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Star Wars Outlaws photomode tools v1.0.4

🕑 Added 2024-08-30 14:43:21 +0000 UTC

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FransBouma

Thanks, yes I know, tested it yesterday :) The lensflare toggle in the shadertoggler seems to have broken tho. Will fix it on monday

Plume

Hey Otis, just to let you know that todays 1.5 update actually DIDN'T break your photomode! 1.04 still works!

Ron Arslan

Thanks!

FransBouma

I don't buy a game on multiple platforms, but IIRC it works with the steam release. Tho if you're uncertain which version to get, get the version I have too, the one on Ubi connect

Plume

Thanks for 1.04 it seems they have removed the horrible camera lens stuff at last! Yay! On the other hand, depth of field is still constantly enabled (you can see it when Kay is close to the camera, she goes completely out of focus), so your tool is still very much needed. Thanks again <3

Ron Arslan

Are you planning on doing one for the Steam release as well?

TheMercsAssassin

Thanks for updating so quickly again! <3

FransBouma

You might want to pick it up with the mod author as I don't think it's my code. Is the author PureDark? My tools just remove the lens distortion effect, so it's not being applied. This has no aspect ratio requirements. Might be timings related tho. The game uses 2 timers for syncing, one for the world and one for the main character, oddly enough. But that's perhaps not related, it's the one thing I can think of that's specific for the character.

Cinematic Series Gaming

Thanks for the update! I have a question, though. I use this popular AMD frame generation mod in Outlaws to boost performance. On default settings, it produces extreme ghosting on the main character, and the only way to get rid of it is by disabling lens distortion with your tool. However, this only seems to works in 16:9 aspect ratio. When I tried to switch the ratio to 21:9 (for the cinematic look), the ghosting persists, even when the 'disable lens distortion' setting is ticked. Do you have any idea why that might be? Does that have something to do with your tools not working properly in 21:9 or is it the game's fault?

Plume

Thank you very much! <3

TheMercsAssassin

Thanks so much!

FransBouma

Fixed

TheMercsAssassin

FransBouma

bleh. Will look into it tomorrow (friday)

Plume

Hi Otis, sorry to report that the latest update (1.3.0) has broken the camera tool again :(

Cinematic Series Gaming

Amazing! Thanks for the update. I really appreciate your tools!

Plume

Wonderful! Thank you very much :)

FransBouma

Well, it turns out it was my fault! :) I couldn't reproduce your problems but I could reproduce the gamespeed not working, and that led to me finding the issue: the pattern I used to hook into the gamespeed control was wrong so it hooked 1 instruction below the one it should have hooked, with undefined behavior as a result (e.g. it also could have crashed). 1.0.2 should fix it

FransBouma

Heh well glad there's at least a workaround! Still weird that you folks run into this and I can't reproduce it no matter what I try. But as the tools hook into the time/gamespeed code (and only do things when you pause teh game) it might be that has a side effect in some situations. Will look into it, maybe i can reason about it and find the culprit

Plume

Thank you so much! I thought I was going nuts! I just did a clean install and it still happened and my soul died, but I can confirm that this method of injecting in the main menu works. No more haunted wig :)

FransBouma

Weird! I injected when the save was loaded and I was in-game! Hmm... Will think about what it could be...

Cinematic Series Gaming

Okay, the problem went away when I injected the camera in the menu, before loading the save. Weird. The earlier version could be injected any time

Cinematic Series Gaming

I just had the exact same problem and it's hilarious :D The game world froze, and when I moved, only Kay's hair started floating. It's even weirder once you reload the checkpoint. But seriously, something's wrong. It'd be great if you looked into that, because I really need this tool to finish my video :P

Plume

Yeah I was thinking the mod thing too, it's obviously something to do with my installation and not your tool. I have installed and uninstalled a few mods since I installed the game and I reckon there must be the remnant of something left over somewhere. I'm just going to do a clean install of the game and start a new game with the new patch, it's about time I did that anyway! Thanks for updating the tool, and thanks for putting up with and replying to my comments :)

FransBouma

I just tested it and everything seems to work fine. What I did was: start the game, load my save, I'm at tantoine, I see Kay, everything works ok, I start the tools, inject the dll, go back to the game, and everything still works fine, no slowness. I pause the game, works fine, enable the camera, works ok... I can't reproduce what you see... :( Did you accidentally activate gamespeed ? (but even when I activate that it doesn't show the behavior you're having). Do you use any mods?

TheMercsAssassin

Wow, that was fast! Thank you so much! You're a king!

Plume

Xbox controller. I'm not using the insert key camera, this is as soon as the game starts up in normal gameplay. Also, the game isn't frozen, it is just running EXTREMELY slowly! EDIT: By slowly, I mean the game time is extremely slow, my fps are still normal, so it's running in slow motion. EDIT2: Just to clarify, I start the game up, inject the .dll, go back to the game and when it unpauses, all that moves on the screen is her hair with loads of lines still connecting it to Kays head. She you can still hear her footsteps as you move the hair but her body model stays in place and the camera just follows the hair.

