vaudou Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Maybe you know this great mod for Oblivion: http://timeslip.chorrol.com/FakeHDRDownload.html screens: http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=o...232900048yq.jpg http://img429.imageshack.us/my.php?image=o...165828323ke.jpg http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=65mu.jpg The effect is very impressive, imagine this in SA! The guy made a "Generic version" (with the source code) for all dx9 games. However Gtasa.exe crash at startup with this dll installed. Maybe someone know the way to tweak the file for SA? Sorry for my poor english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobeit Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 generic version ehh? ill take a look at it, but ive never seen stuff like this done...so, i might have to catch up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smtp Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 HDR for SA would be pretty cool, though would be better if it was Real HDR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitcroft101 Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Would be amazing if you could get it right but Vice City would probably look better... I hope you can get this to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuckindumass Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Is it just a program that watches for textures, then swaps them with (user supplied)replacements? If so, TexMod does it well, I've tested it. I have no info on author or where to get, but I have it, if anyone wants to try it. 500kb. Keep in mind this is going to use resources, and most people have trouble running SA as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexX Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 No, it doesn't swap textures. He describes what it does actually - http://timeslip.chorrol.com/FakeHDRDesc.html HDR, fake or real, is a post effect thats rendered after the initial "scene" rendering is done, but before its presented to your screen. kind of like motion blur but with a different intended effect. It crashes for me as well. if one looks at the code, and compares it to most gta-d3d hooks, this guy uses a somewhat different approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaudou Posted June 7, 2006 Author Share Posted June 7, 2006 so, no solution? I tried it with an old dx9 game: Tomb raider 6, and it work perfectly! Maybe it's a copy protection problem (tomb raider doesn't seem to have one). Anyway, pseudo-bloom or hdrish fullscreen effect would be a nice improvement for San andreas. I know smartshaders for ati cards, but it's only work for opengl based games. Is it impossible to write a d3d9.dll post-filter for directX based games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogmeat Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 This would be a great mod for San Andreas. I have been playing SA with "stylish black & white" smartshader but it is rather boring. Somebody made a mod for doom 3 & quake 4 which had HDR effects (or was it bloom... cant remember anymore). Anyways... those games are directx based games so I'm sure that this could be done for SA too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaudou Posted June 7, 2006 Author Share Posted June 7, 2006 Doom 3 and Quake 4 are OpenGL games. Unfortunately, I've never seen Bloom/glow mods for DirectX games... except this famous "OblivionFakeHDR". The "generic" dll of this mod work fine with some dx9 games sold without copy-protection sytem. For San Andreas, it would be necessary to modify the source code of the mod... Difficult thing, maybe impossible (I'dont know, I'm not a programmer)... Does anyone know "DXtweaker"? http://www.nonatainment.de/web/DirectXTwea...58/Default.aspx You can use this program to enable Triple Buffering for D3d games (more fps), and add some post-filters effects like B/W and Sepia... but these filters are tweakable. I found on a german forum a funny "Color saturation effect" for Dxtweaker (in the middle of the page): http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/sh...2&page=33&pp=20 Dxtweaker postfilters plugins are xml-files but you can open them with Notepad. Maybe it's possible to write a Bloom filter with this tool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexX Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Does anyone know "DXtweaker"?http://www.nonatainment.de/web/DirectXTwea...58/Default.aspx ~ Dxtweaker postfilters plugins are xml-files but you can open them with Notepad. Maybe it's possible to write a Bloom filter with this tool... helloooo, whats this.... Sepia.xml - <Effect Display="Sepia"> <Pass Destination="Display"> <Source Sampler="0" Name="Backbuffer"/> <FConst Start="0"> <Vector X="0.30" Y="0.59" Z="0.11" W="1.0"/> <Vector X="0.02" Y="0.02" Z="0.02" W="0.0"/> <Vector X="5.8731" Y="2.38095" Z="1.0" W="1.0"/> </FConst> <PixelShader> <![CDATA[ ps_2_0 dcl_2d s0 dcl t0.xy texld r0, t0, s0 dp3 r0,r0,c0 mul r0,r0,r0 sub_sat r0,r0,c1 add r0,r0,c1 mul r0,r0,c2 mov oC0,r0 ]]> </PixelShader> </Pass></Effect> !! This looks pretty powerful, but one concern is distribution. I doubt everyopne will want to launch GTA via the Dx tweaker. But thanks for the link, im gonna poke around with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-/TNT\- Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 (edited) Has this stopped? It sounds good and and simple the way it upgrades the visual experience the game provides us. Don't drop it dudes. Hey Dogmeat! Where did you download the black and white smartshader? Edited September 13, 2006 by -/TNT\- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somebody902 Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 DexX has that real reflections mod...if it can add shaders and advanced lighting to the game then maybe it could add the fakeHDR effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexX Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 DexX has that real reflections mod...if it can add shaders and advanced lighting to the game then maybe it could add the fakeHDR effect see, now this is bizarre. i actually just thought of that myself yesterday. Get out of my head! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darecki Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Hmm if not Dexx (we love you btw!! ), maybe someone from gostown makers team could try to add this to SA... And put it together with its great dark shadows HDR for SA with this shadows will be great! PS. sorry for my bad english... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somebody902 Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 so...are there any plans on making the mod, dexx? