Nightly

What's Changed

• Improve shadow stability, especially the last cascade. Improve shadow rendering performance by @kirides in #273
• "-XEnableEditorPanel": Replace D2D with ImGui UI, fix UnprojectXM by @kirides in #274
• first implementation of "Graphics Presets" values pulled out of thin air by @kirides in #269

Full Changelog: v17.9.4...nightly

v17.9.4

What's Changed

• Perf/tracking by @kirides in #262
• implement proper shadow cascade culling, also allow to not draw "atta… by @kirides in #268
• Fix outdated temp buffer data for post processing filters by @kirides in #272

Full Changelog: v17.9.3...v17.9.4

v17.9.3

v17.9.3 - Smaller fixes, smooth shadow movements

What's Changed

• Improve relative shader path resolving, by introducing D3D11FileRelativeInclude, also remove need to change working directory while at it. by @kirides in #257
• fix VERSION_NUMBER encoding in ci build script by @G00fY2 in #260
• Feat/version in settings by @kirides in #261
• Version info improvement by @G00fY2 in #264
• Allow settings SmoothShadowCameraUpdate from advanced settings, fix missing shader file by @kirides in #266
• Provide actual Gothic Daedalus Externals for ImGui, for use in script without need fo… by @kirides in #263
• Fix Depth Buffer not appearing in Reshade by @FieryAery in #252
• Shadows
  • shadows: decrease distance at which shadows won't be updated. 53186ac
    low WorldShadowRangeScale no longer jumps a lot
  • Higher shadow resolutions like "High" and "Very High", can now try to use SmoothShadowCameraUpdate set to off to experience real-time world-shadow movements
  • add shadow softness advanced setting. Can be used if you feel that "high resolution shadows" are "too sharp"

New Contributors

• @FieryAery made their first contribution in #252

Full Changelog: v17.9.2...v17.9.3

v17.9.2-fix2

What's Changed

• Improve relative shader path resolving, by introducing D3D11FileRelativeInclude, also remove need to change working directory while at it. by @kirides in #257
• hotfix: disable OnWindowMessage unless window is "active"

Full Changelog: v17.9.2-fix...v17.9.2-fix2

v17.9.2-fix - Shader file hotfix

somehow this also made it in with a bug, see v17.9.2-fix2

Hotfix: fix ffx compilation, cpu code correctly resolves relative shaders, while gpu doesnt

Full Changelog: v17.9.2...v17.9.2-fix

v17.9.2

This release contains a broken shader file, please refer to release "v17.9.2-fix2"

What's Changed

• Merge #242 by @kirides
  • Fix amd_ags initialization
  • use MultiDrawIndirect for shadowmap world mesh
  • implement rudimentary shadow frustum culling for skeletal meshes
  • fix saving of some new options
  • improve vector length checks by removing Sqrt calls
• Merge #244 by @kirides
  • Re-introduce mistakenly remove SMAA sharpening
  • record more graphics events
  • restructure Advanced Settings a tiny bit.
    • HBAO settings are now "Post Processing Effects" and SMAA was moved there.
  • improve Settings Open/Close behavior a bit, by ensuring we only acquire and release gothic input when IsActive actually changes
• Merge @SaiyansKing SK9 by @kirides in #247
  • Restore 16Bit->32Bit texture conversion on Windows 7 ffcf5be
  • Fix quadmarks using incorrect material 7eef25e
  • Update project to new platform toolset 0e18399
• Refactor CI/CD pipeline by @G00fY2 in #241
• Merge #253 by @kirides
  • ImGUI scripting from Ninja/Ikarus
    • exported a bunch of functions to allow daedalus to open and define ImGui windows and overlays.
    • A daedalus script sdk for this, based on Ikarus, can be found here: https://github.com/kirides/ImGui-daedalus
  • AMD CAS (Contrast Adaptive Sharpen) provides improved visuals without over-sharpening much.
    • Player can select which sharpener to use in advanced menu.
  • experimetal rudimentary TAA (Temporal Anti Aliasing)
    • motion vectors based on camera movement alone, which makes this a tad too blurry at lower resolutions, but Gothic itself is quite "static" anyways.
  • Improved Framelimiter timing resolution / frametimes
  • fix #251: when implementing CSM the SS_Comp SamplerState assignment for PS_Rain accidentally was deleted
• add zCParser locations for G1 by @kirides in #254
• allow weather effects when it's "snow", disable "wetness" when it snows by @kirides in #255

Full Changelog: v17.9.1...v17.9.2

v17.9.1

Merge pull request #240 from kirides/fix/adjust_shadow_filtering

feat: configure shadow filtering for cascades, improve shader reload speed a bit.

