MasterEffect ReBorn official thread

I like this whole revisiting thing. It's like you have someone proof reading stuff for you.

Thanks for the Update. Are there plans to re-implement moving film grain/grain eventually too?

Constantine wrote:

Are there plans to re-implement moving film grain/grain eventually too?

He answered this on previous page.

Marty wrote:

1) Algorithm didn't change at all.

Any idea what could be the issue? I don't know if my screenshots show this properly, but basically entire flare has same brightness, instead of fading from the center. I'm guessing it may has something to do with HDR setting, but changing USE_HDR_MODE doesn't have any effect on flare.

3)No, since all DOF shaders now use the same focussing. DOF blur radius is also global so all DOF shaders have now same. Lower it and all DOF shaders have it lowered. And fVTexelSize is the wrongest parameter ever to control blur size with old Matso focussing.

I see, but could it be possible to have some setting (like 0/1 toggle) that would stretch DOF vertically in, something like, 2 to 1 ratio? Weird request, I know, but that would allow oval, anamorphic DOF , which is a neat effect if you going for "filmic" look. fvTexelSize allowed something like that, but Matso DOF didn't have any quality setting in older versions (as far as I'm aware of), and bokeh didn't look very good up close, hence why I would like have something like that in new version, of course, if that's possible.

Marty, I reuploaded a new archive which now seems to work fine. I've just moved heathaze, sharpen and explosion in the lighting pass. Maybe it's of some use for you.

Marty wrote:

Uhm are you sure that you use the exact same values?

Yes

And yes, I can add a value that determines the ratio of the pixelsize.

Thank you so much.

Hey Marty, I had an idea for the GI. Is there any way you could implement a way to adjust the near depth that GI is applied to? I noticed that GI tends to flicker a lot of first person hands and weapons as you move through the environment (even though your weapon is often not anywhere close to the source of the GI). Having the ability to adjust the near depth value to just turn of GI on weapons and stuff would be awesome.

@Marty McFly, sorry, I should have included more details. The manual focus, it's supposed to focus on things, right? But the things I'm focusing on, they're still blurred by the depth of field. I don't think they're blurred as much as they would be if I wasn't focusing on them, but it's still not that good at focusing. I tried changing DoF settings, but I've had no luck. I'm not really a pro user or anything (IE I don't really understand much of the technical mumbo-jumbo thrown around in this forum), and I'm new here, so I'm sorry if I'm missing something out.

I've tried using the same values for DoF as I used before the update, but no luck. I can upload a screenshot of the values and stuff if it's needed.

EDIT: Never mind, I managed to fix this. The issue was with the Manual Focus variable itself. Setting it to 0 enables it, but setting it to 1 disables it, which is a bit confusing. Sorry.

Marty, do you know what causes a game to have full depth buffer access, but some objects are not detected? An example is some streets/ stairs are detected, but then other streets/stairs are not detected. Therefore they use whatever depth of field level (blurriness) that is directly behind it. In this case, the sky box. This leads to extreme blurriness on these objects. What causes certain objects to be detected while others are not? (All assassin's creed games except for black flag) AC3 and AC4 work almost fine but some objects like chimneys and barrels are still not detected

I have noticed that most of the time an object is invisible is because of a shader issue. Not so much an issue as a decision by developers. The cloth curtains in AC1 for rooftop hiding are not detected by the depth buffer because they used a translucent shader model for it.

@Marty McFly, like I said, the issue was with how setting Manual Focus to 0 enables it and setting it to 1 disables it. It's just a tad of confusion, that was all.

Hi all! First of all, thank you very much, Marty for all the stuff you're making, and thanks everyone contributing to this. You guys are awesome!

I've downloaded, installed and tweaked the latest ReShade and MER, and I must admit it's pretty cool to experiment with - not to mention amazing visuals it brings alongside. But as soon as I launched the game (in my case I started to test it in NFS HP (2010)) I found a strange thing there: toggling the effects makes the image look not just blurry, but also like if some canvas-like (I don't know how to actually call it) effect was applied, and it looks terrible. And it happens without any effects turned on!

Sharpening helps a bit, but still the whole thing looks messy and unpleasant, to say the least. I've zoomed in using Office Picture Manager to demonstrate it.
Here's an original screenshot with MER toggled off:

And here's an image with MER toggled on (but with no effects applied, no sharpening here as well):


Sorry if something similar have already appeared on forums, but personally I haven't found anything on a problem like this.
*May be I'm doing something wrong here, but it looks like this when I don't touch anything inside the MasterEffect.h file or other configs. I tried to reinstall it a few times and still got it.
UPD: Good Lord, why these Image Links won't just work properly, and enlarge on click? Damn
//fixed

Dear Marty,
For years before this, I was hoping that there would be a mod that would allow you to inject DoF and lens flares into any game you want. When I heard about ReShade, I was so excited, but i had to wait until the next day to use it. The next day i went all out, modifying all of the games i had. This is a breakthrough in graphical modification in games, and you have helped tremendously to further Reshade's goals. I know that I have made old games look new, and the worst graphiced games look brilliant, but I never expected Garry's Mod to change so much. I decided to make a video on it.

Marty wrote:

so I'd like to link your video in the first post soon, is that OK for you?

Thank you Marty. That is fine with me

P.S. Also, I was planning to work on a ReShade compilation of several games instead of just one, but I am still deciding which games I should record.

@Marty McFly, I checked the SweetFX today (a default preset which ships with ReShade v16), and nothing similar to my problem occured there.

1: SweetFX off:



2: SweetFX on:



The game now looks even sharper that yesterday, and I thought like "WOW!" for a sec. But then I noticed that by default there's a Lumasharpen toggle activated in SweetFX config. Oh well.
But it's certainly no any blurring on screen out there.

P.S.: If I messed up the pics again (which is more likely) I'm really sorry about it. Again.
Because I haven't seen any tut on how to add pics or something, and no, I'm not too much into bb codes and stuff. Sorry about that. ;D

UPD: Yup, my bad on these pics. Once again, sorry for that, and thanks @Marty McFly for fixing it last time.
But I should learn how to make things right myself, so I'm gonna continue editing it for now. *sigh*
UPD2: @SpinelessJelly, thank you a ton for sharing the spoiler box bbcode!

@polyneutron: Here's the bbcode for putting pics into spoiler boxes. Just remember to use picture urls, not web pages containing pictures. The "img size=" value can be changed to make you picture fit in the forum spaces

@Marty McFly
hi, was wondering about the tiltshift, if it would be possible
to add a custom mask option, i've made an example there :

imgur.com/a/V2gEh#0

it's just a retouched picture on a image editor,
I really don't know how hard it would be to implement.