This is a graphic enhancement mod for M2:TW





G. E. M.

(Advice: Before asking questions regarding bugs and installation/settings please read through the OP first)




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Sep 03rd 2014, 13:00 PM: Added GEMv2.2-HD, added many features from R2, fps increase, higher quality.
Apr 17th 2014, 07:08 PM: Added GEMv2.1.1-HD, added new value to adjust overdrawn shadows.
Apr 17th 2014, 06:08 AM: Added GEMv2.1-HD, reworked HBO filter.
Apr 10th 2014, 10:00 AM: Added GEMv2.0-HD, many new features from Rome 2 GEMv5.0 brought to ETW and dx9.
Feb 09th 2014, 03:00 AM: Relaunch of M2:TW GEM with a brand new implementation. Enjoy!
Aug 21st 2013, 06:10 AM: Added MII ft RII Setting
Aug 13th 2013, 04:14 PM: Added HistoricalRetro v1.2, Fixed motionblur-problem for two settings.
Aug 12th 2013, 03:46 AM: Added HistoricalRetro v1.1, which now includes the enhanced GEM Vanilla version.
Aug 11th 2013, 08:56 AM: Added previews to all settings.
Aug 10th 2013, 09:41 PM: For better versioning I devided the different settings. All settings are now in their released version 1.0.


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(take screenshots with PrtScr)
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1. Set the button (like F9) in STEAM configuration with which you want to take ingame screens
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2. Go into any STEAM game (X) and press that button (like F9) -- Screenshot (SX) will be taken
3. Go into M2:TW and press "prt sc" -- Screenshot (SY) will be placed in you M2:TW main folder
4. Open in STEAM the menu "View" -- "Screenshots" -- select game (X) screenshots
5. Select "show on disk" -- copy the path (PX)
6. Open the M2:TW screenhot (SY) in the M2:TW main folder with paint
7. Overwrite screenshot (SX) at path (PX) with screenshot (SY) as JPG
8. Go back to the screenshot view in STEAM and select "upload screenshot"
9. Select "show online" -- click on the screenshot until it has original size -- right click on that picture and select "copy link address"
10. Paste link address in twcenter post under option "insert image"



Videos
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Featured Videos
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GEM - SS6.4


GEM - T.A.T.W


GEM - DBM


GEM - UserPics


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GEM - Graphics Enhancement Mod is a new shader collection (GEM) and a new injector (GEMFX) I implemented which also uses the SweetFX shader stack and is inspired by SweetFX/Enbseries to improve the look of TW-Games.


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Before downloading these files, make sure to read the section License Agreements.

1: Download the file: (if link is "not working" do the following: right click on the link and use "save as", repeat that until it works -normally like 3 times-)
< ::> Attachment 313265 <::> >> (uses GEMFX) HD
2: Unzip the installer file.
3: Start the installer and point out the location to your Medieval II Total War folder (something like D:\STEAM\SteamApps\common\Medieval II Total War\).

Attention:
- If you get a sudden performance impact press the "pause" key of your keyboard to refresh the shader.
- If you have problems starting the game with SweetFX, check here:http://sweetfx.thelazy.net/?page_id=112.


You can further adjust your settings in the "GEM_settings.txt". Also check out the User-Defined-Settings from our users in the "Optional Files & User Settings" section.

To Uninstall: Simply delete the d3d9.dll from your M2:TW folder.


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Shader Version: Version 2
Battle Map Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Campaign Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Anti-Aliasing:turned on
Texture Filtering: Anisotropic x 16
V-sync: turned on
Widescreen: turned off
Unit Detail: Highest
Building Detail: High
Vegetation Detail: High
Effects Detail: Highest
Grass Detail: High
Campaign Shadows: turned on
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: Extreme
Brightness: exactly 50%
Bloom: turned on
Reflection: turned on

My Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 570

NVIDIA Controle SETTINGS



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In this section you will find the content of the default GEM_settings.txt. Do not worry cause the shader is complete itself and there will not be much for you to do in the current version.
I suggest you to start the game with the default settings, check what you do not like and then find a value in this section which may help you.
If there is something you want to have changed but cannot change with the following values, post it in this thread and I will try to help.

