RenoDX - Native HDR Restoration - SDR Black Level Restoration - HDR Color Grading Kit

This fix restores missing color grading in native HDR and provides color grading sliders and LUT scaling for users to further adjust their preferences.

The SDR version includes LUT scaling, allowing users to adjust the black levels of color grading used in the game.

RenoDX - Native HDR Restoration - SDR Black Level Restoration -- HDR Color Grading Kit

🎮 **Make your "Project Plague" graphics loyal to the artist's original intention! **

This mod aims to solve a core problem with the game's native HDR mode: it completely skips the elaborate color grading found in the SDR version and directly outputs a raw tone-mapped image. Now, you can have HDR footage faithfully restore the artistic expression of the SDR version while retaining expanded highlights and details.

✨ Core Functions

• **HDR Color Grading Repair**: Reapply the color grading that artists worked hard to develop for the SDR version to the HDR output, making the picture more artistic.
• **LUT Black Level Control**: The original color grading of the game prefers to use a LUT that improves the black level. This module provides a **LUT scaling slider** that allows you to finely adjust the black level depth in an artistically aesthetic way, completely under your control. The default settings are completely faithful to SDR, and the mod also includes a preset that I personally recommend as a good compromise.
• **SDR version optimization**: The SDR version removes all HDR functions and focuses on providing **LUT scaling and LUT intensity sliders**, allowing you to adjust color grading and black levels under SDR.

📸 Effect comparison

Check out the detailed comparison chart of RenoDX vs native HDR vs SDR

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🛠️ Installation Guide

• **Install ReShade**

Download the latest version of ReShade with Addon Support (6.5.1 at the time of writing) and install it to the game directory: `/Project_Plague/Binaries//Project_Plague--Shipping.exe`. The game uses DX12, **no need to choose any shaders**. You can skip the add-ons section of the installer.

• **Install module files**

Download this module and unzip the `.addon` file to the same directory as in step 1. **For users of SDR version, the installation ends here. **

• **Start the game**

Launch the game and make sure **[In-game HDR option is turned off]**.

• **Enable Unreal HDR (if required)**

If you use frame generation technology or want to get the best performance, you need to switch the "HDR upgrade method" in the module to **"Unreal HDR"**. This will automatically write the command to enable engine HDR in your `Engine.ini` file. **This is different from the in-game HDR option function and is necessary to implement the module's native HDR path. Do not use the in-game option to replace this step. **

**⚠️ Note**: Some users have reported that the "Unreal HDR" method may not work properly after the 1.5 update. This is an engine bug (the swap chain remains in SDR mode) and is not directly caused by this mod. I can't reproduce this issue, so results may vary from person to person. The SDR upgrade method still works fine. If you want to use frame generation, you need to downgrade the frame generation DLL to 3.8.1 (can be downloaded from here), or use DLSS Swapper.

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🗑️ Uninstall method

• Open the game, make sure the "HDR Upscaling" option is set to **"SDR"**, then close the game.
• Go to the game directory: `/Project_Plague/Binaries//`
• Delete the following files: `dxgi.dll`, `reshade.ini`, `renodx-wuchang.addon64`, and the `reshade-shaders` folder.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Marat, Musa and Ritsu for all their help. As always, thanks to Shortfuse for the RenoDX codebase, and Lilium for the HDR analysis shader.

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💡 **Usage Suggestions**: It is recommended to use the "recommended" preset experience in the module first, and then fine-tune the LUT scaling slider according to personal monitor characteristics and aesthetic preferences to find the picture balance point that best su …