Quite excited to share Digital Foundry has discussed my recent HDR focused interview at length in their latest stream: youtu.be/VG2xDC1ZjOc?... Given HDR has both an awareness and knowledge problem, the more exposure HDR gets, the sooner we’ll be able to enjoy it in all games without hassle!

I gave a quite in depth interview about the state of HDR in the games industry with wccftech. If you are an HDR gamer, or work with rendering or art, give it a read, hopefully there’s something useful in there!

1/3 I think Battlefield 6 might be the first game in the history to have a user friendly Audio settings menu! It explains what each mode does exactly, whether it's currently supported and what it'd fall back to. As a non expert, I've always been confused by audio menus.

1/4 AI usage warning post AI is trained on human data. The problem? They make mistakes that persist for years. The BT.601 color space was dropped ~25 years ago, yet google insisted on its coefficients for any color questions, causing a snowball effect that kept spreading it.

I've release a Luma HDR mod for Heavy Rain, a game that was very influential on me growing up! Download, HDR screenshots and full HDR playthrough video here: tinyurl.com/y9htk5h8

1/3 While reverse engineering loads of games, you start to see patterns. A big mistakes many devs made in the last 20yrs is decoding Bink videos as BT601 instead of BT709 Likely due to Bink docs not being updated from early 2000s Mafia III has ~40m of videos, which one looks right to you?

I released an HDR mod for Thumper! Game made magnificent usage of color. Game is a perfect showcase of HDR (SDR on the left in the comparisons). Download it here tinyurl.com/mb6uxr34, turn off the lights and try on an OLED TV, you won't be disappointed. HDR images: shorturl.at/cyVjp

1/3 I couldnt help but notice almost all IGN uploads trailers have shifted colors against the original version (xbx/ps/devs yt page) To add a logo, not only they butcher the quality of anything in movement , but also mess up all colors, failing to show the game as originally intended by its artists

1/3 Great Digital Foundry analysis of our new CONTROL patch tinyurl.com/2datxhks Gamers seem to be loving the ability to unlock the frame rate Having a toggle for PSSR also seems quite appreciated, leaving the sharpness vs higher frame rate choice to players

The CONTROL consoles patch I've worked on is finally out! Hope you enjoy the graphics and frame rate (VRR) improvements, especially on PS5 Pro!

After wanting to do it for years, I finally found the time to write an all encompassing guide on HDR, with a focus on gaming. Hopefully you won't be confused by it anymore, this covers all the basics. You can find it here, on our new subreddit! www.reddit.com/r/HDR_Den/co...

Just so it happens that I released a Remastered mod for Deus Ex Human Revolution the day the DX remaster was announced I added HDR rendering+output, improved SDR, fixed 4k and Ultrawide support, + fixed graphics issues HDR images and DL tinyurl.com/3wh847sf We just went reddit tinyurl.com/49m9uuwf

The state of HDR in the game industry right now is catastrophic. Silent Hill F, AAA game, shipped w/out color grading in HDR, on top of the raised blacks that come with all UE HDR games It doesn't look as it's supposed to in HDR, atmospehre is completely gone, devs either didn't know or care for it

New HDR+Ultrawide mod: INSIDE an absolute gem Reverse engineering shaders was very interesting as they did everything in a unique way, bespoke for a side scrolling horizontal view. As usual, a large amount of data being lost due to the presentation being restricted to SDR.

I don't really like to offer customizations that stray much from the artistic intent, especially in case where it influences gameplay, but a lot of players were asking for customizations on the character light, so I've added an intensity, radius and falloff parameters. Ready for download!

This is how bad banding was without my HDR mod For some reason the hero light sprite is extremely low quality and quite distracting in dark areas (most of the game😁) Plus, the whole rendering was 8bit, so if you stack multiple post process effects, quantization hits pretty fast!

I released a mod that adds HDR to Hollow Knight: Silksong. Given the small team, the game doesn't support HDR and suffers from bad banding I've also improved the SDR tonemapping (there wasn't any, it was a raw rgb clip), and fixed banding reddit: tinyurl.com/2s43rddd www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPcY...

1/2 Me and my collaborator Ersh threw out a quick (but carefully done) mod to fix the massively raised blacks in Cronos. nexusmods.com/cronosthenew... This is from the same developers as the Silent Hill 2 Remake, which is graded very similarly and that we also fixed.

Somebody made a video about my COCOON HDR mod (one of the many of my LUMA project), check it out! This game had so much potential for more dynamic range, it's transformative: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9pO...

My DX11 modding framework now has automated builds, some new HDR game mods are ready for you to enjoy: - Deus Ex Human Revolution - Trine 5 - Bioshock 2 - Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Unity) - Shadows of Doubt (Unity) - Vertigo (Unity) - COCOON (Unity) github.com/Filoppi/Luma...

I've been working on PCSX2 (PS2 emu), adding HDR rendering and output Given how the HW worked, everything is a blend: both vertex lighting or additive draws (lights/particles) produce values beyond the SDR range (0-255) that were just clipped. They look glorious in HDR Burnout 3 vimeo.com/1077588981

The modding framework I developed for Prey has been re-written to be generic and support any DirectX 11 game, just went live: github.com/Filoppi/Luma... It already includes HDR mods for: Bioshock 2, Dishonored 2+DOTO, Mafia III, Trine 5 and Vertigo! A basic showcase of Prey's new GTAO and SSR:

The CONTROL patch I've been working on is finally out Not far from the previous unofficial patch I was allowed to share, but improved on all aspects Highlights are HDR, DLSS, RT and UW support It feels great giving players a better experience to an old game! reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1j7yzqs

One of the modders in our community has already added HDR into Kingdom Come Deliverance 2! nexusmods.com/kingdomcomed... Enjoy this marvellous game in full range :)

After months of work, my Prey graphics overhaul mod (Luma) has been completed 🥳, you can enjoy an amazing presentation video about it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=15c1... (DL link in the description)

I've made a mod that adds HDR to good old Bioshock! Here's a showcase of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=garC... Older games still rendered to HDR internally, but then clipped to SDR before output, so a ton of detail was going lost. The game looks stunning in HDR, still feels fresh in 2024.