Official Guide How to use le ENB

[Maytree]

Enb is a graphical pre-set for games and makes the world around you realistic and beautiful and might be good for posing aswell in gmod and it can be a FPS killer depending on your graphics card. You can even tweak your graphics using Nvidia Inspector or Nvidia control panel but some of the features are forcefully disabled and Gmod is one of them. I'll give you a couple of guides and screenshots for both separate users.

Spoiler: ENB Setup

Use Boris's ENB for source. http://enbdev.com/mod_hl2_v0075.htm
Place the d3d9 file in your Half Life 2/bin directory.
And place the enbseries.ini file in the root Half LIfe 2 directory *where the executable is* and you are good to go.

Spoiler: Enbseries.ini Option Setup

[PROXY]
EnableProxyLibrary=0
InitProxyFunctions=1
ProxyLibrary=

[GLOBAL]
UseEffect=1
AlternativeDepth=1
AllowAntialias=1
BugFixMode=0
SkipShaderOptimization=0
QuadVertexBuffer=1
EnableShaders_3_0=1
UseMRTRendering=0
AdditionalConfigFile=enbseries2.ini

[EFFECT]
EnableBloom=0 //1
EnableOcclusion=1
EnableReflection=1
EnableMotionBlur=0 //unecessary. toggle in game menu if desired
EnableWater=1
EnableShadow=1
DepthBias=0 // keep off. can create transparent-like object occlusions
EnableDepthOfField=1

[INPUT]
KeyUseEffect=123
KeyBloom=120
KeyOcclusion=121
KeyReflection=122
KeyCombination=16
KeyScreenshot=44
KeyShadow=119
KeyWater=118
KeyShowFPS=106

[REFLECTION]
ReflectionPower=15
ChromePower=10
UseCurrentFrameReflection=0
ReflectionQuality=0
ReflectionSourceSpecular=50
ReflectionSourceTFactor=50
UseAdditiveReflection=0
ReflectionDepthBias=0
UseLowResReflection=0
ReflectionSinglePass=1
UseEnvBump=1
EnvBumpAmount=100
EnvBumpOffset=100
ReflectionFlip=0

[BLOOM]
BloomPowerDay=0 //20
BloomFadeTime=0 //2000
BloomConstantDay=0
BloomQuality=0
BloomScreenLevelDay=60
BloomCurveDay=5
BloomPowerNight=5
BloomConstantNight=0
BloomCurveNight=3
BloomScreenLevelNight=20
BloomAdaptationScreenLevel=100
BloomAdaptationMultiplier=100 //20
BloomAllowOversaturation=1
BloomMaxLimit=30

[SSAO]
UseIndirectLighting=0 //keep off, looks bad in source!
SamplingQuality=0
SamplingRange=0.1
FadeFogRangeDay=3.0
FadeFogRangeNight=4.0
SizeScale=0.2
SourceTexturesScale=0.3 //0.3
AOAmount=0.2 // 0.2
ILAmount=0.4 //0.4
UseFilter=1
FilterQuality=0
OcclusionQuality=2 // 0 causes charchoal smear in source
DarkeningLevel= 10 //20 anything higher than 20 causes staticy noise
BrighteningLevel=1
IlluminationLevel=0 //10
AdditiveIlluminationLevel=0
UseAmbientOcclusion=1
FadeDistance=1000
//UseForAlphaTest=1
//UseForAlphaBlend=1
UseForAlphaTest=1
UseForAlphaBlend=1

[COLORCORRECTION]
DarkeningAmountDay=-10 //brighter days
ScreenLevelDay=60
ScreenLevelNight=20
DarkeningAmountNight=5 //slightly darker nights
GammaCurveDay=-8 //-8 //neg->increase pale brightness, pos->opposite
GammaCurveNight=-4 //-5
ColorSaturationDay=1 //0 //neg-> greyish, pos->colorful
ColorSaturationNight=1 //0
UsePaletteTexture=0

[WATER]
UseWaterDeep=1
WaterDeepness=20
WaterQuality=0

[SHADOW]
ShadowFadeStart=40
ShadowFadeEnd=80
ShadowAmountDay=60
ShadowAmountNight=30
ShadowScreenLevelDay=60
ShadowScreenLevelNight=20
ShadowQuality=0
UseShadowFilter=0
FilterQuality=2
ShadowBlurRange=30

[ENGINE]
ForceAnisotropicFiltering=16
MaxAnisotropy=16
ForceDisplayRefreshRate=144
DisplayRefreshRateHz=144

[MOTIONBLUR]
MotionBlurQuality=0
MotionBlurVelocity=0.5
MotionBlurRotation=1.0

[PERPIXELLIGHTING]
SpecularColorMin=0 //0
SpecularColorMax=100
SpecularColorMultiplier=100
SpecularGlossinessMin=0 //0
SpecularGlossinessMax=100
SpecularGlossinessMultiplier=100


[DEPTHOFFIELD]
FadeTime=.3 //0.1
DOFQuality=0
DOFNumberOfPasses=5 //default 2, I like 5 as it's optimal
DOFFocusRange=20 //20 is very tasteful, yet noticeable. almost natural
DOFBlurinessRange=1 //how narrow of FOV blur, 1 is widest

Spoiler: ENB Screenshots

Spoiler: Nvidia Inspector Options *Requires Nvidia 1060 or Higher*

Yes it's too small, try to compare the words while doing it.

 

[Anleus]

Funny seeing this in source, I always use it in Skyrim :scream:

 

[Ond]

only makes it look worse imo

 

[jb]

only makes it look worse imo

yeah stop trying to make gmod look good

just accept the fact that it has shit graphics

 

[Ond]

yeah stop trying to make gmod look good

just accept the fact that it has shit graphics

ENBs don't enhance the graphics of the game, only alters the post-processing to disguise or enhance visuals/colours

 

[jb]

ENBs don't enhance the graphics of the game, only alters the post-processing to disguise or enhance visuals/colours

that's what I mean

i use enbs to make my game look like less shit because most enbs make things too bright or too dark to notice shitty textures at least in my experience

so if you have xxxsuperlightbrightxxxenb 2.0 then now your shitty vanilla copy of skyrim looks battlefield 69

but with gmod the engine is too weak to handle anything without external help

thats why with skyrim, fnv, ect. there are tools and mods that help your game run without fucking itself in the ass