Give Reshade a try if you have been reluctant!

[Cpt_Piett 4,750]

Been playing around a bit with Cinematic DOF. This is a quite a powerful shader, which gives you fine-grained control over focusing and depth of field. It's quite easy to use once you get the hang of it. You can set the auto-focus point, focal length and aperture, amongst other settings. I just took a couple of photos with a focal length of 40mm and an aperture of 5.6. It even gives overlays to show where the auto-focus point is and what will be in focus etc. 

Download the repository here: https://github.com/FransBouma/OtisFX. Just click on the green code button, then download, extract and copy the shaders and textures folders to the reshade folder. 

And here's a pretty huge collection of shader repositories: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/ReShade#List_of_known_shader_repositories

Edited August 27, 2022 by Cpt_Piett

[MrBitstFlyer 3,882]

2 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Been playing around a bit with Cinematic DOF

Very nice effect 🙂

I've been experimenting after several people said my screenshots had a red/pink tint.  I think the culprit maybe the LUTTools.fx.  I have turned down the effect slightly.  This screenshot hopefully doesn't have a tint!  This is a new profile that tries to stay close to MSFS default with a little extra vibrance. The LocalContrast.fx shader is very nice too - gives some local shadow detail without introducing tints.  I have tried some other sharpening filters but LumaSharpen.fx seems to suit MSFS really nicely.

[AppleUK 14]

8 hours ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Very nice effect 🙂

I've been experimenting after several people said my screenshots had a red/pink tint.  I think the culprit maybe the LUTTools.fx.  I have turned down the effect slightly.  This screenshot hopefully doesn't have a tint!  This is a new profile that tries to stay close to MSFS default with a little extra vibrance. The LocalContrast.fx shader is very nice too - gives some local shadow detail without introducing tints.  I have tried some other sharpening filters but LumaSharpen.fx seems to suit MSFS really nicely.

Thank you for your commentary, the LumaSharpen is so much than the previous sharpening tool I was using!

Do you still use the QuintRegrade?

[Bobsk8 12,792]

And now it begins just like in P3D, every day someone will post that they just discovered a brand  new shader setting that looks better than anyone else has seen, yada yada yada..  I knew this would happen. 😉

[Cpt_Piett 4,750]

37 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

And now it begins just like in P3D, every day someone will post that they just discovered a brand  new shader setting that looks better than anyone else has seen, yada yada yada..  I knew this would happen. 😉

Wow, thanks for dropping by and making this valuable contribution, Bob! It really adds so much to this thread. 

EDIT: Oh, I almost missed that little wink at the end there. It's all good then 😉

Edited August 27, 2022 by Cpt_Piett

[Cpt_Piett 4,750]

Does anyone know anything about the behaviour of usercfg.opt? I've changed a few settings - increased shadow maps to 4096 and turned off sharpen and film grain. Then set it to read only to prevent the sim from overwriting the changes. Is this how others are doing it? 

Edited August 27, 2022 by Cpt_Piett

[Bobsk8 12,792]

4 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Wow, thanks for dropping by and making this valuable contribution, Bob! It's almost like you're offended that some of us like to make the sim look as good as possible. Lol! 

Oh, didn't see you put a little winkey at the end there. It's all good then 😉

Been reading posts like this for many years, nothing has changed except the sim is no MSFS rather than P3D, 

[MrBitstFlyer 3,882]

1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said:

And now it begins just like in P3D, every day someone will post that they just discovered a brand  new shader setting that looks better than anyone else has seen, yada yada yada..  I knew this would happen. 😉

Strange to see chat about shaders in a Reshade thread 😜

[MrBitstFlyer 3,882]

1 hour ago, AppleUK said:

Do you still use the QuintRegrade?

Yes, still use it.  Because I am so new to Reshade I have been experimenting with all the different filters - so many do the same thing in different ways.  My go to profile uses Regrade, but in my testing profiles I'm replacing it.

 

[Sethos 4,397]

1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Wow, thanks for dropping by and making this valuable contribution, Bob! It really adds so much to this thread. 

EDIT: Oh, I almost missed that little wink at the end there. It's all good then 😉

Bob is always complaining, that's his shtick 😁

Edited August 27, 2022 by Sethos

[gregda 21]

For the LumaSharpen.fx, where is that downloaded?  I'm really struggling finding it.  Is it a separate download from the FinalLight package on flightsim.to?  Is it part of SweetFx?  Any help on finding it would be appreciated?  The base fuzzy ground textures drive me crazy and am using GeForceExperience sharpeners but would like to try the LumaSharpen.  Thanks!

[Sethos 4,397]

Just now, gregda said:

For the LumaSharpen.fx, where is that downloaded?  I'm really struggling finding it.  Is it a separate download from the FinalLight package on flightsim.to?  Is it part of SweetFx?  Any help on finding it would be appreciated?  The base fuzzy ground textures drive me crazy and am using GeForceExperience sharpeners but would like to try the LumaSharpen.  Thanks!

During install, it's part of the SweetFX by CeeJay.dk you can tick. 

[Virtual-Chris 682]

2 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Does anyone know anything about the behaviour of usercfg.opt? I've changed a few settings - increased shadow maps to 4096 and turned off sharpen and film grain. Then set it to read only to prevent the sim from overwriting the changes. Is this how others are doing it? 

I would like to know this as well. I also want to disable film grain. 

[gregda 21]

49 minutes ago, Sethos said:

During install, it's part of the SweetFX by CeeJay.dk you can tick. 

Is this the same for Steam version?  I put the SweetFX folder tn the MfS root but it overwrite some FinalLight files so Reshade would not even open then.

[Sethos 4,397]

1 minute ago, gregda said:

Is this the same for Steam version?  I put the SweetFX folder tn the MfS root but it overwrite some FinalLight files so Reshade would not even open then.

Not sure what you are doing but if you got the Steam version, install ReShade like you normally would, tick all the shaders you want during install. To install FinalLight, drop the "Textures" and "Shaders" folders into the MSFS folder, prompting to override / copy into, plus "FinalLight_v1.3.ini" Then fire up the sim, open the ReShade window (END) and load FinalLight_v1.3.ini in the drop down.