Project Realta Nua Reshade Preset R3 FINAL for PSO2 JP & US Clients

ARKS INSIDER Presents: PSO2's Project Realta Nua Reshade Preset R3 Build July 28, 2020

Preset works for both Japanese and North American Clients of PSO2.

https://youtu.be/2f0XL63lnRc

Preset Download Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tMu...ew?usp=sharing

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Graphics Card System Requirements:
- NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super or above (Or equivalent)
- AMD RADEON RX580 or above (Or equivalent)

NOTE: Basically if you can play PSO2 with over 100 FPS at 1080p, you can play it with this Preset 60 FPS Locked or Unlocked.

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INSTALLATION: (You can watch the actual video showing all of this instead of if you wanted)
1. Download and Install Rehsade v4.7.0 Installer, select your PSO2.exe inside the pso2_bin folder, and select DirectX9.
2. Leave the default checked plugins and select "qUINT by Marty McFly".
3. Make sure to only to select the following plugins:
- DisplayDepth.fx
- SMAA.fx
- qUINTbloom.fx
- qUINTdof.fx
- qUINTlightroom.fx
- qUINTmxao.fx
4. Set the Reshade Installer aside, and download the PRNRP R3 Final Build 7/28/2020
5. Open it and select "STEP 2 - PSO2 Reshade Plugin (Fixes Texture Shimmering) R12" Folder
6. Select the Proper D3D9.DLL file for your PSO2 Client as labeled by each folders (JP/NA)
7. Go to "STEP 3 - PRNRP R3 Final (Normal and Alter Presets)" Folder and extract the contents
7. Go back to Reshade, select "Edit Reshade Settings".
8. Do not Check "Performance Mode", Do Check "Skip Tutorial" option.
9. Under Preset, press the "..." Button and select the Preset you want to use as follows:
- ARKS INSIDER - Project Realta Nua R3 Normal
- ARKS INSIDER - Project Realta Nua R3 Normal wDOF (Best with Cutscenes or Photo Mode)
- ARKS INSIDER - Project Realta Nua R3 Alter
- ARKS INSIDER - Project Realta Nua R3 Alter wDOF (Best with Cutscenes or Photo Mode)

NOTE 1: Normal is based on the old color palette PSO2 used from EPISODES 1 up to 3. Comes with Ray Tracing.
NOTE 2: Alter is based on the current color palette PSO2 used from EPISODES 4 up to 6. Also comes with Ray Tracing.

10. Play the game and find the right Preset for your likings.

IMPORTANT: In order to access the Reshade Control Panel while in-game, default key is HOME key on your keyboard, change it to your liking in the settings of the Reshade Control Panel if you want (personally I set it to the "OEM" key (aka the Console Key) since PSO2 doesn't use that for anything in-game.

Reshade Important Settings: https://imgur.com/a/8UwagKu
Be sure that Reshade have the following settings set in order to get the correct visuals the presets meant to have.

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Post Processings Used:
- qUINT RTGI by Marty McFly
- qUINT BLOOM by Marty McFly
- qUINT LIGHTROOM by Marty McFly
- qUINT MXAO by Marty McFly
- AMD FidelityFX CAS by Advanced Micro Devices (OpenSource under GPUOpen)
- Clarity2 by Mortalitas
- Depth Cues by BlueSkyDefender
- SMAA by iryoku
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D3D9.DLL Specifically Modified for PSO2 (JP/NA) by Lemon-King, you can get the latest DLLs releases from his official Git-Hub Page.
https://github.com/Lemon-King/reshad...pmaps/releases

PSO2 In-game Video Settings:
- Everything Maxed Out Except for Anti Aliasing Turned OFF
- (Personal Preferences) Turn OFF Motion Blur

GPU Control Panel: https://i.imgur.com/18wPtST.jpg
All Default except for Vsync/Triple Buffering to OFF (ON if you have Screen Tearing or just use Freesync/GSYNC if your Monitor supports it).

WARNING(S):
1. Make sure your PSO2 Client is not installed on Drive C (System Boot Drive where your Windows OS is located).
2. Make sure the pso2_bin folder and its entire content went under "Take Ownership" Privileges to avoid in-game problems.
3. Make sure you update, and launch PSO2 Client using PSO2 Tweaker from now on (original PSO2 Launcher will not launch if it detects Reshade).

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This preset requires ReShade v4.7.0 (RTGI is no longer working with GShade, might change on the next update)
https://reshade.me/

Support the RT Shader Development Team via the official Patreon Page:
https://www.patreon.com/mcflypg

Official Facebook PSO2 Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/arksinsider/

I don't get it, this thing makes the game darker?

Oh my gawd , I can finally Ray Trace with AMD while playing PSO2? Thanks a bunch mate.

this preset is ass and the RTGI shader isn't even real RT, it acts like a regular bloom but it freeze your game like 15 seconds when turning it on lmao

Upcoming Changes on the next release.

