Dark Souls 2

[nattydread]

There's an awesome sunshaft now coming from the top to bottom-right on that last one now but I'm too lazy to reshot it.

[midhras]

I really rather shouldn't come here because every time I do I see something that makes me want to scrap all my progress and start over. That's amazing Natty.

[wickfut]

[midhras]

[darnokz]

I don't know where to post this, but I want to share some constructive criticism and probably a lot of preset creators visit this thread.

I'm a little bit tired of people switching between effects on/off on youtube videos/ dark souls 2 nexus screenshots to show off their presets, sometimes its even a littlebit facepalm worthy.

You know why? Because when you turn off enb effects you also turn off alot of the normal vanilla game's effects too. No wonder it looks like crap when you turn off bloom and other things which are used by vanilla game... completely different colors too. I think it doesn't turn off enb pallete neither.

But 90 % of people showing off their presets mark those as VANILLA vs ENB, or BEFORE/AFTER when it's really like this ---> WORSE THAN VANILLA TURNED OFF 90 % OF EFFECTS / ENB

It happened in skyrim showoffs too. Skyrim looked even worse, it transformed into 1 coloured grey crap with enb effect turned off.

[midhras]

I'm inclined to believe you, darnokz. Could you maybe demonstrate clearly by showing us three similar shots: one with an ENB on, one OFF and one without ENB present at all? That would convince even better.

[darnokz]

After further investigation I think it's not as dramatic as what I tought or saw in skyrim but I immediately tought something was off when watching one of the videos switching between vanilla and enb.

I tought vanilla looked alot better in certain areas.

I took this screen out of that video and put the same spot from vanilla with removed enb files and I can see the colours are kinda blueish and washed out in the ENB effect off screen.

Try opening them in two different browser tabs and switch between them.

ENB effects off :



Vanilla with enb removed :



Try switching between them and look at that stone structure, its blueish and washed out in enb effects off screen.

altough I think the difference is more visible when looking at whole scene in the screens

and try switching between those two:



Enb effects Off:

http://i.imgur.com/9qQN8nJ.jpg

Vanilla with removed enb files

http://i.imgur.com/fspvpK7.jpg

Take a look at the left side with sun light and stone structures , shadowed areas around them in both screens while switching between them

[nattydread]

There's no difference. When you turn off enb ingame you disable anything it's doing to the game's postprocessing. Vanilla bloom is still there, shriveled and weak as it is.

[midhras]

That's what I expected. But as in everything: evidence before arguments and facts before opinion.
Never hurts to double check, though.

[darnokz]

Some presets use sweetfx, when you turn off the ENB it doesn't turn off necessarily sweetfx, you must take into account.

That might be it. Someone probably forgot to turn off sweetfx too while comparing to the vanilla becuase I can see clear colour difference on the shots i posted.