sure I send the right one

Yea this is the one

Just put the ++ thingies at the end of the file yourself. It should be the exact one you need

[glossy grotto]

🙂

[modern cape]

can someone post the link with all the gamma reshades please?

[thorny vortex]

They are included in gamma tho??

[modern cape]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1psiAYFNaGSYs2j5Gbd6p67SyVi6PQvhr9vSUOiyFATw/edit#gid=0

i meant this link

nvm

[rigid trail]

where to install fx files guys

[thorny vortex]

It goes in Anomaly/bin/reshade-shaders/shaders

[rigid trail]

i dont have reshade-shaders in anomaly bin , is it cause of installing hippos shaders ?

cause he said to delete the shaders

or should i reinstall reshade

[rustic plover]

anyone got some reshades for me? I'm tryna enhance my games visuals

[gaunt grail]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1psiAYFNaGSYs2j5Gbd6p67SyVi6PQvhr9vSUOiyFATw/edit#gid=0

[junior flare]

does someone knows how to fix reshade black screen fast? already reinstalled !atmos, deleted cache several times, checked installation, cfg_load etc.

[lost ice]

nice to see the reshades all in one place thank you for putting that together

[fresh prism]

you found a fix for this yet??

[cosmic kraken]

Thanks, I'll give it a try

[rigid pendant]

What's this guy doing

[midnight basin]

he can't see anything because of the blur

[lethal urchin]

the Cheeki Breeki Cha-Cha

wait no... Cheeki Breeki Charleston

Slavic Salsa Dance

[rigid pendant]

I don't use companions because a chimera can show up and they'll just be walking into the wall

MFS piss me off

Feel like I'm babysitting more than anything

[lethal urchin]

better a dead companion than dead you tho

[rigid pendant]

Just get like 8 meat shields yeah

But mah rep

[midnight basin]

dead companions actually turn you into a dead you because they just pick the most retarded battles with their surroundings

[lethal urchin]

I generally use companions as pack haulers and tell em to wait behind before I go do some shit... or call em into combat if I need em to tank / take the aggro

[rigid pendant]

Idk wtf I'm talking ab im pre sure my rep is lowest possible cause I'm working with the military as duty just lighting up friendly loners for cash in agroprom

[lethal urchin]

tut tut

[rigid pendant]

Buddy pays me good money to walk 50 feet and kill some loners who never see it coming

[lethal urchin]

can't put a price on good will

bros before ro...ubles

[rigid pendant]

Apparently treacherous scummy stalkers get hunted down but I'm yet to face any repercussions

[lethal urchin]

for rizzle?

[midnight basin]

i wanted to do this but didn't want random Stalkers eventually starting to kill me as i'm exploring

with Misery that was the most reliable way to get gear and cash since that didn't have a reputation system

[rigid pendant]

I'm as scummy as it gets, if there's no1 around and someone points there gun at me mad that mine isn't lowered I'll drop em right then and there

[midnight basin]

you could just rob anyone without consequence

[rigid pendant]

I play like an actual menace in the zone

[rigid pendant]

They don't seem to catch on to anything

They're like dumb asf, I have lowest rep possible but they don't second guess it when I show up to the camp with that crazy look in my eye

[midnight basin]

you can't just get Loners to turn on you eventually?

[rigid pendant]

Idk man they should hate me by now 😭

Daily i get some tasks from the military dude in agroprom to go 50 feet to that loner area and just drop em

They don't gaf

But realistically I'm kinda wanting em to turn on me, duty has too many friends

[green lake]

Unreal zone 1.3!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shadow herald]

Hello there everyone, i would like some opinions pls. These are fake puddles that i made through texturing (bump maps, bump#...), they do not require rain to occur, its inherent to the texture (mud).Do you think the color is fine? Any thoughts ,suggestions?
Tks for future answers

[green lake]

this is a really cool idea!

i think it looks great

i think this could be usefull on lower DX's

or even for people that cant run SSS

[shadow herald]

Tks!

[shadow herald]

It should work, but i think reflections wouldnt be seen, since they are added by SSS (SSR module i think), but they would see that "its wet"

[green lake]

yea

[gray kite]

Hey guys just I just defaulted my GAMMA install, but now when I press the HOME key my reshade menu wont pop up. Anyone know what could be causing this?

