How to set up ReShade for PTTR!

How to make PTTR look a lot better, in just 20-30 minutes!

Downloading ReShade

You can download ReShade at https://reshade.me/ .
In the installer, click on "Browse" and navigate to your PTTR install folder (you can find it by right clicking on the game in your steam library, hovering over "Manage" and clicking on "Browse local files".
Select PaintTheTownRed.exe and click "Next".
In the rendering API menu, choose "DirectX 10/11/12"
For presets, you can either install my preset (find it in the "presets" section of this guide) or just click skip if you want to make your own.
For effect packages, just select all of them (this can be done by pressing "Check all" top right of the installer.

After installing ReShade, we'll need to fix some issues in the ReShade config, so go back to the game's install folder and open "ReShade.ini" with your preferred text editor.
Find

RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_UPSIDE_DOWN=0,RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_REVERSED=0

and set both of those to =1. After that, it should look like

RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_UPSIDE_DOWN=1,RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_REVERSED=1

Setting it up in-game.

Now for the fun part, setting ReShade up in game. Open PTTR and you should instantly see it compiling effects on the top of your screen:

Wait a bit for it to compile, then press "Home" to open the menu. It should open up a tutorial, but it's bad and dumb and that's what I'm here for anyway so skip it.
To start, navigate to the settings tab and make a keybind to toggle effects.

Then, go to the effects tab and just start experimenting. No real way to go wrong here, just pick what you think looks best to you.

Presets.

If you're too lazy to bother actually making a preset yourself, and would just rather make your game look prettier, then you can download my preset.

Download Link for my Preset.[drive.google.com]

To download presets, put them in your PTTR folder and in-game, in the ReShade menu, click on the top bar and select your preset from the drop-down menu

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To save your preset, click on the plus icon to the right of that bar to make a new preset (so it has a name and won't override the default preset) and name it whatever you want making sure to select "duplicate current preset" After that, click the save icon next to the plus and there should now be a [PRESETNAME].ini in your PTTR folder. You can then share that with whoever you wish.

Results?

Sure this sounds like an incredibly long and annoying process, but, like, does it actually make your game look better? Well, that's for you to judge. Obviously. Everyone has different tastes in game style, and you might just like the blocky flat simple lighting of PTTR. Plus, this can't do EVERYTHING, it can only do things like reflections and ambient occlusion. I've attached images below that compare the original game and my preset. (ReShade on the left, vanilla PTTR on the right.) They've been massacred by compression due to steam's image size limit, but they should show a difference.

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