https://www.google.com/maps/place/Northwest+Branch+Anacostia+River/@38.9536533,-76.970217,21z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7c59686077f55:0xa676a2b50f4c32d6!8m2!3d39.0459332!4d-77.0072719
The bridge connecting Chillum Road to the Northwest Branch trail, crossing the Northwest Branch creek and paralleling the Green Line Metro tracks 100 meters southwest of the West Hyattsville metro station was washed out at some point in the recent past.
Does anyone know if the other creek bridges are washed out, such as
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Northwest+Branch+Anacostia+River/@38.9570802,-76.9745782,20z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7c59686077f55:0xa676a2b50f4c32d6!8m2!3d39.0459332!4d-77.0072719
or
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Northwest+Branch+Anacostia+River/@38.9592327,-76.9734678,21z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7c59686077f55:0xa676a2b50f4c32d6!8m2!3d39.0459332!4d-77.0072719
https://imgur.com/a/MQslfi9
And with perfect timing she landed with a sickening crunch across the dashboard of his convertible as she pulled the pin of her grenade.
In case you don't know, Reshade is a generic post-processing effects injector for games. So far, it only supported flat games. A couple of days ago, I submitted a proof of concept PR to add basic VR support. This PR has now been merged and improved upon by Reshade's author. There is no official new release with this addition, yet, but you can compile it from source or use the unofficial build I'm providing below.
Why should you care? Because there are two basic post-processing effects that can improve the visuals of many VR games:
- a sharpening filter to fix the slightly blurry look that many modern games produce - this can easily have a more significant impact than a slight supersampling setting, at drastically lower GPU cost
- color adjustments (brightness/contrast/saturation) which can be used to improve the washed out look that some games have on LCD panels like the Index
It is hard to describe the massive difference that these two filters can have in a VR headset. That's why I'd like to invite you to try it out for yourself. I've prepared an (unofficial) Reshade build with VR support and with a basic Reshade preset that applies the afore-mentioned filters. It's contained in a ZIP archive that you just need to extract to the install directory of your game of choice, and you should be ready to go. You can download it here: https://github.com/fholger/reshade/releases/tag/openvr_alpha2
There are some more detailed instructions in a README in the archive. The preset should make the image a little sharper, and furthermore it very slightly reduces brightness, very slightly increases contrast and slightly increases color saturation.
I'm not an expert on colors, I just chose some values as defaults that look good to me in most of the games I tried. But Reshade allows you to freely adjust the effect parameters, so feel free to mess around with those to find your own perfect settings :)
If you are familiar with Reshade, you can of course also use or create your own custom preset. However, the VR support does not yet expose depth textures, so any effects relying on those (like Ambient Occlusion, SMAA etc.) will not work.
Note: although it works with a lot of games, it doesn't work with every game, unfortunately. A bit of trial and error is involved. If it doesn't work, you can easily remove Reshade again by just deleting the extracted files from your game folder. It
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