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All things related to LightingEngine, for DS2/DS3 , Discord: https://teapawt.org/t.co/xh2VucdO6H , Kofi : https://teapawt.org/t.co/fCg2VaGW3r Created by @rage_vitamins

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DS2LE Path tracing build is now on Nexus as V_0.1. Here are some sample shots. Whole game should be playable end to end. Thanks to all the members from community who were part of the project.
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Sebastian Castellanos@Sebasti66855537Sep 22
Just published a PC perf analysis & tuning guide for Remedy's CONTROL Resonant. Overall, I liked the game's technical aspect, though I did have a few pain points with it that I mentioned in the article. Hope people like it & find it useful! wccftech.com/how-to/control-…
CONTROL Resonant PC Performance Analysis & Tuning Guide – How To Get The Best Experience On PC

CONTROL Resonant PC Performance Analysis & Tuning Guide – How To Get The Best Experience On PC

CONTROL Resonant offers optimized graphics settings improving performance by 91% without ray tracing and 77% with it on RTX 4060, showcasing Remedy's Northlight Engine.

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Amirah
@AmirahOfMirrahSep 22
Seamless Co-op for Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin is officially released on Nexus Mods! Go download it!
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DS3LE-COTD WIP. Lot of bug fixes in BVH and tech perspective. Testing is going well. Slowly fixing issues in area one at a time
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Note for clarification none of these progress shots are with DLSS-5(NR). If it is used I will specifically indicate it was used rather than indicate "No-DLSS5" in every post I make
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DS3LE-PT In motion Cruxifixon woods. DS3LE volumetrics and path tracing add so much depth to scene here. Very happy with testing , super optimistic of release in few months. I also enable/disable DLSS-5 to show comparision to show what it actually adds to scene as well
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DLSS-NR is done pre-upscaling and natively. It costs around 3ms at 960p on RTX 5080. This is the pipeline PT->NRD->Tonemap->DLSS-NR->InvTonemap->DLSS-SR. As the image is denoised before NR this can be done, for RR the DLSS-NR has to be run at 1440p(Display resolution)
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János Turánszki@turanszkijSep 17
Some shadow map optimizations for Wicked Engine, now 16 viewports can be fully utilized for multiple lights' shadow draw calls with instancing. 256 dynamic pointlight shadows in Sponza:
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DS3LE-PT BVH work near old wolf of farron. NRD-SH Denoiser. No DLSS-5 in these screenshots. I will indicate any posts where it's used to avoid any confusions.
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DLSS-5 NR Integration in DS3LE-PT. This is continuation of integration work in DS2. Comparisions are of PT vs PT + DLSS-5
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Thanks to @JohnApe138 for helping me with DLSS-NR Integration
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Shadowth117@Shadowth117Sep 14
First custom Demon's Souls PS5 Remake model and texture import, featuring my Megabonk model of @/SanagiYuzu. Being able to emulate this made it MUCH easier to test things and finally make modding this game a reality. Tool and usage guide can be found below
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DS2LE-PT + DLSS-5 In motion. See the quoted tweet for images without NR.
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DLSS-5(NR) Integration WIP in DS2. I am also using the excellent Faraam preset from Beubeu here. PT is enabled in both cases. NR is done pre-upscale. Costs around 4-5ms on RTX 5080 at 960p. Reinhard Tonemap(Basic)->DLSS - NR->InverseTonemap->DLSS-SR
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DLSS-5(NR) Integration WIP in DS2. I am also using the excellent Faraam preset from Beubeu here. PT is enabled in both cases. NR is done pre-upscale. Costs around 4-5ms on RTX 5080 at 960p. Reinhard Tonemap(Basic)->DLSS - NR->InverseTonemap->DLSS-SR
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One more comparision
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Shadowth117@Shadowth117Sep 8
Alright so Demon's Souls PS5 Remake is emulating now. It's slow even on a 5090 with 9950X3D, but it goes at about 2-3 FPS when it doesn't seem to be loading assets. I got as far as the small steps in the later tunnel before it crashed.
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DS3LE-PT tweaking/adding new light sources in Irithyll dungeon
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Abysswatchers P2 cutscene. Required bug fixes on the shaders for the blood sfx.
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DS3 has lot of LODS for every mesh. In LE I can add the base LOD to the BVH, as LE doesn't know when the LOD is actually swapped in main view, this will create self-intersection issues, however added a feature to detect these cases and path tracer will do a stronger ray bias
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Abysswatchers Intro cutscene. I love that all fromsoft games render cutscenes in real-time. Pathtracing and updated DOF in LE adds almost cinema level of lighting
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