Rudy ENB

Custom ReShade presets designed to blend Marty McFly's Ray Tracing shader with enhanced contrast and vibrant colors. Designed to work with Rudy ENB as well as Nyclix's custom ENB settings and Obsidian Weather, but can also be used as a standalone shade.

describe

ReShade is a popular plugin for many games, which allows the application of multiple post-processing shaders, for example, Glow, Fake HDR, SSAO, Sharpen and Depth of Field. Marty McFly recently released a beta shader that approximates ray tracing technology, which provides improved depth to images by calculating where and where light lands from, and approximating shadows under or near objects in a manner similar to SSAO. I've created a basic ReShade profile which, in my opinion, works well in conjunction with the ray tracing shader.

It is possible to use this preset without using a ray tracing shader, but given that I have to compensate for the increased darkness with ray tracing, the image may look oversaturated or too bright. I've provided comparison shots of my ReShade preset with ray tracing enabled, ray tracing turned off, and completely turned off to try and give you an informed opinion on whether this preset is right for you. If you don't want to use ray tracing, there are some other good options available, such as Nyclix's ReShade and ENB presets.

Note that the performance of this preset is high. I'm using an overclocked RTX 2080ti with an overclocked 8700k CPU, and I'm getting 30-33 fps at 4k resolution in almost all areas. This is about 15-15 fps lower than when using ENB alone, where I could only get about 45 fps.

Please note that it may look different on all screens. I built this preset using a 4k QLED Samsung TV, which has a very high brightness at 1500nits, so with ray tracing turned on it might appear too dim or contrast with the loss of detail on a dull screen.

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Install

• Install ReShade using the installer that includes all legacy shaders. Use the DX11 option and select SkyrimSE.exe by navigating to the main skyrim directory (usually located in "SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition").

Download Reshade here: Reshade

• Optional: Install Marty McFly (aka Pascal Glitcher)'s Ray Tracing Shader by extracting the "Shaders" and "Textures" folders into the reshade-shaders folder located in "Skyrim Special Edition\reshade-shaders". NOTE - To get files from Marty, a $5 donation to Pateon is required as per their patreon page. For legal reasons I cannot include the files here.

Download the "Ray Tracing" shader here:

• Optional: Follow the instructions provided to install the Rudy ENB, then simply follow the prompts to install the enbseries folder from Nyclix's ENB into your Skyrim home directory. The "Nyclix's ENB.ini" file is not needed as this is his ReShade preset and we will not use it anymore.
• Install other recommended modules as needed. Obsidian Weather is highly recommended as this mod is built around the Obsidian tint. To make sure to use other weather modules, please install the correct version of Rudy ENB.
• Launch Skyrim and select Arfien’s ReShade preset in the ReShade menu
• Make sure all the following shaders are active in this command:

Curves[Curves.fx]

HDR [FakeHDR.fx]

Vibrance [Vibrance.fx]

Technicolor2 [Technicolor2.fx]

AmbientLight [AmbientLight.fx]

Pirate_Bloom [Pirate_Bloom.fx]

DCLC_Sharpen [qUINT_sharp.fx]

Clarity [Clarity.fx]

RTGlobalIllumination [qUINT_rtgi.fx] - This is the ray tracing shader

Known issues

In its current state, the ray tracing shader has some bugs and exceptions. Overall, I think the benefits outweigh the problems, but ultimately this will be a personal preference. I reduced the distance at which the shader affects the player, as these issues are more prominent from a distance. This does reduce visual effects at a distance, however, so feel free to set your preference.

Questions include:

• Darkened ghosts added by ray tracing shaders when moving the camera
• Bleeds added …