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Firelink Edition New enemy placement, item location, armor sets, weapons, decorations...A new experience and look for Dark Souls Ⅱ!

Dark Souls 2 Firelink Edition is finally out!
This is a new DS2 experience with new visuals, items, weapons, armor, enemy and item location and many more changes. Tell your friends and family.

I hope you all enjoy it.

Adding additional debugging for Screen space tracing, the denoiser and shading is now updated to be better than previous versions as well.

Majula really shines when you back up the insane art direction with incredibly modern rendering techniques courtesy of @dslightingengine.bsky.social and tuned/configured by me alongside my material/surface work

Updating SSGI solution in LE, both for #darksouls3 and #darksouls2, a lot of code/features are now unified across the games.

Water SSR Defog fix. As SSR reflects what is on the screen, the pixel being reflected has fog which is calculated based on eye distance, thus leading to "double dip" on fog in the scene.

YouTube video by fromsoftserve dragonrider boss fight in second sin mod

i fight the dragonrider in heide's tower of flame in my second sin mod (powered by @dslightingengine.bsky.social )
youtu.be/30c2c__ZkCk

cathedral of the deep in #darksouls3 le. This place was originally envisioned to be moonlit similar to bloodborne

Woods in motion

Woods entry

Away direction for sun, and accurate character lighting and shadows

LE image matching the bonfire capture

Road of sacrifices , normal mode and matching the bonfire images to make it blue lighting. I probably will make COTD "moon lit" after this. Everything casting and receiving shadows including the water

YouTube video by DS2 Lighting Engine CrystalSage Boss fight in Darksouls3 Lighting Engine

Crystal sage boss fight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZu8...

YouTube video by DS2 Lighting Engine The Swamp in Darksouls3 Lighting Engine

Finishing up relighting the swamp in #DarkSouls3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z9K...

Sky lighting now effects water along with shadow correctly and the strength of the "sky shadow" which is vertically down can now be adjusted in #darksouls3 le

Working on the swamp today

This surface is a bit wierd. It has the normal map, but does not have the equivalent roughness and albedo map to go along with it.

Thanks Skele :)

Its the specular gloss being corrected, I have to see if there is an error on that surface there

Yeah art direction as well as the assets are really good. Its got wierd shading and lighting all over the place though.

Local light shadows and global scene ssr in these shots.

Irithyll comparison shots of base game vs le in #darksouls3

Posted this before, another showcase of plausible directional contact shadows, which uses bent-normals/ao and sphere caps. The lights below are not "true" shadow casting lights. Left image is just AO as attenuation, Thanks to @arycama.bsky.social for his help with spherical caps test.

Relighting profaned capital in #darksouls3 le.

Enabling shadows on many lights in the Irythill dungeon. LE culls meshes efficiently and generates draw calls as necessary for each light source.

0 to shadows in 25 seconds in #darksouls3 le

YouTube video by DS2 Lighting Engine Ariandel in Darksouls3 Lighting engine

Youtube HD :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0zO...

Ariandel in #darksouls3 le. Full gameplay youtube link below which showcases handling transition to multiple zones in the area. Check it out

Some more shots. Completed Ring city, still yet to finish Ariandel DLC. Based on the DLC experience and visual presentation, DS3 is on par with Elden ring imo, in terms of asset quality, world design, aesthetics and geometry density.