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2015 PC Screenshot Thread of the Only Place Where Compression Isn't
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Spazznid
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Definitely.
I am weird with my stance on CA. I'm all for it when thinking of a certain type of camera effect, but in first-person gameplay it's not so good. Third person, or as a camera lens it does it's job for me.
Skyfireblaze
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Ah, got that date mixed up. It got delayed quiet a bit...
For the shot I used GEMFX injector. You should be able to find in google. Offers very friendly shader controles and many new light effects that haven't been in injectors before
Ah thanks I'll try out!
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GroinShooter
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How are you guys taking shots in UE4 Paris? When I take shots with ReShade, result is a blank black shot.
It makes me feel like I'm going cross-eyed.
Chromatic Aberration is all kinds of bad. It's like looking at slightly toned down stereoscopic 3D effect but without the glasses. It's horrible in the pic LuminatX posted.
I hate it so much that I won't buy a game if I can't turn it off via in-game settings or by editing a config file. Same goes for film grain, motion blur, depth of field...
I hate it so much that I won't buy a game if I can't turn it off via in-game settings or by editing a config file. Same goes for film grain, motion blur, depth of field...
How are you guys taking shots in UE4 Paris? When I take shots with ReShade, result is a blank black shot.
Probably using something else like Fraps, Dxtory or MSI Afterburner.
TheVampire
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Best party ever.
AnyoneInCherno
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The whole point of options like these are that they're options. When asking what the point of having a subjectively good/bad option in a game is, you're basically asking "why do people like effects I don't". I understand your opinion and actually share it - I don't like CA and it actually gives me headaches - but if people want to use it, more power to them. Besides, it can actually provide a lot of realism in shots that are intended to look like they've been taken with a camera. I'm working on a series of "realistic" screenshots of ARMA 3 and CA is going to be important to get the shots looking right. Sometimes you don't want to take shots from the perspective of the player's character, but rather a detatched camera.
VisceralBowl
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Dropping VXGI was a big mistake imo.
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zephervack
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Sorry for JPG compression and AA, still trying to figure out how to force AA in this "game" and how to export TGAs.
jim2point0
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Some quick shots testing ReShade.
(whoops, never did upload the downsampled version of that 2nd one)
(whoops, never did upload the downsampled version of that 2nd one)
jim2point0
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I'll get more actiony shots later
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AnyoneInCherno
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I know, but that's irrelevant. The point is that, if a post-processing addition through, say, ReShade is added by someone to a screenshot, complaining about it doesn't make any sense. These things are subjective and to criticise someone's entirely subjective opinion won't lead anywhere.
VisceralBowl
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I hope I'm not bothering anybody with what are technically not "real" game shots, I just like having complete control over everything.
Post processing ftw.
VisceralBowl
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I really like the tools that game gives players for post-processing by default. More games could use the options.
Would be pretty cool if this was part of an alternate universe P.T. ..where you just walk around and enjoy your apartment and get pleasantly surprised by nice things.
im not impressed by the game..do you have it? its like a KKND from 2015 or something. awkward in that same way.
Morrigan Stark
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"Elemental"? What is that exactly? I googled the name and can only find info about some sort of strategy game that looks nothing like this.
UE4 elemental demo, I believe. It's not a game, if you're wondering.
VisceralBowl
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It's a UE4 demo, not an actual game.
lovely shots, but is there anyway to download and explore that subway scene without having the full UE4 engine i.e the same way that you can with the paris apartment?
VisceralBowl
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Yes. I (or somebody else, if they want) can compile a build for you.
It'll be a few hours though, as I'm currently busy.
Drunken Master
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That "next time you think your life sucks, think again" stare
Morrigan Stark
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Ahhhh, I see. Thanks for the clarification. Those last two screens had gotten me all excited, dammit. xD
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Spazznid
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In relation to the arguements over CA, I wholly approve of its use in this game. A game about metaphorical viewfinders, when you rewind time, they use a lot of effects that are in film developement, and when you try to rewind too much, the screen's "film" gets those white burn marks.
JordanN
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VXGI was never used in the original Elemental Demo and it's not a mistake (imo).
Raytracing in games (and CG in general) is incredibly expensive to use. There are better ways to use those resources instead.
GavinUK86
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I could actually play it then.
For the people who hate CA in games, I've kind of found a way to almost disable/make it way less noticable in any game as long as the game works with ReShade. (Might also work with Boulotaur's SweetFX but haven't tried).
So today I launched UE4 Paris techdemo and the CA instantly struck me. I've also been watching my brother play Dying Light and the CA in that one is just horrible.
The key to all this is CA itself in ReShade. It's pretty simple. I launched UE4 Paris with ReShade and as many of the values in ReShade also work as negative ones, I decided to try my luck. Enabled CA through ReShade and turned it negative like this:
//CHROMATICABBERATION
#define ChromaticAmount -0.005
#define LensSize 0.50
#define LensDistortion 0.00
#define LensDistortionCubic 0.00
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Chromatic Aberration was almost not visible anymore.
I tried to take screens of this in UE4 Paris but I just get a black screenshot when I try to...
So I moved on to AC: Unity Dead Kings DLC which also has a terrible amount of CA.
In Unity I had to use positive values to get rid of CA. Negative values just made it stronger. I also had to tweak "#define LensSize" because some CA amounts make the image a bit distorted in the border of your monitor...
Here's a good comparison I took from Unity Dead Kings DLC...
Mouse on image is with this fix and off image is without.
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/112148
Only downside to this is that although your CA is gone it adds CA to your HUD. But it's not a bad tradeoff for a much cleaner image. I don't recommend using this for a game that uses CA only occasionally since this would remove CA at the times it's being used by the game engine but would also add CA to every other scene when CA is not used by the engine.
Damn, you know I had this idea recently as a method of removing CA but I didn't realize it would actually work so well. Great job on implementing it dude, that cancels it out basically perfectly.
GroinShooter
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Thanks!
Yep, after I noticed it worked I just stared at the result in UE4 for a while and had to think it through. I couldn't believe it would be as simple as just "reversing" the CA. I was like a kid in a candy store when I tried this method in Unity: Dead Kings and CA was gone
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