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Current list of features and versions

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Object	Feature	CS	ENB	CS VR	ENB VR
Grass	Grass Collisions	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Grass Lighting	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Water	Water Parallax	Yes	Yes	Beta	No
	Water Blending	Yes	Yes	Beta
	Water caustic	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Screen Space Reflections	Yes	Yes	Beta	No
Lights	Particle Lights	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Light Limit Fix	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Indirect Lighting / SSGI	Beta	Yes	Beta
	Tree LoD Lighting	Yes	No	Beta	No
Shadows	Normalmap Shadows	No	Yes	No	Yes
	Screen-Space Shadows	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Distant Shadows	Yes	Yes		Yes
	Ambient Occlusion	Beta	Yes	Beta	Yes
Rain	Wet Surfaces	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Puddles	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Dynamic rain drops	WIP	No	WIP	No
Sky	Sun Rays	Beta	Yes	Beta	Yes
	Sun Glare	No	Yes		Yes
	Volumetric Rays	Beta	Yes	Beta	Yes
	Procedural Sun	WIP	Yes		Yes
	Cloud Shadows	Beta	Yes	Beta	Yes
	Skylighting	No	Yes	Beta
Terrain	Terrain Parallax	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Terrain Blending	Beta	Yes	Beta	No
Actors	Skin Specular	WIP	Yes		Yes
	Subsurface Scattering	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Objects	Object Parallax	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Physically Based Rendering	Beta	No	Beta	No
	Dynamic Cubemaps	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Screen effects	Depth of Field	No	Yes	n.a.	n.a.
	Bloom	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	HDR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Adaptation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Performance	Upscaling Technologies	Beta	No*	WIP	No*
	Framegen (DLSS)	Beta	No	No	No
	Variable rate shading /FFR	WIP	No	WIP	No

* can be achieved via 3rd party mod

A graph of potential future features, no gaurantee:

graph LR;
    Def[Deferred]
    Post[Postprocessing]
    TerraBlend[Terrain Blending]
    SSS[Subsurface Scattering]
    SSIL[SSAO/IL]
    Skylighting
    TOD[TOD/Weather]
    VHDR[VHDR Revamp]
    HFog[Simple Height Fog]
    PhySky[Physical Sky]
    MiscWeather[Misc. Weather Elements]
    Vol[Volumetrics Fog/Clouds]
    PBR
    MB[Motion Blur]
    Water[Better Water]
    Sparkly[Sparkly Snow]
    Snow[Better Snow]
    RT[Full Ray Tracing]
    DOF[Depth of Field]
    Bloom[Better Bloom]
    WP[Water Parallax]
    SSR[Better SSR]
    
    SSS-->Snow
    Sparkly-->Snow
    Def-->SSS;
    Def-->SSIL-->Skylighting
    Def-->Water
    Def-->SSR
    Def-->TerraBlend
    PBR-->Sparkly
    PBR-->Water
    TOD-->PhySky
    TOD-->MiscWeather
    TOD-->HFog
    TOD-->Vol
    Post-->MB
    Post-->DOF
    Post-->VHDR-->Bloom
    Post-->TOD
    WP-->Water

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Testing

A/B Testing

For those who want to compare visuals with different settings, there is a mode to automatically switch between two modes on an interval.

1. Set up A environment by selecting "Save Settings". This is your default settings under CommunityShadersUSER.json and will display as User Mode.
2. Change settings for the B environment for whatever features you want. This will display as Test Mode.
3. Under the Advanced menu, find the slider for Test Interval.

4. Set the interval to any non-zero value. This is the number of seconds to stay in any mode before switching. This will create a new config file, CommunityShadersTEST.json. In the desktop window, you should see a countdown in the top left. You can also monitor the settings changed in 2 to confirm they are changing back and forth.

5. To exit the A/B test, set Test Interval to 0. You will still have your settings from step 2.
6. To restore your default settings, select "Load Settings".

Dynamic Cubemaps

There is a special test mode that can be activated to turn basically any cubemap surface into a maximum reflective surface. Examples are potions or wine bottles.

1. Under Advanced -> Shader Defines, enter TESTCUBEMAP.
2. Clear Disk Cache, if disk cache enabled.
3. Clear Shader Cache.
4. Examine an object and the environment should be reflected in the item.