(Latest Reshade Fix) MeowShader Fix - A stylishly beautiful ReShade preset by wara 1.0.1

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Update to MeowShader - A stylishly beautiful ReShade preset created by wara, All credit goes to wara, all I did was make it run on the latest ver of reshade as wara seems to have left the community & I got no reply from him after 2 months :(

PLEASE READ ORIG POST & THE IN GAME SETTINGS + RESHADE SECTION BEFORE COMPLAINING ABOUT ISSUES.



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Original Link (MeowShader 3.7)


Installation:


Simply drag and drop the contents of the MeowShader folder into your SPT directory.


A successful installation should have your user folder and the reshade-shaders folder in the same directory.



DO NOT INSTALL THIS IN YOUR LIVE EFT DIRECTORY. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY BANS THAT MAY HAPPEN SHOULD YOU DO SO!!!




SPT directory should look like this:

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Requirements:

Although not a hard requirement, this preset is made with Amand's graphics mod and will not look as intended without it.

I strongly recommend installing it. It's great!


You do not need to install ReShade. It comes with the mod. More on this below.


Notes on Amand's Graphics mod settings and in-game settings in Waras old 3.7 post


LICENSE NOTICE!

The preset itself is under MIT license. However, ReShade, which comes prepackaged with the mod (no external download and installation required) is under the BSD-3-Clause license. For all intents and purposes, the two licenses are practically the same. However, do keep in mind that the licenses differ in certain aspects. As such, a license file under the BSD-3-Clause is included in the mod files. You do not need to place the license in your SPT folder, but do read it if you intend to redistribute at all!


Keybinds:

Home - Open reshade interface | this conflicts with configuration manager, so either change reshade key or config manager key

End - Toggles Reshade on/off. | Useful for comparing OR for turning off in case you start lagging etc


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Now, before we dive in the sauce... let me make sure everyone understands that ReShading is a SUBJECTIVE experience. There is no "best" or "perfect" preset you can download off the internet. The perfect preset is the one YOU create. ReShade may look intimidating, but it is an incredibly simple tool.


The purpose of this preset is to give you either: a pain free visual enhancement OR to give you a base on which you can build your own perfect preset.




This means don't go commenting "I THINK THIS IS UGLY!!! :cursing: :cursing: :cursing: :cursing: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:"


because I do not care, and you don't understand ReShading.




In-game graphical settings


My specs --- Nvidia 3080 10gb | intel i7 12700K (cpu is not as important for reshade)


I play with grass shadows and this preset was designed with this in mind.

Grass shadows shouldn't be necessary for the preset to look good, but I highly recommend it if you can run this setting.

High-quality Color is also a must have, as I think turning it off can cause Amand's Graphics to have some bugs.

I run every settings on highest except shadows.


if you can run TAA High, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT




This is what I run, but you do not necessarily want to use these settings either. Use settings that give you the best performance to visual fidelity ratio.




No post effects from the post-fx tab in the game settings were enabled when creating this preset.


Using post-fx can be a good way to quickly adjust some color/contrast/brightness stuff to fit your monitor without deep diving into the shader settings.




I highly recommend playing WITHOUT any sharpness in the post-fx tab. This preset comes with two different sharpness techniques that greatly enhance visual fidelity that aren't simply adding a grainy filter over your game.




For Amand's graphics, I HIGHLY suggest enabling mystical glow, as this preset was designed with it in mind.

I suggest not touching any of the tone mapping options, but the rest should be completely fine.



Quick Reshade notes


Shaders are compiled on top of each other, the first being the bottom most, and the last being the top most. Changing the order of the shaders may change the intended result.

As stated above, 99.9% of the time your fps is bottlenecked by your CPU if you have a decent CPU and GPU. Therefore ALL [PERFORMANCE] sections WILL vary depending on your GPU and should not be taken as fact on most medium to high end systems.

You can enable and disable any of these shaders whenever you want. Don't like the changes to color? Take it off. Don't like how bright your game looks? Change it! As I said before, ReShade is a PERSONAL experience where YOU are the arbiter of your perfect preset!



Every monitor is different. This preset looks great on my monitor, but might not on yours.


If it does, great! However, if you want to have a visual overhaul that looks best on your monitor, some tweaking may be required.


All these settings are calibrated for a 2k monitor. You may have to adjust some stuff for 1080p, IDK

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  • My bad man, all good with the update! Months ago the latest version of reshade would make lighthouse crash, so an older version had to be used.

    By the way, if you'd like to update the reshade a bit for performance, I would disable mxao along with a few effects I forget that barely added anything but cost a lot of performance, or make a performance profile or something because this preset was always changing and a lot of stuff was done quickly lol

    In any case, thanks for upkeeping! :)

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    • Hey man! Glad to see you back here! I'll have to have a play at some point but I haven't really had the time recently with work. I'll try and have a look some time next week & see how heavy they are :thumbup:

  • Unusable with any night vision device, lightning is awkward and feel reversed af

    • You can toggle the reshade on and off if thats easier but make sure you have followed the orig posts settings guide & have Amands graphics configured correctly

    • Things are configured right the way, just TAA not high. Went to labs with NVG and it did the opposite of it's purpose: darkened the dark areas and did vivid lightning around light sources.

    • Thank you, I havent played in about a week so i'll test some time this weekend if I get the chance

  • Can you disable your inventory and such being transparent?

    • Ah seems like there is an issue yeah, some UI stuff has a transparent effect. Not sure how to fix it but if anyone knows how i'll update.

    • In the orig post it seems to be this, can disable. It if you really dont like it but I think its worth keeping enabled even with these issues.


      MXAO [qUINT_mxao.fx]

      The big boy. This shader adds ambient occlusion to objects in the game world.

      This makes objects, cars, bodies, your hands and weapon, EVERYTHING look like it's actually inside of the world.

      Some objects look odd or out of place in base EFT. MXAO takes care of that. Maximum immersion!

      There are some cons which may be deal breakers for some, but I personally keep it on since it adds so much more than it breaks.

      [PROS]

      • Great visual upgrade. Adds depth to the world's objects.
      • Enhances thermal and night vision visuals

      [!!!CONS!!!]

      • Ambient occlusion will be drawn OVER your inventory while it's open. It's slightly distracting at first, but you get used to it quickly. There may be a fix, but I don't really care lol
      • Some smaller sized magnified scopes may have a slight darkened tint. The preset is bright and has enhanced clarity, so it kinda equals out, but some might dislike this.
      • There is a rare bug that happens with some scopes in underground areas and the hideout where your scope will be weirdly doubled or look weird. If this happens, press the key to temporarily disable ReShade (End key by default) in the places where this happens. Pretty sure this is a BSG issue and I can't do anything about it.
      • If you REALLY pay attention to some ground stuff, like newspaper, you might notice that the ambient occlusion makes it look like it's floating slightly. That's if you really pay attention though. (Why are you looking at the newspapers on the ground?)
      • The grass part that connects to the ground has MXAO applied to it and looks a bit odd. Hard to notice if you don't look for it.
      • Can slightly "flickery" rarely depending on lighting conditions and some other factors

      [PERFORMANCE]

      • Medium impact
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    looks good I can't turn off film grain.

  • Fixed, sorry about that! :)

  • Fixing a folder I missed...

  • спасибо, не работает.

    • Doesn't work? Have you dragged all of the contents of the 'Ben Meow Shader Reshade Fix' Zip inside your SPT directory? Either that or you can use the files outside of the zip. Same thing, might change it when ive got a sec if its easier for people.

    • Fixed now sorry about that, left the main folder out.