ReShade 3.0 Progress Discussion

I'll likely publish an alpha soon. So I can get some feedback on the design and usability.

MonarchX wrote: Will the new DLL files work with ReShade 2.0.3f1 file structure?

Well. Yes, to a degree. You can load the shaders. As you can load all old or new shaders. But it won't give you any of the benefits ReShade 3.0 has to offer. For that, shaders have to start using uniform variables for their configuration first.

Here's an alpha build: www.mediafire.com/?upx1578a1h8f0tp
Please only use it for personal testing and don't reupload it or use it to distribute presets.

Just drop the DLL into the game folder as usual (or use the setup tool, which does the same) and run the game. Once launched, press "Shift + F2" (default settings) to open the in-game menu.
ReShade is capable of blocking mouse and keyboard input from the game as long as the cursor is above one of the open dialogs. So no need to worry about accidently clicking something behind them =).

You may want to enable developer mode on the "Settings" tab, so shaders can be reloaded and edited in-game (file modifications are not currently detected). ReShade attempts to load all "*.fx" files it can find in the folders specified via the "Effect Search Paths" setting. Textures paths are resolved via the "Texture Search Paths" setting. Since there are no public ReShade shaders which make use uniform variables currently, this build is mainly targeted at shader developers. Anybody else won't benefit from the built-in preset management, which uses uniforms internally. Also, there is no documentation for now. Just some quick info:

To make a global variable editable from the in-game menu, mark it as "uniform". There are a few new annotations which can be used to alter their appearance.
To scale the font, press Ctrl and move the mouse wheel (be warned, upscaled text looks ugly). Dialog positions, sizes and UI customization settings are preserved across all games. Anything else is stored game-specific.
This is an alpha build. Treat it as such. There are plenty of features that don't work, various controls with missing input validation (so if you enter something unexpected, it may crash the game), bugs, and more bugs. Did I mention bugs already?

ShoterXX wrote: I suppose #define still works, just not editable in-game on-the-fly, right? Sorry, I can't test it right now, and dying to know.

Yes.

bluelovers wrote: no longer follow ReShade.fx symbolic link?

No. Add the path to "Effect Search Paths".

brussell wrote: However, SMAA doesn't work as intended. It only renders the smoothed edges (instead of the original image + smoothed edges).

I know. Haven't figured that one out yet. It's likely some stenciling issue in the last pass, because all of SMAA's temporary buffers contain the correct data.

Tom Yum 72 wrote: No matter 2.0 or now 3.0 , none of them work in Doom (2016). Am i doing something wrong or will there be a fix soon ? Thank you in advance !

This is not the topic for that. I'm sorry if it doesn't work. I do not own the game, neither am I really interested in it, so this likely remains unfixed.

NotSoSweet wrote: Will you leave an option to edit configuration file(s) in a text editor i.e. not in in-game UI?

They are stored in a file. Which can be opened with a text editor. Which means you can edit them any way you want.

NotSoSweet wrote: Please don't go with the online only way...

Which online way? There is no such thing. You drop in a bunch of shaders you downloaded somewhere and ReShade picks them up. That's no different from now, except right now those shaders are already part of the initial download and it only allows loading a single file, where 3.0 has no limit.

NotSoSweet wrote: Can it trigger anti-cheat protection in online games? Gameguard/Xigncode etc

Anything ReShade does can trigger anti-cheat protection. It's the nature of the tool, being an injector and all. But most anti-cheat tools don't care in case of ReShade, since its obviously harmless.

NotSoSweet wrote: Umm, but semi-passive injector is one thing and something more advanced that can block controls is another, right? I mean, maybe it can move ReShade from "harmless" to "suspicious"? Maybe it's better to disable this feature in online games like you do with depth-buffer related features?

No, it's not. Technically it doesn’t make any difference.