Dreamfall Chapters (All Books)

Update 2016-06-20

• Re-fixed game from scratch (again!) for the Unity 5.3 update

• Fixed Book 5

Update 2015-12-10

This is a major update:

• Re-fixed game from scratch for the Unity 5 update

• Fixed Book 4

• Added an automatic depth adjustment to the HUD. The floating targeting icon and descriptive text will automatically adjust their depth to match whatever the icon is resting on. This is not 100% perfect (and the mouse cursor is still at screen depth), so it can be toggled on and off with Q.
  Info about the technique

• Brand new Unity lighting fix (yes, this is the second time this game has been used to develop a new lighting fix) - looks exactly the same as the old one, but it was necessary to work within some constraints in Helix Mod to also allow:

• Brand new Unity reflection fix. Aside from the obvious things like windows, glass, water, puddles, and even Zoe's eyes, this also adds a lot of small detail to many objects (literally thousands of shaders were adjusted to fully enable this). With Unity 5's physically accurate lighting model this makes the way light hits certain surfaces appear more realistic - hair has more detail, highlights reflecting on wooden surfaces are below the surface, and even things like Zoe's leather jacket reflect light in just the right way. I highly recommend loading a save from Book one and taking a stroll around Propast to see the difference this makes :)
  Screenshots and info about the technique

Installation

1. Extract the contents of the zip file to the game directory.

2. If you are running the 32bit version of the game (the GOG version recently switched to 32bit, and Steam will install the 32bit version if your OS is 32bit), replace the d3d9.dll with the one from the 32bit directory.

Fixed

• Lighting and shadows

• Physically accurate reflections

• Glow around lights

• Halos on all surfaces

• Automatic HUD depth (toggle with Q)

Known Issues

• Volumetric ray-marched light shafts are at screen depth and are disabled. You can re-enable them with U.

• The mouse cursor depth is not adjustable as it uses a hardware cursor.

• The Purple Mountains background is drawn closer than some of the foreground. This is not a skybox - it is in fact two scenes rendered on top of each other making it difficult to separate them.

Additional Notes

• I have not replayed the entire game since the Unity 5.3 update. If you find something broken (especially things like glass or heat distortions), please let me know.

Thanks to everyone who helped out on the forum to make the original Book 1 fix possible, especially 4everAwake and mike_ar69! This was the game where we cracked Unity 5 lighting and has enabled many more fixes since - shaderhackers may be interested in reading through this thread for background on the original technique.

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