As part of my developing brief I am considering making exp2 completely 3D. This would not be a meaningless exercise as my intent is to further comment on how peoples interactions are influenced by architecture. I want the viewer to be conscious that what I am commenting on directly relates to them. Using a 3D shader within Crysis to emulate a 3D environment will hopefully allow me separate certain elements from others and highlight element that are closer than others.
With help from Russel I have been able to successfully install Xzero's zStereoscopic 3D (Red & Cyan) Shader and I've quickly outlined how I did this below:
1. Download the Shader: First you need to download the type of Stereoscopic Shader you wish to use. You have a choice between Red/Cyan, Amber/Blue, and Green/Magenta; which one you choose really depends on which type of 3D glasses you have laying around the house, check out the
wikipedia page here. Like I said I used the Red/Cyan shader which I've reuploaded unzipped to filefront as the original .pak file.
You can also download it and the other shaders from Xzero's original upload which I've provided direct links to below:
2. After downloading your desired shader you need to get the .pak file (which you will need to unzip if you downloaded Xzero's oringinal upload) and place it in your Game directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis Wars\Game).
3. Once the ZStereoscopic3D.pak shader is in the Game Folder you need to load up your level in the sandbox editor and create a Flow Graph by clicking View > Open View Panel > Flow Graph. Once the Flow Graph Editor is open click File > New
4. Then create the following two nodes by right clicking on the gray space
a) Misc > Start
b) Image > FilterGrain
5. Change the FilterGrain settings to Enabled and set an Amount to 13 (although Xzero suggests that anything between 5 & 10 works well). Once you have done this create the following Flow Graph:
6. Your done! All you need to do now is get into the game and check it out, don't forget to put on your glasses! I'll try to upload a video in the next few days but here are some still captures for now:
