I can´t believe this is ME1! Man, what an improvement! I feel curious to try, but I´m always scared of bugs and crashes. I tried to use improved textures once, but the n7 armor looked weird, and the shadows over the faces had a strange look.
Could someone post pictures of the geth? Were they re-done? The close-up during the scene just after they set up the explosives would be nice.
I can´t believe this is ME1! Man, what an improvement! I feel curious to try, but I´m always scared of bugs and crashes. I tried to use improved textures once, but the n7 armor looked weird, and the shadows over the faces had a strange look.
Could someone post pictures of the geth? Were they re-done? The close-up during the scene just after they set up the explosives would be nice.
Read the readme to avoid crashes and fix shadows you don't like and the N7 armor had a fix, but I've now added a new fix that doesn't require demanding AA either way the information has always been in there to fix the things you say you didn't like, but people do need to take the time to read. There no way around it.
here are the geth:
Kudos to the persons who were involved with this project. Unlike some modders who truly innovate and go far beyond the original source material, they tried to offer a vast improvement over the ME1 graphics while still trying to remain faithful to the game visual identity. I´m really astonished. The new textures try to follow the lines of the original without deviating from the creator´s vision. Bravo! Really a superb job! I liked in particular what they did with the volus.
I realize I'm probably in the minority here, but I rather liked the alterations to the FemShep complexion(s) you did for the previous versions of this mod and created a Shepard with that alteration in mind. Out of curiosity, might you have preserved those textures in a separate .tpf somewhere?
I realize I'm probably in the minority here, but I rather liked the alterations to the FemShep complexion(s) you did for the previous versions of this mod and created a Shepard with that alteration in mind. Out of curiosity, might you have preserved those textures in a separate .tpf somewhere?
this should have the old versions: http://social.biowar...ect/5275/#files
CD, did you make notes of your Generic ENB usage and settings somewhere ? I'd like to experiment a bit, and IIRC it's only mentioned in passing in this thread.
Currently this is not possible as the uniform in that image is a different mesh. Until we have mesh importing capability for the ME1 portion of the Explorer tools, this will remain the case.
I just uploaded fixed versions of the new mod, apparently the chairs on the normandy had the black texture glitch and I missed it on in my initial testing. Now I have corrected the issue by compiling a new mod with a newer version of MEExplorer to which also helped with stability issues.
Also one setting in the bioengine.ini that really helped hitching is:
[TextureStreaming]
Currently this is not possible as the uniform in that image is a different mesh. Until we have mesh importing capability for the ME1 portion of the Explorer tools, this will remain the case.
And is anyone working on it? Mesh importing or editing would be awesome in mass effect 1
I've been running into a curiosity and wondered if anybody experienced the same.
When I take tiled shots during dialogue scenes (i.e., after having selected a line on the dialogue wheel) the cells of the tiled shot present different levels of brightness, borking the shot up. For instance :
Some cells are clearly brighter or darker. Has anybody else run into this ?
(I'm using the ME2 shader .usf files, and the shadow settings from the post above. This specific shot is a TiledShot 2 1080, but it happens for other multipliers and overlap values).
I've been running into a curiosity and wondered if anybody experienced the same.
When I take tiled shots during dialogue scenes (i.e., after having selected a line on the dialogue wheel) the cells of the tiled shot present different levels of brightness, borking the shot up. For instance :
I haven't seen that in my tests.
I haven't seen that in my tests.
Then it's time for an exciting sequence where I waste hours changing lighting-related settings to see what corrects this effect. :-)
EDIT - ain't the shader cache, ain't the ambient occlusion, ain't any shadow setting I could find, ain't the tiledshot syntax itself AFAICT... ain't using the ME2 shaders... mmm... ain't the bloom...
EDIT - I think it might be some sort of vignette effect, actually, rather than lighting.
That shot definitely looks like NVidia's new HBAO+ ambient Occlusion rearing its ugly head (it does this in ME). I have seen similar results in certain shots, though nothing quite that bad, but very similar. The HBAO is too strong and reveals the low polys of the characters. I've also seen it in Assassins Creed 1 so I'm guessing its an Unreal Engine compatibility issue. To avoid it I have to set the AO value in NvidiaInspector to max quality and leave it on Mass Effect AO compatibility. The issue is noticeable in some scenes but nothing that glaring. Also you can't run the game using all of ME2 shaders or it will crash, which ones are you using to avoid crashing?
That shot definitely looks like NVidia's new HBAO+ ambient Occlusion rearing its ugly head (it does this in ME).
Interesting, thanks; lemme test.
Okay, the diagnosis is correct - with both Ambient Occlusion Usage set to "Disabled" and Ambient Occlusion Setting set to "Off" in Nvidia Inspector, the issue vanishes. Simply setting usage to "Disabled" but leaving the setting on "High Quality" didn't solve the issue for some reason, fooling me into thinking it wasn't an AO issue. The compatibility bit remains 0x00000020 (Mass Effect) in all cases.
A quick test with AO set on "Quality" rather than "High Quality" shows little improvement, unfortunately :
I'll try lower qualities once I've finished my current work.
About the shaders, I experimented for a bit with the ME2 .usf files BranchingPCFCommon.usf, BranchingPCFModProjectionPixelShader.usf and BranchingPCFProjectionPixelShader.usf -- but I've reverted to the ME1 versions while doing tests about my TiledShot issue.
The old vignette effect that plagued TileShot on (some ? most ? all ?) NVidia cards is still present for me, BTW - using a GeForce 770 with the latest non-beta drivers. The traditional fix of disabling the post-processing on two lines in the bioengine.ini file does work fine, though.
I'll try lower qualities once I've finished my current work.
As it happens there are only three settings, so let's check performance. More or less the same shot, one in TiledShot 3 1920 and the other in TiledShot 2 since lower TiledShot settings tend to attenuate the effect :
Much better, but there's still a clear bug under her mouth on Performance / Enabled Nvidia AO.
At this point all that Nvidia really does is is the anti-aliasing, texture filtering LOD and texture filtering quality. Deactivating the Mass Effect post-processing in the .ini to avoid the vignette effect ruining TiledShots also, to my knowledge, takes out the in-game Bloom (and the Depth of Field, but I don't like DoF anyway).
So I am vaguely wondering whether I'm not served deactivating the NVidia Inspector anti-aliasing and going instead for SweetFX with aggressive SMAA, conservative Bloom and Dither, and perhaps a tiny bit of Vibrance. I also wonder how widespread these issues are among NVidia users, though all this stuff is only a problem if you need to take TiledShots. Which I'd imagine isn't a huge population.
Yeah I think it's just their new form of ao they used to use SSAO a few drivers back, now they use HBAO+ which is glitchy with a lot of older games :/. So I just disable it lately I wish we could select which one to use give us both the old method and new method as options.
Yeah I think it's just their new form of ao they used to use SSAO a few drivers back, now they use HBAO+ which is glitchy with a lot of older games :/. So I just disable it lately I wish we could select which one to use give us both the old method and new method as options.
Now that I look again, Performance HBAO+ isn't *that* bad even with a TiledShot 2 - and from reading up I'm getting the impression it might be the more reasonable compromise. Namely, solid AO that looks good in the environment at the cost of some artefacts when I do closeups - but if it's a closeup shot, TiledShot is dispensible, isn't it ?
So, more testing and more shots will ensue to see whether Performance is indeed workable. :-) But with your information about HBAO+, I now understand a glitch I had in Everquest 2, and from further reading what to avoid in Assassin's Creed 1. I kinda like older games.
And apparently HBAO+ used to be even worse with ME1 and AC1, making surfaces completely dark. So they *did* make an effort to make their tech compatible with some old games relatively few people play, which I suppose is the best we can expect.
EDIT - furthermore the one glitch on my Femshep is because of her heavily mixed features - the African-ish large mouth with the European-ish marked chin make for a sharp angle and ME1 doesn't have enough polys to handle that. Somebody with a more rounded face, like Captain Anderson, is pretty much problems-free on Performance HBAO+.
And is anyone working on it? Mesh importing or editing would be awesome in mass effect 1
To my knowledge, no one has worked on adding new features to the ME1 Explorer set in quite a while, not since Texplorer was added. Most of the attention has been focused on the ME3 suite. So unless a newcomer coder takes interest in ME1, I doubt it will happen.
Took these Screenshots to show off the amazing work you put into Nihlus Armour. 
Took these Screenshots to show off the amazing work you put into Nihlus Armour.
Huh? The lighting seems... better? Did you use any external programms or just the modders settings?
Huh? The lighting seems... better? Did you use any external programms or just the modders settings?
I use SweetFX http://sfx.thelazy.n...mes/preset/598/
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