Settings Files Switching

Would it be possible to implement the ability to switch between different sweetfx/mastereffects/etc settings files via hotkey ingame? For example, x game has separate levels with distinct visual appearances, and if someone wanted to create separate sweetfx setting for each level they would have to manually rename files to load each different setting file. This person would have to minimize the game each time a new level loaded while playing to do this as well. It would be much simpler to be able to instead bind different settings files to hotkeys so all anyone would need to do is just press a button to load a new preset. How likely would it be for that to be implemented?

Hardly, since the concept of settings files doesn't really exist from ReShade's view. It can load a shader, configuration is implemented by the author of that shader and there are different ways to achieve it. I don't see where this can be generalized.
I think there was a little script for SweetFX at least which was capable of switching the settings file via hotkeys, not sure where that one can be found though.

That's a bummer but not a big deal.

as a proof of concept... I set up Windows FTP Server pointing to my games directory and then launched an FTP Client on my iPad.

i can then edit the text file on my iPad, save, and the shader recompiles itself... without needing to alt+tab out of the game at all.

now anyone with a lot of time on their hands might be able to make a remote settings editor

This can be accomplished with Autohotkey pretty easily. Using this code, simply copy the compiled EXE to the game folder and name your sweetfx files:

SweetFX_Settings1.txt
SweetFX_Settings2.txt
SweetFX_Settings3.txt
SweetFX_Settings4.txt

I'm assuming you could do a search/replace on just MasterEffect.h file as well to replace egwithand vice versa

If you only wanted to switch a single line from 0 to 1, sure, but you are probably tweaking the values within those registers which would require a ridiculous amount of coding and maintenance.

[update: please see reshade.me/forum/shader-discussion/371-a...for-toggling-effects ]
thanks to Mobeeuz for showing me how to do this

(@Mobeeuz, this is the first time I've looked at AHK, so any suggestions for improvement welcome... particularly I didn't like having to delete the file before rewriting it; a better way would have probably to have done some kind of seek & write)

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Hi,

yes you're right sorry. I just realised I was actually answering Honeyball's question from another thread

"I know, but I would love to have key binding with single effects. Not just all off, just a few"

ok this will do it.. but note it does delete and recreate your file (couldn't work out overwrite specifically)
AutoHotKey script: pastebin.com/qfkpQsXn (place in your game directory)

I read the file, find the relevant line, look for the number next to it (excluding extra spaces), if it's a 0 replace it with 1 and vice versa, then rewrite the file. I guess reading in as a whole string isok, it's not that big a file.