[Icik]

Hello everyone, the very good news is that MonoGame OR 3.6 works with ReShade! Finally, you can create a completely realistic look of the simulator.

https://reshade.me/d...Setup_3.0.8.exe

Here's a sample:

[conductorchris]

wow!
It seems like monogame has a number of advantages but we really need someone with expertise to implement.

[cjakeman]

Icik, on 28 October 2017 - 07:29 AM, said:

Hello everyone, the very good news is that MonoGame OR 3.6 works with ReShade! Finally, you can create a completely realistic look of the simulator.

I don't know much about graphics and I had no idea that ReShade existed.

Instant improvements with no great hit on the FPS - sounds too good to be true :-)

[Csantucci]

That looks out very good! Before trying this I have only one question. How can I disable reshade, once done the tests?

[Icik]

On deactivation, simply move / delete the dxgi.dll file in the OpenRails directory.

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[Goku]

I don't like the reshade effect. Maybe it looks like real world, but recorded using 15 year old feature phone.

[ErickC]

Hm, way too much contrast. It looks like they were going for a bleach bypass effect. Tone the effect way down and it'd probably look good.

[conductorchris]

A quick pass by the reshade website suggests one can make settings specific for open rails that presumably could improve things.

[ErickC]

conductorchris, on 29 October 2017 - 09:46 AM, said:

A quick pass by the reshade website suggests one can make settings specific for open rails that presumably could improve things.

That would be really neat, while I think the effect in the shots is a bit much, it looks like it has real potential.

[Genma Saotome]

Goku, on 29 October 2017 - 04:44 AM, said:

I don't like the reshade effect. Maybe it looks like real world, but recorded using 15 year old feature phone.

It's not the software that makes that older content look bad, its the resolution at which you view them. When we all are using UHD monitors it will all look even worse.

[ErickC]

I think the point he was making is that the effect looks like the quality of old camera phones, where the colours were super-saturated and the contrast was ultra-high. To be fair, though, I think that the model resolution we were used to in the latter MSTS days ought to be considered appropriate only for AI use now.

[conductorchris]

Erick, I agree, but I'd rather have the right model that looks bad than a substitute that screams "wrong" to me. I know not everybody thinks like that.
Christopher

[ErickC]

I wholeheartedly agree. I am just acknowledging that, while I think that Goku and I both find the effects of the shader to be overdone, rather than implying any criticism of any of the content in the image, Dave is nevertheless correct when he says that the overall visual quality of the simulator is partially a result of the content in it, and that a lot of it is starting to show its age (I nearly scared myself half to death the other day; I loaded up my GP20). I am speaking to the idea that those of us who build models, from here on out, should probably increase the overall resolution of what we build, because the times they are a-changin'.

[Eldorado.Railroad]

Genma Saotome, on 29 October 2017 - 10:57 AM, said:

It's not the software that makes that older content look bad, its the resolution at which you view them.

Oh brother ain't that the awful truth!

[Eldorado.Railroad]

Reshade has a whole .ini file to fool around with. Personally I have used it since day one to sharpen the most stubborn TS-20xx screens. TS-20xx refuses to allow any image output changes with my invaluable Nvidia Inpector. But Reshade allows me to get back at least some of what I want, which means getting rid of the blurriness that I hate and also allows be to brighten some of the over dark areas, especially in cab views, which at times are almost pitch black. Where is that switch to start the engine!