About this mod
The most comprehensive and complete guide to successfully modding Final Fantasy XV to achieve the REAL "Royal Experience" - The most enjoyable and upgraded experience for Final Fantasy XV
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DISCLAIMER: The mods included here are not ALL the mods that can and/or should be included in your own personal pursuit of a "Royal Experience". This mod list and guide represent only the ones I have included in my own modded play-through. I implore you to explore all of the available MODS for Final Fantasy XV because there are other beautiful works of creation (that others poured vast amounts of time into creating) that might have been created after the latest update of this list and/or not yet added due to real-life time constraints. Feel free to use this guide as a BASE in which to build your own modded experience upon.

I N T R O D U C T I O N :
Hello and welcome to your personal guide on how to make your Final Fantasy XV experience — the COMPLETE one you deserve.
Unfortunately, (before patch 1.30) Square Enix as usual did a shitty job when they made the STEAM (PC) version of the game. They didn't botch the port as bad as their other games this time, so our work here is more of a light-duty UN-fuck than it is a complete overhaul and major repair job.
Just follow this Guide and you'll be experiencing this beautiful game exactly as we all should have experienced it if Square Enix just did their fucking jobs correctly (something they just can't get their heads out of their asses enough to do).
Thanks to various members of the PC community AND our modding community, we all can actually feel OK about having bought this game on PC.
H E L P F U L S U G G E S T I O N S :
F A Qs / Frequently Asked Questions :


You will need the following items in order to proceed with this guide:
- A decent computer that can run this game.
- Attention to Detail. — Please start the game once before beginning this guide.
- Final Fantasy® XV (WINDOWS EDITION) (I use the STEAM version but I imagine the Origin version works perfectly with this guide too.)
- Final Fantasy® XV (WINDOWS EDITION) — 4K Resolution Pack
- 7-Zip — a file archiver (really good one).
— It is critical to go through the process very carefully because for one reason or another unless you do everything I say step by step, you'll likely encounter issues with the game NOT looking or feeling the way you want it to — so please pay attention to detail.

- Start the game once, in Vanilla form, prior to beginning this guide.

— Enter With Chocobo
— No Collisions

— Bug Fix - Shadows (Galdin)
— Bug Fix - Textures (Altissia)
— FFXV Dither Patch
— More Responsive NVIDIA Turf Effects Grass + Longer Lasting Trails
— SPECIAL K
— Configuring SPECIAL K

— Cleaned Lestallum
— Cherry Blossoms In Full Bloom
— Detailed Complexions
— ECO - Empire Character Overhaul
— Embrace By Night - Luna model Retexture
— HD Ardyn Scarf and Hood
— Noctis - Brown Hair Re-texture (Young and Old)
— Outfit Retextures
— Pre-1.21 Ifrit
— Tattoo For Iris

— (O N L Y for Installing ReShade)
— Pure Light for FFXV
— Final Fantasy XV - REVISED
— Aeonic ReShade - Final Fantasy XV Photo-Realism

----------------- [ReShade // SweetFX // Shaders] --------------------------------------------------------------------
- reshade-shaders (Original shader repository) by Crosire + community
- SweetFX (The original shader suite that Reshade was created to support) by CeeJayDK
- CorgiFX (Repo with "enhanced" versions of known shaders) by Originalnicodr
- Depth3D (Lots of great utility shaders) by BlueSkyDefender
- reshade-shaders (Daodan) (Creative/utility shaders) by Daodan
- FXShaders (Creative/utility shaders) by luluco250
- fubax-shaders (Just a bunch of really cool experimental-ish shaders) by Fubax
- MLUT (Repo with a lot of multiluts) by TheGordinho
- OtisFX (Source repository of Cinematic DoF and other shaders) by Otis_Inf
- prod80 ReShade Repository (prod80's shader repository) by prod80
- Pirate Shaders (Really neat lesser known shader repository) by Heathen
- qUINT (The Marty McFly qUINT repository) by Marty McFly
- Shaders (brussel1) (Small collection of shaders) by brussell1
- No Collisions by skyraex5
- Enter With Chocobo by IgnisIgnisIgnis
----------------- [Deep Modification] ------------------------------------------------------
[list]
----------------- [Fixes & Quality of Life (QOL) Improvements] -----------------
- Bug Fix - Shadows (Galdin) by Nsept0403
- Bug Fix - Textures (Altissia) by Nsept0403
- FFXV Dither Patch by drdaxxy
- More Responsive NVIDIA Turf Effects Grass + Longer Lasting Trails by null_subject
- Special K - FFXV Mini-Mod by Kaldaien {SOURCE (Steam Discussion Main Page) | SOURCE (GitHub)}
----------------- [Visual Enhancements] -------------------------------------------------
- Cleaned Lestallum by Nsept0403
- Cherry Blossoms In Full Bloom by Nsept0403
- Detailed Complexions by Ellise
- Drenched and Wild - Ignis Default Head Replacements by trukittn
- ECO - Empire Character Overhaul by Empilicious
- Embrace By Night - Luna model Retexture by GuiltyKA
- HD Ardyn Scarf and Hood by Bazinski
- Noctis - Brown Hair Re-texture (Young and Old) by JoelEli
- Outfit Retextures by Jax765
- Pre-1.21 Ifrit by ScissormanFFXV
- Tattoo For Iris by mrsaturn241
----------------- [Post-Processing] --------------------------------------------------------
- Aeonic ReShade - Final Fantasy XV Photo-Realism by officialaeon
- Final Fantasy XV - REVISED by Roeed97
- Pure Light for FFXV by Urquath
----------------- [Special Thanks] ---------------------------------------------------------
- PCGamingWiki for their FFXV page HERE about installing the [FFXV Dither Patch] and the [Turf Grass] Mod.
- Kaldaien for their discussion topic HERE regarding [Special K] FFXV Performance Fixes and just in general for being such a helpful person contributing their skills to help fix many games over the years.