Personally, i think it looks rather great. Obviously, you can also tweak the ENBSeries configuration file to your heart’s content. Not only it does add bloom, it also adds some kind of adaptation/occlusion effect that makes the game’s wonderful lighting come even more alive.
#How to use sweetfx with master effects series#
Then grab ENB series for Half-Life 2 [Just drop the relevant files into the Anachronox folder.Īnd you’re all set. reg file that comes with it, then drop the dll into the Anachronox folder. So if that doesn’t apply to you and you’re satisfied with the first one, just skip this part.įirst of all you need qindie-gl OpenGL->DirectX wrapper. This solution is inferior and isn’t recommended unless you want to try stereoscopic 3D or you have other reasons to make Anachronox render with D3D.
#How to use sweetfx with master effects free#
Please feel free to suggest alternative configurations and screenshots, those are very welcome! – QuindieGL and ENB Series But I think it’s good in a way, so people don’t underestimate the extent of the change you can get. I hope my excessive blur doesn’t scare people off from trying this stuff. To make it work you need to edit the QeffectsGL.ini file and add there the following lines You just need to grab QeffectsGL, put it in the Anachronox folder and you’re almost all set. These old solutions are only kept here for historical purposes. However it’s worse than using ReShade so you probably should scroll up and use that instead. GSM has suggested a solution that turned out to be much better than my old proposal for most purposes (the other is assumedly still viable and of interest if you want to play with stereoscopic 3D). Here are some pictures of me using this setup. Well, I really have nothing more to say here other than “Yaaay!”, “you don’t need anything else” and “what’s not to like?”. Here’s my ReShade.fx for it, but it might be outdated for the current Master Effect, so use with care. I particularly like the bloom effect, DOF (I use the MagicDOF one), and FishEye lens with Chromatic Aberration turned off. I believe the current most relevant URL for it is this, but if not feel free to google and correct me. The shader pack that I currently use with Anachronox is Master Effect. The best part? It even works on Linux! Yes, together with the widescreen patch! (tested using the latest Wine Staging at the time of writing).Not only you can use ready made shader collections, you can write your own custom shaders specifically for Anachronox! (if you do, please share!).It works together with the widescreen patch! Use both!.The advantages of using ReShade instead of other older alternatives listed in this article for posterity are:
The installation involves dropping the files of ReShade and the shader pack you intend to use in the directory where Anachronox is installed.
You can get ReShade from its official website:
And it works with OpenGL games and that of course includes Anachronox. Since I first wrote this guide an amazing thing has happened: a universal shader injector called ReShade has been developed. POST-EFFECTS – ReShade (highly recommended!) It works well together with ReShade which is the best currently available solution for adding graphical effects to the game.
[The usage is very straightforward: extract, pick the folder with the desired resolution, replace the files in the Anachronox folder (backing them up first would be wise). In one of the community threads somebody has posted a link to a widescreen patch. This guide contains the list of the known modifications that you can apply to the graphics in Anachronox, which currently include widescreen support and any graphical effect you may possibly want since now you can inject absolutely any shaders into the game with ReShade. But that hack stopped working on more modern videocards (at least nvidia ones), so I’ve been seeking to replicate that ability ever since. Ever since I played Anachronox with the doom 3 bloom hack I realized no other game benefits so much from bloom as Anachronox. Here are some neat hacks that allow you to enhance (or mess with) the graphics in Anachronox that I’ve discovered (with some help from others). Some tricks to make Anachronox look a bit neater by adding widescreen support and any kind of visual effects you may want.