DYOM Visuals

Enhance your missions with special effects and shaders

Summary

1. Installation
2. Documentation
   1. Visuals File
   2. Visuals Categories
   3. List of Effects
   4. List of Shaders
   5. Transitions
   6. DYOM_Shaders Folder
   7. Keyboard Shortcuts

Installation

1. Go to the Releases page and download latest version of the addon
2. Extract the contents of the .zip to your GTA San Andreas/CLEO folder
3. That's all!

A few notes to take

• This mod only works with the latest version of DYOM, which currently is 8.1
• This mod does not breaks compatibility of your missions. The end user doesn't need to have this mod in order to be able to play your missions
• It is recommended to have Essentials pack for a more productive workspace while fine-tuning and testing shaders

Documentation

Visuals.ini File

When you create a new mission in DYOM, an SD code is assigned to this mission. Navigate to My Documents/GTA San Andreas User Files/SD and create a folder with the name of the SD code for your mission.

Inside this folder you should create a new file called visuals.ini. Within this file you will be able to customize all of the effects, shaders, and transitions that you want to put into your mission.

To set up the visuals, the file should contain the following syntax

[OBJECTIVE_X]
VisualName=Value

So, for example, if you want Objective 20 of your mission to hide the radar and HUD, and they only reappear after Objective 35, you could do the following

[OBJECTIVE_20]
HUD=0
Radar=0

[OBJECTIVE_35]
HUD=1
Radar=1

It's that simple!

Visuals Categories

All the visuals in the modification are divided into three distinct categories:

• Effects: Features and visuals existing in the original game that can affect the screen and gameplay, such as activating the HUD, FOV, and forcing camera styles.

• Shaders: Special visual FX developed with HLSL (DirectX) that modify the game screen by changing colors, adding overlays, transitions, and more.

List of Effects

Name	Values	Default	Description
HUD	0 or 1	1	Enables/disables all the HUD elements, except the radar
Radar	0 or 1	1	Enables/disables radar
SiteRocket	0 or 1	0	Enables/disables rocket launcher crosshair in first person view on vehicles. Used in Ryder's Catalyst mission.
Shake	Any integer	0	Shakes the game camera with given intensity.
FadeIn	Any integer	0	Fade in for X milliseconds.
FadeOut	Any integer	0	Fade out for X milliseconds
Drunkenness	Any integer	0	Swings the camera simulating a drunkenness effect with a given intensity.
ForceAiming	0 or 1	0	Forces the right mouse button to be pressed, and disables the player's ability to change weapons.
ForceWalking	0 or 1	0	Forces the left ALT keyboard button to be pressed. Disables the player's ability to jump, run and crouch.
ForceBumper	0 or 1	0	Forces the first person camera on vehicles.
ForceCinematic	0 or 1	0	Force cinematic camera on vehicles.
FOV	Any float	70.0	Adjust Field Of View
Speed	Any float	1.0	Adjust game speed
ThermalVision	0 or 1	0	Toggles thermal vision
NightVision	0 or 1	0	Toggles night vision

