Another very nerdy, in the weeds type of video that I'm shocked people want to watch, but I must provide! lol. Justice for the crystal on your belt in Demon's Souls. Such a cool way to explain the illumination. Sadly went away with DS1 and was never explained again
I like to imagine Dark Souls’ explanation would be that the Chosen Undead (and the other two protagonists) have like a small ember of fire within them, so they radiate a small amount of light
These are my absolute favorite to see! I'm a user of the DS1 Re-Remaster and I'm personally re-texturing Pokemon Colosseum using Topaz, so this is all right up my alley and I love that you're doing it. Keep it up!
The only other protagonist that has a lore explanation was Sekiro, but that’s because he has night vision. You can make an argument for the Chosen Undead and Tarnished because of embers and grace making them glow.
Thank you fellow hunter for all this much efforts, make sure to keep remembering u and the other people are playing a huge part in this world by emulating this game, bringing dreams to reality. Cannot express my gratitude enough for u!! All the Best!!
A standalone mod disabling the player light in DS2 is really needed. I know, I know, DS2LightEngine has that feature, but because of mod conflicts, I don't always use it, so it would still be great to disable the light emitting from the player without needing DS2 LE.
Lights attached to characters normally make things look much better, since you never run into a situation where stuff is just lit by an ambient light level and looks incredibly flat. Or some Oblivion/Skyrim situation of talking to people who are basically pitch black because of the lack of lighting (not really an issue in soulslikes thought). Throwing in a tiny bit of extra light just keeps things visible up close, and stops stuff looking as flat ('rimlight' effects can also do the same thing without using actual lights too).
I think it depends on the game. The RE2 Remake and the Dead Space remake look much better when you disable the light attached to the player camera imo.
Wooo in depth video! Thank you for sharing this stuff, may seem underrated but is reassuring knowing there are videos like this explaining very niche techical details on modding, info otherwise very difficult to gather without bothering the tools devs
is this guy teaching us the craft of bringing any game to pc and improve it lol i dont understand these things more like i dont want to but still i watch your videos to see the progress. love you
I appreciate the effort you have been doing with your patches and giving us updates on ChadPS4. Although, I have to say, the "ready in 2 weeks" is based on another meme, like the "SoonTM" meme, its all good. 😁
Yeah but a LOT of polish. Making emulators run well on pc takes a lot of time and optimisation and making textures load proper is a whole ganre of problems. I am expecting this finished in 3 months at least
At one point I thought it'd be cool if we saw 1:1 parity by the 10 year anniversary but we're seeing so much progress I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't good to go and public before christmas.
It's really hard to believe that the BB emulation will be ready in 2 weeks. But still, at this rate, bloodborne emulation will probably be in an amazing state by the end of November or by the end of the year. I'm still expecting to see crazy progress by the end of the month, though.
Tbh, I think Bloodborne is the one game that would actually profit from the darkness, I would be so much more immersed. I didn't watch the video yet, so I don't know if there is a technical reason for this, but I'd play it without the player light. The lantern will finally be an essential item! I really liked it, but it could be more useful. Edit: I didn't know you made the Ds1 Re-Remaster, I'm actually playing it for my second playthrough currently.
I see you're favouring dynamic shadows a lot but I do want to ask if the DS editor at all allows you to import custom lightbake textures onto the meshes in DS 1 and Bloodborne? I assume the Lightmap UVs are stored in the secondary channel (or third maybe if they use UV 2 for decal or other effects) and I wonder if you could theoretically export the entire map to something like say, unreal engine or marmoset etc, manually setup the lighting or import and convert its settings from the DS editor and bake out new lightmaps for the entire game, at a higher resolution, and replace all the old lightmaps with the new ones. Honestly considering the static nature of every from game bar Elden Ring, baked lighting will get you the absolute best looking results at a possible lower performance cost (depending on how Froms engine actually loads textures, or how the mods inject new meshes). End result could still utilize dynamic shadows in chose areas (like those lit by bonfires) or as an effect from spells, but the overall visuals on the lighting could potentially approach something like mirrors edge or dead island 2.
love your videos man Have you tried using lossless scaling framegen with bloodborne? Since input latency is apparently lowest with the default 30 fps, could 2x framegen give you the "fake" 60 fps smoothness without sacrificing input latency?
yeah I should try that honestly! I know input latency of course would go up a bit, but could be fun to goof around with. Naturally going from 60 to 120 with framegen is preferred as it tamps down on the artifacting, and it's waaay more noticeable from 30 to 60. Gotta play around with it for sure tho!
