SkyGfx: PS2, Xbox and Mobile graphics for PC

[gts.]

@ThirteenAG can you upload the latest version for SA? I see you finally did all the needed fixes in GitHub. I'll appreciate it. 

[ThirteenAG]

https://transfer.sh/UxMua/skygfx.asi

[The Hero]

I will check them out sometime next week I hope.

[gts.]

12 hours ago, ThirteenAG said:

https://transfer.sh/UxMua/skygfx.asi

Thank you. I've tested it and the boat splash it seems to work only with the Vortex. With the Jetmax, Dinghy, Reefer, etc doesn't seems to show up droplets on the screen as Vice City does with every boat. Is it supposed to be like that?

[ThirteenAG]

I assumed the effect would be same for vortex and boats, but I guess not. Will check.

[ThirteenAG]

Try now: https://transfer.sh/LlPu3/skygfx.asi

[gts.]

1 hour ago, ThirteenAG said:

Try now: https://transfer.sh/LlPu3/skygfx.asi

Here it is all my tests:

• Droplets are appearing on screen when you are driving the COASTGUARD only when you look left or right.
• Droplets are appearing on screen in a loop when you are on the DINGHY doesn't matter if you are driving or not, or even just on it on foot.
• Droplets are not appearing on screen when you are on the JETMAX, no matter what are you doing.
• Droplets are appearing on screen when you are driving the LAUNCH only when you look left or right.
• Droplets are not appearing on screen when you are on the MARQUIS, no matter what are you doing.
• Droplets are appearing on screen when you are driving the PREDATOR only when you look left or right.
• Droplets are not appearing on screen when you are driving the REEFER no matter what are you doing.
• Droplets are appearing on screen when you are driving the SPEEDER only when you look left or right.
• Droplets are not appearing on screen when you are driving the SQUALO no matter what are you doing.
• Droplets are not appearing on screen when you are driving the TROPIC no matter what are you doing.
• Droplets are appearing on screen correctly when you are driving the VORTEX or using Cars Drive On Water cheat.

[checkindza]

Um, this is strange. But is it normal that I get about 20fps drop from this mod? Even without Neo reflections? I have i7-4510U, 8GB, 840M, only with SkyGFX and SilentPatch I get about 50-60fps with Neo Reflections (30-40fps when next to like 5-6 cars) and that's in singleplayer, without Neo reflections I get about 70fps and with only SilentPatch I get about 80-100fps.

Edited October 31, 2018 by checkindza

[LaDiDa]

Pretty normal, dual pass rendering will do that (+ grass is pretty performance heavy as well).

[checkindza]

48 minutes ago, LaDiDa said:

Pretty normal, dual pass rendering will do that (+ grass is pretty performance heavy as well).

And someone told me that SkyGFX isn't fps impactful... But like, even with those things disabled, the result doesn't change for me.

[LaDiDa]

4 hours ago, checkindza said:

And someone told me that SkyGFX isn't fps impactful... But like, even with those things disabled, the result doesn't change for me.

It isn't really, with respectful hardware. Take enb-series for example. That'll decimate performance no matter what. Even with skygfx, 4X SGSSAA is still a possibility for me with just a laptop and it'll stay at a healthy 30 fps (anything higher messes up physics anyway).

[Ash_735]

5 hours ago, checkindza said:

And someone told me that SkyGFX isn't fps impactful... But like, even with those things disabled, the result doesn't change for me.

If you're NOT using any of those features and your performance is still tanking, you probably have a very old GPU or very outdated drivers.

[inadequate]

@ThirteenAG since you're adding and fixing stuff with the droplets... is there a way to enable the droplets using the first person view camera mode when you are looking around to a water source as a broken hydrant, raining, etc in III and VC? I can't remember if the Xbox version had this feature, but anyway would be nice to have it and makes sense.