!shaders

[void depot]

@gray kite 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.

[swift robin]

reshade install

[wintry maple]

shader menu

[charred needle]

Personal customised AtmosR preset
Every preset I've used is too washed out / blue so decided to spend a bit of time making a fully custom one

[green lake]

@median ferry https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KTLvLtGNZ_bT5r825xcmJ_LOORi9WGtQ

[midnight basin]

how are you able to play with this insane amount of bloom/brightness

or is it just for the video

[green lake]

why is your gun's position so bad

and im with klip how do you manage with all that bloom

[charred needle]

I play on 4k on a 50 inch screen

can see why it would be hard to play with on a small monitor though

[green lake]

how does that look good on a big monitor

[charred needle]

Because I can still see the small details you wouldn't at 1080p

[green lake]

no

the gun's position

you made it a lot more obstructive

and you're like

[charred needle]

It's high fov

[green lake]

holding it super far out

w

ew

ew

[charred needle]

don't like the close up

lol

[green lake]

delete it

[charred needle]

getting gate keeped for my fov and shader lol

[green lake]

your shader is fine

just a little too bloomy

[charred needle]

Hold a gun infront of you irl

it isn't inside your face like it is on most games

[green lake]

im not holding it outside my reach either

i do agree though

they do have it super close

[charred needle]

altered the bloom value to be less aggressive

Not a fan of no bloom at all because it looks bland without it, makes the levels a bit more cinematic

[green lake]

yeah

[midnight basin]

with a gun in front of you irl in resting position you're not going to see it and with high ready stance you're not going to see the stock almost at all

so it's not really how videogames picture it

[charred needle]

I know just vanilla settings have it up in your face and I like the look of the modded gun models so I run a high hud fov compared to most

[green lake]

exactly

you don't hold your gun that far in front of you

[midnight basin]

i can definitely see why high FOV is attractive and i'd use it myself if it didn't cause clipping

i'm not gonna tell you what exactly clips because you won't be able to unsee it after

but yeah since i noticed it i had to drop FOV to 80 and scale to 0.57 and it looks like shit and i hate it

but at least i'm not seeing cut arms and models

gun is right up in your face but it's whatever

[green lake]

just do 0.65

[midnight basin]

yes i know that it is the default value

you can't go above 0.57 without a certain thing clipping

and it is a thing i use often

[midnight basin]

i tried, i really want to go as high as possible on that scale and that's the best you can do

i really enjoyed having 0.75

alas 😔

[green lake]

technically bas is meant to be played on 0.7

there just isn't one value for fov to make it so everything doesn't clip

so i see what you mean

but that might just be thap too

[vocal quiver]

Shoud i be concerned with this? DX11

[midnight basin]

ReShade errors like these just usually just mean that particular effect will not work

not that it will impact performance or something

if you want to use these effects you should figure out why they're not working

you can get most effects online and manually place them in the shader folder for use

[slow star]

Try this, klip.
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1118909693813862492

[midnight basin]

i should be okay to apply that mid save right?

also i don't suppose this would somehow introduce Ammo Check animations for those that don't have them right? 😭

they're asking you to install new gun mods and attachment models

hmm also not a fan of this

the mod is not just a reposition it also limits your choice of sights

[green lake]

the sights are optional though

just get the prepositions and reanimations

[midnight basin]

are you using it?

[green lake]

I was

[midnight basin]

installation process seems tiring somewhat

it's like 50 bajillion mods

i think i'll hold off for now

i'm worried this is going to break existing stuff

[green lake]

[midnight basin]

i don't know what BaS version i'm using or need to be using plus this might mess with Ammo Check

[green lake]

it wont

just don't use the updated bas reposition it's using

lol

[cobalt parrot]

is there a way to just download the repositions?

[midnight basin]

look at all this lol

[cobalt parrot]

those are usually simple to install and don't interfere with anything

[green lake]

just download all the files

and install through m02

just don't use the 2022 bas repositions

[midnight basin]

the last mod on that list?

