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How To Get Mega Graphical Improvement By Using Reshade

By Baselin

Are you tired of the bland, lame, dull, monotous, vague, spiritless and boring Universe Sandbox graphic?

In this guide, you will learn the secrets on how to improve your US2 massively with the power of Reshade!
Plus get my preset shared for you!

Last Updated: 14 April 2022

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Secrets, Workshop

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

What is Reshade?

How to use Reshade in Sandbox

Reshade Presets

Cons

Gallery

Comments

Introduction

So you want a beautiful, eye watering and vibrant Universe Sandbox Gameplay,
Fear Not!
By using Reshade UWP, you can manipulate graphics game to suite your taste!

What is Reshade?

ReShade is a generic post-processing injector for games and video software

Realistic, cinematic and funky, You name it!
With Reshade, You can manipulate your game visual whatever you want it to be
(as long you have the shader resources to help you)

break the chains of having sux graphics!

How to use Reshade in Sandbox

Installing Reshade in Universe Sandbox is EZ
All you need to do is to follow the Instruction Below:

Step 1:
Go to Official Reshade Website[reshade.me] and click the "Download" button to download the software
Step 2:
Run the installer, You will be asked to choose an app, Choose Universe Sandbox
At the next page you will be asked on what rendering api do Universe Sandbox use,
Click "Microsoft Direct 10/11/12"
Step 3:
When asked what effect pakages you want to install, Choose all EXCEPT:
-Depth3D
-OtisFX
-FGFX
-Daodan
-RSRetroArch
-CorgiFX
-WarpFX
-CobraFX
-VRToolkit
Those effects are simply not needed for my preset, but you can try it yourself if you want
(Note: The more effect you install, the more options you have leaving you confused and overwhelmed, especially if the effect was not to be utilized but only exist as a liability)
and then simply wait and click "FInish" when done
Step 4:

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I mean open your Universe Sandbox and it shall load the effect package immediately,
Step 5:
Go to Universe Sandbox 2 Keybind Settings to change your "Set view to largest object" from the key "Home" to something else (My Key is "Shift+Home")
This must be done because "Home" key are used to access in-game Reshade settings

Plus go to the settings section and set "Page Down" for Previous Preset Key and "Page Up" for Next Preset Key to switch between presets easily
Step 6:
Now there will be a tutorial that you can choose to learn on in-game Reshade settings,
After learning from the tutorial, You can try mess with the effects loaded to make your own presets!

Reshade Presets

We're getting to the exciting part, So you want to waste no time and want a Preset ready to be used immediately?
Worry Not!
I have made 12 Preset + Default[drive.google.com] for you to try and love!

My current preset contents:
-Default Series {Default and Enhanced Default)
-Realistic Series (HD and HDR)
-Cinematic Series (Now creatively renamed to: Blue 10s, Prime Clear, Retro Matte, Warm Opera)
-Telescope Series (Ground and Ground Brightened)
-Analog Series (Old CRT, Tape Source and Recorded)

+for the cinematic series, there will borders covering the UI, you can deactivate it from the In-game Reshade Settings, this is done because Cinematic Retro Series is not UI friendly (Check Cons Section to learn more)
+also you can remove lens flare and border and edit the preset further by going to the in-game preset settings (Home Key)

Here's a short preview of my Preset:

view of Venus in my 2217 simulation with multiple presets

view of Mars in my 2217 simulation with multiple presets

Preset Links:

Link to my Preset Package:
Baselin's Reshade Preset[drive.google.com]

Bonus: Mccarden's UniverseFascination Preset:
Universe Fascination Discussion

The Downloaded Zip File must be extracted and it's content (.ini file type) must be moved to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Universe Sandbox 2" or where your Reshade Preset Folder are

Cons

For every Pros there will be Cons, from tiny to massive,
In this case, a heavy Preset (contains a lot of effects on) can reduce your framerate and make you sad :(
And some preset like the Cinematic Series are meant to be used to preview simulations because it is not GUI friendly as Reshade post-processing includes everything present in the screen

certified Mercury temperature moments

Gallery

Terraformed Venus in multiple presets

Terraformed Mars in multiple presets

Colonized Ganymede in Default

Colonized Ganymede in Default Enhanced

Colonized Ganymede in Realistic HD

Colonized Ganymede in Realistic HDR

Colonized Ganymede in Cinematic - Retro Matte

Colonized Ganymede in Cinematic - Prime Clear

Colonized Ganymede in Cinematic - Blue 10s

Sol Star with Dyson Frame in Prime Clear

2217 with orbit and label in Retro Matte

An explosion caused by 2 slow Popper Matter in contact in Prime Clear

Colonized Mercury in Prime Clear

Sol System Star going Supernova in Prime Clear

Tesla Roadster floating in space in Prime Clear

52 Comments

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LazyTiger0203 27 Dec, 2024 @ 7:15am

u know that u can just enable preview of space in a new light

Mysticpompano54 4 Dec, 2024 @ 9:59pm

Can you add how to add Reshade options so I don't have to download like 50 viruses to my computer

Twiaktzlud 12 Nov, 2024 @ 4:13pm

Instructions unclear, read my comment from 1 year ago

jeremiah 29 Jul, 2024 @ 12:59pm

wow its cool sooooo cool that you forgot realudey!

Vietnam 7 Jul, 2024 @ 2:09am

this is so realistic that the Sun transfered it's thermal energy to my computer

that guy 25 Nov, 2023 @ 12:09am

welp i guess i cant use reshade

that guy 25 Nov, 2023 @ 12:06am

bruh it puts this strange dumbbell-shaped thing on my screen

Pollaris 30 Sep, 2023 @ 11:54pm

This is SO COOL. Thank you for getting me to know the perfect duo that go together like cookies and milk!

BlackHole 12 Sep, 2023 @ 6:00am

@bruh fish fan LOL || Injectors will always seem like viruses to computers, i mean, your computer is just looking out for itself.
Optifine for example, a minecraft mod used by alot of the community including myself is an injector/exe file that modifies some components of minecraft when opened.

Of course some EXE files will be malicious, they can change any file they want when opened, however 90% of the time (As long as you don't install files called NOTVIRUSVIRUSFREEMCCOIN.exe last installed on November 2017 in Russia) you won't need to worry about an EXE file being a virus.
So, please be careful, but as long as you install it from the official website ( https://reshade.me ) you'll be good.

Norton Security, and many others will verify that Reshade is safe. Even if you installed the wrong one: almost of the time your anti-virus will acknowledge it and remove the file.
I've had reshade for a year, and other then the ageing and dusting of my computer,

Twiaktzlud 6 Sep, 2023 @ 4:04am

reshade is a virus

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