SkyGfx: PS2, Xbox and Mobile graphics for PC

[Snowshoe]

PIX actually crashes SAMP after the loading screen, heh. I'll try to see if I can get a snapshot.

 

EDIT:

 

I captured a frame of it (blue squares on the ground). It should have the render states.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/sj3e1pv7yn9qoum/lightshad.PIXRun

 

FYI to anyone wanting to run PIX with SAMP, start a new experiment, click "More Options" and go under the "Target Program" tab. Put the path to samp.exe as the Program path. For command-line arguments, put the IP address and port. Change "Skip 0 processes" to 1 so it skips samp.exe and captures gta_sa.exe. You'll need to check the box at the bottom to stop it from crashing. Once it's started, choose a small resolution like 640x480 so the file isn't huge. Capture whatever with F12 and then quit the game, save the experiment as a PIXRun.

 

 

There are probably people that know this program better than I do. So there.

Edited April 19, 2016 by Snowshoe

[Juicy/M/]

I was curious about if it's possible to change the reflection on vehicles somehow, a bit brighter & stuff, because right now, when I'm playing SAMP it looks like this.

http://i.imgur.com/XSb0bCd.png

[Alex555]

Use SilentPatch and that gonna do the trick.

[Raskaipika]

Hi mates, I've seen a strange thing in GTA III, in the intro cutscene (before to escape from police with 8-ball in the kuruma), the cars are changing their colours all the time until the bridge section of the cutscene, I don't know if this bug is from the PC version, it's for use this MOD or I'm doing something wrong, is there a FIX for this BUG???

Edited April 19, 2016 by Raskaipika

[TWIST_OF_HATE]

Guys, I just started to discovering SkyGfx for GTA III, first I want to get xbox-style car reflections, is this correct ini settings for them ?

 

 

texblendSwitch=0

texgenSwitch=0

IIIEnvFrame=0

VCReflections=1

xboxCarPipe=1

rimLight=0

xboxWorldPipe=-1

dualPass=1

disableBackfaceCulling=0

txdLimit=850

 

 

[Rachel Amber]

Guys, I just started to discovering SkyGfx for GTA III, first I want to get xbox-style car reflections, is this correct ini settings for them ?

 

 

texblendSwitch=0

texgenSwitch=0

IIIEnvFrame=0

xboxCarPipe=1

rimLight=0

xboxWorldPipe=-1

 

Guys, I just started to discovering SkyGfx for GTA III, first I want to get xbox-style car reflections, is this correct ini settings for them ?

 

 

texblendSwitch=0

texgenSwitch=0

IIIEnvFrame=0

VCReflections=1

xboxCarPipe=1

rimLight=0

xboxWorldPipe=-1

dualPass=1

disableBackfaceCulling=0

txdLimit=850

 

 

 

dualPass=1

disableBackfaceCulling=0

txdLimit=850

 

 

i think you should disable vcreflections from 1 to 0

Edited April 20, 2016 by NOskillx

[TWIST_OF_HATE]

^

With xboxCarPipe=1 reflections looks very similar to xbox, if not better . Someday I will buy this damn original Xbox, just for III ))

[Rachel Amber]

looks exa

 

^

With xboxCarPipe=1 reflections looks very similar to xbox, if not better . Someday I will buy this damn original Xbox, just for III ))

looks exacly this same because is ported from xbox did you turn off this vcreflection? because is to vc not 3 and can cause bugs

 

EDIT: The Hero reflections is batter the crappy enb series did you check xbox mod? to gta 3 use this reflections with xbox mod looks awesome i buy xbox too

Edited April 20, 2016 by NOskillx

[TWIST_OF_HATE]

NOskillx, yes, I turn off VC reflections. And of course waiting for Xbox Mod update, and for Skin and Bones release, and even for rain droplets, as well as for PS2 waves for SA. Hope is the thing with feathers ))

 

Just want to clarify one thing - is it normal for xbox car reflections ?

1. From this angle car looks too dark, and too much radiant:

 

 

 

 

2. From other angle seems to be fine:

 

 

 

 

3. But if Claude gets a little bit closer to this car from same position, her color become slightly more shining:

 

 

 

 

It may hard to recognise with screenshots, but in-game it looks weird sometimes.

Edited April 20, 2016 by TWIST_OF_HATE

[stef_92]

Download The Hero's XBOX vehicles and try them. It may make a difference. You can also try his xbox map conversion.