Screenshot Gallery: https://ibb.co/album/48t6cb

Changelog:
- Color Palette Completely Overhauled, still vibrant and colorful, but places like Forest will actually looked like a Forest Inhabitant of dangerous Animals and enemies.

- Ray Tracing Reflections are enabled again, this time totally tweaked and fixed, should no longer cause to make characters cast unnecessary shadow-like reflections in camera angles its not suppose to.

- Tundra snow will remain to look like a pile of snow, and sands of Vopal Coasts will remain to look a pile of sands no matter what time and weather it is.

- Color curve for black and shadows has been changed drastically, making all cosmetics in black material's exposure still visible to the naked eye.

- User Interface like inventory should now be more visible due to change with the hue, exposure and saturation of the blue/aqua sliders in the lightroom fx.

- Ambient Occlusion has been tweaked further (spread, double layer, normal bias, and amount) without making your character look like covered with dirt unlike the first release.

- Another notable change with the color palette in the 1st Revision, Red-colored HUDs, effects and items will have its color more pop-out compared to before making it more easy to see things. This change is also present in the US Client if PRNRP is used.

PRNRP Revision 1 Progress (Day 2)

https://i.imgur.com/SVQuKv5.png

During my time tweaking the Color Palette, I've noticed SEGA has excessively used the BLUE TINT over RGB.

I removed this, and still makes Blue still Blue, but this definitely benefits the game a lot making the other colors really pop out.

So far, I'm pretty close to the Color Palette that Akikazu Mizuno's color template on how the Original Posters were illustrated (namely EPISODES 1, 2, and 3 color palette).

Further tweaking is needed as I'm going to all fields as I tweak the color palette before declaring its finished.

Will see how all this thing goes.

Screenshot Gallery: https://ibb.co/album/kgDJ61

Day 2 Progress - Playing around the Skin Tone with different lighting and ambience, so far good. Almost matches what Akikazu Mizuno's Color Palette does with her official posters for the PSO2 Cover Arts especially used on the Deluxe Packages.

Thinking of disabling the real-time reflection again as the current GGX BRDF Material Shader that allows Ray Traced Reflections isn't perfect where the bouncing light reveals the low poly on the bodies of the characters especially on the torsos with unveiled skin parts.

Using Lambert Diffuse instead of the GGX BRDF Shader Material (which only makes light sources reflects on other surfaces instead of real-time reflections, fixes the issue with bodies looking low poly.

Right now until GGX BRDF will add support to smoothen its light projection according to the normal material used on the body, its not worth it. Hoping for the day it will come soon since MXAO has been supporting the smoothening according to normals for quite awhile now and this is nothing any of a difference (previous builds of RTGI a year ago supported it, makes me wonder why the function was removed on the first place?).

Lambert Diffuse (RTGI Feature):
https://i.imgur.com/EjLsNt1.png

GGX BRDF (RTGI Feature):
https://i.imgur.com/mzVCOac.png

UPDATE:
Found a workaround with the GGX BRDF Material which will let me keep the Real-Time Ray Traced Reflections, its not perfect but it gets the job done with hiding the low polycount with the lower torso.

By the way this does not affect costumes or layer wears that hides the legs anyways, only cosmetics that does unveils your waifu's legs are affected by this issue with RTGI.

I'm making good progress here so far.

GGX BRDF Workaround Fix on hiding much of the lower torso low poly count:
https://i.imgur.com/lcjqjcH.png
https://i.imgur.com/yLtUZCY.png

Anneliese's Skin Tone (Normal Lobby Lighting Ambience):
https://i.imgur.com/xzb2PSs.jpg

Anneliese's Skin Tone (Emergency Lobby Lighting Ambience):
https://i.imgur.com/iBZqzwj.jpg

Anneliese's Skin Tone (Lobby Lighting Ambience Both PRNRP):
https://i.imgur.com/WoOtkot.jpg

PRNRP R1 Day 4 progress
https://ibb.co/album/y4wWLd

https://i.imgur.com/TaXawPO.jpg

Satisified, its not perfect but it has more something to do with the current limitations of RTGI with its current state on v0.13 BETA.

Despite the issues with Ray Tracing Unveiling the low polycounts with the lower torso, it only happens in places where there's alot of white textures (such as Tundra), but everything else is almost picture perfect.

Definitely captured what Akikazu Mizuno's color palette this time, I'm really amazed on what the Lightroom and Clarity combined can do with the visuals.

I'm going to make another preset - but this time based on Tier 5, if that results on a much more higher FPS while retaining the visuals I did with Tier 6, I will definitely release it.

https://youtu.be/rghV96hWW6k
https://youtu.be/sMO-7ov_bUE
https://youtu.be/wSa4KPRc9wQ

PRNRP R1 is now up for download.

https://i.ibb.co/HPTSdZM/Desktop-Scr...1-16-57-40.png
https://i.ibb.co/PQBDTcj/Desktop-Scr...1-14-48-95.png
https://i.ibb.co/F6XZ3k9/Desktop-Scr...1-10-44-00.png

Some Freecam Screenshots using PRNRP R1: https://ibb.co/album/wc6CFm