MagnaScope 0.12.0

[TheShinyHaxorus]

MagnaScope 0.12.0 makes the scopes work alongside DLSS / FSR frame-generation upscalers that present through D3D12 (the UpscalingFrameGen_Hax and jarari Upscaling plugins), and reworks the thermal actor mask so it no longer upsets ENB.

Requirements

• Fallout 4 1.10.163 (the NG/AE runtimes load safely; the thermal heat mask and the upscaler capture are OG-only in this release).
• F4SE.
• F4SE Menu Framework 3 (settings menu, optics-key binding).

Install

Install the archive with your mod manager. The folder layout is already F4SE/ and Shaders/ at the root. Ready-made automatic-STS profiles for the weapons listed below are under F4SE/Plugins/MagnaScope/Auto; profiles for other See Through Scopes weapons are generated in game the first time you aim.

What changed

Upscaler compatibility (DLSS / FSR frame generation)

Under a D3D12 present override the D3D11 back buffer only ever holds the UI over black, so every scope came out black. MagnaScope now takes its scene from the frame buffer at the moment the upscaler consumes it, stretches the dynamic-resolution subrect to full frame, and writes lens alpha so the upscaler's UI composite shows the magnified image opaque. Plain magnification, night vision and thermal all work again with the upscaler active, with and without ENB.

Thermal mask rework

Actors are marked in the scene's stencil buffer during their own draw and resolved into the heat mask once per frame. Nothing is re-drawn mid-scene any more. This removes the full-screen stretched projection that the previous design triggered in ENB under dynamic resolution, and occlusion now comes from the hardware depth test, so silhouettes no longer show through cover in the way 0.11.0 did.

Known issues

• With a DLSS or FSR preset below DLAA / Native AA, the magnified image is built from the render-resolution frame, so it is visibly softer and more pixelated than at native. The reconstructed 4K image lives only on the D3D12 side and cannot be reached from MagnaScope; only the upscaler could hand it back. The Lanczos magnification filter and the image denoise setting soften it.
• Thermal silhouettes with ENB enabled at a preset below DLAA are still being verified in this build; if actors do not highlight there, the log contains stencil histogram lines that show why.
• Thermal brightness is tuned for the old blob mask and currently reads bright; the body-heat factor will come down in a later release.
• Frame-generated (interpolated) frames show the lens without the interpolation warp, since it lives on the UI layer. This is inherent to compositing the scope over the D3D12 output.

Included profiles

Combined Arms Mk12 (both variants), SCAR-H, AS Val, StG 44, Dragunov (both variants), M4A1 (with Elcan and Vortex reticles), M590, Kar98k (MW2019), Model 680, Panzer (MW Grau), and the vanilla scope profile.

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This discussion was created from the release MagnaScope 0.12.0.

[TheShinyHaxorus]

Previous release and its discussion, for context on what changed since: #2 (MagnaScope 0.11.0).

[TheShinyHaxorus]

MagnaScope 0.12.1 supersedes this release: https://github.com/DCCStudios/MagnaScopes/releases/tag/v0.12.1

It fixes compatibility with Upscaling Custom (https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/108772): reticles back inside the lens, thermal silhouettes aligned under ENB with dynamic resolution, and the per-frame jitter no longer shows in the magnified image. Known issue carried over: HUD elements do not show inside the lens while an upscaler presents through D3D12. Release discussion: #5