#lut faq

[pictureamoebae]

I figure this is the best place to ask this, however considering your expertise lies in reshade, its still worth a shot. I did the transfer from reshade to Gshade a while ago upon seeing other simblrs do it, however when I converted a preset that uses your custom MultiLUT file, it doesnt work correctly in gshade. Instead of having these fine tuned color adjustments, its goes straight into bright, abhorrent neons, and I just don't know what to do.

Hi! The only thing I can think of is to check in whatever lut shader you’re using that the size of the lut is correctly specified.

Take a look inside my shaders and you’ll see it has a section for tile size, tile amount, and lut amount.

The lut amount means the number of luts you can switch between in the drop down menu. So for The Moods for example that’s 30, for Thatched it’s 15.

Tile size and tile amount refer to the physical proportions of each lut strip (and so these numbers will be the same no matter how many lut options you have in the drop down menu).

All my most recent luts have the same proportions, the tile size is 64 (that means each square of colour grading in the lut is 64px by 64px square), and the tile amount is 64 (that means there are 64 of those squares, which it turn means one lut strip would be 4096px long and 64px tall).

If those amounts are incorrect in your shader, it will be searching in the wrong place for replacement colours, which can lead to weird neon brightness and things you’re not expecting.

[pictureamoebae]

RESHADE CRASHING

I’ve seen a few people now with crashing issues when using my most recent presets. Each time I’ve asked to look at their log file the last entry before the crash has been something like:

| INFO  | Resizing image data for texture 'V__texMultiLUT' from 1024x544 to 262144x69632 ...

Asking the user to delete MultiLUT.fx from their Shaders folder has fixed the crashing each time so far.

I recently switched to using Prod80′s LUT shader, because it’s modular and easy to use, and you can add an endless amount of extra LUTs with it. It might be that it conflicts with a specific version of the older MultiLUT.fx shader, but I’m not certain what’s behind the issue since I have the latest MultiLUT.fx shader installed alongside Prod80′s and I don’t get any crashing.

Nevertheless, if you experience crashing, open your d3d9.log file and scroll to the last line. If it’s the same as above, delete MultiLUT.fx and it should go away.

If you use any other presets that require MultiLUT.fx I can walk you through porting those settings to Prod80′s shader instead, so all your LUTs use the same shader set from now on for maximum compatibility (it’s very easy!).

If you need more help, pop on over to the ReShade help channel on my discord server!

[pictureamoebae]

hi there i have searched for quite a bit trying to find an answer for this but i was wondering how to make my own multi LUT shader (like ur full bloom one). i understand how to make an LUT and use an LUT on its own but i prefer the convinience of being able to switch between them easier. thank you in advance if you can help out with this :)

Hi anon! I’ll do a proper tutorial on this at some point with pictures and proper steps etc, but in the meantime…

If you’ve made multiple luts you paste them together one under the other in one large png. Take a look at one of my multilut pngs and you’ll see what I mean.

Then when you have your multilut png you can edit one of the multilut shaders (I favour the one by Prod80). Follow the format it already has. You’ll need to point it to your multilut png, and tell it how many luts are contained in it.

Then you’ll need to add some kind of name for each of the luts (this can just be 1, 2, 3 if you want, or a fancy name like Princess Delilah’s Orange lut, Prince Caspian’s Blue lut, etc).

The format will be as follows:

“Lut 1/0Lut 2/0Lut 3/0”

Each lut you name must end with /0 - that’s how the shader knows it’s come to the end of that particular lut’s name.

Then, in the shader details in game the drop-down menu to change between the luts will have Lut 1, Lut 2, and Lut 3 listed.

Does that make sense?

If in doubt, use Prod80’s shader and take one of my recent multiluts and just edit it with the details of your own new multilut png.

Remember to change the name of the shader, and make it match the technique name at the top, and remember to change the png name to match the one you made, and the number of luts included in it.

[pictureamoebae]

Hello 😄 I have a few reshade questions if you don't mind.

I made my own reshade a long time ago using your Bloom MultiLuts I think. It's a MultiLut that has all these interesting names like Carina & Cassopeia etc (if I remember correctly haha).

When I updated my reshade & installed the prod(?) MultiLuts, to try out your S-drama & Moods, it doesn't seem to work? 🤔 My reshade kept saying the MultiLuts of these two couldn't be loaded. Is there a step I miss?

& I also lost my old MultiLuts that have all these choices during the process haha. But luckily I had a back up before updating. Phew. Which is why, now I think the Multiluts are probably not from the original set but are yours. 🤔 (But after redownloading I'm not sure anymore haha)

Also, the current reshade (that I made) uses Technicolor 1 & 2, DPX, Levels, Curves, the Multilut I mentioned, & maybe LumaSharpen (not sure if I do have it on tho) during gameplay. Are these combinations ok for the the pc? So far my laptop & game runs fine, but I want to be sure.

Also! If the Multilut I used isn't yours, do you know where it belongs to?

Thank you in advance! & Hope you have a great day 💕 I really love your screenshots btw! I think they'll make great wallpapers or loading screens!! 🤩

Hi there anon, sorry I didn't answer this sooner.

Have you downloaded Full Bloom 2.0? It uses the same LUT shader as S-Drama and The Moods, so it will be cross-compatible with them. Try taking out the old version and using this new one instead.

It's a great idea to use Prod's LUT shader because you can add as many new ones as you want really very easily, and know they will all work alongside each other. If you're making your own LUTs, I recommend doing so with his shader.

The other shaders you listed should work absolutely fine together for any type of PC. They're all simple shaders and don't require much processing power at all.

And thank you for your kind words about my screenshots! I keep saying I want to start taking more again, but then I get distracted with a hundred other TS4 projects! Hopefully I'll actually stick to my guns this time!

[pictureamoebae]

hello!! i saw a while back a post going around that it's possible to turn reshades into Photoshop LUTs, and was wondering if you knew how to do that? have a nice day!

Hi there! You need to use the Lightroom shader, enable the LUT option in it, and it will show a LUT across the top of the screen. Make your ReShade adjustments, then take a screenshot. You can then crop that screenshot to just the LUT (be careful to be pixel perfect) and save it. You should then be able to use that with the colour lookup adjustment layer in Photoshop.

Only use shaders that change colours and contrast, like liftgammagain, curves, dpx, tonemapping, lightroom, etc. You can’t create a LUT using any effects like smaa, sharpening, bloom, fog, mxao, or dof. It has to be effects that affect the whole image.

[pictureamoebae]

Hello, so i convert reshade into photoshop with lightroom, but when im in game i see that my lut have "drastic" effect. What should i do? Effects: tonemap, colormatrix, lightroom,filmicpass

You’ll have to be more specific about what steps you’ve gone through and what you’re doing now in ReShade.

Do you mean that you created a LUT in ReShade using the Lightroom shader, so that you could use it in Photoshop, and that you are also now using that LUT in ReShade? If so, if you’re using the LUT alongside the original shaders as well it will effectively be double the effect, so will look stronger. 

Once you’ve made a LUT, you can then use that LUT in ReShade in place of the shaders you used to make the LUT. 

So, if you used tonemapping, colormatrix, lightroom and filmicpass to make your ReShade preset, and you made a LUT from those settings, you can now turn off tonemapping, colormatrix, lightroom and filmicpass and just use the LUT (via the LUT shader) to get the same effect. 

Using LUTs is a great way to reduce the amount of shaders you need to use, by converting all the colour and contrast information that was created via multiple different shaders into one handy LUT that you only need one shader active to use.