Splinter Cell - Conviction: Add Disable Character Lighting to The Fusion Mod

[Lonewulv13]

The game looks way better without the ugly black and white filter in shadows though characters have ugly fake lighting applied to them. There's a mod which includes the ability to disable this effect though I can't get this to work for me. I took it upon myself and found the shader which disables the effect but of course after performing all the necessary steps the shader doesn't get disabled and or I get a black screen on launch. I feel like it may be getting overridden by the fusion mod or the toggle hud/last known position silhouette which uses the Shaderoverride folder and possibly a conflicting d3d9.dll (which the fusion mod suprisingly doesn't seem to need in order to work) .

ThirteenAG, do you think you would be able to add the option to toggle fake character lighting to your fusion mod? It is placed in Shaderoverride>vertexshaders folder and the shader is labeled VertexShader_100_CRC32_BA791BEB.txt

Thanks!

[ThirteenAG]

Give the content of the file, I'll try to take a look.

[Lonewulv13]

Sweet!

Here's the file contents after saving to dumps folder:

vs_3_0
def c0, 1, -1, 0, 0
dcl_position v0
dcl_position o0
dcl_texcoord o1.xy
dp4 o0.z, v0, c10
dp4 r0.x, v0, c8
dp4 r0.y, v0, c9
dp4 r0.z, v0, c11
mad o0.xy, c1, r0.z, r0
mov o0.w, r0.z
mul o1.xy, c0, v0

// approximately 7 instruction slots used

Here's what it reads after adding to vertex shaders folder:

//
// Generated by Microsoft (R) HLSL Shader Compiler 9.22.949.2248
//
// Parameters:
//
// float4x4 gLocalToProj;
// float2 gViewportOffset;
//
//
// Registers:
//
// Name Reg Size
// --------------- ----- ----
// gViewportOffset c1 1
// gLocalToProj c8 4
//

vs_3_0
def c0, 1, -1, 0, 0
dcl_position v0
dcl_position o0
dcl_texcoord o1.xy
dp4 o0.z, v0, c10
dp4 r0.x, v0, c8
dp4 r0.y, v0, c9
dp4 r0.z, v0, c11
mad o0.xy, c1, r0.z, r0
mov o0.w, r0.z
mul o1.xy, c0, v0

// approximately 7 instruction slots used

[ThirteenAG]

I don't think this shader is what's responsible for that effect, however there's an ingame option l3d-char-lighting which does what you want, at least I think so. You can try this build and enable it in the ini file:

SplinterCellConviction.FusionMod.zip

[ThirteenAG]

I don't know, I wasn't able to test beside making those two screenshots.

[Lonewulv13]

Okay It works fine in story mode. Is it possible the setting for Denied Ops is located elsewhere?

[ThirteenAG]

I've no clue.

[Lonewulv13]

Okay false alarm. Not sure if it's because I activated compatibility mode for Windows 7 but the issue now seems to be fixed. Thanks a lot man! You should consider updating the fusion mod with this fix as it really completes the experience.

In an unrelated issue I'm not getting any audio for the .bik cutscenes between levels... Any suggestions?

[ThirteenAG]

I'll update later. Audio was working fine for me.

[IKennyAgain]

The game looks way better without the ugly black and white filter in shadows though characters have ugly fake lighting applied to them. There's a mod which includes the ability to disable this effect though I can't get this to work for me. I took it upon myself and found the shader which disables the effect but of course after performing all the necessary steps the shader doesn't get disabled and or I get a black screen on launch. I feel like it may be getting overridden by the fusion mod or the toggle hud/last known position silhouette which uses the Shaderoverride folder and possibly a conflicting d3d9.dll (which the fusion mod suprisingly doesn't seem to need in order to work) .

ThirteenAG, do you think you would be able to add the option to toggle fake character lighting to your fusion mod? It is placed in Shaderoverride>vertexshaders folder and the shader is labeled VertexShader_100_CRC32_BA791BEB.txt

Thanks!

where you find a shaderoverride stuff?

[anigo159]

@ThirteenAG can this be done for Blacklist?

What I've noticed is, when Sam's in darkness, the character lighting is disabled, and it gets enabled when he's under light. The issue is that the transition has a delay and Sam retains the glow for a second or two when he goes into darkness.

Is it possible to disable character lighting altogether for Blacklist as well?

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