Horizon Forbidden West photomode mod v1.0.9

FransBouma

I tested it and it works fine? It's the zip at the bottom of the page under 'Attachments', you clicked that?

Lucas Armarlio

Hello I just subscribed to download the zip, file and I get redirected to a page that doesn't exist? Where can I download the file?

FransBouma

Which dof are you using? Cinematic dof or igcsdof? Could you also please specify what you mean with stopped working?

Waterpelyn

Hey Frans. absolutely loving these tools and instantly made my switch to PC worth it. its worked a dream with HFW up until last night where the DOF settings stopped working. Any ideas why? I'm new to PC so might be missing something very obvious...

Adam Mazur

Okay nvm, I fixed that haha, I needed to open game in window mode from launcher menu, not in game options :P

Adam Mazur

Hey there, I just downloaded the game and its updated to the newest version possible on Steam, but my Hotsampling tool is not working in the game :/ It works fine in KCD2, but not here. Can you help? :P

tim

Thanks ya. The controller was not working at first. But I ended installing DS4 even thou I have an xbox controller and a related things. And it just started working randomly. With that on or off. If figure it out better I will be back to let you know. It could be just a simples as disabling the steam input change did not really take until I restarted steam. Thanks so much.

FransBouma

Yes, that should work fine, I use an xbox controller as well.. Perhaps you have to deselect it in steam tho, so the control data goes through xinput

tim

Jumping into Horizon Forbidden West Photomode mod v1.0.8. I am cannot get my xbox controller to work with moving the camera around. The keyboard works fine. Does the controller work for this on this one?

Ramón Ramos

That worked ! 💪

FransBouma

Maybe with shader toggler? https://framedsc.com/ReshadeGuides/Addons/shader_toggler_repository.htm

Ramón Ramos

Hi Frans, when opening the in-game menu where you can go to inventory/outfits or quests, is it possible to hide the text in order to just see the (live) brackground ?

FransBouma

Hmm, I likely missed these when I scanned for the elements in shadertoggler. You could add these yourself, though. The shadertoggler is already installed for the hud toggle so you can just add a few shaders by stepping through them. See the guide: https://framedsc.com/ReshadeGuides/Addons/shader_toggler_repository.htm (it's easy, no worries)

Larissa Hecht

Hi there, thank you for this great tool! I enjoy it a lot as always! Is there a way to disable hud elements that will stay even if I toogle the option to hide it (like in machine strike only subtitles disappear but everthing else stays there, or when I use the ingame photomode tool I have to use the ingame hide ui because your tools toggle will not hide that elements too)

CharlyTutors

Can you email me how I can do it myself? Maybe change something in the code? I'm not going to be your competitor and somehow distribute this...really.... I don't need it. I have a different line of work altogether. I just don't really want to buy a Steam game for the sake of one feature =) After all, you managed to make a working mod for Avatar:Frontiers of Pandora, which I also bought from EGS. Can I Inject DLL from this mod or change something in it. if yes, how? =) Thank you and have a great day

FransBouma

what problem exactly? This is the HFW page.

Rafael Rojas

i have the same problem whit alan wake ii

FransBouma

No like I said, I don't have the game on every store, only on Steam, I can't fix this for you.

CharlyTutors

Ok. How to fix this? How can I make it work for me?

FransBouma

I won't use any other person's account, so this is sadly incompatible.

CharlyTutors

Hey, Otis. Thank you for your answer. Btw, how can I fix it myself? Is it possible? Or I can share you my Epic Account with this game.

FransBouma

The executable likely is different and therefore that feature isn't available (causing the camera feature to be disabled, hence it doesn't enable when you hit insert). I always specify if a given store version is known to work, and thus if I specify that the tools are compatible with the steam version and I don't mention EGS, then you can be sure it's not tested to be compatible with the EGS version. I don't have the EGS version so I can't fix it too...

CharlyTutors

LOG: Initializing... Dxgi Present hooked successfully (DX12) Camera dll::>>>>>> ERROR <<<<<< Can't find pattern for block 'AOB_BLOCK_GAMEPAD_INPUT_TO_GAME'! Camera dll::>>>>>> ERROR <<<<<< Camera system:: One or more interception offsets weren't found. Camera system:: Feature not available. Environment system:: All interception offsets found. Hud system:: All interception offsets found. Image Quality system:: All interception offsets found. Pause system:: All interception offsets found. Time of Day system:: All interception offsets found. Initialization completed. Waiting for camera struct interception... Hook to XInputGetState enabled

CharlyTutors

Hey, can you help me? I bought the game in Epic Games Launcher, not Steam. I see that you wrote Steam support, but I use your mod with other games from Epic Launcher. When I click Insert DLLS, everything is fine. But in the game itself, Insert doesn't work. I click on it and nothing happens. What should I do? Screenshot - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V1JkrxzGJ1r7Lj5XVCn8zdYiB-SyqbjM/view?usp=sharing Thank you and have a great day Best regards, Andrew.