At the speed it's going, i'm guessing at christmas or new year's we might have 80% of the game working, not fully stable, but working, could i be completely wrong? 100%
I have a question: is it possible to implement all these modifications, to turn off player lighting, to dynamic shadows, into the PS4 version of the game, so that I could play with all this on my PS4 with HEN?
Do you know where I can find the shaders in BB? I want to implement half-lambert lighting to the character but I'm not familiar with fromsoft games modding
oh my bad, in all my previous videos I had a link to shadps4.net and their twitter as well. I don't think they have a patreon or really any way to support them directly. The legends that they are
As good your intentions are, financial support for an unofficial emulator is a target on their back for lawsuits, just look at yuzu, they got struc down with way less
@@DesocupadoXtremo Yuzu was removed because they had links in the official page explaining how to dump the switch's firmware, keys, roms, etc. It's legal to create an emulator because it's just competition. But it's not legal to reverse engineer code, nor dump it. Emulator exist on the premise that YOU will make your OWN firmware/bios (if needed) and roms made for digital purposes, it's not their "fault" that the emulator can read your "do not dump" rom, if you know what i mean.
@@mykll_art as i said, struk down with way less, the use of a piece of software ins't responsability of its developer, but the law breaches use that anyway, so a financial support for ShadPS4 is a liability for the developers
In like a year when we all will be playing/ have played BB at 120 fps or at 4k we will be taking all of this for granted lol it will seem "normal" to play BB on PC forgetting al this insane hype that just getting the game to work is making.
I wish I could disable the player light in every souls game. I like natural illumination, if I can't see I just use a torch like DS2 originally intended. Though the lack of a torch in Bloodborne would make that a bit rougher lol.
I guess you could say our player light is the only ray of hope in the hopeless dark world of bloodborne.... that reminds me I actually like the way the light looks in DS3.... kinda makes our character look ghostly at times.
it's pretty hit or miss right now, sometimes memory leaks, sometimes crashing randomly, sometimes it goes well for a while. then textures get a little fucky. then new builds bring up new issues and fix old ones. So, it's still in a state of flux, but progressing soooo fast. Hoping for a stable build next year sometime, but could be earlier
Basically you and the community all do tweaks specifically to Bloodborne to fix issues that the emulator has. Cant wait for those to be fixed in the emulator so that I can run Bloodborne PC upscaled and everything else native.
ooo me too! I'm still going through my first playthrough of it, and I know I need to do 2 more playthroughs to get the true ending. I'm LOVING it. It's so sick.
10 seconds in I'm waiting for your to disabled it, suddenly youre rambling, in dark souls 1, talking about how floors work. Bruh just turn it off and start from there then ramble, I don't have the attention span for clickbait.
Sony should definitely ban this project for promoting piracy and copyright abuse, also whole development team should be tracked and detained like terrorists they are.
Uh? They are the ones developing the emulator, they aint stealing from anything. The game and what people do with the emulator is none of their bussiness
Seems like a salty playstation fanboy to me. Oh, poor little dude. Does it really hurt you that much when you observe significant development in Bloodborne PC? Well, fans have been requesting Bloodborne PC port for over 8+ years yet Sony kept ignoring those yearnings of fans. And so, after 9 years, fans decided to make it reality themselves. Sony would have earned a lot of money, but where did all of those potential money went? Nowhere except trash. And now, you express hostile towards Bloodborne enthusiast. Why would it even matter to you? Why do you care so much? Instead, you should feel happy that PC gamers are about to experience Bloodborne. And, if you don't love Bloodborne, then why do you even care for it so much, that you are calling developers 'terrorists'?
Another very nerdy, in the weeds type of video that I'm shocked people want to watch, but I must provide! lol. Justice for the crystal on your belt in Demon's Souls. Such a cool way to explain the illumination. Sadly went away with DS1 and was never explained again
Bloodborne 🤤
I wish they would’ve kept the lore reasons for why your character after DeS emits light from their crotch.
I like to imagine Dark Souls’ explanation would be that the Chosen Undead (and the other two protagonists) have like a small ember of fire within them, so they radiate a small amount of light
These are my absolute favorite to see! I'm a user of the DS1 Re-Remaster and I'm personally re-texturing Pokemon Colosseum using Topaz, so this is all right up my alley and I love that you're doing it. Keep it up!
The only other protagonist that has a lore explanation was Sekiro, but that’s because he has night vision. You can make an argument for the Chosen Undead and Tarnished because of embers and grace making them glow.