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darecki Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Give dexx a break, he's very busy.. I understand him that he don't want to try to do this... But maybe someone else could try... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-73 Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Give dexx a break, he's very busy.. I understand him that he don't want to try to do this... But maybe someone else could try... If I didn't have a directx 7 system only I would have brought it to VC quite some ago. I have looked at the source code and it didn't look all that complicated actually. One just would have to hook it properly into the GTA rendering process. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darecki Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Will you try to add this to GTA? I will be very thankful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[CTD]LaBan Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Give dexx a break, he's very busy.. I understand him that he don't want to try to do this... But maybe someone else could try... If I didn't have a directx 7 system only I would have brought it to VC quite some ago. I have looked at the source code and it didn't look all that complicated actually. One just would have to hook it properly into the GTA rendering process. Alex geforce 4 sucks, too. Someone please give him a decent PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somebody902 Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 now all we have to do is wait for that gtaforums user who will add bloom or fakehdr to the gta rendering system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP3 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 GTA SA with that graphic quality would be spectacular. -------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gouveia Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Can't we just Gostown's exe on SA so it has a similar effect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darecki Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 gostown hasn't HDR or sth like that... But it could look great with HDR/bloom etc. Dexx is making Bloom for SA, this FakeHDR is using SM2.0. Dexx, your Bloom uses SM2.0 or 3.0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-73 Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 LaBan,Dec 21 2007, 22:05] Give dexx a break, he's very busy.. I understand him that he don't want to try to do this... But maybe someone else could try... If I didn't have a directx 7 system only I would have brought it to VC quite some ago. I have looked at the source code and it didn't look all that complicated actually. One just would have to hook it properly into the GTA rendering process. Alex geforce 4 sucks, too. Someone please give him a decent PC Lol, I support that notion. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthTemplar Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 It's to bad that SA has really bad rendering. But anyway I really support this mod since I love the effects that oblivion has. So power to the mod and keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexX Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 gostown hasn't HDR or sth like that... But it could look great with HDR/bloom etc.Dexx is making Bloom for SA, this FakeHDR is using SM2.0. Dexx, your Bloom uses SM2.0 or 3.0? probably 2.0. certainly not less than that. on a related note, i also own and play oblivion, except i can use the game-native bloom (not the d3d9-dll version). While i would like gta to look like that, there are some other non-bloom enhancements that contribute to the overall effect. The single biggest difference is in the sky. In oblivion the sky actually exists. It moves, changes colors and has clouds that don't look like blurred pieces of dog sh*t. In gta the sky is a color that fades into the distance fog, with camera-facing "cloud" images that don't actually exist in the world (the clouds you fly through in the sky are there, but the ones that are far, far away don't exist in any physical sense. the fact that they align themselves to the camera makes them look super-fake). I can add bloom to gta, but bloom in and of itself may not be enough. A more realistic example of the "look" that i'm going for, would be in Need For Speed : Most Wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP3 Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 (edited) I have this game Oblivion more editing it is possible how can edit GTA SA? We could try to reverse the process if possible, edit this game to become similar to GTA SA. Because of this could maybe create a gta more real and more graphics features. That would be only a possibility. Where can I find the link to this dawload Oblivion? I am curious. Edited January 5, 2008 by JP3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l.l.cool.j Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 NO sry man you are an idiot this is not warez! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamerShotgun Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I have this game Oblivion more editing it is possible how can edit GTA SA?We could try to reverse the process if possible, edit this game to become similar to GTA SA. Because of this could maybe create a gta more real and more graphics features. That would be only a possibility. Where can I find the link to this dawload Oblivion? I am curious. Sorry, but you are an idiot mate... Other than that, i really don't thiink we could get HDR effects in SA..Simply because the renderware engine. Of course DexX is doing a nice job, but everything is limited to a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derty Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I have this game Oblivion more editing it is possible how can edit GTA SA?We could try to reverse the process if possible, edit this game to become similar to GTA SA. Because of this could maybe create a gta more real and more graphics features. That would be only a possibility. Where can I find the link to this dawload Oblivion? I am curious. Sorry, but you are an idiot mate... Other than that, i really don't thiink we could get HDR effects in SA..Simply because the renderware engine. Of course DexX is doing a nice job, but everything is limited to a point. Not really. I mean, yea, that dude really is being an idiot lately, but there really is no limit. The limit is only in the knowledge of the person revamping the rendering engine. Entire files could be replaced, instead of adding new sh*t... If someone spent enough time at it, GTASA could look like IV, minus hi def textures and hi poly models. It would take a lot of work, it is rare to find someone who can do it, but it can be done. Will it? No. I'm with you there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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