Grim And Somber Realism - A Raytraced ReShade Preset
This is a ReShade preset featuring a somber color palette to make AC Valhalla feel cold and not-welcoming, as it should be. Includes Conditional Vibrance, Bloom, and a RayTracing shader among other effects.

Ray Tracing:
The raytracing shader I coded uses a simple ray marching technique to trace rays through the scene and accumulate the color and distance along the ray.

Keep in mind that this shader is not a complete ray tracing solution and would not provide the same level of accuracy and realism as hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

The benefit however is that this shader is not costly on performance, and still produces a relative good ray tracing effect.

Installation
- Download ReShade 5.8.0 (or later) 
- Download this preset here and put it in your ACValhalla folder
- Run ACValhalla and when on the title page, press 'Home' on your keyboard to access ReShade
- Select 'Grim and Somber Realism' as your preset
- Play and enjoy!

Special Thanks / Credits

CeeJay.dk for code used in my Conditional HDR shader.

CeeJay.dk for the UI used in my Conditional Vibrance shader.

Pascal Matthäus ( Euda ), Marot Satil, JJXB for code used in my Conditional SSDO shader.

ChatGPT for helping out with questions I had about ray tracing. Also for contributing with the 'Radiant Realism' name.

Heathen for the Pirate Shaders.