sorry about the absence guys, have had quite alot of compounded PC issues including 1 which resulted in a forced complete format and re-installation of windows, also running Ubuntu now too because windows has gone whackodoodle, spent most my break fixing my PC issues, and now it's back to class, and it's getting pretty hectic assignment wise so won't be able to invest as much time in the forums as I'd like
oh and anyone who likes customizing and modifying graphical appearance in games might want to check out this graphic injector for dx9,10&11 games there is a tool/injector called SweetFX which can be found
here essentially it's a compilation of quite a few fullscreen filters and shaderFX etc including HDR simulation, chroma based edge sharpening, tonemapping, technicolor simulation and other FX and film type simulation
played around with it a bit and did
this (warning it's quite a large image) didn't want to mess with the mood of the game too much so I just sharpened and tried making the lighting read more current gen.
the injector also allows for some SMAA (Sub-pixel Morphological Anti Aliasing) which can be much less of a performance hit than MSAA (MultiSample Anti Aliasing) and traditional AA, and can be applied to games without any AA support, so it's quite a nice tool. it's as easy as dropping files into your games folder, there are presets in the thread, and to do your own adjustments it's just adjusting values in a text file, also it updates in realtime without needing to restart the program/game
anyway I'll hopefully be hanging around here when I can