This chromatic aberration effect works close to an actual lens. There is no extraneous blurring because the TAA preserves details well. It also antialiases edges in motion when the game has no data to reconstruct them. Having SMAA underneath antialiases edges that aren't covered in the radius of the jittering. In the case of Fallout 4, the temporal filter is seemingly only mixing the results of previous frames together for temporal supersampling. It's clamped at a low strength by default to avoid ringing artefacts. In Fallout 4, the TAA works to enhance the quality of the effect.

A port of the popular LumaSharpen, which enhances edges and small details.

Adds a method based on Aiyen's depth of field, Ring DoF.

It uses a random factor to modify the sampling offsets - because of Fallout 4's temporal AA, this gets smoothed out into looking like a higher sample count. It has a nice bokeh shape with good performance.

Splits the default file into separate pieces to add different blur methods with the same focusing parameters.

(But for something like Skyrim SE where the lighting is flat, not too good.) There are no adjustments made to the image for the reasons listed above - and it's useful to just have a blurry everything texture.

Uses an efficient gaussian filter based on work done by smarter people than me.

In practise these are used far less in Fallout 4 than the other games, but they're still useful.

This allows the tints and fades set in the game imagespace parameters to function.

Allows the game's colour correction to work.

You can switch between tonemapping algorithms with different techniques.

It has a nice contrast between sharp bright colours and deep dark tones. Instead, it uses a tonemapping shader developed by someone who worked on the older 'filmic tonemapping' algorithm. The vanilla one is apparently tuned to produce a really bland image, for Bethesda's artists to tune it through photoshopping a LUT later.

Tonemapping doesn't use the vanilla 'Uncharted 2' algorithm.

By doing it before tonemapping, it gives a better feeling of almost being able to see dark objects, and works a bit like noise added to renders to simulate camera sensor imperfections. One thing I noticed about other film grain implementations is that they looked a bit weird when it came to bright or dark places, because they worked like an overlay. Film grain is done before tonemapping to give the illusion of extra detail.The previous methods use the original game variables to set some carefully fudged parameters. Eye adaptation/exposure is done with kingeric1992's histogram system, because it worked out a lot better than the other things I tried doing.You can apply a ' neutral density' filter based on the bloom texture which equalises contrast between (for example) bright skies and dark shadows by altering the adaptation result.Dirty lens effect is done using the bloom texture in a way that doesn't add extra brightness, but instead makes the lens effect stronger.In practise the value is set a bit higher to make the lighting look less flat. No adjustment in the bloom shader necessary. So the problems with the Institute elevator and various bright objects pop up when we add our own proper bloom on with additive blending.Д«ecause of this, it's feasible to reduce the bloom intensity to a value like 0.01 and still get nice glare from bright objects. This is especially important for Fallout 4, because it looks like Bethesda's artists tried to follow the principles of 'PBR' - but the default shaders don't care. When the intensity of bloom is increased, the image does not become brighter - which is both more realistic, and fixes many problems where scenes will appear too bright or dark. Bloom is done in an 'energy-preserving' way.I don't want to mess with individual colour balances, add thick colour toning, or do too much post-processing. The goal of this preset is to look 'movie-realistic' without filters. I figured I should probably post a topic here for some small updates and an explanation of what I've added.

Fallout 4 institute too bright