jamxo

First day of Operation Market Garden; US airborne secure drop zones and eliminate enemy flak units...
(From Mission 2 of the Road to Nijmegen campaign, using plenty of mods and ReShade which really elevates my enjoyment of this timeless classic of a game. So many great little details amongst the chaos.)

Well I work as a photographer in real life so glad to hear some of that eye for composition carries across haha!
I'm using Reshade 4.8.2. (no explicit reason why that exact version, think it was just the last one I installed at a point where I ended up happy with the settings.)
These are are the shaders/filters I have set up

The key ones are:
- UI mask applies this just to the game image, not the UI strip at the bottom
- Cinetools LUT has awesome presets and control over the colours, can really tweak your ideal realistic or war movie look
- Sharpen really gives the textures a pop and makes things look more detailed. 
- Border and DOF is set to hotkeys so can easily toggle on/off as I'm playing if I want to take a screen shot. 
Have attached my preset settings file below although not entirely sure if that helps!
Jam-CM-Day.ini

I would say it is 95% thanks to the incredible work of the modders, like you can see on Aris's AA halftrack (just absurd detail really) or Lucky Strikes' borderline photorealistic foliage - my ReShade settings just give it that extra pop. 
Mainly some sharpening bring out the detail in the textures, bit of extra AA to smooth out the picture, tweaking the tones and most importantly in my opinion the colours, and then finishing things off with some grain/depth of field when taking screenshots. 
The only problem is it gets so addictive flying around looking for little vignettes or cool details its slower than ever to play! 

First day of Operation Market Garden; US airborne secure drop zones and eliminate enemy flak units...
(From Mission 2 of the Road to Nijmegen campaign, using plenty of mods and ReShade which really elevates my enjoyment of this timeless classic of a game. So many great little details amongst the chaos.)

First day of Operation Market Garden; US airborne secure drop zones and eliminate enemy flak units...
(From Mission 2 of the Road to Nijmegen campaign, using plenty of mods and ReShade which really elevates my enjoyment of this timeless classic of a game. So many great little details amongst the chaos.)

Nice job jamxo, do love a bit of ReShade goodness. Thanks for sharing.

First day of Operation Market Garden; US airborne secure drop zones and eliminate enemy flak units...
(From Mission 2 of the Road to Nijmegen campaign, using plenty of mods and ReShade which really elevates my enjoyment of this timeless classic of a game. So many great little details amongst the chaos.)

First day of Operation Market Garden; US airborne secure drop zones and eliminate enemy flak units...
(From Mission 2 of the Road to Nijmegen campaign, using plenty of mods and ReShade which really elevates my enjoyment of this timeless classic of a game. So many great little details amongst the chaos.)

First day of Operation Market Garden; US airborne secure drop zones and eliminate enemy flak units...
(From Mission 2 of the Road to Nijmegen campaign, using plenty of mods and ReShade which really elevates my enjoyment of this timeless classic of a game. So many great little details amongst the chaos.)

Two man UK sniper team equipped with an AT launcher each, set to hide in an isolated farm far to my left flank. After taking out both tanks they effortlessly picked off the dazed crew trying to crawl away. I think someone has earned a medal in this particular engagement...

Hello folks,
I was messing around in an image program earlier whilst editing some screenshots and decided to have a very quick go at a minimalistic splash/menu screen using a map of the Normandy invasions. Thought I'd share on the off chance anyone likes the look of it. There are two options:
 
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And a dropbox link to download: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/thquh9eho9moww8/AACz2okbQ1BxvHbfyBEPB1KCa?dl=0

Really enjoying CMSF2, two missions into the Highland Games campaign. After playing CMBN for the last few months fighting and manoeuvring in the desert feels very fast paced and exciting, not to mention how great it feels taking out a tank from across a huge map with a Javelin launcher..

Partisans patrolling...

Partisans patrolling...

Partisans patrolling...

Partisans patrolling...

Partisans patrolling...

Partisans patrolling...

@Erwin Thanks!
I guess maybe I am the good looking front man to the band and often do solo albums and have my own tour bus and groupies, but please a big salute to the great folks working with me or giving me some guidance. @mjkerner @Juju @JM Stuff @jamxo @Broadsword56 @JonS
AND EVERYBODY OUT THERE IN FORUM LAND!
YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE? 
MAYBE WRITE A SMALL SCENARIO FOR THE MOD?
PM ME!

Reshade is basically a lightweight graphics program you can install to run over a game (almost like Steam Overlay or Fraps) which can change/improve the visuals by adding various graphics filters/post processing effects. 
 
It’s relatively simple to install and combined with some of the amazing mods out there can really help to improve Combat Missions visuals quite a bit. My own preset improves the anti aliasing, sharpness, contrast and tones and most importantly for my enjoyment tweaks the colours to make things look a bit more gritty.
There’s a good instruction PDF here if you scroll down the thread 
or on YouTube some instructions: 
 

Two man UK sniper team equipped with an AT launcher each, set to hide in an isolated farm far to my left flank. After taking out both tanks they effortlessly picked off the dazed crew trying to crawl away. I think someone has earned a medal in this particular engagement...

Really enjoying CMSF2, two missions into the Highland Games campaign. After playing CMBN for the last few months fighting and manoeuvring in the desert feels very fast paced and exciting, not to mention how great it feels taking out a tank from across a huge map with a Javelin launcher..

Two man UK sniper team equipped with an AT launcher each, set to hide in an isolated farm far to my left flank. After taking out both tanks they effortlessly picked off the dazed crew trying to crawl away. I think someone has earned a medal in this particular engagement...

Two man UK sniper team equipped with an AT launcher each, set to hide in an isolated farm far to my left flank. After taking out both tanks they effortlessly picked off the dazed crew trying to crawl away. I think someone has earned a medal in this particular engagement...

Two man UK sniper team equipped with an AT launcher each, set to hide in an isolated farm far to my left flank. After taking out both tanks they effortlessly picked off the dazed crew trying to crawl away. I think someone has earned a medal in this particular engagement...