mec care package

- description

Mirrors edge catalyst improves much gameplay wise

with respect to it's former mirrors edge however in the

last act of the game the elements which define what can

be used for climbing become a bit obscure.

Basically this mod shifts the color palette, reduces

the quite pronounced darkness gamma wise and adds a

little sharpening in the mix how ever if you are using

other mods that alter the lighting you might not get quite

the same effect as shown in the screenshots.

3dmigoto shader tweaks:

- many bloom and blur reductions

- reduce blue tint used in many locations

- remove conditional dof when climbing

- custom shader for a slight curve

- green tints for vegetation, plants, trees, etc

- remove water drops fx on camera, underground locations

- remove hud spinning arrow right top

- see screenshots for examples

If you do not like specific tweaks please see 'further tweaking'

for disabling specific shader tweaks.

update 01/02/2023 v1. 2

- added a custom shader for a slight curve

can be disabled see 'further tweaking'

- added green tints for vegetation, plants, trees, etc

- remove hud spinning arrow right top

not sure why but after a while it stays onscreen

after doing a 'dash'

- remove water drops fx on camera, underground locations

- slight tweaks to tonemap and sharpening

update 07/02/2022 v1. 1

- a custom shader upscale.hlsl (3dmigoto) replaces reshade

- tested on windows 10 (v1903)

- frame based effect B reduce vignette, blue tint, bloom optional reduce runnervision

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

does some fullscreen tweaks as sharpening and color modification.

- 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 MirrorsEdgeCatalyst.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 MirrorsEdgeCatalyst.exe.

- install

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

mirrors edge catalyst, the folder which contains MirrorsEdgeCatalyst.exe

- optional install

The following instructions are only needed

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 and place the following dlls in the install dir of

mirrors edge catalyst:

d3d11.dll (64bits)

d3dcompiler_46.dll

then copy `d3dx.ini, ShaderCache and ShaderFixes from the zip file to the same dir aka folder.

make sure to set (line 248):

the default setting is:

which sets 3dmigoto to a debug mode.

- verify

After running the game the folder ShaderFixes should

gradually (scene and level dependent) contain the .bin versions:

178758d3c5d27a1a-ps_replace.bin

19ae23892689ddb6-ps_replace.bin

361ff403bbb81c11-ps_replace.bin

50f06472595a5e90-ps_replace.bin

59f1aa0e54c02bfc-ps_replace.bin

5e3cf37251347719-ps_replace.bin

64a237d1b6b1b547-ps.bin

817801e472bbf7c6-vs_replace.bin

93ddddc88174e780-ps_replace.bin

9c4d0a3b32d15f3c-ps_replace.bin

a04f0e3ccd0e56ce-ps_replace.bin

b6370d9040e92085-ps_replace.bin

bcc13d7b1db4d74f-ps_replace.bin

df9b75e2d8eec2f5-ps_replace.bin

eaa14164fa28ab21-ps_replace.bin

f5c7f8b60e32ff2d-ps_replace.bin

upscale.hlsl

178758d3c5d27a1a-ps_replace.txt

19ae23892689ddb6-ps_replace.txt

361ff403bbb81c11-ps_replace.txt

50f06472595a5e90-ps_replace.txt

59f1aa0e54c02bfc-ps_replace.txt

5e3cf37251347719-ps_replace.txt

64a237d1b6b1b547-ps.txt

817801e472bbf7c6-vs_replace.txt

93ddddc88174e780-ps_replace.txt

9c4d0a3b32d15f3c-ps_replace.txt

a04f0e3ccd0e56ce-ps_replace.txt

b6370d9040e92085-ps_replace.txt

bcc13d7b1db4d74f-ps_replace.txt

df9b75e2d8eec2f5-ps_replace.txt

eaa14164fa28ab21-ps_replace.txt

f5c7f8b60e32ff2d-ps_replace.txt

upscale.hlsl

upscale.ini

This means that the file(s) .txt have been compiled by 3dmigoto (d3d11.dll)

- tested

Tested with file versi