Mod articles
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How to activate for reshade beginners.(If you are using vesemir hud or immersive modlist)
Once downloaded, this must be manually installed into the witcher 3 game folder. Im going to assume you already have reshade installed so i will skip that explanation. Once installed, open your game and press the home key on your keyboard. This will bring up the reshade menu. Once open, go to the home tab if not there by default and search through the list of shaders for UIDetectMulti, UIDetectMulti_before, and UIDetectMulti_after. Once located right click on UIDetectMulti_before and click send to top
Do the same for UIDetectMulti after you've done so to UIDetectMulti_before. For UIDetectMulti_after, you want to send it to the bottom instead. Activate all 3 of them and the effect should now be turned on.... -
Now that you have your custom mask, its time to make the mask actually do the work it was made for. This can be a bit complicated but thankfully has been made much easier now that certain features have been added.
The first thing you're going to want to do is open up UIDetectMulti.Fxh(hopefully on a second monitor if you can, it makes things much easier.) Now that you have that file open, your probably a bit lost if you have never looked at code before. Dont panic. You are just going to be copying numbers from your game.
Speaking of which, go ahead and open the game and get one of the ui elements that you made your mask for on screen. Now open up your reshade menu(default button is the home key in the latest version of reshade) and find and select UiDetectMulti, U... -
I already have my own personal list of pixels selected and my own mask files in the download but if you are a developer and you need to create some customized masks, theres a few things to know.
Each mask can affect up to 3 ui elements, one for red, one for blue, and one for green. The easiest way ive found to create the masks is to use a picture editing program that allows for layers like gimp or photoshop. Import a screenshot that shows the ui element, create a new transparent layer, and then start drawing in the color that you want to use (pure red, green or blue) over the UI element you are looking to mask. Once you are satisfied with the mask or masks on your image, delete the layer that contains your screenshot and create a new layer that is pure white. Make sure the whit...