assassins creed revolution care package

- description

This package contains some visual tweaks for

Assassins creed revolution aka Assassin's Creed III

the original version - not - the remasterd version.

The visual tweaks are listed below how ever a word of caution

if you have not played this game it might be wise to disable

the hud tweaks, at least initially, please see 'further tweaking'.

3dmigoto shader tweaks:

- decrease high lights illumination animus cave part C

- increase pink skin head, hands, etc npc and connor

- reduce glow and bloom during load screen tricky seems to also regular gameplay

also used in eagle vision and possibly other effects dof etc

- increase light global illumination exterior non winter

- reduce distance fog general weather

- reduce fog and mist with rainy weather and winter

- reduce overbright snow in winter

- reduce glow animus cave furniture also effects menus

gameplay related shader tweaks:

- reduce darkness with eagle vision part A

- remove hud dot above connor and npcs when in proximity

- hud remove animus effect around mission givers, etc

- reduce hud outline enemies or targets B

update v1. 2 21/04/2025

- tweaked tonemap less red a bit more green and blue

- remove glow and bloom completely

- tweaked global illumination and lut shader for more brightness

compensates removal glow and bloom

- added curve shader

update v1. 1 05/02/2022

- a custom shader upscale.hlsl (3dmigoto) replaces reshade

- frame based fx lut restore contrast saturates a little

- tested on windows 10 (v1903)

The  package has a customized shader 'upscale.hlsl' which

does some fullscreen tweaks as sharpening and color modification.

it is possible to add ambient occlusion through nvidia inspector

the flag is 0x00000019 settings example

### NVIDIA Profile Inspector ###          Assassins Creed III

Ambient Occlusion compatibility          0x00000019

Ambient Occlusion setting                Quality

Ambient Occlusion usage                  Enabled

Ambient occlusion is expensive, gpu wise,

Quality uses roughly 30% on

nvidia gtx 1050 ti note in this game it supplements

the excisiting SSAO, even though it is disabled by the ini file.

- updating

if the old package was installed remove the following

folder(s) and file(s) in the folder which contains ac3lhd_32.exe

shadercache

shaderfixes

d3dcompiler_46.dll

ReShade.ini

Then copy the contents of the zip file to the install folder of

Assassins creed revolution aka Assassin's Creed III,

the folder which contains ac3sp.exe.

- install

Copy the contents of the zip file to the install folder of

Assassins creed revolution aka Assassin's Creed III,

the folder which contains ac3sp.exe.

The package works best with following settings:

MotionBlur=0

UseVolumetricFog=1

Settings can be found in:

c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Assassin's Creed III\Assassin3.ini

The folder 'optional' contains a 'Assassin3.ini' you can use this to

compare it with the 'Assassin3.ini' on your system to make the necessary changes.

See: c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Assassin's Creed III\Assassin3.ini

- optional install

The following instructions are only needed

If you do not like using the bundeld dll's you can:

download 3dmigoto from

https://github.com/bo3b/3Dmigoto/releases

download version 1. 3. 16 and place the following dlls in the install dir of

Assassins creed revolution:

d3d11.dll (32bits)

d3dcompiler_46.dll

then copy ShaderCache and ShaderFixes from the zip file to the same dir aka folder.

make sure to set (line 248):

the default setting is:

which sets 3dmigoto to a debug mode.

Also add at line 19:

include = ShaderFixes\upscale.ini

include = ShaderFixes\curve.ini

- verify

After running the game the folder ShaderFixes should

gradually (scene and level dependent) contain the .bin versions:

05983f39d7954ead-ps_replace.bin

07f03214984be6cd-ps_replace.bin

369d2da01c7c2687-ps_replace.bin

3816330f5ccfae94-ps_re