List of Shaders

Name	Values	Default	Description
Brightness	Any float	1.0	Adjusts the brightness of the screen
Contrast	Any float	1.0	Adjusts the contrast of the screen
Saturation	Any float	1.0	Adjusts the saturation of the screen
Tint	Any float	0.0	Adjusts the color temperature
Hue	Any float	1.0	Adjusts the color palette
InputMinRed	Any float	0.0	Change minimum value for the red channel of the screen input
InputMaxRed	Any float	1.0	Change maximum value for the red channel of the screen input
OutputMinRed	Any float	0.0	Change minimum value for the red channel of the screen output
OutputMaxRed	Any float	1.0	Change maximum value for the red channel of the screen output
InputMinGreen	Any float	0.0	Change minimum value for the green channel of the screen input
InputMaxGreen	Any float	1.0	Change maximum value for the green channel of the screen input
OutputMinGreen	Any float	0.0	Change minimum value for the green channel of the screen output
OutputMaxGreen	Any float	1.0	Change maximum value for the green channel of the screen output
InputMinBlue	Any float	0.0	Change minimum value for the blue channel of the screen input
InputMaxBlue	Any float	1.0	Change maximum value for the blue channel of the screen input
OutputMinBlue	Any float	0.0	Change minimum value for the blue channel of the screen output
OutputMaxBlue	Any float	1.0	Change maximum value for the blue channel of the screen output
Distort	Any float	0.0	Applies a TV-like distortion to the screen
RainDrops	0 or 1	0	Applies raindrops overlay on the screen
FlipY	0 or 1	0	Flips the screen vertically
FlipX	0 or 1	0	Flips the screen horizontally
BarWidth	Any float	0.0	Draws black bars on each side of the screen with given width dimension
BarHeight	Any float	0.0	Draws black bars on the top and bottom of the screen with given height dimension
Glitch	Any float	0.0	Applies a glitch effect on the screen with given intensity
GlitchY	Any float	0.1	Changes the vertical offset of the Glitch effect
GlitchX	Any float	0.1	Changes the horizontal offset of the Glitch effect
Zoom	Any float	1.0	Applies a zoom in or zoom out with given value. Negative values will flip the screen vertically
Quantize	Any integer	0	Balances level of detail in the screen, creating a retro appearance for low values, such as 8-bits colors. Use 0 to disable it
OneColor	0, 1, 2 or 3	0	Artistically disables all the colors except one. Use 1 for keep red color, 2 for green color, 3 for blue color, 0 to disable
Interlaces	Any integer	0	Applies the given number of black animated bars on the screen, for TV and camera effects
VignetteRound	Any float	0.5	Set vignette shape to be square, circle or spindle-like
VignetteStart	Any float	2.0	Distance from center of the screen to the vignette border. 1.0 makes it the same as screen size
VignetteWidth	Any float	3.0	Width of soft edge gradient. 0.0 for hard edge
VignetteAspect	Any float	1.0	Aspect ratio of the vignette. 1.0 for perfect square/circle
VignetteRed	Any float	0.0	Amount of red color to be applied into the vignette
VignetteGreen	Any float	0.0	Amount of green color to be applied into the vignette
VignetteBlue	Any float	0.0	Amount of blue color to be applied into the vignette
VignetteAlpha	Any float	1.0	Transparency value to be applied into the vignette
VignetteMixing	0, 1, 2 or 3	0	Mixing mode. 0: Normal; 1: Multiply; 2: Inverted Normal; 3: Inverted Multiply
FogRed	Any float	0.0	Red color for fog
FogGreen	Any float	0.0	Green color for fog
FogBlue	Any float	0.0	Blue color for fog
FogAlpha	Any float	0.0	Transparency value for fog
FogStart	Any float	0.0	Start of fog in meters
FogEnd	Any float	0.0	End of fog in meters
Desolate	Any float	0.0	Artistically make all screen gray scale except things near the given depth. 0 to disable

Transitions

The transition property is a special configuration you can include in your visuals.ini file attached to any objective to transition from previous shader values to new values. The accepted values for this property is any float value (x.y) where x represents seconds and y milliseconds.

For example, if you want to transition from gray scale to normal color within 5.0 seconds, you can have something like that in your visuals.inifile:

[OBJECTIVE_1]
saturation=0.0

[OBJECTIVE_2]
saturation=1.0
transition=5.0

Most of the available effects are compatible with transitions, feel free to make many creative transitions for your missions.

DYOM_Shaders Folder

This folder contains many of the essential settings and files for DYOM Visuals properly function. Let's take a look at each of the sub-folders and files inside:

• editor.ini

  This file contains the following sections for you to preview and customize shaders:

  • [EDITOR_SHADERS]

    Here you can input any valid shader property-value line. It wil be displayed in-game when you are at editor mode. Use F12 (Reload key) to reload shaders and see the modifications you've made

• Shaders folder

  This folder contains all the custom shaders developed in HLSL shader language. There is no reason to edit the files containing inside this folder.

• Textures folder

  This folder contains textures used in HLSL shader files.

• Presets folder

  This is a special folder that may be useful for you. This folder provides some interesting presets to use in your visuals.ini file. You can store your own presets here for the sake of organization.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• F12

  • Switches between different Preview Modes
  • OFF: won't display any shaders
  • Editor: will display editor.ini shaders and update every time the file changes.
  • Objective: will display visuals.ini shaders relative to the selected objective and update every objective selection change or file change.

• CTRL + F12

  • Reset Shaders
  • Re-initialize the shader handle and force all values to be reset to default.