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About this mod
Reshade preset with some eye-candy visual improvements (see screenshots). It also automatically ignores *most* of the UI and HUD elements to improve readability while playing.
- Permissions and credits
Overview:
The following effects are used in this Reshade preset:- MXAO
- ADOF
- Blooming HDR
- SSR
- RadiantGI
- AdaptiveFog
- DepthHaze
- LumaSharpen
- UIDetect, This shader is responsible for automatic UI detection and applying masks. IMPORTANT: only works for 1920x1080 resolution.
Probably the most convenient shader is the UIDetect, as you don't have to manually toggle Reshade on/off each time you'd like to do something in your inventory, etc. It also applies a mask whenever you are in a conversation mode (it doesn't apply shaders to conversation text) and to the regular game HUD (minimap and top-right icons are not affected by shaders).
Prerequisites:
UIDetect shader assumes you have the following mods installed:- Universal Widescreen Patcher by Wogg 1.03, to set the game resolution to 1920x1080
- KotOR High Resolution Menus 1.5. UIDetect recognizes UI by comparing pixel values in predefined coordinates, so this mod is necessary to have correct pixels in correct places in the UI
Installation:
- Download and install Reshade. For my playthrough I used Reshade 4.9.1, but I guess it will work for newer versions
- Copy file "UIDetectMaskRGB.png" to "reshade-shaders\Textures" in your game directory. For me, it was "C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Star Wars - KotOR\reshade-shaders\Textures"
- Copy files "UIDetect.fxh" and "UIDetect.fx" to "reshade-shaders\Shaders" in your game directory. Overwrite if necessary. This is a version of UIDetect (made by brussell1) shader modified by me to work with KotOR
- In Reshade menu, use preset "Kotor Reshade Settings.ini"
- In some areas, some effects don't look good. For example, while SSR (Screen-Space Reflections) looks very nice most of the time, it looks bad on Tatooine. I recommend that you set a hotkey to toggle SSR (for example Numpad +), DepthHaze & AdaptiveFog (Numpad -). You can also set a hotkey (I used Numpad *) to toggle all effects – this can be useful for the spaceship mini-game.
Additional info:
If you want KotOR to look exactly like in the screenshots, you want to use the following mods:- Ultimate Character Overhaul -REDUX- along with other High-Resolution mods by ShiningRedHD (ULTIMATE Mod Series)
- High Quality Skyboxes II
- High Quality Cockpit Skyboxes
- High Quality Stars and Nebulas
- High Quality Blasters
- Ebon Hawk's Animated Screen HD
- Widescreen Cockpit and Racing Track on Manaan
- Widescreen Fade-In and Fade-Out Fix
- Fens - Player
- Fens - Female Player
- Fens - Bastila
- Fens - Jolee
- Fens - Juhani
- Fens - Mission
- Fens - Carth
- Fens - Canderous
- Fens - Zaalbar
- Fens - T3-M4
- Fens - HK-47
Not strictly necessary, but highly recommended:
If you'd like, you can modify UIDetect shader yourself to make it work for your resolution, if you use a different one to 1920x1080. In the downloadable files, I included a short guide that might help you go through the process of adjusting the shader.
KotOR 2 version of this mod can be found here.