Essylt

Thanks a lot !

FransBouma

The addresses found in the exe are either hooked to intercept an address which is then the base of a structure in which at given offsets values are changed, or code is altered or addresses are hardcoded and read from there. If the game crashes it can be anything you did wrong, but I'm sorry, I'm not going to give a deep explanation what to do.

hunterhunter

Hi, I used your mod's log to try to tweak some of the values at the memory addresses in the logs (the write address for wind speed for example, as a proof of concept) but the game crashed (used Cheat Engine 7.5). Also the mod didn't seem to change the values at these addresses at all. Tried to scan for the values that the mod changes but again couldn't find the modification by the amount the mod specifies in the slider toggles. Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong here (I know the blog post about Wolfenstein II, saw it)? Much appreciated!

FransBouma

You can make one with shadertoggler https://framedsc.com/ReshadeGuides/Addons/shader_toggler_repository.htm :)

hunterhunter

Is there a toggle for the "hero" lighting? Don't know who was the genius who thought of that one. If you can do something about the fog/haze inside buildings and settlements (like Barren Light) it would be fantastic! It's the only thing thing that stands in the way of this game looking the way it should! Thanks.

FransBouma

If you enable Time of Day then the time of day is indeed frozen. When you disable Time of day in the tools, it's unfrozen and time proceeds as normal.

hunterhunter

Is the time of day 'frozen ' when running the mod? Read somewhere that when active it disrupts the normal flow of game time.

FransBouma

:) Absolutely! Yeah I loved it on PC too :)

Thalixte

Thks a lot for this camera tools and the updates. As for me, HFW is one of the most wonderful Open World i ever played, just behind The Witcher 3. Great Artistic Direction, great gameplay, great visuals. Works, like a charm on my PC. Kudo for the Guerilla dutch team ;-)

hunterhunter

Yes, played with the god ray slider. I tried a shadertoggler (Toggle Fake Light - Volumetric Rays) from nexus, but it still helps mostly with the bigger clumps of fog, not the mangrove low-laying one and the general haziness that comes with distance (blacks become greys). I'd really appreciate it if you look into these settings :) It's a shame to hide such beautiful graphics behind this stuff - I understand it for PS4/5 but not for PC.

FransBouma

Sometimes you can hide these with shadertoggler like the mangrove fog that's close to the ground. I couldn't find all the fog values to control everything (there are many many fog values in memory and without any guidance what these are, I tried to make sense of them by changing the values). Additionally, try to lower the god ray sliders, that usually makes the fog effect less prominent

hunterhunter

Hi, is there a way to completely (or almost) completely remove the haze/fog in the environment around Aloy? I set fog density to 0 in the environmental controls (play around with the other enviro controls too) but there's still low-laying clouds of the stuff all over the place. The controls seem to work for fog/haze in the distance, but stuff still looks washed-out in the environment closer to Aloy. Thanks.

FransBouma

Will think about it. No promises (and also likely not happening soon)

Abe

FransBouma

For gameplay? You have the fov slider in the menu to the max value? I usually don't do this as overriding the fov for gameplay also overrides the fov for cutscenes, which then don't play correctly.

Abe

Samantha Eilhart

Ohhhhhh you did it!!! Thank you!!!! You truly are the best!! ♥️🙌

Samantha Eilhart

Thank you so much!!! 🙌

FransBouma

yes, this is a bug. I use the engine's flag to skip a few frames (as it's the safest) and it does that but the animations sadly cut out after 3-4 frames... :( I'll see if I can update it soon with the usual skip frame (unpause for a few ms then pause again)

FransBouma

I run the game in Windowed mode (so in a window) and then click 'fake fullscreen' to run it in a fullscreen window without a border. I can then alt-tab to the igcsclient so I don't have to minimize anything :) Could you try that please? I tried to reproduce what you run into but it works fine here. It only crashes when I push the LODs too far, e.g. when a big settlement is in the distance. This is something to expect from time to time, normally it won't crash.

Samantha Eilhart

Hello! I have a quick question, in the game, not the photomode, when I'm in a cutscene, I can pause and skip a few frames, however, it's not like in your other games where the image continues. I don't know if I'm making sense, but I need to unpause the game in order to have the cutscene continue. Thank you very much for this amazing tool BTW. I love your work so much!

Jess (virtuallyvisual)

Sorry - i mean minimize it, not close. Like, play the game, and then hit my windows key so i can see the icons and click the camera mod window so it comes to the front, then inject it. Is there an easier way? Should i just have it pinned to the front/top? And gotcha. Sorry for the hassle - I havent had an issue with your other game photo mods so not sure why it's happening here. Hopefully I can figure out why its happening.

