Stadium Breath Mod 1.0 RELEASED

This is perfect man. Can't think of anything to improve. The haze is just enough, the colors are well balanced and my crap box handles it fine. I hope if ever you improve anything, my crap box would still handle it like this. I'd say my average frames is around 53 (as long as it's above 35, I'll be fine) with a minimum frames of 43.
My Specs: Athlon II X4, 8GB, Radeon HD6670, Intel SSD (don't really know if it helps), Monitor Res: 1280x1024.. Mods used: Mavericks court of Sixers85 with 4Kx2K res (think this matters, performance wise) and forced my Anis Filter to 8X via CCC. Game GFX Settings: All on high except the MSAA, 4x and tweaked my config.ini file to the max except again to the MSAA.

PS. Sorry for the low quality screens. It looks way better on my monitor than that.

Thanks Pika!

DMavs, yes you did, but i can't answer.

seanjohn1414, what can i say… That pic with MJ is
I've just seen the other pics in your thread and so far so good.
I was thinking about it some days ago: "maybe SJ will come up with haze into his global…" And that's it!

Yes Sweet FX does the job with lightning. I manage it to highlight the haze, but the base for it is achieved with the ENB palette, so if you still see haze with sweetfx only i think it's because of your new global.

Also, as i wrote in PM, i think it's a little too much bright right now.

Thanks for you time!


fumanchu, thank you for your pics and your specs system.
Yes this is an average version for mid-high PCs. I need to know how it runs in order to compile a lower end version.
I'm with you when talking about colors saturation. Too much color and you're watching a cartoon.
Nice pics. Good to know it's working good with Lagoa's global. I tested it deeper with SJ and Cams.


I really like the effect. I felt in love but hey, i understand it could just me.
That's why feedback is much needed and help me to better judge it.

I have been using just the enb and not the sweetFX and i still get the haze effect without the big drop in fps. I believe its the sweetFX that is killing the cpu fps so for some that want to experiment with the beta 0.5 before the official release comes out i suggest to just use the enb that is included and not the sweetFX.

Just you wait

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Here are some pics of the last version. Pretty lifelike for what i see…
I don't think i could improve it more, so this is the Release Candidate. I'm going to prepare a low end and an ultra version to test.
Just give me some time as i wanna rest the eyes (like a reset i'd say) and have the final check.


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DMavs,
thank you very much nice pics! That Dirk is good! But you will take better screenshots with this last version i bet.
Couldn't improve more did you say? What about those pics here?
Don't worry, official release will have the same system requirements and will come out in 3 versions (low, mid-high, ultra) so i'm sure you won't have any problems.


mtdub,
yes the haze effect comes with ENB.
SweetFX brings colors and balance but what kills the low end CPUs right now is the antialias. Official release will be optimized even on this aspect.
Thanks!

Waiting for the official release. Those screenies look awesome, very lifelike. two for those.

here some of the SC dude! damn haze!

Here are some pics of the last version. Pretty lifelike for what i see…
I don't think i could improve it more, so this is the Release Candidate. I'm going to prepare a low end and an ultra version to test.
Just give me some time as i wanna rest the eyes (like a reset i'd say) and have the final check.


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wow! can't wait to test this one!

this is coming along really great Pika. this is a true eye candy. can't wait to get my hands on this.

Thank you very much for all your kinds words guys and Rhenel_04 for the pics, too.
These, along with constructive criticisms, give me the motivation to keep going.

Like i said i'm loving it, so i need some third-party opinions.


fumanchu let me say, your avatar rocks!

Those looks great! How does it perform? Is it more optimized than the one we just tested?

It's pretty the same, i made some light adjustment and related aspects.
I'll have a friend's netbook with a dedicated Nvidia card for some days so i can test the low end version much deeper.

hey pika.

i tested out your latest mod that you pm me. i love the lighting in the arena. it give the game a more of a cleaner look but im not seeing the haze affect at all comparing to SJ latest bulls court haze mod. curious question. did you put more work into the lighting of the arena instead of the haze mod because in your previously youtube videos. i see the haze affect in those instead of the latest beta that you sent me.


your ENB and sweet fx work is perfect tho. it by far the best one i have use but if you can tone up that haze affect, i will be good until 2k15

Of course Sj solution is much better! That's real haze added to the environment, while this enb only simulate the haze effect and gives the arena some spatial increase and a fading crowd.

As i wrote in the pm the version you tried is too much bright and the effect is almost hidden.
This last version is much better both on lights and haze effect and should be more visible.

Here are some pics of some courts. Low quality JPEG
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my social life is smelling trouble from these screenshots....really excited to try this out...

It's pretty the same, i made some light adjustment and related aspects.
I'll have a friend's netbook with a dedicated Nvidia card for some days so i can test the low end version much deeper.

Alright. I'm excited for the release.

And Pika, sorry about the comment I posted over to SJ's thread. Was childish of me picking sides.

fumanchu, ah ah thanks.
My social life too is having a bit of trouble. In these days i'm always at the PC

DMavs, no problem at all.
I don't think you've been childish. Everyone has the right to say what he think.
What I can not stand is someone who says what I think or what I want in my place.
However most of my response was not directed at you, probably i explained it bad.
I just wanted to state publicly that it wasn't absolutely my intention to dissuade SJ from improving his global. Absurd and meaningless beforehand, but mostly because I'm using his AC4. And if you read in this thread you can find only me pushing SJ and his global.

Anyway who cares, life is short…

I understand you man. I was childish because instead of just expressing my thoughts about the mod, I picked sides and it like, hyped the "fight". But anyway, it's over now and like what you said, life is short.

Any news on the release of your Haze Effect?

I'm testing the low version and probably next week i'll release it along with the ultra version for those lucky monstrous PC owners. Don't think i will have time in the week end sadly…

But as always prior i'll send it to you and other beta testers for the final test.

That would be great. Will be waiting for that.

So 1.0 **RC** is a new version? I'm stuck with like 1.0 B

Also I could try out that Ultimate version. I don't have top level CPU, but I have a nice GPU.

Yes, RC is the Release Candidate and sure i'll send you the 3 versions to try it out and will wait for feedback to release.

I'm loving this, haven't had time to post screens but it's nice... Going to edit it a bit though, but this is great!

Thank you mlp
Hopefully today i'll be able to send you the very last version that's slightly different from the one you tried.