About this mod
ac5vd attempt reshade, mostly like my other reshades but with extra functions for specific style to mimic older ac games run thru cable AA filter, made specifically using 1080p monitor(no hdr function)
- Permissions and credits
long description:
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what do i mean when i say old ac games visuals on console is what i based this reshade on?:
360 monitor settings:(used for ac5, ac5vd)
brightness 50 contrast 99 saturation 81, color temp UserMode* 100 R 100 G 100 B(no cool/normal/warm mode activated) gamma 2.5 overdrive lvl 3, no sharpness slider on monitor so default sharpness i guess
ingame ac5 ac5vd settings:
47 ingame brightness and cyan hud(all 4 ac games on console has cyan as option)
360 console settings:
1080p, standard color reference, 709y color space
hdmi cable used: marseille inc mCable Gaming which gives CMAA filter antialiasing, but as side effect makes blur, combined with Image Sharpening filter, seems to be a finesharp/highsharp like-filter, its there to mitigate the AA technique adding blur
- overall the cable and these old ac games combined makes for a darker image, ..CMAA plus image sharpening on fine lines and textures makes everything looks AA'd and straight with only downside of the remaining blur that sharpening could not remove being added as slight outline to image, this is overall what the reshade is emulating, and ofc i have not forgotten the forced CA and color palette of these games, i will add tho that im using a CA, vignette, bloom removing mod that ill write below of mod info about and instead use flexibleCA reshade filter with low effect for better result, as far as the lens flare in those games are concerned i take a reduced effect, can be manually disabled
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main mod info:
for best result with mod, psa: reshade mod will make ui elements like text be slightly worse but actually that is also close to 360 mcable output as ui there is also not untouched by filter aa and sharpening.
pc monitor settings:(used for ac6 with reshade)
brightness 50 contrast 67 saturation 50, color temp UserMode* 100 R 100 G 100 B(no cool/normal/warm mode activated) gamma 2.5 overdrive lvl 3, no sharpness slider on monitor so default sharpness i guess
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ingame settings:
borderless windowed mode 1080p, quality settings: max, low aa, medium, off, off, medium, max, high or max effects(i use high), medium, high, low, high, off
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nvidia settings:
adjust desktop size and position: integer scaling(perform scaling on gpu), adjust desktop colour settings: colour accuracy mode: reference, (on .exe)3d program settings:
nvidia imagine sharpening 0.07 ignore film grain 0.00, gray, 16 af, off, off, app cont, gray, off, 60, all, pref sysmem, on, 60, off, prefer comp, gpu, normal, app cont, off, clamp, high quality, off, threaded opt off, off unless vsync, off unless vsync, 1, gray, pref dxgi swapchain
if you have a x3d cpu i suggest PBO 2 tuner with -30 curve but thats more of thing for lower cpu temp and fan noise)
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general windows settings:
go bottom left in windows, windows search Graphics, select the windows feature, add .exe to the list and click high performance
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other then that i suggest looking for a guide on how to play ac6 offline(you can set startup as offline ingame but i suggest a guide also) as playing with mods gets you booted from mp servers and prob flagged for no more mp access
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mods that i use and mods that are optional listed here, kudos to the modmakers of the mods below, give endorsements to them not me, reshades are very simple in comparison
to use mods in ac6 be offline ready and use modloader 2 https://github.com/soulsmods/ModEngine2/releases
mods that i use
https://www.nexusmods.com/armoredcore6firesofrubicon/mods/202 ACVI HUD Palette , dark cyan
https://www.nexusmods.com/armoredcore6firesofrubicon/mods/26 Text size increase , large
https://www.nexusmods.com/armoredcore6firesofrubicon/mods/121 ACVI Raw Graphics , Bloom + CA + Vignette
- to make reshade overlay pop up ingame click keyboard button to the left of backspace
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for users of my other reshades looking for a non 360 with mcable look that retains the colors, clarity, tex sharpness, better shadow but wants better Lines that does not replicate the interesting mix of aa and blur with sharpened textures that mcable provides do these changes to these .fx:
-NFAA.fx mask adjustment from 4.000 to 1.000 as baseline, do the other changes first then come back and lower from 1.000 into minus, if 1.000 is not good
-Depth_Cues.fx blur shade from 1.000 to 0.000
-NFAA.fx aa power from 64 to 32, or 16 to make aa less strong and lines more sharp/jaggy
-FlexibleCA.fx putting all 3 to 0.500/0.400/0.470/0.460, or 0.00
-Bloom.fx disable entire filter to remove light lensflare, in ac5/ac5vd lensflare was very normal and annoying but i took lesser strength, and decided not to have any dirt lens either as only certain snow/desert missions with harsh weather effects would make a dirt lens effect, enabling it globally would be daft, cheers.