Skyward Sword Revamped - Textures, Shaders, and DOF Hack

[Misérable]

Hello everyone !

After some research for a PAL DOF hack, i found this gecko on a website :

"Sharp background [CosmoCortney]
04593564 3F800000
The Background and many other things don't look that blured."

You can change the "F8" value with something between "A-9" (like 3D000000 or 3E500000) if you encounter some problems.

The sky was pitch black when I used the 3F8 value, so I switched to 3D000000, and it seems to work really well for me. Keep in mind I only tested it in Faron Woods and with a WBFS (I don't know if it makes a difference with an ISO when it comes to gecko code lol)

Without gecko: https://imgur.com/FDiOVbC

With gecko : https://imgur.com/TlzYtR5


I hope it'll help !

[deejus679]

(11-07-2015, 02:48 AM)Zariel Oak Wrote: I have been working on a Skyward Sword visual revamp very casually over the last few months and I was interested in seeing how the community feels about it, and of course, I'll be letting you all try it out.

Before the revamps (In Vanilla Dolphin with no revamped textures, no shaders, most Dolphin enhancements off, and internal resolution set to 1x Native):

Spoiler: (Show Spoiler)

With the revamps (In Dolphin with some early revamped textures, the current custom sweetFX shader, most Dolphin enhancements on/very high, and internal resolution set to 4x Native):

Spoiler: (Show Spoiler)

In this revamp I started by revamping some basic stuff like the coloured flags around Skyloft's bazaar as they looked rough around the edges and then I slowly but surely moved on to making bigger and bigger changes and eventually decided I'm going to revamp the game's textures as best as I can and possibly see if more people are interested in my project to offer support.

At one stage in development I had a breakthrough in my attempts to deal with the Depth of Field effect Skyward Sword uses to make distant objects appear painted. The effect doesn't look very good at a higher resolutions so  after a lot of trying different builds of dolphin I found that we can disable Skyward Sword's depth of field effect entirely by using some simple code (which will be provided on demand) in the game's config.

I will try to have everything sorted and easy to find in the development blog below. If I miss something, let me know and I will try my best to provide it.

Development Blog

See all of my slightly dated development screenshots here:

Screenshots

I've been doing GameCube emulation for quite some time through Dolphin, and figured it was time I tried figuring out just how the hell these motion controls work, and finally get around to the one game I haven't played through in the Zelda saga (handhelds excluded).

To make a long story short, these texture packs make the game oh so much better! Took me a while to get everything up and going and get everything placed in the correct folders, but after a bit of research finally got it! All that's left its to give the DOF component a go.

Anyways, I would just very much like to say thank you Zariel, Ellie, and Farontea for putting this project together.
Cheers!

[Dream Focus]

Looks very nice!

If you have problems with the WiiMote, I found this [REMOVED -JosJuice] and with the older version of Dolphin it works perfectly, I can use the mouse and keyboard or my Nintendo Switch pro controller I have plugged into my computer.  I never could play the game with just the wiimote.

[JosJuice]

(04-24-2019, 05:53 AM)Dream Focus Wrote: If you have problems with the WiiMote, I found this [REMOVED -JosJuice] and with the older version of Dolphin it works perfectly, I can use the mouse and keyboard or my Nintendo Switch pro controller I have plugged into my computer.  I never could play the game with just the wiimote.

As I mentioned in another thread, please do not link to pages where you can download Dolphin executables without the corresponding source code being available.

[Poltopi]

Hi dude ! I'm a french newbie playing on Pal version, I've been tweaking dolphin and custom versions for two days and can't find a solution to my DOF problem (I assume it's the problem) maybe some one here know a solution ? (I've already test gecko cheat, and absolutely nothing happenned)

I've got sweetFX and texture mod active and working.

[SoMuchLasagna]

Can this be installed as a recourse pack or only as a texture pack via the Load >>> Textures folder?

[Zariel Oak]

(06-24-2019, 01:34 AM)SoMuchLasagna Wrote: Can this be installed as a recourse pack or only as a texture pack via the Load >>> Textures folder?

Only as a texture pack via the Load > Textures folder

[vingamer]

I can't get SweetFX (or Reshade either) to work with the latest version of Dolphin. I tried renaming the .dlls correctly, I'm not seeing any differences and the Scroll Lock key isn't working for SweetFX to toggle the effects. Shader troubles. :\

[Solid_Link]

the Depth of Field code does not work for me in anyone checks this please help

[Zariel Oak]

(10-19-2019, 08:39 AM)Solid_Link Wrote: the Depth of Field code does not work for me in anyone checks this please help

I'm not sure if you are referring to a Gecko Code or not

Here is a guide on the Gecko codes everyone should be using instead of the stupid janky DoF hack thing I did

https://skyward-sword-remastered.tumblr.com/post/186492327396/forget-the-dof-hack-we-gecko-now 

I hope this fixes it up for you