A suite of dynamic, audio-reactive visual effect shaders for ReShade, optimized for video production and virtual performance art.
AS-StageFX provides a collection of performant, customizable, and audio-reactive visual effects shaders for ReShade. These are designed for screen capture, video recording, streaming, and virtual photography.
Prerequisites:
- ReShade: Latest version (reshade.me).
- (Optional) Listeningway: For audio reactivity (github.com/gposingway/Listeningway).
Steps:
- Download: Get the latest release ZIP.
- Extract: Unzip the archive.
- Copy Shaders: Place the
ASfolder (fromshadersin the download) into your game'sreshade-shaders\Shadersdirectory.- Example:
C:\Program Files (x86)\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\game\reshade-shaders\Shaders\AS
- Example:
- Activate: Launch the game. Open ReShade overlay (default:
Homekey). Reload shaders if needed (Ctrl+Shift+Ror via settings). AS-StageFX shaders (prefixAS_) will be in the list.
AS-StageFX includes 85 shaders across four categories: 28 Background (BGX), 23 Graphic (GFX), 3 Lighting (LFX), and 31 Visual (VFX) effects.
Detailed descriptions and examples: Shader Gallery.
| Shader | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Corona | Vibrant, abstract blue corona with fluid, dynamic motion and hypnotic, organic, plasma-like visuals. Customizable and audio-reactive. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Constellation | Creates an animated stellar constellation pattern with twinkling stars and connecting lines. Perfect for cosmic, night sky, or abstract network visualizations with a hand-drawn aesthetic. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Corridor Travel | Simulates an artistic flight through an abstract, glowing, patterned tunnel with pseudo-DOF, motion blur, and light bounce simulation. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Cosmic Kaleidoscope | Renders a raymarched volumetric fractal (Mandelbox/Mandelbulb-like) with kaleidoscopic mirroring, audio reactivity, and palette-based coloring. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Digital Brain | Abstract visualization of a digital brain neural network with animated Voronoi patterns, neural-like connections, and electrical pulses. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Fluorescent | Creates a vibrant neon fluorescent background effect with raymarched volumetric patterns. Perfect for retro, cyberpunk, or futuristic atmospheres. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Golden Clockwork | Intricate, animated golden clockwork or Apollonian fractal patterns. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Hologram | Creates a dynamic, holographic plasma background with shifting rainbow colors and a plasma distortion effect that responds to a user-controlled viewpoint. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Kaleidoscope | Creates a vibrant, ever-evolving fractal kaleidoscope pattern with animated tendrils. Perfect for psychedelic, cosmic, or abstract backgrounds with a hypnotic quality. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Light Ripples | Mesmerizing, rippling kaleidoscopic light patterns with customizable distortion, animation, color palettes, and audio reactivity. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Light Wall | A seamless, soft, overlapping grid of light panels with various built-in patterns. Perfect for creating dance club and concert backdrops. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Liquid Chrome | Creates dynamic, flowing psychedelic patterns reminiscent of liquid metal or chrome, with optional vertical stripe overlays. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Log Spirals | Creates an organic spiral pattern based on logarithmic growth with animated spheres along the spiral arms. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Melt Wave | Flowing, warping psychedelic effect with sine-based distortions, palette system, keyframe animation, and audio reactivity. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Misty Grid | Abstract fractal-based grid background with a misty, ethereal appearance using raymarching. Audio-reactive and customizable. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Past Racer | Raymarched abstract procedural scene (2 selectable) with domain repetition, custom transformations, and audio-reactive geometry/flares. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Plasma Flow | Sophisticated, gentle, flexible plasma effect with procedural noise, domain warping, and customizable audio-reactive color gradients. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Protean Clouds | Volumetric, evolving procedural clouds with raymarching, dynamic color, and realistic lighting. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Quadtree Truchet | Multiscale recursive Truchet pattern with hierarchical tile overlaps, Art Deco line tiles, weave effects, and sophisticated palette system. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Raymarched Chain | Raymarched animated chain of interconnected torus shapes following a procedural path. Features dynamic rotation, customizable geometry, and sophisticated lighting with camera controls. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Stained Lights | Dynamic, colorful patterns like stained glass with shifting light, blurred layers, and audio reactivity. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Sunset Clouds | Raymarched volumetric clouds with animated turbulence and dynamic sunset coloring. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Time Crystal | Hypnotic, crystalline fractal structure with dynamic animation, color cycling, and audio reactivity. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Vinyl Disc | Spinning vinyl record with iridescent grooves, customizable LP presets, label textures, and animated neon backgrounds. