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SweetFX profile, strives to remove green filter from TW1 and add bloom, coziness and warmth to light sources and shadows.
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Screenshot Order:
Each screenshot comes as a pair. The first in the pair is the BEFORE (unmodded) shot, followed by the AFTER(modded) one.
Intro:
This profile took me around 10 hours of tweaking, adjusting, making tough calls and trade offs, so it would be tough to describe everything I did but here are the main things that this profile strives to do: (1) color correct the green filter that was used in the TW1 which puts a tinge of radioactive green on everything. (2) Make the blues more pronounced for warmer more fantasy like shadows and evenings. (3) Probably the biggest thing, add my formula of bloom with some extra red to make firelight, candles and torchlight cosier and warmer while trying to avoid the overly bright and washed out look you can sometimes get with too much Bloom effect. This also has the added benefit of making light sources such as torches more potent. The profiles strength are at night, indoors, sunsets/sunrises and dungeons. Your mileage may vary during the day (some places look great, others a little too red). Try it out. I made this for me and I'm posting it out to share. If you like it, I'd really appreciate an Endorsement. Enjoy!
I've provided fixes for blood color and fog as optional downloads.
Recommended Visual Mods to go Along with this:
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TW1 is based on a 2002 Bioware engine, it's not really possible to make look anywhere as good as a modern game but there a few things you can do freshen it up a bit. Alot of really good mods out there but I'm just going to focus on visuals:
(optional) Texture pack by MasterOfDarkness (use this for extra textures not covered by lexo1000's Overhaul mod):
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-witcher-texturen-mod/downloads/texturen-patch (Install first if you decide to use this - more info below**)
(essential) The Witcher Overhaul Project by lexo1000 (will improve game appearance markedly): http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/703/? (overwrite MasterOfDarkness textures with any conflicting textures from this mod)
Rise of White Wolf by Rustine et Al. (everybody knows this one ... lolol, does an excellent overhaul of armour and characters in addition to UI): http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/669/?
Complete Sword Overhaul by Deadman: http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/719/?
Perfect Blood (install after lexo1000 overhall and replace his blood textures with this): http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-witcher-perfect-blood-mod/images/blood36#imagebox (overwrite files from this mod with my color corrected blood patch)
Fog fix (see download section): install last and overwrite any conflicting textures.
**More about texture packs: lexo1000's overhaul is a true high res texture pack done with allot pain staking effort. He said it took him 100hrs and I beleive it. The of the textures in MasterOfDarkness mod are hit and miss. A lot of the textures were upscaled in Gimp/Photoshop and had an unsharp mask applied to them. That worked really well for some of the textures but not some well for others. Some textures look really good from a few meters away and not so good upclose. Overall, it still looks a lot better then vanilla textures and covers a lot of places lexo1000's overhaul doesn't. The best part of the MasterOfDarkness mod are the magical, fire and light effects which are utterly stunning and look as good as any modern fantasy game. They look just amazing, I would install the mod just for those.
Instructions:
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SweetFX and Reshade are very finicky when it comes to versions. I would recommend that you use this profile with Reshade 1.1.0/SweetFX2.0 and no other versions. You can get them from here: http://reshade.me/sweetfx
Run the reshade/sweetFX installers and choose ...\The Witcher Enhanced Edition\System as destination folder. The installer will automatically select SweetFX for you. When it's done, take my profile (SweetFX_Settings.txt) and place it in: ...\The Witcher Enhanced Edition\System\SweetFX (note, it doesn't go in the same folder as the exec as it used to) and overwrite the generic profile already there.
Each screenshot comes as a pair. The first in the pair is the BEFORE (unmodded) shot, followed by the AFTER(modded) one.
Intro:
This profile took me around 10 hours of tweaking, adjusting, making tough calls and trade offs, so it would be tough to describe everything I did but here are the main things that this profile strives to do: (1) color correct the green filter that was used in the TW1 which puts a tinge of radioactive green on everything. (2) Make the blues more pronounced for warmer more fantasy like shadows and evenings. (3) Probably the biggest thing, add my formula of bloom with some extra red to make firelight, candles and torchlight cosier and warmer while trying to avoid the overly bright and washed out look you can sometimes get with too much Bloom effect. This also has the added benefit of making light sources such as torches more potent. The profiles strength are at night, indoors, sunsets/sunrises and dungeons. Your mileage may vary during the day (some places look great, others a little too red). Try it out. I made this for me and I'm posting it out to share. If you like it, I'd really appreciate an Endorsement. Enjoy!
I've provided fixes for blood color and fog as optional downloads.
Recommended Visual Mods to go Along with this:
---------------------------------------------------
TW1 is based on a 2002 Bioware engine, it's not really possible to make look anywhere as good as a modern game but there a few things you can do freshen it up a bit. Alot of really good mods out there but I'm just going to focus on visuals:
(optional) Texture pack by MasterOfDarkness (use this for extra textures not covered by lexo1000's Overhaul mod):
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-witcher-texturen-mod/downloads/texturen-patch (Install first if you decide to use this - more info below**)
(essential) The Witcher Overhaul Project by lexo1000 (will improve game appearance markedly): http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/703/? (overwrite MasterOfDarkness textures with any conflicting textures from this mod)
Rise of White Wolf by Rustine et Al. (everybody knows this one ... lolol, does an excellent overhaul of armour and characters in addition to UI): http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/669/?
Complete Sword Overhaul by Deadman: http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/719/?
Perfect Blood (install after lexo1000 overhall and replace his blood textures with this): http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-witcher-perfect-blood-mod/images/blood36#imagebox (overwrite files from this mod with my color corrected blood patch)
Fog fix (see download section): install last and overwrite any conflicting textures.
**More about texture packs: lexo1000's overhaul is a true high res texture pack done with allot pain staking effort. He said it took him 100hrs and I beleive it. The of the textures in MasterOfDarkness mod are hit and miss. A lot of the textures were upscaled in Gimp/Photoshop and had an unsharp mask applied to them. That worked really well for some of the textures but not some well for others. Some textures look really good from a few meters away and not so good upclose. Overall, it still looks a lot better then vanilla textures and covers a lot of places lexo1000's overhaul doesn't. The best part of the MasterOfDarkness mod are the magical, fire and light effects which are utterly stunning and look as good as any modern fantasy game. They look just amazing, I would install the mod just for those.
Instructions:
----------------
SweetFX and Reshade are very finicky when it comes to versions. I would recommend that you use this profile with Reshade 1.1.0/SweetFX2.0 and no other versions. You can get them from here: http://reshade.me/sweetfx
Run the reshade/sweetFX installers and choose ...\The Witcher Enhanced Edition\System as destination folder. The installer will automatically select SweetFX for you. When it's done, take my profile (SweetFX_Settings.txt) and place it in: ...\The Witcher Enhanced Edition\System\SweetFX (note, it doesn't go in the same folder as the exec as it used to) and overwrite the generic profile already there.