Edited November 1, 2018 by Inadequate

[ThirteenAG]

3 hours ago, Inadequate said:

I can't remember if the Xbox version had this feature, but anyway would be nice to have it and makes sense.

Pretty sure I wanted it that way from the start, but I think aap made it that way to match xbox behavior.

 

https://transfer.sh/s9GPu/skygfx.asi

New build, boats should work fine now, I increased the distance for camera also.

[gts.]

26 minutes ago, ThirteenAG said:

https://transfer.sh/s9GPu/skygfx.asi

New build, boats should work fine now, I increased the distance for camera also.

It seems to be working fine now. Just a thing, I need to adjust the camera mode to a very close angle everytime I drive the Marquis or any other big boat as Reefer, Tropic, etc to make the droplets appear. It can be fixed? Despite you increased the distance for camera but isn't seems to be working fine.

 

EDIT:

Droplets appear when moving the camera with the mouse, but not from behind angle. I didn't test spinning the camera with the mouse to frontal view of the boat.

 

EDIT 2:

Nothing to do with boats, but droplets doesn't appear at this camera angle when you are swimming:

 

I need to move the camera slightly to get them to appear. I hope i'm not being annoying but I'm trying to report everything that can be fixed or whatever, before a potential release by aap.

Edited November 1, 2018 by gts.

[inadequate]

1 hour ago, ThirteenAG said:

Pretty sure I wanted it that way from the start, but I think aap made it that way to match xbox behavior.

That isn't a problem anymore. Next III/VC build includes two switches for water droplets: 1 for OG Xbox behaviour and 2 for OG Xbox plus every additional behaviour you added to it. So, you can add that feature to your enhanced water droplets behaviour. Will be amazing, I'm really interested in have it that way.

Edited November 1, 2018 by Inadequate

[ThirteenAG]

1 hour ago, gts. said:

Droplets appear when moving the camera with the mouse, but not from behind angle.

I didn't make it to behave that way specifically, but since it's working that way, maybe it's better leave it as is? For example, when you do a mission on a boat, constantly have droplets could be annoying, but when they appear sometimes depending on camera is fine.

1 hour ago, gts. said:

I drive the Marquis or any other big boat as Reefer, Tropic, etc to make the droplets appear. It can be fixed?

Yes, but the idea is to only show droplets if camera is near the water particle.

 

43 minutes ago, Inadequate said:

So, you can add that feature to your enhanced water droplets behaviour.

I can't compile III/VC version currently because there's some shader files missing from repository, so no promises yet.

[gts.]

14 minutes ago, ThirteenAG said:

I didn't make it to behave that way specifically, but since it's working that way, maybe it's better leave it as is? For example, when you do a mission on a boat, constantly have droplets could be annoying, but when they appear sometimes depending on camera is fine. The idea is to only show droplets if camera is near the water particle.

Let's see, it should be water droplets on screen when you looking from behind too, for example in the Marquis water particle it is getting created towards camera direction when you are accelerating, try to reproduce it in your game. When you stop the boat, water particles and skygfx droplets doesn't show up anymore until you accelerate again and is correct in my opinion. If you can test the Reefer and the Tropic to see if water particle behaves the same as Marquis, I'll appreciate it. Also, VC has constantly water droplets on screen when you are driving a boat (IIRC). In few words, the issue now is just with big boats, everything else is working fine. Is the unique thing left and droplets stuff will be fully patched in skygfx for SA in my opinion until something else gets broken lol. What do you think about it?

 

Im gonna check III and VC to see if there are missing stuff too, but I don't think so there are a lot of stuff to do. In comparison to SA of course, since everything to droplets related is working fine there since day 1.

[checkindza]

11 hours ago, Ash_735 said:

If you're NOT using any of those features and your performance is still tanking, you probably have a very old GPU or very outdated drivers.

I have NVIDIA GeForce 840M which is from 2014 and I'm on 416.16 drivers.

