mele me3 care package

- description

For mass effect 3 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:

- reduce distance fog cities

- reduce fog banks nearby

- glare and reflection windows exterior

- large glowing orbs reduce radius

- hud remove object selector, doors, etc

- reduce vignette, black crush shadows and bloom

- reduce fog and haze exterior citadel, mars etc

- shepard hair less glossy

- remove vignette blood effect wounded shepard final act

update v1. 2 06/02/2025

- reduce dof

- tweaked ambient fog

- reduce brightness glass interior and exterior

- reduce brightness ambient light

- tweaked shepards hair glossy effect

- remove fx blue lens flares

- tweaked upscale.hlsl tonemap and sharpening

update v1. 1 18/03/2023

- 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 less white light from flashlight, various locations

- reworked black crush reduction

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 see 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 MassEffect3.exe

shadercache

shaderfixes

d3dcompiler_46.dll

ReShade.ini

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

mass effect legendary, the folder which contains MassEffect3.exe.

- install

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

mass effect legendary edition\Game\ME3\Binaries\Win64\

the folder which contains MassEffect3.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 me3

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: