FoxLens - SMAA - CAS for MGSV

Fox Lens is custom Vulkan layer that adds SMAA anti-aliasing and (rCAS) sharpening to to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, running via DXVK ( Tested on 2. 3. 1), working on Windows.

The goal is to improve image clarity and anti-aliasing without requiring a full vkBasalt installation or a more complicated ReShade setup. This also meant porting vkBasalt to Windows for this project.

UPDATE: version before could break other Vulkan software

If you installed a previous version, emulators, other Vulkan games or vulkaninfo may have stopped working. Fix: run install_vkbchoom.exe -uninstall, then install the latest version. That removes the registration completely, deleting the mod files alone does not.

The current build declines to load in anything except mgsvtpp.exe. Running the installer.exe again will now properly remove it. If Virus scan flags, its a false positive, I submitted the source to Nexus.

Install

1. Extract the release archive.

2. Download DXKV, extract with 7-zip or similar ( I used  2. 3. 1 ):

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/v2. 3. 1/dxvk-2. 3. 1.tar.gz

from the x64 folder you need d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll

2. Copy the files from the mod zip ( smaa_layer.dll, install_vkbchoom.exe, vkbchoom.json, vkbchoom.conf, with the DXVK files d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll) into your MGS_TPP folder.

3. Run install_vkbchoom.exe (just double-click it, no admin rights needed) from the game folder. It registers the layer and checks that everything's set up correctly.

To uninstall: double-click install_vkbchoom_remove.bat from game dir and remove the files listed above if they remain.

NOTICE: For Ihhook compatibility use this custom fork which includes my DXVK fix thanks to kapuragu   Release IHHook r24 · kapuragu/IHHook · GitHub , it is a more up-to-date and bug fixed version of IHook.

Main features

• []SMAA anti-aliasing - always on, tuned specifically for this game[/]

  []RCAS sharpening - AMD FSR1's sharpen pass, optional (on by default[/]

  []Built-in screenshot capture - a configurable hotkey that saves the actual, fully-processed frame straight to PNG[/]

  []Every setting lives in one plain-text config file vkbchoom.conf, read fresh at launch edit in notepad to customise settings.[/]

Depth-based outline - traces real object and character silhouettes using the game's own depth buffer

Black/white/red filter

Known issues:

Fullscreen screen capture (steam and nvidia overlay) will NOT SHOW THE SHARPENED IMAGE this is why I built in a screen capture tool ( they can be found in your game DIR under screenshots), you can change the hotkey from F11 in vkbchoom.conf or use windowed mode. OBS seems fine.

The Default fork of IHHook will not load correctly due to using an old RE2 hook that Vulkan is not compatible with ( use fork mentioned above instead )

Modders Heaven

doitsujin and the DXVK project

DadSchoorse, for vkBasalt

The OG SMAA research

AMD for RCAS

stb_image_write.h

Cap