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Current list of features and versions

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** NOTE: THIS IMAGE IS OUTDATED AS OF COMMUNITY SHADERS 1.0. PLEASE IGNORE **

Object	Feature	CS	ENB	CS VR	ENB VR
Grass	Grass Collisions	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Grass Lighting	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Procedural grass	WIP	No	WIP	No
Water	Water Parallax	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Water Blending	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Water caustics	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Screen Space Reflections	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Lights	Particle Lights	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Light Limit Fix	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Indirect Lighting / SSGI	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Tree LoD Lighting	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Image Based Lighting	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Inverse Square Lighting	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Linear Lighting	WIP	No	WIP	No
Shadows	Normalmap Shadows	No	Yes	No	Yes
	Screen-Space Shadows	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Distant Shadows	Yes	Yes		Yes
	Ambient Occlusion	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Interior Sun Shadows	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Effect Shadows	Yes	No	Yes	No
Rain	Wet Surfaces	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Puddles	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Dynamic rain drops	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sky	Sun Rays	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Sun Glare	WIP	Yes		Yes
	Volumetric Rays	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Procedural Sun	WIP	Yes		Yes
	Cloud Shadows	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Skylighting	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Sky Sync	Yes	No*	Yes	No
	Volumetric Clouds	WIP	No	WIP	No
	Atmospheric Scattering	WIP	Yes	WIP	Yes
	Custom weather system	WIP	No	WIP	No
Terrain	Terrain Parallax	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Terrain Blending	WIP	Yes	Yes	No
	Terrain Shadows	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Terrain Helper	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Terrain Variation	Yes	No	Yes	No
Actors	Skin Specular	WIP	Yes		Yes
	Subsurface Scattering	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Hair Specular	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Advanced Skin Shaders	WIP	No	WIP	No
Objects	Object Parallax	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Physically Based Rendering	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Dynamic Cubemaps	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Extended Translucency	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Dynamic snow cover	WIP	No	WIP	No
Screen effects	Depth of Field	WIP	Yes	n.a.	n.a.
	Bloom	WIP	Yes	Yes	Yes
	HDR rendering	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Eye Adaptation	WIP	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Lens Effects	WIP	Yes	WIP
	Customizable Post-Processing	WIP	Yes	WIP	Yes
	Lut Loading	WIP	Yes	WIP	Yes
	Motion Blur	WIP	Yes	WIP	Yes
	HDR output	WIP	No	WIP	No
Performance	Upscaling Technologies	Beta	No*	WIP	No*
	FSR AA / DLAA	Yes	No*	Yes	No*
	Framegen (DLSS)	Yes	No*	No	No

* can be achieved via 3rd party mod

A graph of potential future features, no guarantee:

graph LR;
    Def[Deferred]
    Post[Postprocessing]
    TerraBlend[Terrain Blending]
    SSS[Subsurface Scattering]
    SSGI[SSGI]
    Skylighting
    TOD[TOD/Weather]
    HFog[Simple Height Fog]
    PhySky[Physical Sky]
    MiscWeather[Misc. Weather Elements]
    Vol[Volumetric Fog/Clouds]
    PBR
    MB[Motion Blur]
    Water[Better Water]
    Sparkly[Sparkly Snow]
    Snow[Dynamic Snow Cover]
    DOF[Depth of Field]
    Bloom[Better Bloom]
    WP[Water Parallax]
    SSR[Better SSR]
    Eye[Better Eye Adaptation]
    ProcGrass[Procedural Grass]
    IBL[Image Based Lighting]
    LL[Linear Lighting]
    SkySync[Sky Sync]
    ProcSun[Procedural Sun]
    SkinSpec[Skin Specular]
    Wlod[Improved Water Lod]
    RT[Full Ray Tracing]
    Tess[Tesselation]
    Tland[Tesselated Landscape]

    SSS-->Snow
    Sparkly-->Snow
    Def-->SSS;
    Def-->SSGI-->Skylighting
    Def-->Water
    Def-->SSR
    Def-->TerraBlend
    Def-->Tess-->Water
    Tess-->Tland
    PBR-->Sparkly
    PBR-->Water
    PBR-->ProcGrass
    PBR-->SkinSpec
    PBR-->LL
    PBR-->Snow
    IBL-->TOD
    LL-->TOD
    LL-->Post
    SkySync-->TOD
    Snow-->TOD
    TOD-->PhySky
    TOD-->MiscWeather
    TOD-->HFog
    TOD-->Vol
    TOD-->ProcSun
    Post-->MB
    Post-->DOF
    Post-->Bloom
    Post-->TOD
    Post-->Eye
    WP-->Water-->Wlod

Testing

A/B Testing

For those who want to compare visuals with different settings, there is a mode to automatically switch between two modes on an interval.

1. Set up A environment by selecting "Save Settings". This is your default settings under CommunityShadersUSER.json and will display as User Mode.
2. Change settings for the B environment for whatever features you want. This will display as Test Mode.
3. Under the Advanced menu, find the slider for Test Interval.

4. Set the interval to any non-zero value. This is the number of seconds to stay in any mode before switching. This will create a new config file, CommunityShadersTEST.json. In the desktop window, you should see a countdown in the top left. You can also monitor the settings changed in 2 to confirm they are changing back and forth.

5. To exit the A/B test, set Test Interval to 0. You will still have your settings from step 2.
6. To restore your default settings, select "Load Settings".

Dynamic Cubemaps

There is a special test mode that can be activated to turn basically any cubemap surface into a maximum reflective surface. Examples are potions or wine bottles.

1. Under Advanced -> Shader Defines, enter TESTCUBEMAP.
2. Clear Disk Cache, if disk cache enabled.
3. Clear Shader Cache.
4. Examine an object and the environment should be reflected in the item.