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/*-----------------------------------------------------------.
/ Description /
'------------------------------------------------------------/

Game: Win7, Win8 & DX9
GEM version: 2.2
Author: Luciferhawk
Description: Here you can adjust your GEM-Settings.

These are the default settings for GEM 2.2

/*-----------------------------------------------------------.
/ Choose effects /
'-----------------------------------------------------------*/

// Set to 1 for ON or 0 for OFF
#define USE_GEMHD 1 //[0 or 1] GEM : Applies basic GEMShader.
#define USE_GEMHBO 0 //[0 or 1] GEM : Applies HBO like GEMShader.

/*-----------------------------------------------------------.
/ GEM Graphic-Enhancement-Mod settings /
'-----------------------------------------------------------*/

// -- GEM HD settings --
#define GQuality 3 //[0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4] Adjust GEM Quality (performance hit on 2).
#define SSAO 0 //[0 or 1] Applies SSAO like shadowing effect.
#define GSceneDepth 1.04 //[1.00 to 2.00] Adjust Darkness of Scenery (standard 1.04) Higher -> darker.
#define GShadowDepth 0.6 //[0.00 to 2.00] Adjust Darkness of Shadows (standard 0.80) Lower -> darker.
#define GSat 0.95 //[0.00 to 1.00] Adjust GEM-Saturation (standard 0.95).
#define GTBright 1.36 //[1.00 to 1.36] Adjust GEM-TextureBrightness (standard 1.26) Lower -> darker.
#define GCBright 0.9 //[0.00 to 2.00] Adjust GEM-Contrast (standard 0.70) Lower -> darker.
#define GBloom 0.195 //[0.00 to 1.00] Adjust GEM-Bloom effect blended into the final image (standard 0.165 or 195).
#define GColorBoost 1 //[0 or 1] Applies color boost effect.

// -- GEM HBO settings --
#define GHBOSharpRange 0.74 //[0.00 to 2.00] Width of HBO sharpening (standard 0.74).
#define GHBOSharp 4.2 //[0.00 to 10.00] Amount of HBO sharpening (standard 3.0).
#define GHBOBlur 0.18 //[0.00 to 1.00] Amount of HBO blur (standard 1.8).
#define GHBOShift 2.95 //[0.00 to 5.00] Amount of HBO color shift (standard 2.95).

// -- GEM general settings --
#define GaussStrength 0.17 //[0.00 to 1.00] Amount of blur effect blended into the final image.
#define GDavinci 0 //[0 or 1] Applies painting effect to the final image.

// -- GEM optional settings --
#define GEMBlur 1 //[0.00 or 1.00] Additional blur on the edges when pressing K
#define GBlurPwr 395 //[300 to 600] Additional blur on the edges when pressing K (standard 395).
#define GBlurRad 0.00585 //[0.00 to 1.00] Additional blur radius on the edges when pressing K (standard 0.00585).
#define GBlurFocus 0.5 //[0.00 to 1.00] Additional blur focus position on the y-axis when pressing K (standard 0.5).

#define ExpEffects 1 //[0.00 or 1.00] All new effects like blur & ambiente lightning since GEMv4.2.2

// DO NOT UNCOMMENT THOSE LINES;;THEY ARE ACTIVATED ANYWAY
// -- GEM advanced settings -- // only touch these values if you know what you are doing
// key_toggle_GEMBlur = 75 //K
// key_toggle_ExpEffects = 122 //F11


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Older/Alternative GEM-Version (currently empty because of confusion)


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Go to CeeJay.dk (the creator of SweetFX), Boulotaur2024 (the creator of SweetFXNext), Boris Vorontsov (the creator of ENB), Alin L(for inspiring me),
Mr.Expendable (Advanced Bloom), Fozzie (RealisticNoBlooms), ToonTotalWar & AirborneGuy (Beta Testing).
Special thanks to FreedomDude for the OP-Design--Assets




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And post your favourit screen here!!!!
So others can get an idea of this mod
>>Press "prt sc" to take screen which you can find in your M2:TW main folder<<