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Vortex | Psychedelic swirling vortex pattern with animated color, swirl, and brightness controls. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Wavy Squares | Hypnotic pattern of wavy, animated, transforming square tiles with dynamic size changes. Audio-reactive and depth-aware. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Wavy Squiggles | Mesmerizing pattern of adaptive wavy lines forming intricate, rotating designs. Audio-reactive and depth-aware. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Zippy Zaps | Dynamic electric arcs/lightning patterns with procedural generation, audio reactivity, and 3D positioning. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Shader | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Anamorphic Flare | Horizontal anamorphic streak flares from bright areas, simulating cinema lens optics. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Aspect Ratio | A versatile aspect ratio framing tool for subject positioning and composition. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Audio Direction | Visualizes audio directionality as animated arrows or indicators, ideal for music-driven scenes or overlays. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Bleach Bypass | Desaturated high-contrast metallic look from the bleach bypass film process. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Brush Stroke | Transforms the scene with painterly brush stroke textures and dynamic, layered paint effects. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cinematic Diffusion | High-quality cinematic diffusion/bloom filter with 8 classic presets and a fully customizable mode. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Color Pop | Selective desaturation that keeps one hue range vivid against a monochrome scene. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cosmic Glow | Renders an abstract, glowing overlay effect composed of hundreds of animated, rotating arcs arranged in concentric rings with distinct perspective quality and depth. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Cross Processing | Simulates cross-processed film with dramatic color shifts from chemistry mismatches. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Depth Hologram | Transforms the entire scene's depth buffer into a holographic field, using 3D information for holographic parallax, color shifts, and lighting effects. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Faded Blacks | Lifts black shadows to milky gray, brown, or blue for the signature vintage film look. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Film Stock | Emulates classic analog film stocks with grain, color science, and tonal character. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Focus Frame | Creates a focused frame with a stylized background and soft, feathered edges for cinematic compositions. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Gradient Map | Maps scene luminance to a color gradient using the palette system for cinematic grading. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Halation | Film halation with warm red/orange bloom around bright areas characteristic of analog film. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Hand Drawing | Transforms the scene into a stylized hand-drawn sketch with distinct linework. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Light Wrap | Bleeds bright background light around foreground edges for natural compositing. | CC BY 4.0 |
| MultiLayer Halftone | Highly customizable multi-layer halftone (up to 4 layers) with various patterns, isolation methods, and blending options. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Orton Effect | Dreamy glow combining sharp detail with soft luminous overlay for ethereal mood. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Soft Diffusion | Beauty portrait soft diffusion filter that smooths midtones while preserving edges. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Tilt-Shift | High-quality, depth-aware tilt-shift/DoF shader with realistic bokeh effects and precise depth-based focusing. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Vignette Plus | Advanced vignette effect with customizable shape, color, animation, blur, and audio reactivity. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Y2K Digicam | Early 2000s point-and-shoot digital camera simulation with flash, grain, and artifacts. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Shader | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Candle Flame | Simulates a realistic, animated candle flame with flicker, glow, and color controls. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Laser Show | Projects animated laser beams and patterns with customizable color, speed, and audio reactivity. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Stage Spotlights | Simulates moving stage spotlights with beam controls, color, and audio reactivity. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Shader | Description | License |
|---|---|---|
