Mazioman
Landlubber
Hey all, here's a Reshade preset I've hastily thrown together. I was originally going to title it 'The Masterful and Commanding' Reshade as the look reminds me of the film, but that's way too wordy. Instead, I went with 'Le Corsaire' because it's a piratey word in French and the game looks much more like how I'd imagine the Napoleonic era looked in my mind's eye, and Napoleon was French so...yeah, I'm no good at naming things....
To describe what it does: It tones down the colors and uses some of Reshade's techniques to utilize some nice effects from more modern games like sharpening, HDR, and adaptive tonemapping. Interiors look VERY hit-or-miss and if anyone wants to work on this and improve any aspect of it, please do. I'm not a huge 'credits' guy, I'm mainly concerned with contributing something to the community and I think this would be nice enough as-is, but an excellent base for further tweaking and personalization.
Instructions if you've never installed Reshade:
1. Download Reshade (Link) and select whatever location your Maelstrom.exe is located at, you'll likely have to manually browse to find it, make sure DX9 is selected as the rendering method. When it asks you which shaders you'd like included, select all of them until you get to the Legacy Shaders option, in which case you need to select AmbientLight.fx and leave all others untouched.
2. Download my handy ReshadePreset.ini file and drop it into wherever your Maelstrom.exe is.
3. Enter the game, the preset should load up by default, ignore any errors and go through any tutorials as needed.
It's a pretty easy process and very plug-and-play oriented. I'd upload my entire setup with the binaries and all, but the creators of Reshade don't like when people do that and I'll respect their wishes.
Here's the preset:
To describe what it does: It tones down the colors and uses some of Reshade's techniques to utilize some nice effects from more modern games like sharpening, HDR, and adaptive tonemapping. Interiors look VERY hit-or-miss and if anyone wants to work on this and improve any aspect of it, please do. I'm not a huge 'credits' guy, I'm mainly concerned with contributing something to the community and I think this would be nice enough as-is, but an excellent base for further tweaking and personalization.
Instructions if you've never installed Reshade:
1. Download Reshade (Link) and select whatever location your Maelstrom.exe is located at, you'll likely have to manually browse to find it, make sure DX9 is selected as the rendering method. When it asks you which shaders you'd like included, select all of them until you get to the Legacy Shaders option, in which case you need to select AmbientLight.fx and leave all others untouched.
2. Download my handy ReshadePreset.ini file and drop it into wherever your Maelstrom.exe is.
3. Enter the game, the preset should load up by default, ignore any errors and go through any tutorials as needed.
It's a pretty easy process and very plug-and-play oriented. I'd upload my entire setup with the binaries and all, but the creators of Reshade don't like when people do that and I'll respect their wishes.
Here's the preset: