Faded Shadow - Reshade Preset

This Reshade preset enhances the beautiful world of Elden's Circle with better shadows, global illumination effects, and color grading.

faded shadow - Reshade preset

✨ **Make the world of "Elden Ring" more colorful**

Default introduction

This resource pack contains two Reshade presets:

🚀 Non-global illumination version

• Performance-friendly with minimal impact on frame rate

-Add color grading and contrast adjustment

• Enhanced lighting effects and slight sharpening

🌟 Global illumination version

• Contains all features of non-global illumination version
• Add small and medium range shadows

-Achieve light bounce effect

• Optional depth of field blur effect
• Requires stronger GPU performance

🎨 Color adjustment

Color grading aims to replace overly "pure" yellow, green, and blue tones with darker, muddier tones that give the game world a more atmospheric feel.

💡 Global illumination effect

Use NGLighting technology to achieve global illumination effects, which is the most performance-consuming filter in the resource pack. But it can effectively add realistic shadow effects to objects such as bushes and furniture.

⚙️ Optional filters

• **AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening** - Makes game images clearer
• **NGLighting** - Global illumination effects (shadows and light bounces)
• **qUINTMotionVectors** - required components for NGLighting
• **AmbientLight** - ambient light effect
• **LUT** - color grading and contrast adjustment
• **FGFX Large Scale Aware Occlusion Irradiance** - Adds large range shadows and highlights
• **Filmgrain** - Film grain effect, reducing color banding
• **ADOF** - depth of field effect

📥 Installation Guide

Step 1: Adjust game brightness

Before using a preset, please adjust the in-game brightness settings.

Step 2: Install Reshade

• Download the Reshade installer from reshade.me and run it
• Select "Elden's Circle" from the list and click "Next"
• Select "DirectX 10/11/12" rendering API
• Select the effect you want to install (standard effects are required for this mod)
• Complete the installation

Step 3: Install the preset

• Download this default file
• Unzip all contents to the folder where the executable file of "Elden's Circle" is located

Step 4: Configure Reshade

• Start the game and press the Home button to open the Reshade interface.
• Skip the tutorial
• Use the left and right arrows to select the "Tarnished Shades" preset
• Set the "Effect Switch Key" to the End key in the Settings tab
• Press the Home button to close the interface

💡 **Tip**: Press the End key in game to quickly enable/disable the Reshade effect

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**IMPORTANT NOTE**: The global illumination version requires access to the depth buffer. After installing Reshade, you need to edit the global preprocessor definition and set reshade_depth_input_is_reversed to 1.

Enjoy a more colorful junction adventure! 🌄