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

[Les]

Thanks Meaker.

pstyle, yes, this will still give you some anti-aliasing even with the AA turned off in game. FXAA is a post-pocessing effect added to the entire image after the actual game has been rendered by your video card. This FXAA anti-aliasing can't be controlled by your usual video card settings unless the game is coded to use it (and hardly any are). These FXAA 'injector' tools were made because nVidia developed the technology (for nVidia video cards, ATI/AMD have something similar) but people didn't want to have to wait for nVidia and the various game developers to make them available.

SQB, nice work. If you have time, maybe you can figure out how to divide the in-game 24hr time period into sections and make a set of settings that can be moved in and out to maintain a consistent look at all times of day or night. Not sure how many there would have to be. Assuming you could just use the default look for night, there might only be dusk/dawn, late morning/early afternoon, midday. The settings could all be left zipped up in the main game folder (with the zip folders appropriately named), so all you'd have to do is Alt-Tab to desktop and copy and paste their contents as need be. Most missions would be short enough to enable doing that at the start and end anyway so it shouldn't be too disruptive to the actual game-play.

[VMF214_Jupp]

To answer Continuo's question, of "what tweaks", the usual computer stuff, turn off bells and whistles, ProcessAffinity=15 in conf, run Game Booster3 to turn off processes, etc.

And for Les, and anyone curious about my settings :

I used MadTommy's, leaving everything else alone, except for the Tonemap section he posted. Copied it, pasted into the default injFX_Settings.h file appropriately overwriting that section, and viola!

#define Gamma 1.20
#define Exposure 0.00
#define Saturation -0.40 // use negative values for less saturation.
#define BlueShift 0.05 // Higher = more blue in image.
#define Bleach 0.10 // Bleach bypass, higher = stronger effect
#define Defog 0.055 // Strength of Lens Colors.
#define FogColor float4(0.00, 0.90, 0.00, 0.90) //Lens-style color filters for Blue, Red, Yellow, White.

[SQB]

Originally Posted by Les

...If you have time, maybe you can figure out how to divide the in-game 24hr time period into sections and make a set of settings that can be moved in and out to maintain a consistent look at all times of day or night.

I'd love to, but I'd only want to do this if I could figure out a way for it to change automatically. And that would require a *lot* of programming, for the time being I could run the game in DX9 and use the ENB profiles I've made, but that does detract from the look of the game a little. I'll give it a go anyway.

I'm curious to see if I can get depth of field working, that would be a laugh.

[IvanK]

Tried your settings Jupp. Certainly looks much better than stock, maybe a slight too purplish hue imo.

Also I notice you get some border affect to server messages etc, and the in game player list looks a little fuzzy.

[ParaB]

Here a some shots of the settings I use, aiming for a more 'natural' look. The colour change seems much more noticeable ingame though.

8 AM:

(1st pic is default colours)



12 AM:



6 PM:

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by VMF214_Jupp

Thanks!




With the new official patch, some recent tweaks, this very simple tool, the Tonemap information from this post, + this result, and I am ecstatic!

Windows 7
2GB Nv 550ti
650w PS
8 GB DDR3
AMD Quadcore 3.2 Ghz

Go put a blank white skin on a plane and take few scheenshots of it at different times of day. If you then open them in Photoshop and sample the "white" on the plane, you'll realize how much pink/purple you put allover everything.

This tool is only good for stylized screenshots, when you don't change the time of day or lighting too much. It's not really working in a dynamic scenario. You can do almost the same thing by adjusting your monitor.

[IvanK]

What are your settings ParaB ?

[ParaB]

Tweaked my settings some more:

8 AM:



12 AM:



6 PM:



Of course brightness especially depends on your screen and its settings.

