Ys graphics enhancement mod (PC only)

[ggtsu]

Hi everyone. I'm sure no one knows me here but I've been lurking these forums for a a few years now - mainly just tracking the efforts of various fan translation projects. Anyways, I started working on my own project to enhance the graphics capabilities of the Ys PC game's render engine. I mostly been adding pixel shader effects. Currently I have per-pixel lighting/bump mapping, bloom/HDR, and screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO).

Here is a few screenshots of my WIP:


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For demonstration purposed only, right now I have a lot of the effects highly exaggerated if you don't mind.
I plan on looking into doing full high res texture replacements for several Ys PC games (Ys Origins, Oath in Felghana, and Ys as well but I would first need to figure out how to reverse the game engine's file formats). For now this mod simply works as a directx9 hook (Similar to ENB Series) and doesn't modify any of the game's files.

[ryuranx]

It looks way better than the vanilla version. I can hardly wait to try this mod.


By the way, does it fix the aspect ratio for widescreen monitors? The screenshots doesn't look stretched.

[Red Hairdo]

This looks interesting. There was another meber here with mods for the graphics as well (I think it was Excalibar or so), but yours seems to be quite different from that person's. (I think that person posted his thead in the Ys VI section.)

I might try this once it's done. Nice work.

[bishopcruz]

Looks great. Whatever happened to this? Is it still being worked on?

[shadesofblue]

This HLD mod would looks a lot better with the default gamma setting turned down. As it stands every texture is drowning in grey.