Hi. When I first played Tron 2.0 on my computer, I had an ATI Radeon 9600 pro. I found a shader effect called 'stylized black & white'. This effect seemed to be made for tron. Some of the colors are washed out and it really looks like the movie, IMHO.
My question is this: Now that I have an NVidia 6800 GT, I was wondering how I can get that effect again. I can't get myself to play without that effect. I was too taken with it.

I play on a Nvidia graphics card. i get an effect called the "Nvidia glow" or something like that. i've compared playing with it on and off, it makes a big difference to the brightness [or at least, it does for me.]
I can't help but imagine what tron 2.0 would be like with some HDR in there.

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SithLordAJ Wrote:Hi. When I first played Tron 2.0 on my computer, I had an ATI Radeon 9600 pro. I found a shader effect called 'stylized black & white'. This effect seemed to be made for tron. Some of the colors are washed out and it really looks like the movie, IMHO. My question is this: Now that I have an NVidia 6800 GT, I was wondering how I can get that effect again. I can't get myself to play without that effect. I was too taken with it.

Greetings, SithLordAJ and welcome to TRON-Sector!

I'm with redrain85 on this one - I thought they did an excellent job with the style and look of the game. They came pretty close to the look of the film, although I didn't care for the shiny look of the skins.

I'm surprised you prefer that effect over the actual look of the game, but I hope you're able to recreate it somehow if it makes the game more entertaining for you.

A couple of threads you may want to hit are:

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They were called SmartShader effects. They used to be selectable under the 3D tab in the Catalyst Control Center. But after doing a bit of research, I've discovered ATI decided to remove them from recent versions of their drivers. (They were kinda pointless, anyway.)

You'd have to return to older ATI drivers to get them back. I don't know exactly when ATI removed them, but it was a ways back . . . seems about a year ago.

I can understand them taking it out of the drivers options- it wasn't an extremely useful feature, though for some specific games, it really really works. for example, there was a mode that made colored pixels into green letters/numbers. It would be difficult to play, but would make Enter the Matrix crazy.
As for the 'stylized black & white' mode that I prefered for Tron 2.0, well, let me explain a bit.
the cutscenes that show the 'real world'- everything was black and white (except for the eyes for whatever reason. you'd see green eyes in the midst of all greys). I didn't really care for that, and can see that most games would probably not see any benifit from this mode. However, the Tron world seemed to be painted. Like picture an old black and white film that gets colorized. the color doesn't quite match up with the lines. the shading is a little strange. Well, thats how the game looks with that effect.
When I first played Tron, I had thrown on that effect, not realizing what it would do. So when I played the game, I thought the designers had done all of it on purpose. It's one of those unique little touches that makes a game edge over the notch to classic.
I can't believe that someone hasn't written some program that adds those kind of effects to it. Like you could maybe play call of duty in a mode that makes it look like an old black and white film, complete with film scratches. Maybe play max payne with some sort of drug affect on. Obviously, not every game needs an effect, but it'd be fun to mess with just about any game.

Sorry I can't be of any help in this thread... but it'd be cool to see a screenshot from an ATI Radeon 9600 pro doing this shader effect to Tron 2.0. Can anyone post a screenshot?