1 week, 2 days ago
~La Bella Italia~
Preset description:
Honestly, I'm not quite satisfied with this ReShade, a version 2 will probably come out assuming I have time. Not satisfied with the oversaturation and underwhelmingness of the effect.
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Brief Video
Soon!
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Instructions
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Download Preset
Download and install ReShade version 3.0.7
If installation doesn't allow you to download effects then follow instructions and links at this link here:
---->>>>https://reshade.me/forum/troubleshooting/3184-unable-to-download-archive
Rename Preset whatever you'd like and drop it in your Assassin's Creed II main directory where your AssassinsCreedII.exe file is located
Start ReShade in-game by pressing Shift and F2 on your keyboard and select your renamed file from the drop down menu in-game to use!
Should be able to press Scroll Lock to enable/disable effect.
So it's just my usual dose of crap tons of Ambient Light, though not nearly as much as my Black Flag Preset. It's my opinion that adding Bloomy Ambient Light that spreads naturally throughout game environments makes older games look more like lighting in modern games.
Also with this Preset, when AC II first came out many people were disappointed with the graphics with the common complaint that the game looked "cartoonish". This wasn't because the game itself was bad looking though. The game utilized a lighting effect that created darker shaded areas around the edges of the player character and npc models, that for some people enhanced the lifelike appearance and visual illustriousness of the characters in game, but for people that didn't visually interpret the effect as it was intended to be perceived, all the characters looked like they were made out of glossy, glittery ribbons, even on their skin, or on matte clothing that wasn't meant to be shiny, including Ezio's default robes.
How ironic then that the effect that seems to fix that problem for me the most in ReShade is ReShade's Cartoon effect! The cartoon effect works together with AC II's lighting in a manner similar to ambient occlusion that adds more heavy shadows and shaded bits to the fabric of clothing in game. This way it makes the clothing look less shiny and a little easier to perceive the more natural and non-shiny clothing for the flat and matte material that they really are. These effects are easiest to see in my close up comparison screenshots of Ezio's robes in the screenshot section down below where it's just a shot of Ezio from beneath him and some of the sky and top edges of buildings. There's two below, one in Venice and one in Florence, so check them out! Don't try looking too hard in to the effect, the white on the torso section of Ezio's robes should look like a flat white/very light grey softball. Very flat, no shine. Look at it like you're looking at paper crumbled up!
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