A way to change some of the colours in Cliffs Of Dover.

[Les]

Finally got around to checking out the colour-correcting capabilities of this neat little program (injectFxaa_by_some_dude).

For those not familiar with it, it's just a set of files you drop into your IL2:COD game folder, mainly in order to enable a kind of anti-aliasing that hadn't been available before.

Thing is, the earlier version of it that I've attached here also included some files that enable you to apply some other effects to Cliffs Of Dover besides anti-aliasing.

One effect is called 'Tone Mapping', which allows you to adjust the brightness and contrast and red/blue/yellow colour values that you see in the game. Changing these parameters alone can have a huge or subtle but significant impact on how your game looks. Combine them with the 'Vignette' and 'Sepia' effects and you can get something that looks like an over-the-top 'Warbirds Of Prey' cinematic type of effect if you want. Or just darken the shadows and get rid of that yellow cast the game has nowadays, which is what motivated me to check it out.

Just drop the files in where your Cliffs Of Dover .exe file is installed, start the game up, alt tab out of it, open up the 'injFX_Settings' notepad file, make some changes, click straight back to the game and see what effect they've had.

I'll include some more comparison screenshots and the settings I used if anyone's interested.

I guess I should say too, that there are still some visual aspects of the game that can't be reached or adjusted using a simple utility like this. It's pretty cool what you can adjust with it, but it's not going to bring back some things that have been changed or removed from the game. Also, the complex interconnected nature of the sim means fixing one thing can break another thing even at this basic level. For example you can make one time of day look great, only to find it ruins others. But still, it might be worth checking out for those that are into this sort of thing.

I have no idea whether it's compatible with Steam's online anti-cheat measures. These third party anti-aliasing 'hacks' have been around for several months now and I haven't heard of anyone getting banned because of them (pretty sure I even had them installed when online a couple of times a while back), but who knows, use at your own risk.

Edit 25-10-12 - Added latest settings. Neutral colours, with increased contrast.

Edit 30-10-12 - Added revised attachment. It uses my 'Neutral5' settings as default, but also includes a couple of others. It's been re-packaged so you can just copy and paste its contents straight into your Cliffs Of Dover install.

And here are all the settings others have contributed so far - http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=106
Along with all of mine - http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=107

Edit 31-10-12 - Added 'Neutral6' settings for both the 'injectFxaa_by_some_dude' utility and the newer 'SweetFX' utility by Ceejay.dk. here - http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=128 ***Note- If you're using the 'SweetFX' utility, zip up the original 'd3d9.dll' file in your 'Cliffs Of Dover' install to back it up, as the one in the 'SweetFX' utility will need to replace it in order to work.***

Edit 12-11-12 - Updated readme and re-attached 'FXAA PPI Rev 37...' to this post.

Edit 26-3-14 - Added some updated settings, adjusted for the Team Fusion 4.3 Patch version of the game, to post #236 of this thread, here - http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...&postcount=236.