Visual quality question.

[Plasmadose]

Are the pictures seen on the front page touched up in photoshop? I spent some time messing with visual settings in hook5 and ReShade and never came across anything close to what I have seen elsewhere by other people. Is there a specific ENV or Reshade shader that makes everything look significantly better?

[hexd33]

On 8/6/2024 at 4:47 AM, Plasmaodse said:

Are the pictures seen on the front page touched up in photoshop? I spent some time messing with visual settings in hook5 and ReShade and never came across anything close to what I have seen elsewhere by other people. Is there a specific ENV or Reshade shader that makes everything look significantly better?

some folks do use photoshop, but there is only so much you can do in post-processing. 
 

99 times out of 100, it comes down to a) lights  and b) model textures. Try to follow the Lighting Tutorial Part 1 (see tutorial section), it includes Hook5 settings as well.

this should give you a good starting point. 

[vi363R]

On 8/6/2024 at 3:47 AM, Plasmaodse said:

Are the pictures seen on the front page touched up in photoshop? I spent some time messing with visual settings in hook5 and ReShade and never came across anything close to what I have seen elsewhere by other people. Is there a specific ENV or Reshade shader that makes everything look significantly better?

I'm not using any post processing. I do have all hook5 effects enabled and indeed, a lot of the beauty comes from in the lighting setup and environment settings of the room. If you wanna make a great shot in a certain location/pose, you need to work on the lighting in that specific location.

the tutorial by hexd33 is really very useful. part 1 for starters and part 2 even more

[SovietTiger]

I add to it. @hexd33's light tutorial is gold, to learn how to set up your own lights.

And more: If you want to create something unique, you need to pick a high quality scenario, like Driver's modular room. It already has great lights but you can set up any you want.

But truth be told, again, almost any scenario can be transformed with the right lighting.

Now, you can do great pics with the sunlight too, just you need to have proper use of the camera. If you manipulate the camera FOV, the pics change from earth to heaven and back.