#gshade help

[siimplyjessica]

i'm new to the whole using gshade and turning off edge smoothingn and blah blah .. so will this always happen when you have edge smoothing off? everything looks nice EXCEPT all the shadows?

[veone]

GSHADE 3.5.0 Cracked Tutorial Feb.2023

‼️Update:3/2023‼️ Due to gshade somehow being online again! You can still install the program with this tutorial but to avoid the update to version 4.2 notification keeping you from proceeding-Download the program from mediafire and then turn your pc to airplane mode and continue the process below! Note that when you turn your internet back on that your going to get the notification still ignore it. That what I’m doing.

Alright with the recent events regarding the development team of GShade figuratively going under and the current version of this program available being far from perfect. It would be lovely to back to a version of GShade that doesn't have malware, the changes that disabled the depth of field effects, and the removal of some older shaders. So here's a tutorial on how to install 3.5.0 of GShade. It's the version that we as a collective switched to all those months back, when GShade popped off in the community. Also the version I used to take this picture and got from @toskasimz who sent me the files. She's the reason why I have my pretty pictures back. It took a long time to get my preset to look like this and the modern versions of Gshade and Reshade don't have the shaders for this anymore. The suggested skill level for this is basic knowledge of how to install Reshade/Gshade and knowledge of where to find the game Bin file and Program Files on your pc.

Note: This version is before the code that shut down your PC, if you manipulated the code of the program, was introduced. Use at your own risk. I personally have no issue with using it. I'm using my laptop I do school work on and I have no money to buy a new one so that's my assessment on how safe it is.

To start download this media fire file. It's a Rar file. Unzip it.

In the unzipped version of this file, you should have a folder that's highlighted below called GShade.

Inside that file are two folders. Program Files-G-Shade and TS4 Bin Folder. These folder names correspond with where the contents of these will go on your pc.

Alright inside the folders you should have the following content in the Program Files-G-Shade

Inside the TS4 Bin Folder, you should have the following contents inside it.

Place the GShade folder from the Program Files-G-Shade into your computer's Program(x86) file. This may have a different name based on your computer.

Next Place the contents of the TS4 Bin Folder which should be the G-Shade configuration file and the folder of GShade-Shaders into your Bin folder. (note I have gshade installed already so you won't have the extra files before installation.)

Now go back to the Program(x86) file on your PC and go into the G-shade folder.

Double Click to run the program.

This is where you gonna need to pull your Reshade/Gshade knowledge. You just install the program as normal to the game. I will say I don't know if this will work with other games.

Alright, this is what you should be left with after installing G-Shade. Everything transferred to the Program Files with the exception of this folder. Leave it be and go to the Program Files file on your pc.

Once in the Program Files folder double click the GShade Control Panel.

You should get the following screen Go to the Installations tab. Delete this file path. This is a very important step. It's not gonna work if you don't reinstall the program. Delete it and click Add New.

Install the program as viewed above. Click Next and set up your screenshot folder.

Click No on viewing the guild. You should have a control panel on your desktop. You can go in a convert you reshade presets if needed.

Alright if everything was done correctly open your game. It'll take a moment to load and when it does you greeted with the following screen on start-up.

Ignore the yellow text on the top. It says that your effects are disabled because it's not online. It works I could be misinterpreting what "effect" means but my shader work so I'm not complaining.

And there you go. Installed, and works perfectly. Don't update it. I don't know what it'll do. I have not tried. I will upload an edited version of my preset later this week or tonight. I have to tweak the color of the fog and make a decent post. Enjoy! I am open to helping under this post and in dms!

[pixelddump]

hello friends who use gshade, does anyone know what causes the halo effect around sims/pets? i think it's the cinematicdof setting but i don't know what specific setting it is (i've tweaked all my settings but can't figure out what it is)

[thewalkingplumbob]

So I felt the urge to finally play sims 4 after so long. I updated my game, updated my mods, all that. For some reason, my gshade wasn't working. I reinstalled and it finally shows up and almost all the shaders work except relight. It's installed and is there for me to select, but when I do nothing happens. The little circle to edit doesn't show up. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

[castawavy]

can anyone help why my gshade is doing this around her shoulders?

[idyllicsimmer]

GShade issues, anyone?

I keep trying to check for updates and it just keeps saying update check failed. When I open Sims 4, at the top there's a message that says something about my DNS settings.

I am NOT tech-savvy whatsoever, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, friends!

UPDATE!!! READ THREADS AND LOOK INTO RESHADE

Thanks to @holocene-sims for providing me some links, I went digging deep into Tumblr and Twitter. It's looking like GShade might be completely done after some malware and internal drama, so folks may want to look into going back to ReShade. I've provided some links below and I'll try to update this as I find out more information:

Moving from GShade to ReShade

Twitter Feed of ongoing issues

Good luck, everyone!

[erasabledinosaur]

hey i honestly could use your advice! 😭 everyone’s reshade presets are extremely defined and have those deep shadows. is that MXAO? i just am not sure how to increase those shadows, because it’s not showing up that well. i’m using 4.9.1 if that helps

without mxao

with mxao

Sounds like MXAO, “Ambient occlusion aims to simulate shadows based on the scene geometry.”

Have you done the MXAO tweaks in the global preprocessor? Do you have an error messages in your d3d9 tab? MXAO and DOF effects are both affected (or is effected?) by the depth buffer.

If you are having issues with flickering/ghosting, this might help.

If your mxao is working but you want it stronger you can try tweaking the shader. I would start with “Ambient Occlusion”, (if you double click it in reshade you can enter your own number and go above 4 - for stronger ao effects I will go as much as 5 or 6) this will help the strength of the shadow.

edit: you can also toss on monocular_cues with mxao for ever more shadows (that's how I made happy plumbobs so over the top)

[maldreams00]

Sunset Dreams Cas Gshade

I made a new Gshade called Sunset Dreams not Dream Sunset that is my other gshade.

Sunset Dreams is a Cas only preset NOT FOR IN GAME

This preset uses

>Vibrance

>Technicolor 1

>MagicBloom

>FilmicPass

>Levels

>Curves

>Tint

>qMXAO

I use with this Preset

>Luumia — NoGlov2

>SimplyAnjuta Cas CityLight

The Video I used to install Gshade

>How to install Gshade

The Website For Gshade

>GShade – GPOSERS

*(DL)*

Please DO NOT REUPLOAD this Gshade Preset For CAS!!