RenoDX - HDR - Bloom - Color Grade for Assetto Corsa EVO

A mod using RenoDX that rewrites the output shaders to allow control over bloom and color grading, as well as unclamping the output from SDR to real HDR. It uses the ReShade Add-on API to hook into the game, NOT RESHADE EFFECTS.

General:

• []3 customizable presets with an "Off" preset for comparisons.[/]

  []Realtime sliders[/]

  []Shader based color grade tools, allows adjustment of the game's final image without affecting the UI.[/]

  []Bloom intensity slider.[/]

• []Vanilla+ (HDR) Tonemapper - Preserves the game's original look with proper tone scaling and hue preservation.[/]

  []Peak Brightness Slider - Defines peak HDR brightness in nits, should be adjusted according to your display.[/]

  []Game Brightness Slider - Sets the value of 100% white in nits. This is the game's SDR brightness value, or "paper-white" value. Defaults to 203 nits.[/]

  []UI Brightness Slider - Sets the peak brightness of all UI elements in nits. Defaults to 203 nits.[/]

• []Exposure[/]

  []Highlights[/]

  []Shadows[/]

  []Contrast[/]

  []Saturation[/]

  []Highlight Saturation[/]

  []Blowout - Controls highlight desaturation due to overexposure.[/]

  []Flare - Flare/Glare compensation.[/]

  []Scene Grading - Adjusts scene grading as applied by the game[/]

• []Bloom Slider - Allows adjustment of the bloom intensity.[/]

Installation is pretty straightforward if you've ever used ReShade before. If you have any issues, feel free to join RenoDX Discord server and let me know in the "Assetto Corsa EVO" forum thread in the "mods" forum.

• []Download ReShade WITH ADD-ON SUPPORT. If using the ReShade installer, set the API to DirectX 12 and point it to "AssettoCorsaEVO.exe." If extracting the installer to get the .dll files, rename ReShade64.dll to dxgi.dll and place it next to the game executable. No ReShade effects are required.[/]

  []Place renodx-assettocorsaevo.addon64 in the same directory, next to ReShade's dxgi.dll and the game executable.[/]

  []Run game.[/]

  []Press HOME on your keyboard to access the ReShade UI. If installed correctly you should see a tab labeled "RenoDX."[/]

The game will crash when adding a new car to your garage or saving customizations to a vehicle, as well as enabling perspective correction. As the game is still in early access, the mod may break frequently or have new minor issues come up. The mod is still perfectly playable so I'm sharing it publicly now, but I hope to have it in an even better state as the game gets closer to a full 1. 0 release.

About RenoDX

RenoDX, short for "Renovation Engine for DirectX Games", is a toolset to mod games. Currently it can replace shaders, inject buffers, add overlays, and write user settings to disks. Because RenoDX uses Reshade's add-on system, compatibility is expected to be pretty wide. Using Reshade simplifies all the hooks necessary to tap into DirectX without worrying about patching version-specific exe files. The source code is available on GitHub.

Support Me

If you'd like to support me, you can do so at my Ko-Fi. You can also support the creator of RenoDX, ShortFuse, here.

If you have any questions or need help, I'm more than happy to assist, just leave a message in the Discord thread mentioned earlier.

Credits

A big thanks to ShortFuse and Marat who helped me find my footing with RenoDX, as well as the RenoDX dev community as a whole for being very kind, helpful and knowledgeable in all things HDR.

Lilium for making the HDR analysis tool, which is extremely helpful for doing anything HDR related.

Video Preview (Coming Soon)

Screenshots

These images are in HDR and must be viewed in a Chromium-based browser with HDR enabled within Windows settings. Each pair of screenshots is a comparison of SDR and HDR.