11 hours ago, LaDiDa said:

It isn't really, with respectful hardware. Take enb-series for example. That'll decimate performance no matter what. Even with skygfx, 4X SGSSAA is still a possibility for me with just a laptop and it'll stay at a healthy 30 fps (anything higher messes up physics anyway).

The thing is, I'm thinking about starting playing SA:MP again and as with SkyGFX using Neo reflection next to like 5 cars fps can even drop to 30-40fps on singleplayer, then imagine how big of a drop will be on multiplayer? And please don't tell me that my PC isn't capable, even with HD 5450 on like 10-15 years old computer I could play SA:MP with ENB at like 20-30fps but if I remember correctly it was on Windows XP.

Edited November 1, 2018 by checkindza

[ThirteenAG]

20 minutes ago, gts. said:

the issue now is just with big boats

It's not really an issue, since it behaves differently because camera position is further away from the boat.

https://transfer.sh/gg2QY/skygfx.asi

I increased it a little bit more, if you prefer it that way.

[Ash_735]

27 minutes ago, checkindza said:

I have NVIDIA GeForce 840M which is from 2014 and I'm on 416.16 drivers.

There could be a conflict somewhere then as that GPU should be more than enough. 

[checkindza]

1 minute ago, Ash_735 said:

There could be a conflict somewhere then as that GPU should be more than enough. 

Well, I only have Silent's ASI Loader, SilentPatch and SkyGFX installed at the moment so I don't think so that's the problem with mods. And if you're wondering, I'm sure that the game runs on the NVIDIA not Intel, but it only utilizes about 60% of it.

[checkindza]

It appears that I missed one DualPass setting in the .ini, and now even with Neo Reflections fps stays about 60-70 most of the time in single player.

[gts.]

12 hours ago, ThirteenAG said:

It's not really an issue, since it behaves differently because camera position is further away from the boat.

https://transfer.sh/gg2QY/skygfx.asi

I increased it a little bit more, if you prefer it that way.

Great. Thanks a lot, now every boat beahves correctly as happens in VC too. Everything related to water droplets in SA seems to be fully patched now, finally. Now you can ship it again to aap's GitHub. I'll check III and VC later to report stuff that can be fixed or changed somewhat.

 

EDIT:

Even works fine with the Skimmer. That's great!

Edited November 1, 2018 by gts.

[MB7783]

good work, I really do not care much about the water and blood drops on the screen, it's not something I use frequently, but even so it seems excellent that they have been fixed

[JL_2004]

Recently found out about skygfx , and thought it was a wonder , but ever since i installed it , i've been getting a lot of issues with it , Probably the biggest one is with the ps2 config , i've tried many things with the .ini file , When using the ini file for ps2 , it looks something like this


 

Thats the ps2 ini , another issue i have is that , it show up untill i change the res ,then it shows a image , its all black until i change res 

i also have issue with the time , if i die at daytime , and respawn at night , shadows will look like if they were at day light 


only config i managed to make work is the xbox one , having to change settings of course , the shadow issue is still there tho
and havent tried changing the timecyc to the ps2 one , but i think it wont help 

i can allways provide more info , but please help , been trying everything , yet nothing works , love this mod , but i cant enjoy it properly , any help is welcomed

Edited November 2, 2018 by JL_2004
bug

[gts.]

Lovely...

Spoiler

 

[ThirteenAG]

I tweaked underwater check a bit, now droplets should be visible when camera near water and they will instantly disappear if camera put underwater:

https://transfer.sh/mLbvT/skygfx.asi

[inadequate]

@ThirteenAG just a question, is possible to tweak the water droplets that appear on screen when you're driving a boat in SA to the same quantity as VC? I mean, there is a lot of droplets in SA when in VC isn't like that.

 

EDIT:

I see that every additional behaviour apart of boats have the same droplets quantity so is better to not modify it to match everything.

Edited November 2, 2018 by Inadequate

[gts.]

@ThirteenAG what about a few blood droplets when crushing people with the combine harvester? :P