FransBouma

What kind of controller do you have? I tested it and it works fine, camera moves fine and game pauses / unpauses fine too. You do use the insert key next to the backspace? (as numlock has to be ON)

Plume

Well, this is strange! When I inject this version and go back to the game, the game is running but seems frozen and when you move the controller, only her hair moves!! It just floats through the air! (I meant 1.0.1 with the latest game update 3rd October)

FransBouma

Fixed

FransBouma

Yep, 2 things are broken. Will see if I can fix it :)

FransBouma

Will check it.

TheMercsAssassin

Hey Otis -- Your camera tool has been a Godsend with by disabling the built in lens emulation that breaks depth-based effects! Unfortunately, the game just got an update and it seems to have broken the camera tool and lens disabling etc. Hope you can fix soon. Take care, Merc

Dominik

Oh wow, thanks so much. You don't know how much this means to me :) While it's not perfect (removes subtitles and in the cutscene where it doesn't work it shows the character model standing in the air instead of the cutscene when enabled) i'm still able to enjoy the game so much more now. Really appreciated! :)

FransBouma

Press the hud toggle :) And the game uses several different types of cutscenes, the ones that are having black bars which aren't removable with the hud toggle aren't removable as I couldn't find how to do that (but most of them are removable with the hud toggle)

Dominik

Really enjoy that all these post processing effects can be disabled that nicely. However one thing that still bothers me is the forced black bar in cutscenes..I didn't find any mod or anything online dealing with this but so far in almost every other game someone figured a way to remove them. Any chance you are able to do it? That would be so amazing.

FransBouma

Great! :)

Plume

Well, good news, I deleted the games shaders in: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlaws\ShaderByteCode\ %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Outlaws\ShaderCache\ (delete the dx12 folder in each one) and have played the game for over 6 hours with no crash. Your program is working without a hitch :)

Bewilderbeest

Is it possible to allow the camera to travel further from the character position via injection? EDIT: Aah I just figured out that you need to toggle the injected camera on, and not use the in-game Photo Mode!

FransBouma

Hmm... I haven't tried the new update for longer than a minute, so can't comment on whether it introduces instabilities with the tools... Will try tomorrow.

Plume

It crashes roughly every 10 minutes now with the new game update when this is enabled :( Just the fact that the "camera fixes" mod on Nexus is the most downloaded mod which attempts to get rid of all the same effects as this (but breaks a few things in the game, so is no where near as good), should tell the developers that these are much needed options in the game :/

JPR

Yep, here 👍 https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsOutlaws/s/S18B8ecUtw

FransBouma

Thanks :) In which subreddit? r/starwarsoutlaws?

TheMercsAssassin

OMFG you're a got damn hero!!! Legend! GOAT!!! Thank you so much!!! 😭😭😍😍

JPR

It was worth the hard work, Massive should give you a commission 😉 I posted on Reddit to tell people to get your tool 👍

FransBouma

lots of reverse engineering/research ... took almost 5 days straight to get to the point to remove it :)

JPR

This is incredible! It transforms the game, even greatly reduces the smear from Ray Reconstruction. How did you do it? And why have the devs not done this themselves? The game is one of the best-looking games I have seen with this, thanks so much!

FransBouma

Yes! :) That's caused by the lens distortion/fringing which is disabled by default by the tools :) You can enable it again if you really want to (but who wants it :X )

TheMercsAssassin

OMG It's Voyagers Revenge!!! Love your content, man! I think I was someone that found you early. Damn, this is cool.

TheMercsAssassin

Hey Otis, thanks so much for your work on this! Does this fix the problems with the depth buffer in this game? No matter what settings I choose in game and/or with ReShade's depth buffer, the depth buffer is always, at best, in a different position or shape than what is actually displayed on screen. This leads to depth-of-field (and I assume other depth-based shaders) always having weird holes or bubbles or being generally weird looking and misaligned with the character/game world.

mattyb

I figured it out, I think lol. I updated Windows 11 to 23H2 (KB5041587) and havent had any crashes since. played for 2 hours this morning and it was fine. Thanks for your concern!

Dominik

Thanks so much for your amazing work. Love that you provide so many options to disable all kind of blurs, really appreciate it!

FransBouma

Did you use the Higher LODs setting of the tools perhaps? That tweaks settings beyond what the Ultra setting does in the game menu. Perhaps that causes memory leaks? I played for a long time yesterday and had just 1 crash.

mattyb

Understood, but it seemed like it only started after I injected. Downloaded the toolkit today and had 15 hours without crashes before then. Now I crash every 15 minutes, not really blaming the tools of course, something else might be going on.