C13 AEGIS 1.44 PUBLIC RELEASE (Patreon)

Well, well, well. We're here ladies and gentlemen, public 1.44! The best Assetto Corsa Post processing filter is now free. There has been a myriad of changes since 1.32, but let's focus on the main ones.

• New tonemapping colorspace transform
  ACES was introducing quite a bit of hue shift beyond the intended scope, so i created a custom transform that really focuses mainly on the hue shift of high brightness reds.
• New saturation<>lbrightness pass in the tonemapping
  Tonemapping has a secondary pass, that uses a HSV transform to use brightness as input to calculate a saturation delta for a given luminance. This system attempts to mimic the human eye's response to light stimuli, whereby certain receptor cells respond better in lowlight condition, leading to better black and white vision, and the reduction of perceived saturation.
• Improved saturation control
  Other changes neccesitated a reconfiguration of the saturation modulation subsystem. With more focus on AE, saturation is now more stable and appropriate for the weather conditions than ever.
• Improved AE weighing for night time.
  Nighttime AE is a difficult beast to get right. AC lights have a tendency to blow out bright elements, but at the same time nights in AC with Pure can be oppressively dark. Tweaks have been made, and additional weights introduced to leverage Yebis AE to counteract overbright in mild dark contitions, with additional brightness gained for very VERY dark scenarions. Coupled with a tweak to CSP lights at Pure level, night time driving should now be much easier. Still very dark, but not in an unusable sort of way.

There are many more tweaks, and it all ends up to the best visual experience you can have today in Assetto Corsa.

As always, thank you for the support!