Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

Shot by One3rd

Summary

Feature Supported
Vanilla Photo Mode No
Hotsampling Yes
DSR Yes
Custom Aspect Ratios Yes
Reshade Yes (see notes)
Ansel No
Graphics API DirectX 11

Tools

  • Camera Tools
    Features: Camera control (in-built HUD removal), FoV, Timestop, Time of Day, Weather Control, Sun Position, Lighting Control
  • CE table by One3rd
    Features: Features: Car Chase Camera, Timeflow, HUD toggle, Cheats

Camera Tools Notes

Key Command
HOME Toggle menu
INSERT Toggle camera
DELETE Freeze time
WASD / < Move camera
Q / { Move up
E / } Move down
Arrow keys / > Rotate camera
Num 1 / [ Roll left
Num 3 / ] Roll right
PgDn / Press L3 Zoom in
PgUp / Press R3 Zoom out

Hold roll left and right down for a second to reset roll.

Options for hi-def model spawning and camera based LOD. These work but after a while may cause model and level glitches. Can be fixed by disabling the options and restarting the level or game.

Time-of-day & Weather

To stop time-of-day from marching on, set the Game seconds per real second to 0.

Pedestrians & Vehicles

Increasing cars and pedestrians excessively will have an equally excessive performance impact. At very large numbers cars and pedestrians go crazy, drivers will get frustrated at the massive crowds of people spilling onto the streets and will ram them or other cards to get away. Ambulances will then come to help those injured further blocking traffic and inducing road rage in more drivers resulting in even more carnage.

To control pedestrian flow, there are pedestrian gates that will funnel pedestrians through choke points. Overflowing these gates with a flood of pedestrians will result in bottlenecks and large clumps of pedestrians on one corner or area and none anywhere else. Play with the Target pedestrian count and Pedestrians per square meter to see what works best in the area you are in. I've had good results with 500 pedestrians at 0.2 per square meter.

Lights

Press the Spotlight or Omnilight buttons to spawn a light at the cameras current position. You can then enable/disable the lights from the list and edit settings.

When editing you can reposition the light to the cameras location by pressing Place at camera.

The types of lights available are spot, omni, direction, card, spot with lightshaft and area. Spot, omni, area and spot with lightshaft all seem to work with some fairly self explanatory settings once you start to play with them. Not sure what the direction or card lights do and it should be noted that changing a configured light from one type to card may result in a crash.

Many lights can be spawned and moved around the environment. Once you are done with them you can disable or delete them.

Cheat Table Notes

Once the cheat table is loaded enable the Attach to game script or manually attach to game process. Use Cheat Engine to inject the camera tools by going to Memory View -> Tools -> Inject DLL, browse for and select SDHDCamera.dll.

Timeflow

Timeflow can be used in conjunction with the Camera Tool TIMESTOP. For Slomo press F9, to disable press SHIFT + F9.

Key Command
F9 activates script and sets time a mellow 0.3
SHIFT + F9 sets time back to default 1.0 normal time.
F5 - F8 almost stopped increasing to slow (useful for long exposure shots)

Car Chase Camera and HUD Contol

This only works in vehicles and only when they are moving or have recently been moving.

Key Command
Num 0 activates vehicle chase camera. This will disable the camera rotation and allow these to be manually set.
Num 4, Num 6 / Num 5, Num 8 control pitch and yaw.
Num 7 / Num 9 decrease/increase camera distance to vehicle.
Num + + Num 7 / Num + + Num 9 decrease/increase camera FOV.
[ disable the game HUD
] re-enable the game HUD.

Cheats

Manually enable Qi POWER AND HEAT script. Heat can be disabled by setting the NO HEAT value to 1 - currently not bound to a key.

Key Command
P enables Qi power cheat
SHIFT+P disables cheat

Hotsampling and Depth Buffer Notes

Game can hotsample using SRWE but it must be in windowed mode (select from the in-game menu or ALT+ENTER. When changing the resolution you may need to do this twice for the actual internal render resolution to change. This also goes for when switching back to gameplay resolution, if playing fullscreen you may need to change to windowed and then back to fullscreen for the proper internal resulution to be applied.

Depth buffer may not load the correct one after a resolution change, check Reshade to see. You may need to select a different depth buffer.

Ground Fog

There is a glitch that can sometimes be used for more ground fog to be momentarily shown. This may only work at night and/or when in a vehicle. Pause game, wait awhile, un-pause game, pause again after required amount of fog generated in scene.