HDR and bloom effect for IL2 in DirectX

[WeedEater]

wow that looks amazing, but the link isn't working for me.
I'm ok with DirectX though, 'cause Perfect settings cause my water to turn white in the distance

[zaelu]

Avala found this site: http://prideout.net/bloom/index.php

Maybe it could help one of the programmers from Maddox Games (maybe the guy working from time to time on the new core.dlls files) to experiment with the idea. We offer to beta test .

[Feathered_IV]

Nice find Zaelu!

[Eckhart]

Hi yall,

This stuff is for me the greatest news since 1946 came out.

It is just a new game and I can't get enough of flying around with this enhancer.

I had my doubts in the beginning and I didn't want to loose my finetuned OpenGL setting.

Now I can tell you that I don't want to go back.

I use the DirectX 9.0 version posted by Bramski:
http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=29752&page=14

and it works great!

You have to tune down the bloom effect to 7 and to take advantage of my 8800 GT SLI setting I have all the nvidia effects activated ( if someone wants my settings I can post it, my rig is a quadcore with 8800GT SLI and Windows XP...no Vista crap).

You can't believe how great this works out (almost no FPS loss).

One drawback however: no way to use this on the net. Those bad guys can just hide close to the horizon or in the clouds and you will notice them only once you hang in your chute. But on the other hand who cares!

Thanks for this eyecandy which makes it a whole new IL2 game and much more realistic (great immersion effect).

Try it out guys!

Cheers,

Eckhart

[KarlHeinz]

@Eckhart
how have you done this?

There is a ‘d3d9.dll’ in this version. If I leave it in such a way, it is ignored of 1946.

If I rename the file in ‘d3d8’, I get the error message: ‘Direct3DCreate8’ was not found in the DLL ‘d3d8.dll’.

If I put down GL=d3d9.dll in ‘conf.ini’ under [GLPROVIDER], the game does not start any more.

[Eckhart]

Hi Karl-Heinz,

I simply took d3d8.dll out of the 1946 folder and replaced it with the d3d9. It was as simple as that and it works for me in 4.09 and 4.08.

keep me updated if this works for you too.

Cheers,

Eckhart

[Feuerfalke]

Cool - I will try that, because I now have the problem that Teamspeakviewer and this blooming thing don't work together.

[KarlHeinz]

Originally Posted by Eckhart

I simply took d3d8.dll out of the 1946 folder and replaced it with the d3d9.

However, if I took d3d9.dll into the directory, it is ignored by the game. Besides, also no green stroke appears on top on the left.

d3d8.dll:


d3d9.dll:


As you see, I have spliced the start display, I don't want to waste so much space. Even if the background points on ‘il2 fogotten battles’, it's 1946 ‘4.09b1m’ with newest dlls (I don't know any more whether this was the standard background, because I've changed a lot of textures/images)