Beating aliasing.

Crysis 2 includes FXAA filter (an old version). In MaLDoHD 3.0 I included a FXAA tweak to improve  FXAA sharpness using "FXAA ultra" in the Config Tool. A few months ago, I talked with Jorge Jiménez (SMAA creator) to include the injector in version 4.0 of the mod. SMAA offers very good results. The best results of SMAA in Crysis 2 occur when the in-game FXAA is completely disabled. The problem is that the effect of rain in Crysis 2 is tied to r_postMSAA=1, which activates the FXAA. That is, if you disable FXAA in Crysis 2, the rain disappears. There are three levels (I remember now) where it's raining: Intro (when you leave the submarine), Times Square and City Hall. I don't want to lose rain effect, and I think is a bad idea to ask users to activate FXAA only in those levels through command console.

Last week I discovered the SweetFX injector. It uses Jorge Jimenez SMAA as the basis adding some new effects on top. Thinking about the filters again I took up an old battle, and I decided to spend this weekend to get rain effect while disabling FXAA. And I did it. So now MaLDoHD 4.0 has an amazing image quality using the SMAA injector, with internal FXAA completely disabled and visible rain. This week I will test SweetFX and perhaps replace the SMAA injector. I have to find a good setup because I don't need more sharpness and do not want to modify saturation values because are ​​already slightly modified in my TOD.

Do not worry, this is not the only mod thing I've done this weekend.