A Reshade Preset intended for S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly, bringing a somewhat "Tarkovsky's Stalker" desaturation but still natural looking environments.
This is a reshade preset intended for use with Stalker Anomaly. Every screenshot you see (if I can figure out how to add them here,) is my reshade preset in conjunction with Escape from Pripyat. This means the grass, ground, and weather edits come from Aggressor reshade, but the preset also looks good with regular in-game textures.
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Your mileage may vary. I am still tweaking and optimizing the preset. It may be taxing on your machine. Something to remember: if the gameplay appears too sharp/fuzzy, hit the 'Home' button and uncheck Adaptive Sharpening. MXAO will remove corner shadowing if it's too taxing, and Gaussian Blur can be adapted to your preference. Everyone's preferences are different - feel free to tweak however you see fit.
To install:
1. Go to reshade.me and download the reshade installer.
2. Install reshade, selecting the top two packs (Standard/Sweetfx) and the Legacy pack on the bottom; ensure all shaders in these packs are selected in the next section.
3. Download my preset.
4. Drag and Drop everything from my download (two ini's and the reshade-shaders folder) into your 'bin' folder, overwriting everything when necessary.
5. Enter your game, hit the 'Home' button, do the tutorial or skip it, and from the drag down menu select "Grim Sky" "Sky Grim" or whatever I named it.
6. Profit.
UPDATE: Updated the reshade so it no longer provides errors in loading the FXAA or Quint-lightroom shaders. Makes for a cleaner look. Also added a few more screenshots.
Screenshots:
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yooo! im the guy that was in ur dms on reddit, great to see u finally dropped this! def sharing bro
Hey thanks bud! Just got too congested trying to reach out to everyone. Are you enjoying it so far? I'm still trying to tweak dawn, dusk, and emission skyboxes, as they are pretty grainy by default and the sharpening in the preset makes it stand out. Will forever be my bane!
oh bro f'sho f'sho. nah the only thing i'm noticing is shadows sort of bugging out on the sides of my screen when i look around when there's sunlight. though that might be either the reshade settings or my graphics settings on anomaly, just wanted to let u know that anyway. but otherwise nah this reshade ***** dude, nothing wrong with this at all
Yeah I've had that as well, at first I thought it was some of the sun shadow settings/godrays, but it might be something in the preset. Definitely gonna mess around with it. I'm glad you like it though!
yeah yeah no sweat bro, tight ****
Hi, there mate ! I was the guy on reddit too with whom you shared the link on google drive !
Glad to see it finally on Moddb for everyone to enjoy your gorgeous preset !
Yup, I remember you! I was happy to share; I hope you're enjoying it! :)
Hello TheMightyKremit!
Will you be willing to share your user.ltx as I am trying to replicate this exact visual in my game?
I am glad that you were willing to release this preset. Frankly, it harbors the very look I want to give to the Zone I am trying to experience. Thank you.
Regards,
Leshen
Hey there!
Yes, I'm more than happy to share my user.ltx. How would you like me to send it along?
Hey,
You can provide the user.ltx in the download for others to take a look as well or a google drive link. I appreciate it either way. Much thanks.
Drive.google.com
Edit: Turn off in-game SMAA and Anti-Aliasing completely, I had forgotten to do that as I was messing around with graphics for a bit. Then set Sun Main Intensity to 1 and Sun Base Intensity to 0.2!
Hey babe.
Hey bb ;)
hey i watched this yesterday on reddit
how do i install it?
The instructions are pretty easy. They can be found in the description! :)
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"selecting the top two packs"
standard effects and sweet FX?
the standard effect can't be selected because it's already
or did you mean to enable sweet fx and qUINT?
Sorry about that mate, I install reshade so often I don't even look at what I'm doing! I meant Standard Effects and Sweet FX. Sorry about that, I'll update the description!
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When im in game the home button dosent work to open the menu
Are you sure you installed ReShade correctly? You chose the right DirectX pack and then the correct Anomaly Exe? There are about 8 or 9 exe's to choose from, and you have to pick the one that corresponds with the DirectX you use in-game. I'm asking because I've never had this issue when correctly installing ReShade.
Heyo, awesome preset I was just going to ask what were your settings when you took the screenshots in the army warehouses? That stuff looks amazing, and also what settings did you use when taking the first sc?
If you look through the comments, I gave another user a link to my user.ltx. The screenshots all use the same settings, except for the ones in jupiter (bright orange sun-rays by the digger while holding the detector and K98). For the Army Warehouse screenshots, turn the Sun Base Intensity to 1, and the Sun Main Intensity to 0.9 (I believe).
I really like the looks of this shader. Unlike other shaders it keeps the same atmosphere and coolness of the zone.
Glad you like it!
How the hell are your reflections so nice?
This makes the zone a dead and depressing place, as it should be.
Love it. This reshade fits naturally to this games' atmosphere.
Definitely worth a try.
How'd you get it to work? There's no 'Legacy Pack' in the Reshade packs anymore. I read that the pack got taken down or something apparantly in a Reshade troubleshoot.
Btw, hey, a 2022 commenter.