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Graphical Enhancement 2.5, version 3 is in Pioneer's Guild.
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applepiepod
Regular
Modders rule.
Bertie Wooster
Recruit
These are nice but it's a shame that all the castles are now the same colour. Before there was some variation, some with a more yellowish stone others grey, now they're all grey.
italiano
Grandmaster Knight
No, I feel the same. It's more of a brown now, and the name tags are more rustic.
Which is why it's optional.
I didn't include any alternate settings, I'll upload a couple in a moment.
The HDR is related to screen brightness, and I suspect your screen is set to a much brighter level than mine. My HDR settings are a toned down version (quite minimal) on my settings. I would guess that your monitor brightness is high, while mine is not.
The settings are vastly different from the original settings. The hdr looks like it does in my screenshots providing you have the similar settings, which you likely do not.
Try reinstalling. The difference should be obvious, and if it's not it means it isn't on. Try reinstalling?
Each stone in v3.0 is different. The one in v2.5 isn't bad and looks gritty, but it's actually a pretty messy texture. 2.5 having the same stone texture is also one reason it's 2.5 and not 3.0.
Not sure, but it shouldn't do that. The HDR mod barely changes the colours at all, it just increases the contrast of lights and darks (lighter lights and darker darks). If anything else is happening then it's not intended. The problem is other than suggesting people to reinstall, play with their monitor settings or play with their video settings, there's nothing I can do. Try reinstalling, or deleting dx3d9_26.dll if it's in the M&B directory, or updating your drivers. These are total guesses, I really have no idea. It may also be the your monitor is set to be less saturated than typical, so try increasing the saturation a little?
Back to screen brightness, if it's too bright I would guess you have gamma set to 2.2 (default). I mentioned in my first post that you can adjust gamma, and I an assure you that lowering it to 1.5 will be too dark, so it's likely that anyone complaining of brightness hasn't lowered the gamma option, or properly read my notes in the first post. If it is too bright and you did read them then I apologise, but I can't see how that can be the case.
alh_p
Sergeant at Arms
Zaro, sorry to pester you with individual issues. These are some screens of what the mod looks like on my PC:
I have a few issues that playing around with monitor and M&B gamma settings have yet to solve:
1. I have some weird box like effects around trees & vegetation.
2. The colours on my version are quite bright -more so than on your screenshots. Can you suggest a way of changing this, if its possible?
Otherwise, I'm very impressed with the look of it, night scenes are awesome!
I have a few issues that playing around with monitor and M&B gamma settings have yet to solve:
1. I have some weird box like effects around trees & vegetation.
2. The colours on my version are quite bright -more so than on your screenshots. Can you suggest a way of changing this, if its possible?
Otherwise, I'm very impressed with the look of it, night scenes are awesome!
italiano
Grandmaster Knight
Alh p, I'm not sure what's causing the vegetation problems (it looks light a bad alpha, but everyone else seems ok?), but I can tell you that my textures haven't been installed properly as they're the native terrain textures. Is the an uninstall_textures icon in the M&B directory?
Not sure what you mean by shiny layer? Do you mean all of the 3d grass?
Not sure what you mean by shiny layer? Do you mean all of the 3d grass?
Leggeron said:
Not at all, tons of bloom effect/HDR has annoyed many people for years. Here's a funny comic about it http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/070119.jpg
But it's a totally individual preference, if others find it makes a game look good more power to them.
italiano
Grandmaster Knight
I'm sorry but my settings have minimal bloom - that was the idea. If you want to see large amounts of bloom, there are several settings in the HDR thread in Zendar discussion. I don't mind if people don't like the settings (as you said it's individual preference), but it's not fair to call it something it is not. It's also possible that it's your settings and not the HDR's, as I've already pointed out that bright monitor or gamma settings will make the game (and hdr) bright.
Olorin
Sergeant
DAMN!
now all we need are fire arrows, or torch bearers so that the now truly night battles (10 foot visibility at best) offer some more (and somewhat realistic) visibility
@cromwall are you saving & Exit? if so the game does save, just produces an error as it quits, alt-tab to see the error/press ok, then the program will terminate (at least this is how it works in vista)
the HDR seetings are perfect, before this i tried them and my game looked like crud (whereas native was very nice), now it looks even better than native!
now all we need are fire arrows, or torch bearers so that the now truly night battles (10 foot visibility at best) offer some more (and somewhat realistic) visibility
@cromwall are you saving & Exit? if so the game does save, just produces an error as it quits, alt-tab to see the error/press ok, then the program will terminate (at least this is how it works in vista)
the HDR seetings are perfect, before this i tried them and my game looked like crud (whereas native was very nice), now it looks even better than native!