| Boom Sticker | Displays a texture overlay ('sticker') with controls for placement, scale, rotation, and audio reactivity. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Circular Spectrum | Displays a circular audio spectrum analyzer with customizable bands, colors, and animation. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Clair Obscur | Applies dramatic chiaroscuro lighting with strong contrast and stylized shadows. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Color Balancer | Adjusts scene color balance with independent controls for shadows, midtones, and highlights. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cross-Screen Stars | Star-shaped diffraction spikes on bright highlights simulating a cross-screen lens filter. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Digital Artifacts | Simulates digital compression artifacts, blockiness, and color banding. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Double Exposure | Classic double exposure blending the scene with a transformed copy using depth separation. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Dust Motes | Adds floating dust motes and particles with customizable density, size, and animation. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Film Burn | Animated warm overexposure spreading from frame edges simulating film overheating. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Focused Chaos | Swirling cosmic vortex/black hole effect with animated noise and artistic controls. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Glossy Gradient | Smooth flowing gradient patterns with mathematical precision for stylish backgrounds. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Light Leak | Organic blobs of warm light drifting across the frame like light leaking into a film camera. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Motion Focus | Automatic motion-based camera focus and zoom using inter-frame motion analysis. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Motion Trails | Creates trailing motion blur effects for moving objects or the entire scene. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Neon Edge Glow | Cyberpunk-style neon edge glow using depth-based edge detection for vivid rim lighting. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Pixel Sort | Glitch art pixel sorting that streaks pixels by brightness for dramatic stylized distortions. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Prism Overlay | Crystal prism held in front of the lens creating rainbow refractions and dreamy distortions. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Radial Lens Distortion | Emulates radial and lens-specific distortions including blur, chromatic aberration, and geometric warping. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Radiant Fire | Simulates radiant, glowing fire with animated flames and color gradients. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Rainy Window | Simulates raindrops and streaks on a window with refraction and blur effects. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Screen Ring | Draws animated rings or circular overlays with customizable size, color, and animation. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Sparkle Bloom | Adds sparkling bloom highlights with animated glints and color controls. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Spectrum Ring | Visualizes audio spectrum as a ring with customizable bands, colors, and animation. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Speed Lines | Radial zoom blur from a configurable center point simulating motion and speed. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Stencil Mask | Applies a stencil mask for selective effect application with shape and position controls. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Tilted Grid | Draws a tilted, animated grid overlay with customizable angle, spacing, and color. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Volumetric Fog | Atmospheric fog with procedural noise, wind, and depth layering for outdoor scenes. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Volumetric Light | Simulates volumetric light rays and god rays with customizable source, color, and intensity. | CC BY-NC-SA |
| VUMeter | Displays a classic VU meter with audio-reactive bars and customizable appearance. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Warp Distort | Applies animated warp distortion with customizable strength, direction, and speed. | CC BY 4.0 |
| Water Surface | Simulates animated water surface with ripples, reflections, and customizable color. | CC BY 4.0 |
- Audio Integration: Most effects utilize Listeningway for dynamic parameter reaction to volume, beat, bass, treble, or specific frequency bands. New stereo features include left/right channel volume and audio panning for spatial effects.
- Depth Awareness: Many shaders interact with scene geometry (via depth buffer) for integration, masking, and occlusion.
- Customization: Extensive controls for color, intensity, speed, position, blend modes, and audio source per effect.
Sample images in this repository may contain characters and stickers from Final Fantasy XIV, property of Square Enix Co., Ltd., used for demonstration only. All Final Fantasy XIV content © SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. This is a fan project, not affiliated with Square Enix.
AS-StageFX includes both original shaders and adaptations from various sources across the graphics programming community. Proper attribution is maintained for all external sources as required by Creative Commons licensing.
For detailed attribution information, see: AS_StageFX_Credits.md
This comprehensive credits document includes:
- ** adapted shaders** with full attribution to original creators
- ** original works** created specifically for AS-StageFX
- Complete source links and licensing information
- Categorized sources: Shadertoy, Godot, Art of Code, and other GLSL communities
- ReShade Team: For the exceptional ReShade framework
- Shadertoy Community: Primary source for adapted effects
- FencerDevLog: Godot shader tutorials and inspiration
- Inigo Quilez: Mathematical foundations and procedural techniques
- All original creators: Listed individually in the comprehensive credits
For more detailed information about installation, updates, and credits, please refer to the main README. Complete external source attribution is available in AS_StageFX_Credits.md.
