mele me1 care package

- description

For mass effect 1 the legendary edition.

Here are some tweaks with 3dmigoto to try

to alleviate the excessive darkness in the game and

some other visual issues.

shader tweaks with 3dmigoto:

- less glossy hair shepard

- thin out wind dust effect on planet surface

- reduce vignette and increase light slightly, removed dof also used for bloom and blur

- reduce glare in reflections glass possibly effects other surfaces as well

- reduce distance fog

update v1. 2 03/01/2025

- increase presence fx avina

- soften fx godrays

- added reduce reflections glass, lifts noveria etc

- add slight orange emission and some fake chroma shift

to light fixtures

- darken shadows mako affects avatar, companions and npcs

- reduce dof horizon

- corrected and expanded fog reduction, noveria exterior, etc

- tweaked tonemap

update v1. 1 03/03/2023

- added a custom shader for a slight curve

can be disabled see 'further tweaking'

- added a custom shader with 3dmigoto to do

tonemapping and lumasharpen, replaces reshade

- no longer use smaa by reshade switched to internal aa of game

- added dof reduction to certain overlooked locations

- added reduce color banding sky and or horizon

- added reduce bloom blur small light fixtures

- modified distance fog reduction fixed darkness

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

does some fullscreen tweaks as sharpening and color modification

it replaces reshade if needed remove old package se updating.

- updating (from v1. 0)

if the old package (v1. 0) was installed remove the following

folder(s) and file(s) in the folder which contains MassEffect1.exe

shadercache

shaderfixes

d3dcompiler_46.dll

ReShade.ini

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

control, the folder which contains MassEffect1.exe.

- install

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

mass effect legendary edition\Game\ME1\Binaries\Win64\

the folder which contains MassEffect1.exe.

- optional install

If you do not like using unverified dll's you can:

Download 3dmigoto from:

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

download version 1. 3. 16. 0 (64bit) and place

the following dlls in the install dir of me1

d3dcompiler_46.dll

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