Sample quality: 64 (or lower if you have a slow graphics card) I spent hours to find the best MXAO parameters for FF14 that will look good in nearly every situation: This shader keeps and restores the UI properly:ĭownload: Step 4 - Change the load order of the shaders This will improve the shadow quality, because FF14 has an old rendering engine (game objects have a low amount of polygons - this needs to be compensated with the option above).Īll shaders are also applied to all UI elements, which makes them hard to read. Notepad++) and change line 35 to: #define MXAO_SMOOTHNORMALS 1 Important: You need to edit the "qUINT_mxao.fx" file with an editor (don't use the windows editor! Better use e.g. Unzip the files and copy the files from the "Shaders" folder to your corresponding StormShade shader folder. Install guide: Step 2 - Install the latest version of qUINT(mxao)
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How to install all this? Step 1 - Install Stormshadeĭownload: (click "Clone or download" and then "Download ZIP") the hair blocks the lighting and the face is darker under the hair. You can see that the shadows are far more realistic: E.g. Let's see the difference: Without shaders: While HDR/FakeHDR increases the contrast and enhances small color differences and SMAA has a better anti-aliasing than FF14's standard FXAA filter, the MXAO shader improves the graphics quality a lot, because it introduces ambient occlusion. While you can have a setting that looks good in one zone or at a specific time of the day, it looks bad in another zone or at another time: Too much color, too dark areas and so on.Īfter playing around with all shaders, there seem to be only three exceptions (at least for me): While this is useful for screenshots, for casual gaming this is mostly counterproductive, because you can only make the already near-perfect ingame colors worse.
Some people use the external shader "Stormshade" to improve the gfx quality of Final Fantasy 14. Final Fantasy XIV: A guide about how to improve the gfx quality with StormShade Final Fantasy 14: How to improve the graphics quality? A guide/tutorial about how to improve the graphics quality with a shader that's not available ingame
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