DX forgotten cousin Project: Snowblind deserves some retouch \ VOGONS

DX forgotten cousin Project: Snowblind deserves some retouch

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First post, by lowenz

Posted on 2016-09-05, 19:45

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What it deserves:

*Widescreen Mode: a rough version is already existing: https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=ht … n-fix/downloads
-but due to "d3d9.dll" you can't use this AND ReShade together (and ReShade really shines in this game, try Adaptive Sharpen + SMAA + some Gamma rebalance)

*Widescreen HUD mod
-with a convenient scaling

*Shadow hack
-to increase their resolution (and add some smoothing)

*Retexture project (badly needed, maybe some simple noise+dithering to start)
-and so the tool to access the resources of the game (3 "rkv" files)

Reply 1 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on 2016-09-05, 23:02

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It would be nice to just completely rid the "white" forced brightness that can't be disabled at the least. It's what turned me away from this game 11 years ago, that and the peak securom/starforce DRM paranoia

long live PCem

Reply 2 of 4, by lowenz

Posted on 2016-09-06, 08:23

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leileilol wrote:
It would be nice to just completely rid the "white" forced brightness that can't be disabled at the least.

Do you mean the bloom halos?

Reply 3 of 4, by lowenz

Posted on 2016-09-06, 08:34

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Without Bloom:

With Bloom:

Reply 4 of 4, by Kerr Avon

Posted on 2016-09-10, 22:09

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Project Snowblind is a good game, at least if you like linear first person shooters with varied weapons, some good gimmicks (I love how you can hack and remote control security robots, and also enter and control large mechs, for example) and an OK but not great story-line. Sadly it's too easy (voluntary save points are too frequent) and is the only first person shooter I can name that has no skill selector. Plus when it came out, the PC version was a nightmare to get running on some systems. Fortunately the XBox version (original XBox) ran fine, my only complaints being the lack of skill settings, and no bots (computer controlled opponents) in multiplayer, but then few games have bots, sadly).

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