ReShade - Metal Gear Solid V Fork

This is the fork of ReShade which was used to write the Metal Gear Solid V - Graphics Study article.

The code is branched from the original ReShade 0.10.0 version which has a hooking mechanism compatible with the game. It was extended with more hooks and some logic to capture and dump render targets, extract shader bytecode, toggle some draw calls... It's all very rough around the edges, not much time spent on cleaning it up but here it is if you want to play with it.

Installation and Prerequisites

• Recommended MGS V version is 1.10. Newer game versions have not been tested.
• Setup your game to render in 1280x720 in windowed mode and exit the game
• Download the release package (dist folder in the repository or GitHub release) and extract it into your game folder which should contain the game exe mgsvtpp.exe.
  You will end up with dxgi.dll, Sweet.fx and SweetFX next to your original mgsvtpp.exe
• Run the game, you should see ReShade statistics displayed in the corner of the window meaning the hooks are in place.

Features

• Display G-Buffer or other render targets
  Iterate over the render target list by pressing F12 several times.
• Dump intermediate content of render targets mid-rendering
  Press PrintScreen, a new folder will appear next to mgsvtpp.exe containing PNG dumps.
  See d3d11.cpp for more granular control of the dump frequency (MetaCL::OnDraw() and POOL_720P_COUNT)
• Dump shader source code
  Set to true the variables you wish inside d3d11.cpp (like DumpShaderPS) and recompile the DLL. The game will now output DXBC raw data in a folder next to mgsvtpp.exe, containing clear text HLSL sources.
• Toggle Ishmael's bandage
  Press F9.

Build

Simply open ReShade.sln with Visual Studio 2015 and compile the Reshade project for the configuration Release - x64.
To make things simple I included all the required dependencies like boost compiled for Win64 so you don't have to fetch and build anything else yourself.
The compiled ReShade library can be found inside bin\x64\Release\ReShade64.dll, just rename it to dxgi.dll and copy it to your game folder.

Technical Notes

You can specify another resolution than 1280x720, see in d3d11.cpp the defines BACK_BUFFER_WIDTH and BACK_BUFFER_HEIGHT. Ideally these values should be deduced automatically from the swap chain configuration but the game resizes several time its swap-chain, the last resize happening post render target creations making it harder to know which buffer to track beforehand. I didn't get around to automate this part.

The game performs all its rendering using D3D11 command lists in deferred contexts, complicating the tracking of states. For example OMGetRenderTargets() won't return the list of render targets currently bound so it requires separate tracking for this.

License

All the source code is licensed under the conditions of the BSD 3-clause license.