Disable Glow and Blur effect around light sources

Description

This mod blocks the glow and blur effect around light sources from the engine side.

Why?

This fix is a bit niche. Not everyone will want to do this. But for me something that was bothering me about the remaster that i was never able to fix was this bloom / oversaturation/ blownout lighting effect that the game has in specific area like besaid, or mihen highroad or bikanel desert. It wasnt present in the original ps2 game It felt off, it removed details from the game and distorted the color balance. Basically i didnt like it and i couldnt do anything about it so it just accepted it.

If this is engine level, how can it be disabled?

UnX can block the post proccessing shader to get this effect.

I didnt even know UnX could do this until i was tinkering around.

Installation instructions

Dont need any files, besides UnX

GitHub - Kaldaien/UnX: "Untitled" Project X - Technical Fixes and Enhancements for Final Fantasy X | X-2 HD Remaster · GitHub

or if you are feeling adventurous and you dont need features like audio/language switching, skipping cutscenes stuff like that try to latest special k version instead, its more stable.  GitHub - SpecialKO/SpecialK: Lovingly referred to as the Swiss Army Knife of PC gaming, Special K does a bit of everything. · GitHub

Open the menu

Click on direct x 11 settings - render mod tools - vertex shaders - then look for 7e29e6ac - then click never draw - then add to shader state and save shader state.

Thats it. When you close the window it will start drawing it again but the next time you open the game it will be disabled.

Main features

Restoring the original ps2 feel of the game.

Requirements

Steam version of Final Fantasy X

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