[green lake]

and if you don't. like the scopes don't install the 2DSO files

[midnight basin]

i also see people are having issues with like the PP19 or something

[green lake]

yeah

[midnight basin]

i'm scared to touch that model

[green lake]

I'm not

just install lol

this isn't a hard thing to download

all people have to do Is download the files they want

and install in m02

[midnight basin]

i can't tell which of these are required or not

i mean the dependencies

[green lake]

says in pins

on the mods chanel

always check pins

[midnight basin]

the pins is just the original message

do you mean the guide in the link?

[green lake]

yeah

obviously

theres also a mod list in the pin too

aka the order you install the files

scope overhaul is on the bottom

reposition in the middle

and remodel on top

don't quote me though

I can't check it rn

so i might be wrong

[green lake]

I guess it's broken

for me it wansnt

probably because I'm on a older version ish

they'll probably fix it

or you know

just don't use it

[cobalt parrot]

also not sure if you wanna give it a shot, but doing your own repositions isn't too difficult and is kinda fun tbh

upside you pick and choose which guns you wanna edit

[midnight basin]

yeah i recall you talked about that in your vids

[cobalt parrot]

frost has an amazing guide on it so does kaiju

[midnight basin]

i already see there are plenty of reposition mods in the existing vanilla list and i'm not gonna mess with removing them/replacing them/figuring out incompatabilities/breaking models completely

i'll just stick with the current configuration it's fine

there are also custom weapons GAMMA adds and those might not get a reposition and i hate inconsistency lol

plus all those EFT repositions and animations, what happens with those when that mod is applied

[cobalt parrot]

they should still work although tbh I haven't used them since like 2 versions of UGP ago

[midnight basin]

man i wish i had gotten UGP before starting this save

so far having come across a weapon pack that you can use mid-save and has all the proper animations (inspect/ammo check)

[green lake]

yeah it's not hard

I just don't know how to save them most of the time

[rigid pendant]

I want to do repositions as well but feel the same way lol. I feel like Ill brick something

[slow star]

It's saved on a cache dbg file inside anomaly/gamedata/configs

[midnight basin]

just look at the sheer amount of repositions that already exist, that's not to speak of all the reanimation mods and the new gun mods that might not be part of that reposition pack

are you like meant to go through all of these and disable them or what

where exactly do you place those 20 new files in that list

if a weapon has a reanimation and you reposition it will it not mess with like reloads or attachment positions or whatnot?

idk it's such a massive change conflicting with what's already on the list i am extremely hesitant to try it

also there's RemadeAnimations and FDDA and LowerSprintAnimation and Camera Reanimation (INERTIA), maybe those could conflict with them too?

[slow star]

No

[steep bridge]

wdym?

[slow star]

Meowies Repositions are made for default gamma, he also made for some weap mods . If there's overwritting, it's on purpose (new models/anims)

Thats as simple as i could explain

Weapon repos are dltx scripts, oaded in alphabetical order. Weapons will utilize any repositions loaded last

If the mod looks complicated, dont install it. It was just a suggestin

Making your own dltx script and injecting the weapon repos work fine, too

[long ice]

i just updated reshade and am now getting weird flickering artefect type thing near fires. anyone had this issue or know what might cause this?

[midnight basin]

you are not meant to update to ReShade 5.9.2

it will cause issues

[long ice]

oh damn, okay.

thanks my bad

[strong pewter]

thats why my shit doesnt function after getting rid of recorded or not shader and installin a newer reshade

literally i dont get any loading popuo lol

popup

[midnight basin]

yep it's very tempting to update but the newest ReShade doesn't work well (or doesn't work at all) with GAMMA

[strong pewter]

do u have tha files so i can make my own bodycam

or is there a thing for that already

[midnight basin]

there is an inbuilt bodycam shader already which you can add a CRT and CA effect to to enhance the visuals further, i think it's called AtmosBODY or something

can get something cool like this going

but if you don't like that one you can use this:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/zedds-body-cam-reshade

those are your only two options other than playing the Desolation pack which actually has a bodycam-like mode

but it's not compatible with GAMMA

[strong pewter]

yeah, i just need to the original reshade files that came with gamma

like the ini

and the other stuff

[crimson badge]

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

you find the original shaders and inis there

[strong pewter]

appreciate it

[sweet flume]

anyone know how to make the ground less obscenely bright? seems to be related to SSS specular/gloss but i cant seem to find a way to tone it down

[shut veldt]

what do i have to set the overlay.png to to have the bodycam overlay?

