witcher 3 balanced autoexposure

- description

All though witcher 3 is a beautifully lit game it does have a tendency,

to saturate the colors quite a lot plus add quite some contrast which

can result in very dark environments.

This mod tries to counterbalance this by reducing darkness and

over bright areas with a dynamic tonemap also reducing a slight

yellow tinge plus quite a lot of desaturation and some texture

relief is added.

See screenshots plus settings game for examples.

The mod modExtendedViewDistance thins fogs in the distance this

plays a pretty specific role in the look and feel of environments

I would recommend having a look at it:

update 15/02/2022 v1. 1

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

- tested on windows 10 (v1903)

- reworked auto exposure day and night environment added fake light

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

does some fullscreen tweaks as sharpening and color modification.

- updating

if the old package was installed remove the following

folder(s) and file(s) in the folder which contains witcher3.exe

ReShade.ini

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

the witcher 3, the folder which contains witcher3.exe.

- install

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

the witcher 3 wild hunt\bin\x64, the folder which contains witcher3.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

euro truck simulator 2:

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 contain the .bin versions:

upscale.ps.bin

upscale.vs.bin

upscale.hlsl

upscale.ini

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

- tested

Tested with version 1. 21 of the witcher 3 on

win 7 and win 10 / nvidia 1050gtx ti

- performance

3dmigoto gpu usage 1080p@~50. 2fps

without - clock 1290Mhz gpu usage ~95%

with    - clock 1342Mhz gpu usage ~96% <