ShaderToggler

Reshade 5.1+ addin to toggle game shaders on/off in groups based on a key press. It allows you to configure these groups from within the addin as well. This addon is meant to toggle a game's shaders on/off, not reshade effects.

It's mainly for 64bit reshade. There's a 32bit version in the releases, but it's the original old version, newer versions are 64 bit only.

How to use

Place the ShaderToggler.addon64 in the same folder as where the game exe is located. This is in most cases the same folder as where the Reshade 5.1+ dll is located. Only for games which use Vulkan, the Reshade dll is likely elsewhere. For Unreal Engine powered games there might be two game exe's: one in the game's installation folder, and one in a folder deeper into that folder, e.g. GameName\Binaries\Win64\GameName-Win64-Shipping.exe; the shader toggler addon has to be in that second folder, in our example: GameName\Binaries\Win64. Reshade has to be placed in that folder as well.

Be sure to use the Reshade version which supports Addons (so the unsigned version). When you start your game, the Addons tab in the Reshade gui should show the Shader Toggler information and controls.

To obtain the unsigned Reshade version, go to https://reshade.me and click on Download, then on the grey button to download the ReShade version with Add-on support.

To create a toggle for a set of shaders, open the reshade gui and go to the addon's tab -> Shader Toggler area. Then click the New button to create a new Toggle group. By default the new toggle group has as name Default and as toggle key Caps Lock. To change these, click the Edit button of the Toggle Group. You can then change the name of the toggle group and also the keyboard shortcut. The keyboard shortcut nor the name have to be unique. The keyboard shortcut can be any key on your keyboard, optionally in combination of using Alt, Control, and Shift.

A toggle group needs shaders assigned to it, that's done with marking shaders below.

Marking Shaders

To successfully be able to mark a set of shaders to toggle, be sure the elements you want to toggle, so the elements using the shaders, are visible, e.g. a menu or a hud or a certain effect. After you've made sure the elements to toggle are visible, click the Change Shaders button of the toggle group. This will start the 'Shader hunting' phase for the particular toggle group.

You should see the shader overlay in the top left corner with the information you need. By default it waits a certain amount of frames (which you can configure in the reshade overlay) to see which shaders are currently active. This is to avoid having to walk through potentially thousands of shaders which aren't currently used.

After the frames have been collected, it has enough information to allow you to browse the shaders.

To walk the available pixel shaders, use the Numpad 1 and Numpad 2 keys. If an element disappears, the shader that's currently 'active' is rendering these elements, so if you want to hide these elements, press Numpad 3. The shader is then marked, and part of the toggle group. Press Numpad 3 again to remove it from the group.

To walk the available vertex shaders, instead use the Numpad 4 and Numpad 5 keys. To mark a vertex shader to be part of the toggle group, press Numpad 6. To walk the available compute shaders, instead use the Numpad 7 and Numpad 8 keys. To mark a compute shader to be part of the toggle group, press Numpad 9.

To walk all shaders you already marked in the current group, you can hold down Ctrl and press the Numpad keys for the shader type (Numpad 1 and Numpad 2 for pixel shaders, Numpad 4 and Numpad 5 for vertex shaders and Numpad 7 and Numpad 8 for compute shaders) to quickly move back/forth through the shaders in a group, e.g. when you made a mistake and you want to unmark a shader.

To test your current group, press the toggle key you assigned to the group. When you're done, click the 'Done' button in the reshade overlay for the particular toggle group.

To re-use this information the next time you run the game, click the Save toggle group button. This will write an ini file (ShaderToggler.ini) with the information to create the set of shaders to toggle next time you start the game. This file is located in the same folder as ShaderToggler.addon64.