[weary rivet]

is this atmos?

[sweet flume]

ye but i installed zone reality so i reinstalled atmos

i did play around with sun_lumscale or whatever and it looks much better now

[midnight basin]

i don't know how to set it manually so i just DM'd you the one AtmosBODY and ZEDD's Bodycam Reshade have

[green lake]

sun_lumscale

something like that

turn it down in console commands

or load

cfg_load grading_default

or

grading_vanilla

[shut veldt]

k, thanks 🙂

[sick flower]

anybody know how to turn gamma graphics like it was year ago?

[misty echo]

looks like your game is on a bugged weather called [Default] just change the weather lol

f7 + 3

[lusty fern]

how is it looking?

[real bone]

how to make my game more "green"

[real bone]

?

Can anyone please help me

[versed elm]

just use reshade. either use Lightroom to change the saturation of green colors, create a LUT, or use a preset LUT from Cinematic_LUT_Pack or Cinetools_LUT. it's also possible to use one of the Color Grade shaders in ReShade too if you just want a green hue.

[real bone]

Ok thanks

[cloud gulch]

is there any mods for better anomalies?

[green lake]

Yes

Arrival

they add new ones and make the anomalies very nice looking

[cloud gulch]

is that the name?

just arrival?

[green lake]

yeah

[cloud gulch]

by the way, what is norfair's multi reshade? I cant find it anywheer is it a resahde preset?

[rigid pendant]

Do you mean the colors and hue of your Game? Or the foliage meaning you want green grass and trees instead of the default fall foliage

[real bone]

yea

[green lake]

yes

find it in mods-posting

[rigid pendant]

If it's the first then you can use reshade to make your games hue more green like some twilight shit but if you want just foliage changed then reinstall aydins grass tweaks in Mo2 and select spring or summer grass/trees

[rigid pendant]

^

[real bone]

I will try

thanks

[rigid pendant]

In mo2 type in 'grass' and reinstall '289 - Grass Tweaks (Reinstall for different options) - Aydin' and select summer or spring for green grass

[weary rivet]

does anyone know a way to stop reshade effects from affecting the sky?

[green lake]

have you tried reinline?

im sure I can fix your issues

[weary rivet]

you used adaptive fog?

[green lake]

hm

i think I could fix it with that

let me try on my reshade

ok here is without reshade right everything looks normal

hold on gotta restart my game

[weary rivet]

i might just remove adaptive fog from my reshade

it affects the sky too much

especially at night

[green lake]

if i can finda fix dont

because it can really make distances look a lot better

[weary rivet]

yeah

thats why i wanna find some way to keep it\

[cloud gulch]

so to download the arrival mod i have to remove the dynamic anomalies overhaul, this mod allows anomalies to change after emmisions and spawn artifacts at random places, if i uninstall this will this no longer be in my game or will the arrival mod replace it?

[green lake]

and here's with adaptive fog + depth haze

since I know you use depth haze

[weary rivet]

yeah depth haze has the same problem

it blurs the sky

which actually isnt that bad

just makes it look softer

but it makes it look more washed out

[green lake]

yeah no

i have no ied ahow too fix it

this is with reveil

i think it could fix depth haze

not adaptive fog

you might need to remove it

[weary rivet]

I will

might mess around with other fog effects

[green lake]

its a good idea though

it just only works when the clouds aren't very visiblwe

i think depth haze is your best bet

[weary rivet]

hmm maybe ill settle for this

[green lake]

looks great!

[weary rivet]

just need to put on your glasses for this one to get all the detail\

[green lake]

you should troll everyone and just give them that

its just some slight blurring guys

nothing too much

[weary rivet]

everytime someone asks for a reshade

good idea

[green lake]

yep

depth haze without reveil

[cloud gulch]

do you have the arrival mod installed?

[green lake]

yea

depth haze with

you can see how reveil fixes the sky

for depth haze

and still lets it do the actual effect

[cloud gulch]

So for the rad fields, what radiation levels do you use? I want something around what the original difficulty was like

[green lake]

just use medium i dont know

[weary rivet]

im down to 6 effects

my game isnt a slideshow anymore

[green lake]

woo!

[weary rivet]

looks good very similar looks