General fx items that make the game look better

MileHighGuy · Post by **MileHighGuy** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:20 pm

So I'm trying to make a general fx file that will take advantage of the lighting tools available. I wrote this mini tutorial with help from the wiki. There are a lot of features that don't seem to work. Can you guys tell me if I am missing any parameters for these? Am I missing any useful stuff? Can I get motion blur or soft shadows to work?

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Effect("ColorControl") // affects colors, self explanatory

{

	Enable(1);

        WorldBrightness(0.42);

        WorldContrast(0.44);

        WorldSaturation(0.52);

	PC()

	{

		GammaBrightness(0.48);

		GammaContrast(0.55);

		GammaHue(0.5);

		GammaColorBalance(0.5);

	}

}

Effect("hdr")

{

	Enable(1)

	DownSizeFactor(0.25)  // what fraction of the back buffer to use when bloom (smaller means

                                        // better framerate – don’t go below 0.25)

	NumBloomPasses(3)  // the number of blur passes higher numbers means bigger blooms and

                                    // is more costly

	MaxTotalWeight(1.0)   // the amount to over-brighten the glow areas

	GlowThreshold(0.5)     // value at which a pixel is considered to be blooming lower values

                                      // mean more pixels will be blooming

	GlowFactor(1.0)	 // a factor used to dim the overall appearance of the bloom (probably

                                 // better to use less bloom passes or less total weight)

}

Effect("Blur")  //adds blur, use for humid or damp maps

{

        Enable(1);

        MinMaxDepth(0.95,1.0);

	PC()

	{

		Mode(1) // what does this control?

		ConstantBlend(0.3)

		DownSizeFactor(0.25)

	}

}

Effect("MotionBlur") // no apparent effect

{

	Enable(1);

}

Effect("ScopeBlur") // blurs around scope

{

	Enable(1);

}

Effect("Shadow") // controls the darkness of the shadow

{

	Enable(1)               

    	BlurEnable(0)   // supposed to soften shadow, no visible effect      

     	Intensity(0.0)  // 0 is black, 1 is no shadow. (looks good with 0,0,0 bottom ambient color)    

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Marth8880 · Post by **Marth8880** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:40 pm

ColorControl doesn't work.

Other than that, looks pretty complete.

(Heho, I use most-to-all of these in almost all my maps.

)

MileHighGuy · Post by **MileHighGuy** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:43 pm

Has motion blur ever worked for you?

Marth8880 · Post by **Marth8880** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:50 pm

I'm pretty sure it works.

General fx items that make the game look better

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