I really wish to play bloodborne on pc
I am waiting so bad for this one
Thanks you for all your hard work
The first quintuple A game on PC :D
Patients my friend, we're almost there!
props for talking about the "bb done in 2 weeks" narrative. screw that, it sets up really bad expectations for people new to the emulation scene.
its just the "2 more weeks" meme, you got trolololol'd into just talking about it, whether believing it or trying to debunk it.
It may not be ready in 2 weeks, but it will continue to evolve by massive leaps and bounds!
6-8 weeks
@@oShogunOFCNo, there is no way to know when it's ready.
@@DemilOfficial my uncle works at shadps4 and he said it'll be ready in 2 weeks
@@furosukki1301 my mom works at shadps4 and she said it'll be ready in 7 weeks
I really love the content and updates. They're now part of my daily routine.
But please don't push too hard and get proper sleep and rest.
While Elden Ring has a hip lantern for more visibility it also has player illumination and its never turned off.
thanks for your work
bro take a few brakes , don't burn yourself out plz .
The world needs you !
I do think that the player in dark souls having a natural illumination made sense lore wise, you are the fuel to keep the fire alive.
Inner light extinguished
I love your videos and follow them in detail. Such a Great work you're doing.
Thank you fellow hunter for all this much efforts, make sure to keep remembering u and the other people are playing a huge part in this world by emulating this game, bringing dreams to reality. Cannot express my gratitude enough for u!! All the Best!!
Excellent profile picture!
@@kraljevo8 thank you bro 💞
Happy to see you're blowing up big dog!!
A standalone mod disabling the player light in DS2 is really needed. I know, I know, DS2LightEngine has that feature, but because of mod conflicts, I don't always use it, so it would still be great to disable the light emitting from the player without needing DS2 LE.
Lights attached to characters normally make things look much better, since you never run into a situation where stuff is just lit by an ambient light level and looks incredibly flat. Or some Oblivion/Skyrim situation of talking to people who are basically pitch black because of the lack of lighting (not really an issue in soulslikes thought). Throwing in a tiny bit of extra light just keeps things visible up close, and stops stuff looking as flat ('rimlight' effects can also do the same thing without using actual lights too).
I think it depends on the game. The RE2 Remake and the Dead Space remake look much better when you disable the light attached to the player camera imo.
Wooo in depth video! Thank you for sharing this stuff, may seem underrated but is reassuring knowing there are videos like this explaining very niche techical details on modding, info otherwise very difficult to gather without bothering the tools devs
is this guy teaching us the craft of bringing any game to pc and improve it lol i dont understand these things more like i dont want to but still i watch your videos to see the progress. love you
Never had interest in Fromsoft games, but somehow your videos are getting me hooked. Hoping to try the game before 2025!
Time to wake up and join the hunt, brother
brother if you @ me I'll buy the game for you if that's what it stopping you whatever platform you want I got you bro
I appreciate the effort you have been doing with your patches and giving us updates on ChadPS4.
Although, I have to say, the "ready in 2 weeks" is based on another meme, like the "SoonTM" meme, its all good. 😁
In its current state it is already playable and the only thing that needs polishing is that lighting. My respects to those who are working on this.
Yeah but a LOT of polish. Making emulators run well on pc takes a lot of time and optimisation and making textures load proper is a whole ganre of problems. I am expecting this finished in 3 months at least
Keep going man!
I dont get why they had passive illumination from BB onward when there are belt lantern items!
I realised that ive been watching all of your videos for months now, but have never subscribed for some reason. +1 sub
At one point I thought it'd be cool if we saw 1:1 parity by the 10 year anniversary but we're seeing so much progress I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't good to go and public before christmas.
This may have already been asked, but why does shadps4 gets these memory leaks? Is it difficult to fix?
+1. And I'm curious whether there's already a common mod engine for emu bloodborne?
The hip lanturn was actually a cut item in ds3
It's really hard to believe that the BB emulation will be ready in 2 weeks. But still, at this rate, bloodborne emulation will probably be in an amazing state by the end of November or by the end of the year. I'm still expecting to see crazy progress by the end of the month, though.
Im waiting for it badly❤
I always hated having a nightlight follow you around in these games. Ruins the lighting in every scene, and half the time doesnt even let you see!
