Download here http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5083









NOTE I did not make this or the .yelo the bloom is made by Alexander Nadem and TSC:E is made by
the CMT
Edited by Ken10Ness on Mar 21, 2015 at 11:25 PM

yuck

too much

J.J. Abrams would approve of these lens flare. I do not. I like shiny baby oil, not reflect the light off of everything.

You hurt my eyes

Looks good just need to tweak it a bit down.

I will never understand bloom mods, they legitimately don't really do anything except add a bunch of shininess to non shiny surfaces, or they over shine shiny surfaces.

agree, and some people think it is epic and beautiful

The HUD is blurry.

The Bloom mod doesn't let you tone it down but eh still looks at least like Halo 4,
Maybe Halo 5? anyway i am gonna post pictures with the brightness down and see if that makes
it look better.

AM I DOING IT RITE?

Why not DOF?
http://puu.sh/gCCTt/084627ca79.png
http://puu.sh/gKOw3/88511a4c35.png
http://puu.sh/gzYnh/2a7cf69eda.png

Why not DOF?
http://puu.sh/gCCTt/084627ca79.png
http://puu.sh/gKOw3/88511a4c35.png
http://puu.sh/gzYnh/2a7cf69eda.png

2003 reminds me of milk Sh***ing diapers and oh yeah being born :)

loooks nothing like halo 4...... a ton of bloom on top of the bloom that is already there in os doesnt mean better graphics quality -_-

Jesus, the FOV...

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This mod is just bad.

When I started playing Halo, like most of young and noob people I thought that things like this looked great. Just the fact that it increased the contrast and exposure so much that it looked so different from the original image, in my mind, it looked great, but after some years of watching the real good graphics and the truly complex graphic mods, now I know that mods like this are just plain bad.

If you pay attention, it's like there was a dark bloom that makes darkness to bleed from dark objects. That's not how bloom is supposed to work and it certainly does not look good. Even ENB Series has the same problem, although tweaked correctly and using the latest d3d9.dll that works with Halo, it's almost unnoticeable, but it's still there.

The only bloom effects that I find to be actually good are those that OS, that old version of GEMFX and ReShade have. It's too bad that none of them can automatically change their intensity according to screen brightness...
Edited by Danger_zone_98 on Mar 22, 2015 at 03:35 PM

OS bloom is good? lel.

Adding bloom can make the graphics better, I don't know what are you saying, just not this mod's bloom. And I didn't say ENB Series was bad, just not good FOR HALO, because you can make awesome things with it in other games, and your settings actually don't look terrible.


Why not?
Edited by Danger_zone_98 on Mar 22, 2015 at 04:02 PM

NS


And I don't see the point of arguing about if it's visuals, graphics, whatever, those are used 99% of the time as synonyms and it's pointless to fight about it. After all, these are graphic mods.

Image color can be an artistic change, but bloom is not; bloom is a real life thing (look it up) and adding it to a game that prevously didn't have said effect is changing the game's graphics, wheter you like it or not.
Edited by Danger_zone_98 on Mar 22, 2015 at 04:58 PM

I do that too, I use SweetFX with a few effects that look good on most maps: Antialiasing, vignette, fake HDR effect, a bit of texture sharpening, a bit of vibrance, a bit of bloom and fake god rays.


That's a bad argument, exactly because of what you said: it's because the art style. We are talking about Halo here. Different art styles need different graphic effects; the bloom in Wind Waker fits its art style, but that wouldn't be the case with Halo's. You're talking like I said that any bloom looks bad in Halo.


Not good ≠ Sucks

And I didn't say it wasn't good because you can't do too much things with it, I said it because its effects quality in Halo are inferior compared to OS or Reshade. You can actually do many things in Halo with ENB Series:

You said:



It actually IS made for that, because it gets depth information from the game to make effects like SSAO and DoF possible; it's not just bloom.





I know, that's why I said "image color can be an artistic change", and not "is an artistic change" and "bloom is a real life thing (look it up) and adding it to a game that prevously didn't have said effect is changing the game's graphics", because changing bloom can be an artistic ghange.

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Where can i download this?!

May I have your EXACT ini files as well your ENB/sweetfx version? (I'll hunt down the enb.sweetfx, I just want your inis) PM me?

That's an old screenshot, I remember it being posted on my AO topic by you.
I want my Halo to look like your Halo now that I got a good GPU.

Don't have it anymore but it may be possible to recreate it, let me try.

It's just ENB, BTW. And if you have a very good GPU you should try one of the ReShade's AOs and DoFs instead. There are ones that are not noisy like ENB's.

I'll look into that. Thank you.

Wait no, it also had SweetFX, I can tell because of the vignette and the more warm colors (low sepia effect).

Alright, this is the original pic and this is what I did just now. The differences are that the new one has a liiiittle bit more contrast and a less blurry DoF (you can change that if you want, I just don't remember what parameter it was, or you can use a Reshade DoF too, like aLTis's).

Link (lolz, Mediafire censored the name)

The bloom is almost unnoticeable at day, however in dark areas the bloom really goes up. I kind of like how it fades, sadly it's not perfect on all maps. This was my last try to get a bloom I really liked with ENB Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0DQ-jCTUgg

lol the mediafire link was killed.

Well thank you. I've actually been messing with the latest masterfile's DOF. aLTis's DOF looks nice.

Your H3 campaign is H3style series?

I'm still slowly making a h3 mod for b30.

Where I can download your preset?

Search for "ReShade mod".
Edited by Danger_zone_98 on Mar 22, 2015 at 06:02 PM

Uh, I know now why the mod in the OP looks like that

BloomPowerDay=60
BloomFadeTime=2000
BloomConstantDay=1
BloomQuality=0
BloomScreenLevelDay=15
BloomCurveDay=10
BloomPowerNight=90
BloomConstantNight=5
BloomCurveNight=10
BloomScreenLevelNight=15
BloomAdaptationScreenLevel=80
BloomAdaptationMultiplier=10
BloomAllowOversaturation=1

That's terrible.
Edited by Danger_zone_98 on Mar 22, 2015 at 06:05 PM

I got it and it doesn't work... :'(

Thanks!

Yeah. He would have looked better with a fedora.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q8uZhDRQLPQ/VRBuSdTwsKI/AAAAAAAAA4c/7IEXzoq7xNc/s100-no/1881%2Bfed.png