The Rundown of SHADERDAT.dat files and what they do:
Files 31, 33, 40, and 42:
These shaders affect player faces, arms, hands, gloves, wristbands, main jersey numbers, some random small jersey logos, chinstraps, facemask fasteners, and some small pant logos. Sideline player models (including their uniforms), coach models, sideline personnel models, and referee models.
File 31 is an outdoor stadium, daytime (12, 1, or 4pm), clear weather shader.
File 33 is an indoor stadium shader.
File 40 is an outdoor stadium, daytime (12, 1, or 4pm), rain/snow weather shader.
File 42 is an outdoor stadium, nighttime (7 or 8pm), rain/snow weather shader.
Files 32, 34, 41, and 43:
These files affect player models (everything except helmets), coach models, sideline models, etc. These generally adds more or less reflectivity to the player models. Can render sort of a "wet" or "metallic" look over the models with higher contrast on the shader cubemap.
File 32 is an outdoor stadium, daytime (12, 1, or 4pm), clear weather shader.
File 34 is an indoor stadium shader.
File 41 is an outdoor stadium, daytime (12, 1, or 4pm), rain/snow weather shader.
File 43 is an outdoor stadium, nighttime (7 or 8pm), rain/snow weather shader.
File 35 is a nighttime outdoor skybox cubemap that (as far as I can tell) isn't implemented in-game. is a helmet reflective cubemap.
Files 36 and 38 visually appear similar to 31, 33, 40, and 42, but I could not find any effects in-game, despite testing even practice stadiums and the Dummies/other fictional fantasy teams' stadiums.
Same goes for Files 37 and 39; they look similar to 32, 34, 41, and 43 but I couldn't figure out if/how they are used in-game.
Files 45-51 have no discernable effects; except File 45, which may have caused a crash of M08 during testing. After rebooting and testing there were no further crashes from a modified File 45, and no noticeable effects either. At least one of the files from 46-51 caused square raindrops to appear on screen.
Helmets, Stadiums, and Crowds appear to use shaders from somewhere else. Presumably in their respective dats. Note: File 18 (type unknown) mentions helmets and lighting, but I no read hex so good.
This all started off here and got sidetracked into a Kramer mod...
Throwing Shade at dat SHADERDAT.dat MOD (TSadS.dM)
TSadS.dM Version 0.1 Version 0.2 Version 0.3 Version 0.4 attached. Unzip. Replace SHADERDAT.dat in Madden's data0 folder. Make a backup copy of your SHADERDAT.dat first. Also included (only in v.0.1) are 4 DDS images for your viewing pleasure, which are the first shaders modded. Files 31 and 33 have altered "levels" (lifted) and color added. 31 has a slight yellow hue for warmth (the outdoor stadium face/arm/hand/misc shader). 33 has a slight blue hue for "cooler" kelvin artificial lighting found indoors. Same with 32 and 34, but they are the model reflectivity shaders. All of these are subtle at first, but you'll notice a difference when you go back and forth viewing screenshots of vanilla vs modded shaders. These aren't finished. All criticism welcome (but if you start off with something like "No offense but these suck" or something like that without explaining why you're throwing shade, expect non-politeness in return).
This should be considered an Alpha version Beta version (lol) Early Release version (v0.4). Report bugs, glitches, errors, or crashes.
Beta and screenshot dump sometime this week. (already done). I am going to experiment more, especially with the weather shaders.
Enjoy.