Ok but how about the Cleric Beast cut shortcut
I'm a cod dev and I'm learning japanese. Hopefully I can be useful on modding fromsoftware one day
waiting for the day of glory
Its my daily routine 🗿
Makes sense i don't have any light in me irl
Tbh, I think Bloodborne is the one game that would actually profit from the darkness, I would be so much more immersed. I didn't watch the video yet, so I don't know if there is a technical reason for this, but I'd play it without the player light. The lantern will finally be an essential item! I really liked it, but it could be more useful.
Edit: I didn't know you made the Ds1 Re-Remaster, I'm actually playing it for my second playthrough currently.
"Videos that didn't age well"
I'm from two weeks into the future
thank you
Great job dear Sir! Watching bloodborne emulation news everyday is like watching the olympics live xD
YESSIRR
14:03 to skip to seeing Player Light disabled
I see you're favouring dynamic shadows a lot but I do want to ask if the DS editor at all allows you to import custom lightbake textures onto the meshes in DS 1 and Bloodborne? I assume the Lightmap UVs are stored in the secondary channel (or third maybe if they use UV 2 for decal or other effects) and I wonder if you could theoretically export the entire map to something like say, unreal engine or marmoset etc, manually setup the lighting or import and convert its settings from the DS editor and bake out new lightmaps for the entire game, at a higher resolution, and replace all the old lightmaps with the new ones.
Honestly considering the static nature of every from game bar Elden Ring, baked lighting will get you the absolute best looking results at a possible lower performance cost (depending on how Froms engine actually loads textures, or how the mods inject new meshes).
End result could still utilize dynamic shadows in chose areas (like those lit by bonfires) or as an effect from spells, but the overall visuals on the lighting could potentially approach something like mirrors edge or dead island 2.
love your videos man
Have you tried using lossless scaling framegen with bloodborne? Since input latency is apparently lowest with the default 30 fps, could 2x framegen give you the "fake" 60 fps smoothness without sacrificing input latency?
yeah I should try that honestly! I know input latency of course would go up a bit, but could be fun to goof around with. Naturally going from 60 to 120 with framegen is preferred as it tamps down on the artifacting, and it's waaay more noticeable from 30 to 60. Gotta play around with it for sure tho!
At the speed it's going, i'm guessing at christmas or new year's we might have 80% of the game working, not fully stable, but working, could i be completely wrong? 100%
Algorithm does it again!
Love your work King
Why don't you have any other files in the sfx directory? I have a bunch outside of common effects.
I know 2 weeks is very unrealistic, but till the end of the year is it possible? just curious truly.
Skip to 13:20 to get what you came for.
I have a question: is it possible to implement all these modifications, to turn off player lighting, to dynamic shadows, into the PS4 version of the game, so that I could play with all this on my PS4 with HEN?
Do you know where I can find the shaders in BB?
I want to implement half-lambert lighting to the character but I'm not familiar with fromsoft games modding
ive always disliked the player being a glowstick in all the souls games
i know that it doesnt show havok at the intro but does From still use Havok for the bloodborne engine? (Bb, DS3, sekiro, ER)
can you start putting links to the mods and builds used?
Quick question, y’all think it will work optimally on the steam deck?
How can we support the emulation team, you have links in the description for yourself but we should really highlight their efforts as well.
oh my bad, in all my previous videos I had a link to shadps4.net and their twitter as well. I don't think they have a patreon or really any way to support them directly. The legends that they are
As good your intentions are, financial support for an unofficial emulator is a target on their back for lawsuits, just look at yuzu, they got struc down with way less
@@DesocupadoXtremo Yuzu was removed because they had links in the official page explaining how to dump the switch's firmware, keys, roms, etc. It's legal to create an emulator because it's just competition.
But it's not legal to reverse engineer code, nor dump it. Emulator exist on the premise that YOU will make your OWN firmware/bios (if needed) and roms made for digital purposes, it's not their "fault" that the emulator can read your "do not dump" rom, if you know what i mean.
@@mykll_art as i said, struk down with way less, the use of a piece of software ins't responsability of its developer, but the law breaches use that anyway, so a financial support for ShadPS4 is a liability for the developers
@@fromsoftserve ok no bad vibes, i was just looking for something in the description and didnt see it
Bloodborne on PC sounds like a gigantic hacking task!
In like a year when we all will be playing/ have played BB at 120 fps or at 4k we will be taking all of this for granted lol it will seem "normal" to play BB on PC forgetting al this insane hype that just getting the game to work is making.
Realistically speaking. How long will it until Bloodborne is playable on something like the rx 6700 and 150-200$ CPU?
