The Witcher 3

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Erik aka PLAYERik aka ErikPL

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ErikRKG

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Erik's Photorealistic Immersive Reshade Preset - realistic like never before! 4 movies presented this preset! I look on real world and comparision with the game. Green nature like on photos, no more yellow/orange flora or skin - Natural skin color, not too mutch unsaturated colors and many more! Photo mode (photo FXs) activated with hotkeys!

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In creating this preset, I went outside and looked closely at different parts of the world while looking at everything as a whole. The world has unsaturated colors, except for grass, trees and all flora, as well as the sky. It is the sky and flora that contrasts with the rest of the environment. I also see that many realistic reshades are too unsaturated (they look good in my opinion, but as cinematic reshades, not realistic) and others are even more saturated than vanilla.

Below you will find 4 videos presenting reshade (in which land my reshade looks best in your opinion?)

With this reshade:
- The colors are less saturated than vanilla, but not too much
- Flora is greener than yellow
- No more yellow / orange faces
- Human skin has a more natural color
- Shadows and dark things are darker
- The nights are a little darker
- At noon, when the sky is clear, the light is still warm
- During strong lighting (e.g. at noon) bright things emit a slight glow as if they reflect light (it looks exactly the same in reality, I noticed it when looking at the white window frames)
- Geralt's hair is also whiter
- The sunsets have a more real color
- Loss of only 10fps on average (hardware dependent)
- Observe the page of this mod as I plan to make a special version of this preset for Toussaint, I am also thinking of a stronger preset with some other effects
- The mod should look great even without any other graphics mods, but check the required tab and see other recommended mods below.

V2 changes:
- Textures are more sharp, not so blurry (i added just a bit sharp and now faces look more realistic)
- Background is a bit blurry, cause of subtle DoF (IF YOU USE SOME DoF MODS THAT CAN YOU DEACTIVATED THIS FEATURE WITH CTRL + Z OR MANUAL FOR PERMAMENTLY)
- More sharp + blurry background give you even more realistic feel
- added photo mode

PHOTO MODE is a mode that can u activated by one-two hotkeys! Press caps lock to activate/deactivate hard photographic DoF and Vignette and press ctrl + caps lock to activate/deactivate borders. First i think about activated all three shaders with one key, but not all people will use borders for photos - borders are more cinematic as photographic, so i decide to change that and now borders is on the same hotkey but witch ctrl combination.
PHOTO MODE is available for V2 and for new V1 (that is in V2 package included), the old file V1 have photo mode not!

V2 video soon

The Videos:
if you are Polish speaker look on my other videos too
(vlogs about games, mods, reviews, tests and many, many more content)


Installation:
1. Download Reshade with all shaders: https://reshade.me/
2. Install reshade to your "The witcher 3 folder"/bin/x64
3. Unpack my preset to your "The witcher 3 folder"/bin/x64
4. Launch the game, click delete and choose preset

V1 Shaders (make sure you have activated all):

Ambientlight
Technicolor2
Levelplus
Lightroom
Tonemap
PPFX Bloom
HDR

V2 Shaders:

Ambientlight
Technicolor2
Levelplus
Lightroom
Tonemap
PPFX Bloom
HDR
MagicDOF (can be temporarily turn off with ctrl+z)
DELC_Sharpen

"PHOTO MODE" (CAPS LOCK) Shaders:
Vignette
MartyMcFlyDOF

"PHOTO MODE +" (CTRL + CAPSLOCK) Shader:
Border

Recommended:
Meadows (Grass Mod)
Alternative Alnus Trees
TW3 HD Reworked Project
W3EE with W3EE Lazarus Project
Immersive Cam- only If you don't wanna W3EE you can choose this mod for better camera, because W3EE include this mod
HQ Faces
HD Monsters Reworked
HD Water (optional file) - can you find in download, i don't use the Main mod (this is lighting mod) i use just a HD Water