But anyways to me xbox reflections look weird. For example - on a sunny day the car reflects the bright sky even if it's under a shadow (i think even if it's in a tunnel). It's still better than not having reflections at all though.

 

BTW, Hero, is there any way to make the reflection resolution customizable?

[The Hero]

Reflections are always a bit hacky, the xbox game (and skygfx) does it by rendering part of the scene with a camera pointing up then using that as a reflection texture. Of course it isn't perfect.

 

Have you tried setting envMapSize?

[Claude_Lib]

Funny thing, I remember raising the reflection resolution somewhere in the ini. But now I'm looking through it and can't find that parameter.

Edited April 21, 2016 by Claude Liberty

[stef_92]

Reflections are always a bit hacky, the xbox game (and skygfx) does it by rendering part of the scene with a camera pointing up then using that as a reflection texture. Of course it isn't perfect.

 

Have you tried setting envMapSize?

I talk about the GTA 3/VC version of skyGFX and it doesn't have such option

[Rachel Amber]

So this xbox reflections from The Hero are not the same as for xbox?

[Raskaipika]

Hi mates, I've seen a strange thing in GTA III, in the intro cutscene (before to escape from police with 8-ball in the kuruma), the cars are changing their colours all the time until the bridge section of the cutscene, I don't know if this bug is from the PC version, it's for use this MOD or I'm doing something wrong, is there a FIX for this BUG???

Has anyone taken a look at "this bug"??, I don't know if this is a bug of Skygfx 2.0c (GTA III version) or it is a bug of the PC version.

[The Hero]

I talk about the GTA 3/VC version of skyGFX and it doesn't have such option

Yes it does, envMapSize. Maybe i forgot it in the ini...

 

 

So this xbox reflections from The Hero are not the same as for xbox?

No, they're not the exact same, but probably 95%. Most notably the xbox doesn't render a reflection texture every frame but only every, i dunno, second or so and blends these. There were some other slight differences that could have to do with frustum culling, I'm not so sure.

[stef_92]

Yes, it seems that you forgot to put it. Anyways I tried to use it and now it works. I set it to 512 and it looks amazing.

[Blackbird88]

Cool. So is it envmapsize=512?

[The Hero]

Note that the texture size is always a power of 2. If it isn't it is rounded (down i think).

[SilverRST]

What if you put 4096?

[stef_92]

What if you put 4096?

Try it yourself and hope that your GPU will handle it

[SilverRST]

 

What if you put 4096?

Try it yourself and hope that your GPU will handle it

 

I don't have GTAIII. For some reason the game starts compressing after I start the game the first time. My GPU is a freaking GTX780.

[stef_92]

 

 

What if you put 4096?

Try it yourself and hope that your GPU will handle it

 

I don't have GTAIII. For some reason the game starts compressing after I start the game the first time. My GPU is a freaking GTX780.

 

There is no reason - it's supposed to be like that. When you start GTA3 and there isn't txd.img file in models, the game creates a new one and puts all uncompressed txd files inside it.

And what the hell of a reason is this for not playing GTA 3

Edited April 22, 2016 by stef_92

[The Hero]

My GPU is a freaking GTX780.

That's the problem. Your GPU doesn't support palettized textures so the game has to convert them. Maybe the game even creates a txd.img anyway, not sure, but with modern GPUs it will always do that.

[pep legal]

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Repeating my long past request :

 

Gamma control for SA would be very welcome (and not hard for you, I believe).

 

That's the main reason to keep using Colormod (which fight with skygfx).

 

Thanks for all you job man.

[liamedwards12]

Using the PS2 map mod from Hero and the rotor alphas are totally messed up, when i use stock PC dff/txd for helicopters, it's fine but then reflections mess up, or am i missing something, i have SkyGfx/SilentPatch installed (Both on default settings) TwoPassRendering is off in SilentPatch.

 

Edited April 25, 2016 by liamedwards12

[Miller786]

Here i am, checking in once again on the progress of mobile postfx to pc, how is it going? any progress? still working on it?

[The Hero]

Urgh, this dreaded sh*t again. Converting the ps2 textures with magictxd would be a good solution i think.

 

RE mobile fx: no, nothing.

Edited April 25, 2016 by The Hero

[Catarax]

When I try it on GTA 3 or Vice City, i get this error at startup :

 

Is there something wrong with the current version or my mods has a conflict?

Thanks!

Edited April 25, 2016 by Catarax

[Claude_Lib]

You need to read the instructions take "neo_iii" or "neo_vc" folder depending on the game, move it to the game root folder and rename it to just "neo".