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Hello everyone !

Same idea as Pimp my Rzyom, but using ReShade and MasterEffect Reborn.
It makes the game looks like the pictures on the offical website.
Warning : The following screenshots only serve as tech demo. I hope someone with better skills will post some nice shots :)
Warning 2 : Work only on Windows for now. Support for other OS planned for later.
Warning 3 : I'm not affiliated with any of the tools mentioned here.
Warning 4 : Some shaders are quite demanding on the hardware and will have an impact on the FPS.

Shot on Silan, near the arena

A Yelk, on Silan

The bar, in FH

Someone from the Karavan, in FH

And a Fyros from Oflovak

A little comparison with ReShade enabled/disabled:


Almost like the official pictures, isn't it?

Installation

Requirements

(from ReShade's ReadMe)

Step 1

Donwload the latest version of ReShade.
Download the latest version of MasterEffect Reborn.
MasterEffect Reborn is a shadersuite, like SweetFx. It doesn't have SMAA, but propose some nice shaders like DOF.
Read this post on neogaf on how to use SweetFx with MasterEffect's DOF.

Step 2

Disable all antialisaing, in-game or provided by drivers/tools/etc. It may/will interfere with ReShade. Try enabling it again after chosing the shaders, to see if there is any incompability.

Step 3

If your client (game, not OS) is in 32bit, copy Reshade32.dll in the game directory (where client_ryzom_rd.exe is) and rename it opengl32.dll if you set Ryzom to render with OpenGL or d3d9.dll for D3D render.
Idem with Reshade64.dll if your client is 64bit.
Ryzom should be in 32bit by défault.
Copy the content of MasterEffect ReBorn 1.0.340 directory, from MasterEffect archive, to the game directory.
Note : If you want to use ReSahde with other games, rename the dll following this :

Step 4

Edit ReShade.fx enable/disable/tweak the shaders.
My screens were taken with only Masto DOF and Curve (contrast enhancing) on.
Some shaders don't have any presets, or won't render correctly without tweaks.

Step 5

Some effects make the UI unusable, you can set a key to enable/disable ReShade. In ReShade.fx go to line 4105 :

technique MasterEffect < bool enabled = 1; >

Edit it like that :

technique MasterEffect < bool enabled = 1;int toggle =0x6D; >

Where 0x6D is the ASCII code for the activation key. Currently the - from the numpad.
Remark : Set enabled at 0 to launch the game without any shaders. Otherwise you'll risk spending a lot of time loading the game, depending on the impact of the shader on your system... Enable Reshade once ingame .

Step 6

Launch the game and enjoy !
If a message appears in the top-left corner (about shader compilation, without error) then ReShade is working !

Feel free to post your own screenshots/settings ;)

Default screen capture key is Prnt Screen. Change it in ReShade.fx. The pictures are taken in png, and stored in the same directory as ReSahde.

Original post (in French) : http://app.ryzom.com/app_forum/index.php?page=topic/view/22291/1
PS: sorry for the remaining mistakes, it's been a while since I last wrote in English...

thank you Aesahetr for posting this in the english section. i believe the translations are well enough that anyone should be able to understand. :)

Really Awesome work!!

Nice work. Does this mean in game that the background would be blurry?

Ugh.... In this Tryker player's opinion that looks horrible. In real life my background views are not fuzzy -- why should they be in game?

Thankfully, I do not have to install this resource hog.

This looks awesome in pictures! However I wouldn't want to actually play with it blurry like that, I would feel like I needed glasses :)

But it does make beautiful screenshots.

It's only blurry because I tookl the sreen at very close range.
In real gameplay, it only blurries the far far awway background.

Example :


Of course, it completly optional.
This is only one of the many effects that can be applied to the game via ReShade + MasterEffect.
Here is the list of shaders supported by MasterEffect:


It's up to the user to enable/customize or not a shader.

Would it be possible to post a photo up using the settings you use but disable the right half of the screen?

I assume that will show us a comparison between having no effect and then the reshade effects?

Thanks :)

Hello together,

thank you for the great step by step guide, Aesahetr! I love the possibilities and you put your time into the guide.

Motivated by your post I went ahead and tried to use and modify the filters by the shader suit to fit my need and I would like to share the results. And I do so because I am running a quite old laptop (6+ years) and despite the age of machine and graphic card I got a lot more contrast out of the game.

So here you are seeing pictures from a low power machine ;-)

I took all the pictures in Yrkanis at night (the left part of the split-screen is the filtered part):







I did all the configuration in the "MasterEffect.h", which has to be in the Ryzom main folder when you followed the instructions in the starting post. I haven't touched the "ReShade.fx". What I love is that I can modify the MasterEffect.h in realtime and get the changes in the game.

Ok, my rough configuration outside of the shaders are: having Anisotropic filtering on and Antialiasing off (interferes with the shader pack)(I am using the Nvidia Inspector btw). To cope with the missing Antialiasing I set the SMAA on in the MasterEffect.h. A side effect is that this weakens the sharpening downsides (simply edges). Further I deactivated the Ryzom bloom in favor of the better MasterEffects bloom. As even my old machine can get Ryzom running with max settings I have them on max.

Adjusting the brightness: Finally - if the overall image is to dark you could activate the Ryzom bloom additionally (without the square-filter for a general effect) to overall lighten the image. I set mine after some testing to around 30.

Config file: And finally finally here is my MasterEffect.h file: link

Deactivate the split-screen: You should open the "MasterEffect.h" file and put a 0 instead of a 1 for the split-screen setting after you have seen the shader changes in split-screen for the first time.

The trigger-key to change between filtered and un-filtered is the "-" key on the numpad. Try pushing it to see the difference later.

The presets are based on a SWTOR profile I converted from sweetfx to the MasterEffects (+ tweaking) (original sweetfx file). It comes with a lot of different approaches to modify the color of different effects.

So - try and cheer or change or frown.

Cheers from me,
Pippa

Ps.: The result looks a lot more like the old OpenGL feeling of Ryzom - but it may be just imagination on my side.

@Pippa your images links seems to be broken.

You are right! My evil plan to misuse the Dropbox linking failed. So I replaced the broken embedded images with links to the remote Dropbox locations. Second benefit: It loads on choice as you have to open the links. (Maybe I catch a non tired moment to put the images on another hoster.) Cheers, Pipps!

free online image host that works with ryzom

the above link is for imgur.com when you upload a picture to the site on the right hand side of the page there will be a series of links, if you find the one for BBcode and use the copy button (or select all and copy if you rather use that) you can then paste that code directly into the reply post and the image will be shown on the forum post.

hope this helps you out pippa.

Thanks for the hint about the hoster, Talkirc! Worked like a charm and it also made me realize that my imageshack account is now useless because they changed their business model.

Is there someone else around playing on a post-filtered Ryzom with ReShade or SweetFX? I am always curios.

Btw - I see the possibility to change not necessarily as a heavy modification or "missing love for Ryzom". E.g., everyone has a different screen and graphic card - so it could also be a way to compensate color and "sharpness" differences.

Your Spoiler pics look awesome!! Thanks Pippa :)

I wonder if Ryzom can take your learnings and implement them in game as doing all setup might not be easy for many players.
Maybe we can ask Ryzom dev team what they think on it :D

happy i could help :)