The Zone 1.0 - A Reshade for Anomaly 1.5  

A simple, yet effective, Reshade preset to improve the image quality of the game without overdoing it and at a low performance cost.

Hello fellow S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S.,

I hope you are all staying safe in these turbulent times! I tried to use my free time to do something somewhat productive and present you my Reshade Preset for Anomaly. At first I just wanted to play around in Reshade to improve some aspects of the game, because I planned to start a new playthrough, but I kinda like what I came up with and thought I would share this one with you guys.

More infos and images bellow.

• You can see the improved contrast in action here. The soft Bloom and Ambient Light shader enhance Anomaly's already great lighting, but shadows and interiors appear dark in contrast. It is like being indoors during summer and the curtains are drawn close - your room is dark, but you can see how bright it is outdoors. Somewhat like on the next image below or the first image below the headline.

• Interiors should appear darker when there is no light source to illuminate the surroundings, but it should never be too dark during day time.

• Duty HQ interior might appear somewhat dark inside, but it is also like this in vanilla Anomaly and it kind of reminds me of Metro 2033.

• 100 Rads Bar is super cozy now.

Comparison between different weather conditions

1. Install the latest version of Reshade // Only DX10 and DX11 compatible
2. Install all shaders (make sure every box in every window is ticked). You won't really need them, but they are only 30mb and I did not want to make this even more complicated.
3. Download the .zip containing my preset
4. Unzip "theZONE.ini" and move it into the bin folder inside your Anomaly folder
5. Start the game, open the Reshade menu ("Home" key on US/ UK keyboards and "Pos1" key on german keyboards) and at the top select my preset.
6. Done

These are the effects that should be activated.

I really hope this works out of the box for everyone.