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Hiiiii Amoebae, I hope you’re doing well! Could you please help me with an issue I’ve been having?🥺

I recently resubscribed to Marty’s shaders and noticed that RTGI is now split into two separate shaders. However, when I try increasing the Object Thickness value in the diffuse shader, objects lit by the light source start to show harsh, jagged edges (pic 2), even when the value isn’t set very high. This didn’t happen when I was using the older version of RTGI (pic 1).

Also, I just want to say thank you sooooo much for everything you share with the community. I’ve watched a lot of your tutorials, and they’ve been incredibly helpful for someone like me who didn’t know anything about ReShade!!

Hi!

This isn't something I've seen before. Make sure you have the diffuse shader above the specular shader, and that Launchpad is turned on and placed above them both. And make sure you don't have any other shaders (apart from ReLight, because that can sometimes look more realistic if it's placed above RTGI) above RTGI. What value are you trying to change object thickness to? I my experience lower numbers produce a more natural result, and iirc the default is something like 4.000, which is way too high already. I tend to drop it to around 0.250 as a starting point and see how it looks, and adjust from there.

[pictureamoebae]

Hi! I was wondering if you know how to prevent the lights from moving in tab mode with relight. Every time I change the camera angle in tab mode, the lights reposition themselves. I use Reshade! (I hope I made sense sorry 😭)

Hi!

The light positions in ReLight are determined through a combination of depth (how far they are from the camera) and screen coordinates. If you move the camera, the lights will move too, so they always stay at the same coordinates, and not the same physical location in space. Think of it like they're stuck to your monitor screen: so if you have a light positioned half way across and half way down the screen (or, right in the centre: x = 0.500, y = 0.500), when you move the camera they will stay half way/in the centre, they won't stay by whichever object in the scene you put them near. So, you need to make sure you have finalised your composition first, so you don't need to move the camera again, and then set up your lights.

[pictureamoebae]

Hi, I was wondering if you'd be making an updated version of your Shiftable Mirrors mod? <3

Hey, sorry it took a while to answer. I haven't been buying the newer packs recently, so I don't currently have plans to update it. If someone else wanted to do the mirrors in the latest packs as addon packages I'd be happy to link to them from the Shiftable Mirrors page though!

[pictureamoebae]

Hey Amoebae! How are you? I hope everything's going well over there.

For the past few days I've been trying to use a preset in ReShade from a creator I love, but I realized she has a shader of her own that I don't have and I can't find it anywhere lmao. I've been searching in yout Tumblr and Patreon for at least two days looking for it, but I can't find it. How can I get "amoebae_MXAO_DetailShad.fx"? thx <//3

Hi! That was just a duplicate of the regular MXAO shader. I made some duplicates so I could have each one set up with different settings for different scenarios, so I didn't have to keep editing the same shader settings all the time. It was purely for my own convenience, because I'm really bad at losing settings I like when I tweak them so much. So there's nothing special about that shader at all. iirc detailshad means I'd used that shader for tighter shadows for portraits, rather than general, softer ones for landscapes. You can recreate that kind of look yourself by dropping the sample radius low - that makes shadows tighter.

[pictureamoebae]

i've been binging your reshade video tutorials on both your own and the marty's mods channel, and i just wanted to let you know how helpful and inspiring they are. i've been following you for many years, and i really appreciate all the knowledge you've shared over those years. seeing you delve into video guides is exciting, it's my favorite way to learn and you have such a good voice for it!

would you consider a guide covering marty's rtgi shaders more in depth? relight has become a huge staple on simblr, and i believe rtgi could as well if more people knew about what it can do if you know how to use it

Hi! Thank you for such kind words! I had been writing a script on how to integrate Launchpad and RTGI into any preset you already use - so basically a 'how to use these shaders', but I got waylaid. This is a nice reminder to revisit that though, I think it's something that could be quite useful. So thank you for the suggestion, and the reminder!

[pictureamoebae]

hello :) i’ve scrolled through your ultimate relight help but im still on a predicament.

on some of the shaders in the MartyMods folder i’m getting a “error x3000/x3004 undeclared identifier/syntax error unexpected” and i’m not quite sure what to do to fix this 😅 i also only have an error on the relight shader while the other ones work. it says “error x3004: unrecognized property ‘miplevel’ and, again, i don’t know what the means or what to do to solve it

Quick checklist: - make sure all your immerse files are up to date, including those inside the marty's mods folder - use the most recent version of reshade - don't use performance mode in reshade Those are the usual causes of those sorts of errors, so that's where I'd start your troubleshooting!

[pictureamoebae]

Hi, I can you please help me with relight? I’m running into one issue — light refraction on the sim.

The stronger the light is, the more it seems to refract on the sim, which ends up emphasizing all the geometric textures of the sim. I hope I’m explaining it clearly enough. The light doesn’t look like it’s simply hitting the sim from a specific direction — instead, it seems to bend around the folds and edges of the sim’s 3D model.

Make sure you have Launchpad enabled and moved above ReLight, and within Launchpad enable Smooth Normals.