How does the light look with Call Beyond with this level of brightness?
Only question I have is that how are chalice dungeons going to work with emulator?
As a default, in the same way they work in PS4 offline.
But I don't doubt mods will come out to give you more options
Only question I have, how are chalice dungeons going to work with emulator?
Same as they do offline, they arent generated by other players the keys are just like params that control generation
DS1 had the skull lantern instead
Hello man can you make a optimization mod for elden ring i think the game need to have a better draw distanc and render distanc
I wish I could disable the player light in every souls game. I like natural illumination, if I can't see I just use a torch like DS2 originally intended.
Though the lack of a torch in Bloodborne would make that a bit rougher lol.
there are torches in bloodborne do not fret
there’s the torch, hunter’s torch and also lantern
can you please disable the ememy torch light also? It's really annoying and horrible
You're really just too powerful.
I’m down bad for bloodborne
I guess you could say our player light is the only ray of hope in the hopeless dark world of bloodborne.... that reminds me I actually like the way the light looks in DS3.... kinda makes our character look ghostly at times.
bro i am begging you if you finish this plese make it playable for intel iris xe
not sure i like how modders are putting all the emulator stuff on nexus, shouldn't it be on the actual forums site for the emulator?
Why? It's open source. What's the problem it causes?
what pc i need to play this ??
How playable is the game at the moment? I mean being able to beat it
it's pretty hit or miss right now, sometimes memory leaks, sometimes crashing randomly, sometimes it goes well for a while. then textures get a little fucky. then new builds bring up new issues and fix old ones. So, it's still in a state of flux, but progressing soooo fast. Hoping for a stable build next year sometime, but could be earlier
@@fromsoftserve the past month has been fantastic really, thanks
Where legit website to download this game ?
Basically you and the community all do tweaks specifically to Bloodborne to fix issues that the emulator has. Cant wait for those to be fixed in the emulator so that I can run Bloodborne PC upscaled and everything else native.
Subbed. Would love to see you try some AC6 kookery.
ooo me too! I'm still going through my first playthrough of it, and I know I need to do 2 more playthroughs to get the true ending. I'm LOVING it. It's so sick.
what u mean I wont be able to play fully playable BB in two weeks time?!
what IF tho 🤡
why don't you link the build you're using smh
Its better the bloodborne world gotta be dark not light the light ruins it
"Dark" souls. Right?
Sony definitely gonna put a stop to this and I'm gonna hate every second
On what grounds?
@@techbro_4309 copyright
The 2 weeks thing is a joke.
man why did you block me on twitter? we never even interacted with eachother
Cross posting the drama here hints at reasons on your end
@@blarghblargh what?
were else would i comment about this with him?
He possibly uses a blockbot, that would be disappointing.
When this going to be AMD compatible? 😂
10 seconds in I'm waiting for your to disabled it, suddenly youre rambling, in dark souls 1, talking about how floors work. Bruh just turn it off and start from there then ramble, I don't have the attention span for clickbait.
Sony should definitely ban this project for promoting piracy and copyright abuse, also whole development team should be tracked and detained like terrorists they are.
sony executives are starving bc of all the theft by PC gamers not buying bloodborne but emulating it
Uh? They are the ones developing the emulator, they aint stealing from anything. The game and what people do with the emulator is none of their bussiness
Seems like a salty playstation fanboy to me. Oh, poor little dude. Does it really hurt you that much when you observe significant development in Bloodborne PC? Well, fans have been requesting Bloodborne PC port for over 8+ years yet Sony kept ignoring those yearnings of fans. And so, after 9 years, fans decided to make it reality themselves. Sony would have earned a lot of money, but where did all of those potential money went? Nowhere except trash. And now, you express hostile towards Bloodborne enthusiast. Why would it even matter to you? Why do you care so much? Instead, you should feel happy that PC gamers are
about to experience Bloodborne. And, if you don't love Bloodborne, then why do you even care for it so much, that you are calling developers 'terrorists'?
Next you're gonna say I cannot disassembly or reverse engineer my PS4 at home 😂. Some people have no idea what buying something is.
Low quality bait but somehow these guys are still falling for it.
Man who cares about the other games they're all on PC except BB lmao just rename it to a bloodborne emulator because it'd be funny
What other Japan Studio games are on PC? Gravity Daze? Shadow of Colossus? Knack? Please show us.
@@vincentlaw82 Those are bad who cares
Not to rush you but how much percentage has been done for the game to be completed and fully playable ? God bless you for the work 🫡