SkyGfx: PS2, Xbox and Mobile graphics for PC

[inadequate]

Will be the Vice City transparent aim toggleable in some future version of skygfx?

[iiCriminnaaL]

Really amazin'! Can't wait to use 'em ingame!

Edited July 7, 2017 by Kane49

[gts.]

15 users in the topic. Everybody is waiting the release!

[The Hero]

Sorry, I need a bit more time. Give me until tomorrow. I don't want to rush it.

[iiCriminnaaL]

Sorry, I need a bit more time. Give me until tomorrow. I don't want to rush it.

Take your time, bruh.

[Rachel Amber]

but ok take your time. hype over.

Edited July 7, 2017 by NOskillx

[inadequate]

Sorry, I need a bit more time. Give me until tomorrow. I don't want to rush it.

The more time you take, the better will be. So, take your time aap. I'm so hyped to see the new improvements and more accuracy.

[Reyks]

Take as much time as you want.

 

I'm curious how these reflections and sun glare look on planes/helis/boats.

[fannys]

[Blue]

Holy crap, them graphics.

[El Dorado]

cars are too bright inside that tunnel

 

but I suppose nothing can be done about that

[The Hero]

Version 3.1 turned out to be bigger than I had thought. See OP for the link to the release.

The first two inis are PS2 and PC like config as before. The third ini has some custom settings like the neo reflections and VC sun glare.

 

Changelog 3.1 for SA:

 

neo waterdrops (not too well tested, only when raining; thanks to Thirteen AG for porting them from skygfx_vc)neo reflections (thanks to ASH for coming up with nice tweaking table values)fixed multipass distance on carsfixed near water square (not accurate ps2 pipeline though)VC sun glareIII/VC trails (mainly for UG)export function to get config (mainly for UG)transparent target lockonps2 rain grain (no change needed after all)ps2 ambient light for building pipeline (lightning illuminates world is optional)fixed some issues caused by dual passrewrote *a lot* of pipeline code. visual changes due to that:  fixed env1 mapping on cars (should be hardly noticable)  wet road effect on buildings

Hope I didn't forget anything.

 

And I hope I didn't break anything. I rewrote pretty big parts of skygfx (mainly car and building pipelines) so it's quite possible I've introduced some bugs with it.

 

Have fun!

Edited July 8, 2017 by The Hero

[_𝓐𝓖]

Version 3.1 turned out to be bigger than I had thought. See OP for the link to the release.

The first two inis are PS2 and PC like config as before. The third ini has some custom settings like the neo reflections and VC sun glare.

 

Changelog 3.1 for SA:

neo waterdrops (not too well tested, only when raining; thanks to Thirteen AG for porting them from skygfx_vc)neo reflections (thanks to ASH for coming up with nice tweaking table values)fixed multipass distance on carsfixed near water square (not accurate ps2 pipeline though)VC sun glareIII/VC trails (mainly for UG)export function to get config (mainly for UG)transparent target lockonps2 rain grain (no change needed after all)ps2 ambient light for building pipeline (lightning illuminates world is optional)fixed some issues caused by dual passrewrote *a lot* of pipeline code. visual changes due to that:  fixed env1 mapping on cars (should be hardly noticable)  wet road effect on buildings

Hope I didn't forget anything.

 

And I hope I didn't break anything. I rewrote pretty big parts of skygfx (mainly car and building pipelines) so it's quite possible I've introduced some bugs with it.

 

Have fun!

 

Thanks for this, You are my TheHero , someone said it already?

[iiCriminnaaL]

Finally, I'm playing PS2 Version again, but in PC!

 

Good job

[Rachel Amber]

The Hero i love rain droples THANKS! :3 they lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!! freakin' AWESOME!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqx7q9EzFrQ&feature=youtu.be

THANK YOU

[LaDiDa]

This is so cool, it's like we finally got the PC version of SA we should've had from the start! Thanks a lot for your hard work on this!

[Crspy]

This is freaking awesome , one thing though .....i think Skygfx is incompatible with FLA

 

if i use both , game crash at loading screen without generating a crashlog neither in modloader.log or fastman92limitadjuster.log.

 

but if i use only one of them ..... game works fine.

Edited July 8, 2017 by Crspy

[Rachel Amber]

i dont think so.... i use SKY GFX with FLA in GTA Underground and everything works fine... i use latest FLA NOT the one included with GTA UG

[Crspy]

i dont think so.... i use SKY GFX with FLA in GTA Underground and everything works fine... i use latest FLA NOT the one included with GTA UG

me too , that's weird ..... also here's another thing ...... at the first time the game worked fine with both of them installed but when i exit the game and run it again ( crash without a log )

 

so i thought about the order of asi plugins being loaded , i renamed FLA asi to be loaded after skygfx .... problem solved !

 

edit : nope , it's not. exit the game and run it again > crash.

 

edit 2 : crashes happen randomly even with only skygfx installed

 

edit 3 : never mind , fixed it >_>

Edited July 8, 2017 by Crspy

[_CP_]

@aap
What's the draw distance of neo reflections?

[ural]

I confirm the neo water drops with bugs, it doesn't always happen but the fact

 

[Rachel Amber]

well i played like an hour and i didn't had any Rain droples bug's yet anyway The Hero are you gonna rework .ini's sometime soon? because they look's messed up.... they not soo clean and groupped LIKE 3/VC one...

 

EDIT: But still... if there are bugs with rain drops i hope Hero gonna fix them for next release.

Edited July 8, 2017 by NOskillx

[Ash_735]

That's because San Andreas has a batch load of choices compared to III/VC,so not only is it PS2, PC, Xbox, but also Spec options and now Neo.

[Rachel Amber]

Yeah i know... Ash, but still there might be a way to group them better and cleaner

Edited July 8, 2017 by NOskillx

[ural]

But this kind of reflection (blue), I did not see in the Vice City. I am use the neo reflection

[iiCriminnaaL]

Any way to turn the PS2 color filter on while keeping the world texture/background quality? It f*cks my eyes up.

[Ash_735]

That's because it's based off timecyc things now, that's what I used as a base to get the colour tints to match the weather, as TheHero said, it's Neo but done better to take advantage of the features it has.

 

I do know blue tints are mainly featured in rainy weathers, so if you were driving around and it was raining previously, then there's a chance you'll see vehicles loaded during those times with the old tints until it syncs up again.

 

Edit: Kane, look in the readme at the Q&A, it tells you what settings to change to keep PS2 Colour Correction but turn off the radiosity blur.

Edited July 8, 2017 by Ash_735

[Dash Shack]

But this kind of reflection (blue), I did not see in the Vice City. I am use the neo reflection

Same here, its needs to be tweaked with different colors especially with dark colors.

[Ash_735]

Well have a go yourselves! You can have as much fun as I did, bear in mind you can't do a vehicles colour to colour basis, and also not to mention some models have differing strength on them.

[The Hero]

The vehicles become blue because the reflection texture is LERPed (linearly interpolated) with the diffuse color and reflects the blue sky. The PS2 reflections on the other hand are *added* to the diffuse pass. Because the ambient surface properties are lower in SA (and unlike III/VC neo reflections we in fact *do* make use of the material's surface properties) the diffuse pass becomes rather dark and the reflection pass is more prominent. Originally I didn't use the surface properties because I copied my code for III/VC reflections but ASH and I liked it better with surface props and it also solved some bugs because the game expects them to be used.

Edited July 8, 2017 by The Hero