New graphics for Blade Of Darkness

BLADE of LIGHT V1.5 -Updated July 4th 2014
http://www.moddb.com/mods/blade-of-light

Modern Graphics upgrade for the game using ENBseries 0.242 (www.enbdev.com). Graphic enhancements: HDR color correction, SSAO, SSIL, BLOOM, DOF, FLARES, and other custom PIXEL SHADERS...

Blade Of Light mod. Enhanced gameplay where lighting plays a part in the strategy. Use the light bearing blades to slice your way into the heart of the Darkness. Cast a light on your weapon (or any object you are carrying) to help you explore and fight in the dark.

VIDEO GAMEPLAY

Blade of Light v 1.5 update:
- HUGE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT!. FullHD support. No slowdowns because of blood or multiple lights.
- NEW! Nglide wrapper v1.03 (included in the mod). Increased performance.
- NEW! fully working Anisotropic texture filtering (no more texture flicker).
- NEW! Redesigned DOF with dinamic focus and Bokeh. Area between the player and the Focus Point(screen center) is always focused. (Switch to an Alternate DOF with 9+PgUp)
- NEW! Procedural HD texture enhancement. Shaders add extra texture detail in realtime.
- NEW! Sharper Bloom shader.
- Fully redesigned and improved color correction. Warmer palette. Good contrast and preserved detail in Highlight and shadow areas
- Minimal HUD. Removed Huge anoying screen overlays or minimized to the essential info on top left corner.
- New sky and improved settings for FOG maps(Orlok and TelHalaf)
- ENB effects on and off using shift+F11.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/2bA1W2X.jpg[/img]
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Rebel Act Studios for the timeless masterpiece that Blade is.
ENBSeries graphic modification tool by Boris Vorontsov (www.enbdev.com)
BladeOfLight MOD+ENB concept, execution and settings by Piltrafus.
NGlide 3DFX to DX9 wrapper by Zeus Software(www.zeus-software.com)

This MOD has pixel shader code and assets borrowed from: Boris Vorontsov Matso gp65cj04 Ceejay Kyokushinoyama Unreal Warfare Prospero IndigoNeko IronLord and maybe others I guess... Thanks all.

Enhanced Blood effects and killcamera by the highly recomended Gorentity Mod:
http://gorentitymod.host-ed.me

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Blade of Light v1.0 is out.

BLADE of LIGHT - Blade of Darkness Enhanced.
Modern Graphics upgrade for the game via ENB (www.enbdev.com). Enhanced gameplay where lighting plays a part in the strategy. Light emitting weapons to explore and fight in the dark.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/blade-of-light

I hope you guys have a look and I'll love to hear feedback about it. Colors, lighting, playability, bugs, ideas, etc.
I have a couple of ideas for future versions. I'll see if there's interest in this one first.

release video
http://youtu.be/NLf0dQgWp4E

Enjoy

http://i.imgur.com/TMA74Zj.jpg

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Work in progress

youtu.be/QveGjWHObZE (can't post full links)

BladeOfLight => Blade Of Darkness mod combined with ENB (enbdev.com)

Blade of Light Mod
Use color correction and image postprocessing techniques to create a new cinematic look for the game. Now the light and darkness behaves more naturally, but still with an stylized look. Not aiming for realism. Just for increased appeal. Enhance the already amazing lighting of the game. Most of the interior areas are really dark. Dark areas are devoid of detail. Is very hard to find your way in the darkness so all weapons now can cast a light. Similar to carrying torches. You can turn the weapon light on or off. That creates spectacular fights in the darkness with all the shadows dancing over the environment.

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Looks fantastic! Thank you very much!

Looks nice but how is it performance wise?

The youtube video has been captured at 1280x720 on a geforce460M.
Pretty much playable (over 30fps) at that resolution. Still ironing out some performance issues in a few spots, but that will give you a reference to how it performs right now.

Very interesting. Bravo! +1

More info and updates here

www.arokhslair.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3826

Blade of Light v1.0 is out.

BLADE of LIGHT - Blade of Darkness Enhanced.
Modern Graphics upgrade for the game via ENB (www.enbdev.com). Enhanced gameplay where lighting plays a part in the strategy.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/blade-of-light

I hope you guys have a look and I'll love to hear feedback about it. Colors, lighting, playability, bugs, ideas, etc.
I have a couple of ideas for future versions. I'll see if there's interest in this one first.

release video
http://youtu.be/NLf0dQgWp4E

Enjoy

http://i.imgur.com/TMA74Zj.jpg

I dont have the game yet, but this looks pretty amazing.

Do you have a gameplay vid with the mod? Cos on screens it easily looks like a game made at least 4-5 years later than it originally was.

Fantastic work man, this brings the blade engine and game to the next gen ranks, how it is possible to do this on so old engine is beyond me?! Are you capturing the directX or OpenGL calls in real time to be able to achieve this or just calculating post processing stuff in the final frame?

Dr Yaboll,
there's a link named "Release video" right above your post. Its made completely with ingame footage.

Argoon,
I'm glad you like it. If you know the game you should play it with the mod. Good fun revisited...
All this work is done using the ENBseries tool/wrapper. www.enbdev.com
All the credit goes to Boris at ENB for providing the tools. Extracts an HDR version of the final frame and the depth buffer. Then pixel shaders are applied to this material.

Really a nice mod,
There is a way to reduce the blur and bloom effects?

Ty!

Great mod, I had to turn off the DoF effect but otherwise it looks fantastic.

I'm having a problem using the weapon light effect though. If I add the lines and enable it in game it turns on and appears to be working for a few seconds then the game will crash.

I don't know if this is the result of some minor conflict with another mod, I'm using BoD loader for a mod that adds more armors and the gore mod.

I know is a matter of taste but I recommend you to lower the DOF instead of turning it off if you haven't tried it. It adds to the experience if your eyes can deal with it. However you should learn to control it through the camera positions for it to make sense.

The mod is pretty stable. You are the first person to report crashes so I guess some of your mods may be incompatible.
First off blood is known to slow down the game, so go to the menu, options, gore, and disable blood completely. See if that works. If that's the cause then your blood mod is causing the problem.

If it doesn't work try to uninstall other mods.