FransBouma

Why do you close the igcs client window? :) Always keep that running. I'll see if I can reproduce it, but I haven't had a crash with the tools in my many hours with the game (only with the LOD values if they were set too extreme which might happen)

Jess (virtuallyvisual)

Tried it with windowed and fake fullscreen and it still crashed, FYI. opening the window and messing with settings did it. I only tried playing with the near blur start and end.

Jess (virtuallyvisual)

The camera connects and i get that message in the top corner that it found a camera. This is at the menu screen of HFW. then i hit continue to start my gameplay, and its only if I hit my windows key and open the camera mod window and then close it that I experience a crash. I have had it maybe once or twice where it doesnt crash the first time, but the next time I open the window, the game shuts down. And yes, latest version of the game, and I dont believe msi afterburner is running. i'll double check.

FransBouma

You have the latest official game version from steam and no overlays running (msi afterburner etc.) ? You press Insert to enable the camera and it then crashes?

Jess (virtuallyvisual)

Hi! I’ve used your photo mode mod for BG3 and had no issues! However for this one for HFW it crashes the game for me each time I use it. I can inject the photo mod fine, but if I open the photo mod window later while playing the game, to mess with settings, it crashes. I don’t have input coming in from steam for my Xbox controller. Thoughts? Thanks!

FransBouma

There's no way to save them, as they frequently change in-game and you need to tweak the existing set really instead of 'apply this here' as that likely won't look good anyway.

Abe

Is there a way to save the adjustments?, like env adjustments etc?

FransBouma

Nope, that's on Nixxes to fix

Abe

Could you fix or hide this sand texture bug? https://youtu.be/541x0OQnlKY

FransBouma

You have to enable the lookat feature in the photomode, as described in the documentation (link at the top of this page)

Light_Fury

I cannot get Aloy to change the poses, in the sense of turning her torso or head or eyes, the command does not produce an effect. What could be the problem?

FransBouma

I'm not going to add separate selectors for everything, sorry :) This is it.

Justin Baptiste

ok no problem, is it possible to seperate the fog, sunlight and haze options so i can only edit fog, sunlight attack rays and leave haze settings for the game to adjust automatically?

FransBouma

these have no relationship with each other, time of day is paused when you enable the override in the tools, whether fog/haze are 0 or not 0

Justin Baptiste

is there any way time of day can be unfrozen when haze density and fog density is at 0?

FransBouma

Sorry but that's how the engine works, I can't change that

iLeonidze

Frans, hi! Thank you very much for your awesome work! Your camera works so well, it allows to fly to hidden places on the map (out of bounds he-he)! But flying far from player do not affect on loading LODs (LODs slider works as expected, but do not effect on map chunks). To achieve LODs loading we have move our player to that place, but that causes an infinite shaders compiling (for example XYZ: 3461 7305 890). If you have time and desire, please take a look how to prevent the game from loading non-existing shaders or force game to load chunks as well.

Robert Hoffmann

Awesome, thank you. You saved my Easter Holydays.

screenfeast

Quick! Well optimized photo mode for well optimized game, as it should be. Great job.

FransBouma

Use DS4Windows and Hidhide (it's from the same maker as ds4windows). Also make sure properties on the game-> controller -> disable steam input

Campbell

This is amazing, I'm having so much fun with this! THANK YOU!

frogsauce21

Thanks for this one

Aave R

i can't get the camera to work with a controller on steam (dualsense edge)

Jesus Pimentel

I was waiting for this. Thanks Frans, you're the best brother!

metroplexmaster

ur the best Otis!

Sen Du

this is good, also waiting on Dragon's Dogma 2 photomode :)

MaraKnight

Been looking forward to this for a hot minute! Appreciate all you do Frans <3

Patrick Laun

Thank you for your reply, Frans! I really appreciate the "invulnerability" option in your mods but angry NPCs look different than non angry NPCs. And that's what I need 😊 Thanks anyway!!

FransBouma

The 'neutral' faction in the engine was the way to do that in HZD, but the function to set it isn't there anymore in this version. I'll look into that soon. For now I only added an 'invulnerability' option, so you can use that for action shots.

Leo

like always, just gotta say thanks for the awesome work

Drasco

Yay! Ty =)

Dominik

Good work, appreciate especially the LOD slider. It's very nice especially in this game :)

MegaWatt

Great work, Frans, as always

WeirdScienceX

I've only played the game for around an hour but impressed with the graphics, looking forward to playing with this cam, great work as always

Patrick Laun

Impressive! You're always releasing what I am looking for. Thank you!!! Is it possible to add a "don't attack me" option to your mods? That would be amazing 🤩

Aave R

yay, been waiting for this

The Explorographer

Hero!!