About this mod
A collection of three carefully-crafted ReShades that offer a range of looks to enhance your game by creating a more vivid, realistic, or cinematic image. Every feature and added effect is optional and can be toggled away with hotkeys from in game, no menu-fiddling required. This is the result of months of work, and you'll feel the quality.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
- Donations
Hotkeys
Toggle Full Preset on/off - END
Toggle ReShade Menu open/close - F4
Toggle Smooth DoF (Matso) - 7 on the numberpad
Toggle Film grain - 3 on numberpad
Toggle Letterboxing (Black bars) - 0 on numberpad (made the letterbox ratio the same size as the milestone letterboxing, for consistency)
Toggle Anamorphic lens distortion and chromatic aberration at the edges of the screen - 2 on the numberpad
Toggle Bloom (colorful/cinematic) - 8 on numberpad (on by default)
Toggle Alternate White Bloom - 6 on numberpad (off by default. Don't use both blooms at once)
Toggle Vignette - * on numberpad
Toggle Sharpening - 5 on numberpad
Toggle all color and lighting changes except bloom (use vanilla colors instead) - 4 on numberpad
Toggle New Advanced Depth of field - / (division key) on the numberpad (off by default, don't use both DoF's at once)
FAQ - Tweaking, Crash Fixes, & Performance Tips
Depth of Field (issue resolution and fine-tuning guide)
You need Reshade framework version 3.4.1 or newer for the Advanced, film-grade DoF to work.
If using the alternate ADoF, it seems impossible to make the game stop blurring the whole outer-rim of itself right after you scan a new object for the first time, sometimes. I think the trade off is worth it as you can still see how many units received and the name of the creature and then just immediately unscope the scanner and bring the scanner back up the second after the Depth-Buffer clears itself (the inconvenced only last as second). Since the new DOF is not twitchy like the last one and has gorgeous big filmic/photographic bokeh circles, this is the one I have enabled by default. If it's really driving you nuts, you could make the DOF toggle the same key as you use to bring up the scanner (if playing with a mouse and keyboard), or you could use the old DoF (Matso), since it does not have this particular problem but does have many others.
To make DoF weaker and push it further from the character/camera, increase "DOF_FARBLURCURVE". I suggest a value no higher than 4.0, but do what you want.
Crash Fixes
If you have a laptop, you have an integrated graphics card (as I do), and your game probably CTDs on launch when you try to use ReShade with this game. BlueStar over on the NMS modding Discord gave me the tip that disabling my integrated graphics card from my device manager will force things to work properly and for me and him has fixed the CTD issue with this game with ReShade.
Performance
DoF is the most performance-hungry effect. Disable it if FPS is a problem for you with this reshade installed.
Bloom is next in line for performance usage. I would personally disable bloom first over disabling DoF, but that's all personal choice.
Adaptive sharpen is next, though the performance impact is very minimal.
The other effects take so little performance that you may as well leave them on if you like the way they look. The backbone of this ReShade, Lightroom, has next to 0 performance cost. Lightroom controls all the color and lighting changes in this ReShade.
I Like Feature A, but Don't Want Feature B (even the color changes)
There's nothing stopping you from using this reshade without the .pak file and thus keeping the game's use of the many different planet biome filters. Your game won't look anything like it does in my pics if you do this, but you should still have a decent look (disable my bloom on winter planets if you don't use the .pak file). You could even just use all the cinematic effects I've included like Depth of field, film grain, bloom and lens flares, etc., and just disable the color and lighting changes by toggling off Lightroom (with 4 on the numberpad) to keep the vanilla look but with many more cinematic flares.
This reshade is all about user choice.
I would still recommend disabling the vanilla cinematic effects with a mod I link to in the Recommended Mods section.
Future Plans
Perhaps I'll add more ReShades to the collection.
Cheers,
Merc
Credits
Myself, your neighborhood friendly MercsAssassin aka AssassinsDecree - for creating this ReShade preset itself
CosmoDerp7 (on the NMS Modding Discord, Seekker here on Nexus) - for creating a LUT on winter planets to keep them from looking overblown, completely blue, and blinding w/this ReShade. Also for removing the vanilla filters for different biomes and ensuring storms still had their filters (to maintain variety) so I could push my changes through w/ReShade.
The thegamer3006 -or- moddinaccount (@gamer#9804 on the NMS Modding Discord)- for creating the original Default Filter Swap mod which allowed me to see how a ReShade like mine would be possible.
Crosire - for creating the ReShade framework itself
MartyMcFly - for a creating a host of ReShade's shaders and effects, including Lightroom, which is the backbone of this ReShade.
I don't know who made all the other ReShade shaders, but a huge thanks to them. If anyone knows, I'll happily credit individual shader authors. The creator of Matso DoF in particular has a huge thanks from me.
@Oppressor11 (from the NMS Modding Discord) - for helping me test the ReShade and providing screenshots throughout development
Special and MASSIVE thanks to @BlueStar on the NMS Modding Discord - Without him I would have likely never got ReShade running with NMS. He let me know that disabling my integrated graphics card would ensure the game loaded properly on my main graphics card.
Recommended Mod List
1. Clear Screen (removes native scanlines, vignette, and chromatic aberration from the game) - https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/616?tab=files
2. Diverse Environments (most of my screenshots have this mod active, the Enhanced version - https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/493
3. Alien Skies - https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/947
4. True Lighting - https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/382?tab=description
5. Hide All Notifications - https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/914
6. No Crosshair or Dot - https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/757
7. Constructs - https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/323?tab=description
8. Big Things 4 - https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/100
9. Custom Ship Monitors - https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/705?tab=description
W.I.P. (cleaning up modlist to eliminate outdated mods)
Other Projects by This Author
You can find my Reshades for other games here: https://www.facebook.com/MercsAssassin/
If you want to see what I'm working on Next (SUBTLE WINK) then I strongly encourage you to subscribe to my Youtube channel, as I usually post previews of my upcoming work there: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn5KAZuLeVmeQLXSMJNBMcA