[pictureamoebae]

Hello there, First of all I have to tell you how much I adore your work! Second, do you allow WCIFs? If not, please disregard my question. In your screenshot of "Metal bedframe with two mattresses" there is a picture on the wall, that I´ve tried to find for years. I´m guessing it might be an unreleased recolour by yourself? It is stunning! All the best, Sara

Hi! Thank you for the kind words! It is indeed an unreleased recolour by me. It was in a very unfinished state and I don't think it will ever be released, I'm sorry!

[pictureamoebae]

Marty has 2 new Depth of Field shaders coming out soon. Top is the version that is an addon, and only works with the various camera tools that Otis makes. If you've used Otis' IGCSDoF before, it's like that, but does some really cool and new interesting stuff with progressive rendering and so on. Bottom is his total rewrite of his regular Marty's Mods DoF (which comes with the iMMERSE Pro pack). One of the things regular DoF shaders struggle with is near blur. Usually you get really awkward edges of things where they are meant to be blurred and the background behind them is meant to be in focus. Blurred objects should generally fall off into transparency, but regular DoF shaders don't know what's behind the objects that are being blurred, so that transparency can't happen. Until now. Marty found a way, by basically using really impressive and fancy maths stuff to recreate the background. You can see in the bottom picture the top of the stair rail has a transparent edge, just like in the top picture. This is kind of revolutionary, state of the art stuff. Anyway, the update will be coming soonish. He's still working out the kinks with the new shader DoF. But I've got my hands on it and it's really nice. I think you're all going to like it. I'll try and get some better pictures over the next few days that puts both versions of DoF through their paces.

[pictureamoebae]

Hey, I've been wondering if you could help with something related to Relight. I'm not sure if it's because I'm installing it wrong or something else, but from what I've seen from other people using it, there's supposed to be an arrow that you can use to adjust the light instead of the sphere. However, I'm having trouble finding it. Is there a specific setting in gshade/reshade that I should find to toggle it on, or should I reinstall it?

Hey anon. At the top of the individual light controls, just below where it says Light 1, Light 2, etc, there's a drop down box. By default Sphere will be selected. Click on that drop down box and you can choose Infinite, which is the one with the arrow.

[pictureamoebae]

The Outer Worlds 2

[all my TOW2 shots]

[pictureamoebae]

hello! I was hoping you might be able to help me with this immerse relight issue I have.

the preset works correctly on my gaming laptop, but when I load the same preset on another device, the relight looks different. It isn’t visible unless I set the z value to 0, but once I do it fills up my screen with that light.

the relight is above my shaders, launchpad is running, and the overlay is set to a sphere, but the light still looks like it's set to infinite or something. the center of the light also stays dim no matter how I adjust the settings.

i'm not too good with relight myself so thank you so much for any advice you can give! :)

Check on your other device that you have everything related to depth set up properly. Specifically, check you have edge smoothing turned off, 3d resolution set to high, and that in the global preprocessor definitions in the ReShade menu you have reshade_depth_input_is_reversed set to 0.

[pictureamoebae]

Hello, nice to meet you.

I really love your wonderful work, and I would like to use your Clear Bloom preset.

May I ask if it works with ReShade 5.1.0?

If it does not work, are there any other presets that can achieve a similar effect?

I would really appreciate it if you could let me know.

It should work with any version of ReShade. The most important thing is that you make sure you have all the correct shaders. Just go through the list in the read me and tick them off to make sure you have them all installed.

[pictureamoebae]

can you update the shiftable mirrors please?

I didn't know it needed updating. In what way is it broken?

[pictureamoebae]

Fine I'll start a new Veilguard game. With another Crow. And another rogue. Because I don't have a playstyle. Nope. Not me.

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[pictureamoebae]

hiii!! is there any way to make mxao have a consistent size so it doesn't get really big zooming out but barely noticeable when zoomed in? 😔

If I remember correctly, this can be a problem because of the way the depth calculations work. I use the Alt Clipping version of Simp4Sims' sgr file (well, I copy over the settings I need from it), and I remember when they were creating it we chatted about this a bit and they changed a few things to fix it for me in the alt clipping version.

If you're using the alt clipping version, it's intended to be used along side my Shadows for Days mod. I don't know what will happen if you don't use it with that. Otherwise, I'm afraid I don't know how to fix it.

[pictureamoebae]

Hi! I use SRWE and Reshade to take screenshots of my sims. However, something went wrong with one of the profiles I loaded and now my entire game is the size I chose, and it will not change, despite going into taskbar mode like normal. I've tried selecting other profiles and nothing is changing the size. When I go click back to taskbar mode, it's just the same size as the profile. Is there a way to reset this so my game goes back to normal size? I'm pretty bummed I can't play.

I've not experienced this before. You can just change your resolution via the in-game menu, that should set it to whatever you want. If you can't see all of the menu because of the resolution SRWE set, you can use the top/bottom/left/right buttons to move the window around until the menu is visible.