Clouds,grass,shadows performance mod

[Blue Scorpion]

Originally Posted by JumpingHubert

they have to invite kegety to their team..

Not to knock the guy, but most anyone with a basic development background could do the same; he is simply hooking into the games code allowing him to force the use of an altered shader instead of the default using a command line switch. As for the shaders themselves, anyone can change the shaders with a text editor and a little basic knowledge after extracting them from the .sfs file. Now, if he were to improve image quality, and reduce frame rates, then they may want to hire him; but so far, all he is doing is reducing image quality to increase the fps, when 1C's aim is to improve both.

However, it should be pointed out, hooking into code also happens to be exactly the same technique used for producing cheats and online hacks. This is the reason using it under steam will result in an account wide VAC ban, which renders all games tied to your account permanently unusable online; it is a term of service, that steam imposes on developers wishing to use steam and is not optional. Luthier also recently announced that they would now pursue bans for using any altered code.