R2:TW GEM - Graphic Enhancement Mod (obsolate)

[Ganossa]

@kanzy, I am aware of that. It is WIP shader and normally has the same artefacts for me but only in the menue.

Thanks. v2.3 required the least number of changes. At this rate by about v2.6 I'll have nothing to do

Not quiet right I am sorry but I think I might release GEMv3 today after Mech_Donald asked for a change I tried a few things to make the distant pictures look better and I came up with something that will change the realistic shader drastically. I will also get rid of the SSAO kind of effect for the true color version and leave the oil painting like effect for the cinematic shader.

I tell you, the realistic shader looked never more realistic .. I will post a few pics in a moment

@William, omg you have some crazy ideas

[Leraje]

@ Lucifer - if only CA was that prolific with updates and fixes

[Ganossa]

@ Lucifer - if only CA was that prolific with updates and fixes

True, they seem to be in hiding and updates come less and less frequent. I would have expected to be in another of their betas already. Maybe they bring a bigger update next time.

So here the promissed changes (no more artificial look) in a few picture (realistic shader only) give me ya feedback.










I think it needs more testing and polishing so maybe not today

[3enrique]

They are great! Maybe the sky too brown??

[godzsword]

lucifer could u post a beta so we can test it out and give u feedback?

[Arq]

SweetFX not working for Win 8.1

[Ganossa]

They are great! Maybe the sky too brown??

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Right, might be related to the certain map. I will check it in vanilla color.

lucifer could u post a beta so we can test it out and give u feedback?

It would take some time to set up a beta so I will try it tomorrow

SweetFX not working for Win 8.1

Does for alot of others.

[Bohannan]

Lucifer, the recommended settings from Leraje are not working for me, my game wont start. Wondering what Im doing wrong? I put the originals and its works fine. I had the same problem with Freedomdude's too and was never able to use his settings. Any idea, am i missing something? Thanks.

[Ganossa]

Lucifer, the recommended settings from Leraje are not working for me, my game wont start. Wondering what Im doing wrong? I put the originals and its works fine. I had the same problem with Freedomdude's too and was never able to use his settings. Any idea, am i missing something? Thanks.

Leraje has many profiles. Which do you use? Make sure it is fitting the GEM version you use. -also which GEM shader do you use?

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to the little brown clouds above: in vanilla they are red brown so it is as white as I can get them in that scenery. It of course looks different when the clouds are more white in another scenery.

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the alps

[Arq]

Does for alot of others ? i don't understand

[Aryvian]

Nice Hoplite battle here:



@LuciferHawk: Good to see the old Cinematic preset return.

@Helmersen: I got used to the darker campaign map quite quickly, and I like it. I also noticed a bug with the AO. When fighting at Rome the ground will flash different colours, yet this is most likely due to my graphics artifacting (Rome is quite a big place you know...).

Hey FreedomDude, nice pic! What's your settings there?

[godzsword]

Lucifer, the recommended settings from Leraje are not working for me, my game wont start. Wondering what Im doing wrong? I put the originals and its works fine. I had the same problem with Freedomdude's too and was never able to use his settings. Any idea, am i missing something? Thanks.

make sure u rename the file back to SweetFX_setings dont keep the file name the same way u downloaded it wont work..

[Bohannan]

[QUOTE=LuciferHawk;13321515]Leraje has many profiles. Which do you use? Make sure it is fitting the GEM version you use. -also which GEM shader do you use?

Most recently one 2.3. Truecolor.

[Ganossa]

[QUOTE=Bohannan;13321728]

Leraje has many profiles. Which do you use? Make sure it is fitting the GEM version you use. -also which GEM shader do you use?

Most recently one 2.3. Truecolor.

Open the GEM_settings.txt and set USE_SHADER3VERSION to 1. You either use DX9 or you have 2 graphics cards and the wrong one is selected from R2.

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tweaking gets so hard at this level ...

[Bohannan]

make sure u rename the file back to SweetFX_setings dont keep the file name the same way u downloaded it wont work..

Thank You. This worked. Im playing with Leraje's settings now.

[Leraje]

@ Lucifer - can you post a couple of screenshots with the new shader sans film grain and blur? Thanks.

#3 in the first post and apls are probably the best looking ones of the bunch.

[FreedomDude]

FreedomDude you've done it again! I must have the settings

[Cactus_Punch]

@FreedomDude have you got any screens showing the colours? also how do you enable AO with inspector? I enforced it with Nvidia control panel "manage 3d settings" so I'm not sure if I have actually enabled it.

[FreedomDude]

@FreedomDude have you got any screens showing the colours? also how do you enable AO with inspector? I enforced it with Nvidia control panel "manage 3d settings" so I'm not sure if I have actually enabled it.

- Page 113 has some actual non edited images of my settings with AO enabled.

- Yes you use inspector to enable AO. Instructions can be found at the top of page 113

I will try to take some more screenshots using my settings (I'm running out) and I will refrain from editing them... XD

[godzsword]

Thank You. This worked. Im playing with Leraje's settings now.

np m8