The Darkness II is a psychological horror first-person shooter and sequel of the 2007 game The Darkness which launched only on consoles.The game is based on The Darkness comic series and mostly on the events of the first volume.
It is amazingly beautiful visually due to the art direction (cel-shading technique) emulating the aesthetic of its graphic novel.It is worth mentioning that the style was achieved with the development artists hand painting the majority of the game's assets instead of relying on digital methods to create a comic book style. Due to the Cel-Shading technique and the visuals there are many things to improve and also different presets to use depending on your taste. So we will use SweetFX to: -Greatly enhance HDR & Contrast -Slightly increased bloom effect -Greatly sharpen the textures to bring out extra details -Greatly enhance midtones to give the textures a pop-up look My SweetFX settings are: i) Lumasharpen (sharp strength=1.7 , sharp clamp=0.135) ii) Bloom (BloomThreshold=20.25, BloomPower=1.150, BloomWidth=0.0142 iii) HDR (HDR Power=1.38 , radius2=0.83) iv) Lift Gamma Gain (RGB Lift=[0.988, 0.988, 0.996] , RGB_Gamma= [2.00, 2.00, 2.00], RGB_Gain=[1.012, 1.012, 1.012]) v) Tonemap (Defog=0.025, FogColor float3(2.0, 2.0, 2.0) vi) Dither _________________________________________________________ Direct Link to my config |