Muddy graphics fix?

[Miso Horny]

Everything was fine in the cell stage, then when I hit land the game went from colorful and nice to looking like a monstrosity, with bad textures and effects everywhere. Everything is set to high and 1080p. Anyway to fix this?

[Doom Sayer]

If you are technically inclined download reshade. There are sets of shaders packaged in sets. First you select the sets then it allows you to pick which effects/shaders you want to download. (More you download slower the game startup)

Otherwise if you have a AMD gpu you might be able to apply AMD sharpening from your graphics control panel. (I think same on nvidia)

>>>>>>>>>>Reshade instructions if desired>>>>>>>>>>
First you select the games exe. (In this case SporeApp .exe) which is in Steamapps\common\Spore\SporeBin. Path is different for the galactic adventures DLC i dont have it installed right now so cant tell specifics. Also select dx9/directx9. For other games just pick what it uses between opengl, dx etc. Directx 8 games need a modified file that can be found online however spore uses direct x 9.

To do what you desire get "qUINT by McFly", and maybe some color/filmic shaders/LUT's from "Color effects by prod80".

If you want better Anti-Aliasing get "Astray FX by BlueSkyDefender and some aa/anti aliasing shaders." Another might be "SweetFX by CeeJay . dk.

Somewhere there a shader called "CAS/Contrast Adaptive sharpening" (This one specifically works well with cartoon style of spore)

[Miso Horny]

I'm more concerned about textures than shaders, a decent texture pack that I don't need Galactic Adventures to use would be nice

[Doom Sayer]

In reshade you can override limits set by devs by holding ctrl and clicking a number which can be used to HEAVILY sharpen a game. (Use numbers on keyboard while its highlighted)

[Miso Horny]

also I'm running with a GTX 1060

[Doom Sayer]

Might want to refresh page im weird and edit heavily. (im done with that now)

[Miso Horny]

I mean I'll try it but with how muddy some of these textures are I can't imagine that good of an improvement

[Doom Sayer]

If you want to keep things simple use the nvidia control panel.
>Mange 3D settings
>Program Settings
>Click add
>Click Spore
>Add Selected program
>Click image Sharpenign
>Set to on
>Click apply
>Start game

If its not extreme enough go back to the Nvidia Control panel and change image sharpening up higher. (Make sure you still have spore selected still)

[Miso Horny]

yeah I'll try that as well as anisotropic filtering

[Doom Sayer]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2323302170
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2323302212

That is reshade. The nvidia sharpening can likely do same thing but wont edit color and brightness etc. (It might be better to turn Ignore Film Grain off entirely in nvidia control panel)

[Miso Horny]

which reshade preset is that?

[Doom Sayer]

Originally posted by AJNPlatinum:

which reshade preset is that?

Just my own. I make them for personal use for almost every game i play. I would post them online but i dont want the authors to get made at me as i dont know their distribution rules/rights for their shaders.

[Miso Horny]

could you send it to me somehow? I like how it looks

[Doom Sayer]

To be honest super hd textures are overrated if devs just tried ordering a sharpen filter + anti aliasing correctly in all their games you could get same visuals for like half the cost performance wise. I guess discord maybe?

[Miso Horny]

aight my Discord is on my steam profile