RealityFilter Beta8 | Release and Funny Development Story

It´s here guys !!

The script base is now a completely different one

This will improve many things along providing a new feature

Now the filter is capable of handling new tonemapping settings

This will improve the way the filter processes color and more importantly light

It will be more noticeable later on evenings and on night time

Very dark situations are now handled much better

The filter will now adjust how much color grading it needs

During the day it will boost it for better colors but during nights and bad weather it will automatically lower it to prevent artifacts and weird coloring

Basically colors will look on point at any time

Oh the reflections...

Paint is so reflective and beautiful

Compare it with older versions / other filters and you´ll see

Thanks to some special sauce, paint now looks much improved

Simplified Advanced Adjustments and New Slider

The PP page of the Pure Config app is now simplified for an easier interaction

There is also a new slider called Sky Hue

This will help you tune the sky color for a more precise photo

The Ultra Photo Mode was deleted

Due to the filter improved graphics there was no need for that extra boost

Installation

Simply extract to the Assetto directory

Hope you guys like the update,

Let me know if everything is working fine

Wanna ear a funny story ?

This will be the story of a massive code brown of mine while I was developing the filter

A few days ago I was doing my thing...

Changing some stuff on the filter, doing some coding, you know, nerd stuff xd

Was actually implementing the new base wich provides the new tonemap

Anyway, I usually change some lines and go back into the game to see if everything is working fine

This way I can easily find a bug and revert back the changes

So, updated some lines, fired up the game, everything is looking fine, no bugs

Little did I know that wasnt the case...

Prior to this updates I saved some settings on the Pure app ( an easier way to keep some changes I did earlier saved )

This was ultimately what blinded me

Because of Pure saving some of the settings it also hide a bug that appeared on the filter code

But I couldnt see anything wrong because Pure was stopping me from doing that

So, everything is working well to my eyes, and so I keep doing more changes to the code

I do some more things here and there...

Get back into the game to see if everything is alright

And boom, a bug

No problem, I revert the changes and it should fix it

Right ?

Nah xd

I did revert what I did but the filter insists on looking weird

Hum...

What can it be ? 

Im not sure as the bug wasnt fixed when I did undo on the filter code

This my guys is the begining of a massive code brown lol

In my mind im thinking, let me isolate the problem to find it and then fix it, logical

I remembered that Pure saved some settings a while ago

That could be it

So I go ahead and export those settings so I can save them and later apply them

This way I dont loose those settings but I can delete them for now in order to find the problem

And so I did, exported them and deleted them

As soon as I press delete something happens...

Remember that bug that was hidden by Pure ?

Yep, that mf really came up to me and said Hi !

So, I pressed delete and the screen goes black

And I mean black

Black frfr

At this point Im mildly panicking

Its funny now but at the time... hahah

So, screen goes black, but I think, let me import those settings back to pure to fix it

Imported the settings...

And nothing, screen still black

At this point I panic for real for real loool

Cause I don´t know where that bug is coming from and so dont know how to fix it

Since I dont know how to fix it I started doing lots of undo on the code to hopefully find and fix the bug, because I surely did something that caused the bug and didnt know

I pressed that undo button so many times... hahaha

Nothing !

Bug still there

Oh, btw, the undo button just works up until the point you opened the file

Meaning, if you save the file with an unknown bug in there, close the code to go eat and then open it when you come back, you will not be able to undo enough to fix the bug

I realised I did that so now Im panicking frfr x100

There is nothing I can do, I need to go and download beta7 again and go from there

Wich is better than nothing, but I did sooo many things after that that I was really hoping not
to do that

Now Im just sad lol, I start closing the coding windows, folders and everything...

Im just looking to my wallpaper in sadness just like the movies lol

In the corner of my eye I see something, looked at it...

My dumb ass made a backup file and didnt even remembered !!

I immediately changed to that code to see if it fixed it...

Its working now !!!

Saved soo much time coding

So I go ahead and compare the codes to see where is the bug

Guys, it was a pure Dário Bad Luck Moment lol

So, in the code there was a line that basically specified what tonemap to use as default

There were 4 options

I chose the 3rd one as it was the best

How can that cause a bug ? 

Dont ask me, I still dont know lol, but it did 

You may be thinking, oh, maybe that line has a bug of some sort

Bro, I tried all the other options

Tried the 1st one, worked

Tried the 2nd, worked fine

Tried the 4th, no problems

The only one that had problems was the one I choose

Arghhh lol

Anyway, fixed the bug, and manage to get the filter ready for today

What a story !

Moral of the story - Create a fuc&%#$ backup looool

Thank me later haha

Hope you guys liked both the update and this funny bit

Cya in the next one !