My FXAA settings:

/*================================================= =====================================
"USER" ADJUSTABLE SETTINGS
================================================== ====================================*/

// TODO: Normalize values to be on a human range scale, whole numbers prefered, decimals usable for micro adjustments
// These values should have min/max limit checks included in their functions, so that the end user doesn't get crazy results

/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FILTER SELECTION
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// Comment to deactivate an effect.
// Example: To disable the tonemap effect, use // in front of #define USE_TONEMAP
#define USE_ANTI_ALIASING
// #define USE_PRE_SHARPEN
// #define USE_BLOOM *NOT WORKING
#define USE_TECHNICOLOR
#define USE_TONEMAP
// #define USE_SEPIA
// #define USE_VIGNETTE
// #define USE_POST_SHARPEN
// #define USE_FINAL_LIMITER


/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FXAA SHADER
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// Set values to calculate the amount of Anti Aliasing applied
float fxaaQualitySubpix = 0.62; // Default: 0.75 Raise to increase amount of blur
float fxaaQualityEdgeThreshold = 0.113; // Lower the value for more smoothing
float fxaaQualityEdgeThresholdMin = 0.0312; // Lower the value for more smoothing


/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PRE_SHARPEN
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
//For higher precision in the calculation of contour, requires slightly more processing power
bool highQualitySharpen = 0; //0 = Disable | 1 = Enable

// Set values to calculate the amount of AA produced blur to consider for the sharpening pass
#define Average 0.8
#define CoefBlur 2

// Set values of the sharpening amount
#define SharpenEdge 0.2
#define Sharpen_val0 1.2


/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BLOOM
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// Number of samples per pixel taken for the Bloom effect. Don't set it to high! 4 = 25spp, 8 = 81spp, 16 = 289spp
#define NUM_SAMPLES2 4 // Must be set with a value dividable by 2
float BloomPreset = 0; // Disabled = 0 (Valid Preset Values = 1 to 9) Preset value 1 to 9 takes control over the next 3 settings.
float BloomThreshold = 0; // The min. level at which the effect starts (Valid Values = 1 to 9, use decimals for finetuning)
float BloomWidth = 0; // Sets the width of the effect (Valid Values = 1 to 9, use decimals for finetuning)
float BloomPower = 0; // The power of the effect (Valid Values = 1 to 9, use decimals for finetuning)


/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TECHNICOLOR
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#define TechniAmount 0.3 // 1.00 = Max
#define TechniPower 5.0 // lower values = whitening

// lower values = stronger channel
#define redNegativeAmount 0.65 // 1.00 = Max
#define greenNegativeAmount 0.75 // 1.00 = Max
#define blueNegativeAmount 0.8 // 1.00 = Max


/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TONEMAP
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#define Gamma 1.5
#define Exposure 0.00
#define Saturation -0.05 // use negative values for less saturation.
#define BlueShift 0.1 // Higher = more blue in image.
#define Bleach 0.05 // Bleach bypass, higher = stronger effect
#define Defog 0.0 // Strength of Lens Colors.
#define FogColor float4(0.08, 0.28, 0.10, 3.0) //Lens-style color filters for Blue, Red, Yellow, White.


/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SEPIA
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#define Earthyellow // Color Tone, available tones can be seen in ColorTones.PNG (Do not use spaces in the name!)
#define GreyPower 1 //(Valid Values = 1 to 9, use decimals for finetuning), defines how much of the grey color you wish to blend in
#define SepiaPower 0 //(Valid Values = 1 to 9, use decimals for finetuning), defines how much of the color tone you wish to blend in


/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VIGNETTE
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// Vignette effect, process by which there is loss in clarity towards the corners and sides of the image, like a picture frame
#define VignetteCenter float2(0.500, 0.500) // Center of screen for effect.
#define VignetteRadius 1.00 // lower values = stronger radial effect from center
#define VignetteAmount -0.70 // Strength of black. -2.00 = Max Black, 1.00 = Max White.


/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
POST_SHARPEN
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// Controls additional sharpening applied after previous processing. Strength should be max 0.25!
float Sharpen = 0.01;


/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FINAL_LIMITER
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
// Controls the strenght of the limiter. 1.000 for default setting
int LimiterStrenght = 1.000;

[Laszlo]

@ParaB:

Hi,
könnten wir uns mal bei euch im DCS TS treffen? Würde gerne mal etwas mit dir besprechen`?!

[JG52Krupi]

Nicely done ParaB looks great