v17.9

New Feature: Cascaded Shadows

The number of cascades is configurable from 1-4.

side-by-side: https://www.diffchecker.com/image-compare/4HsS1eW7/
Video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBtNPdyYykM

before (1 cascade, "medium quality" 2048 shadow map):

after (2 cascades, "medium quality" 2x2048 shadow map):

What's Changed

• Added externals to refresh settings and zen resources by @ThielHater in #227 #229
• Pick "Improve repeating GetCameraPositionXM(), insideFrustum remove" by @Proxin in #230
• Merge SK8 into master by @kirides in #234
  • Always compile non compute rain shaders by @SaiyansKing 074a57f
  • Add option to force drawing rain through transform feedback instead of compute shaders by @SaiyansKing fbbaec9
  • Added GDX_SaveRendererSettings to Ikarus bindings by @AdeonMaster 742ee44
  • Remove indirect world draws for now due to bugged nvidia drivers by @SaiyansKing 8ca7289
  • Add support for 16bit textures instead of converting them to 32bits by @SaiyansKing 3c6d2d1
  • Fix volumetric fog artefacts in specific cases by @SaiyansKing 9998aef
• Remove last dependency on fx11_desktop_2019 by implementing SMAA without FX-library by @kirides in #237
• chore: update Dear ImGui to 1.92.5, add ImGuizmo by @kirides in #239
• feat: Implement Cascaded Shadow Maps by @kirides in #238

Full Changelog: v17.8-dev28...v17.9

v17.8-dev28

What's Changed

• Merge latest changes from @SaiyansKing's work by @kirides in #225
  • Add ASLR Detection and display appropriate error by SaiyansKing d809836
  • Do not display error about AMD drivers for Intel/Nvidia users by SaiyansKing a89165d
  • Add info about missing LAA flag in allocation failed erorr by SaiyansKing fd93053
  • Limit backbuffer copy resolution when creating ingame thumbnail by SaiyansKing 8e556a9
• Allow Fog Range to be decreased further by @kirides in #226

Full Changelog: v17.8-dev27...v17.8-dev28

v17.8-dev27

What's Changed

• 93a3cec add "Hero affects objects" option missed in merge by @kirides
• 89858d1 Add animated texture support for pfx by @SaiyansKing
• 277bce1 Fix wind effect causing jittering on objects after some time passes by @SaiyansKing
• 4308d2d Fix loading waterfalls by @SaiyansKing
• 005dc4e Fix pfx orientation by @SaiyansKing
• 6124da4 Fix reloading shaders on player affect objects option by @SaiyansKing
• dd643ab Add player affect shader by @SaiyansKing
• 2b6e038 Fix VS_ExConstantBuffer_Wind padding by @Proxin
• fe257bf Remove old code by @Proxin
• c8df4db Add option in F11 menu by @Proxin
• 6a1b2bb Add player affect on some objects by @Proxin
• 648c01a Disable water waves by default by @SaiyansKing
• f21c001 Add support for wind vob animations on G1 by @SaiyansKing
• e913842 Update WorldConverter.cpp by @SaiyansKing
• 0e1ef6f Add back rendering fog on spacer by @SaiyansKing
• 896f17e Fix wind by @SaiyansKing
• 0fec205 Add Spacer_NET support by @SaiyansKing
• 33fff01 Update wind shader by @SaiyansKing
• 6775127 Add wind dir change / Fix errors by @Proxin
• ab618a5 Revert fix for uv clamping by @AdeonMaster
• 030f2a9 always trigger ImGui resize code if resolution doesn't match by @kirides
• 293bbba only print ImGui stuff (e.g. mouse cursor) if IsActive by @kirides
• 1339d6c Implement missing feature - water waves by @SaiyansKing
• 12d47ca Restore missing shader by @SaiyansKing
• f64a7b2 add missing project configuration by @kirides
• c2706b7 change wind quality condition, build g1 & g2 with avx2 by @kirides
• e9789f8 Restore missing shader by @SaiyansKing
• 6e74a3c Use compressed raindrop textures by @SaiyansKing
• dca8256 Disable wind animation on pause by @SaiyansKing
• 212c561 Remove simple wind type by @SaiyansKing
• 58ab821 Fix rendering barrier thunder by @SaiyansKing
• 9a8e4ac Fix warning with intel extensions by @SaiyansKing
• 7ca4d42 Implement zCFlash class by @SaiyansKing
• 00d2d97 Refactor code a little bit by @SaiyansKing

Full Changelog: v17.8-dev26...v17.8-dev27