a subtle hack UI Mask

• HackUIMask ←top
• ** other fx **
• HackUICut ←is a UI black mask，avoid UI impact on next FX
• **other fx **
• HackUIRestore ←end

Warning: Spoiler!

aaronth07 wrote:

Probably a stupid question

Marty wrote:

peronmls wrote:

honestly Would there ever be such a fix? It's the only thing really bad with reshade. I never understood why the dev's never try to fix it but can release more advanced shaders like raytracing that will just obscure any HUD on screen. That's the only immersion breaking reshade does for me.

Doubtable that it'll ever happen. Each game renders their UI in a different way, different elements and so on. It would defeat the purpose of ReShade to manage things on a game to game level. It also can't be done perfectly with a shader either as UI elements are so diverse, detecting them with any sort of failsafe heuristic is impossible. Also it's not possible to restore data obscured by the UI, so effects that would require such data cannot be fixed, even if the UI was detected perfectly.

Marty wrote:

It uses the alpha channel of the backbuffer before any rendering happened. By chance, FF14 draws the UI mask into alpha channel, so you have info where UI is and where not. No other game I know of does this, and thus you'd have to infer from the screen colors, a failsafe method is impossible that way. Plus you cannot restore data behind the UI, that's why this shader masks it with black to mask it from future effects that might smear it beyond the UI mask borders.

Also, transparent effects, what the person above asked for, is completely impossible. Just because our eyes can discern what's a transparent object does not mean that a shader can.