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About this mod
A mod that completely redoes the game's graphics to look realistic and more natural. (READ DESCRIPTION)
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"Real", Oh how I detest that word. So devoid of imagination! - Dutch van der Linde
This visual mod completely changes the graphics and overall aesthetic of the game to be more realistic and closer to real life.
Some major changes are:
-Realistic Lighting and Colors: Light emitted from the sun and moon have been altered to show more realistic colors. I always felt like the game's colors weren't vibrant enough especially with sunsets and sunrises. So I have changed the colors to better represent their positions. Like for sunsets when the sun is setting over open country it has a nice orange color and gets closer to almost being red when it reaches the horizon, you can see this best in New Austin and south Scarlett Meadows where the sun doesn't set behind Mountain Shann. For sunrises the sun is exposed to basically the entire map but rises over the east and more civilization, therefore it has more intense colors. Moonlight was also changed extensively with a slight blue hue for aesthetics but less intense light with softer shadows compared to the sun. The moon is most intense during high pressure where there is no clouds to reduce the light.
-Realistic cloud depictions: Clouds for every weather have been completely been redone to accurately depict real life cloud types. Sunny and Cloudy weather contain cumulus clouds which are the most common cloud type seen with sunny conditions, these clouds don't absorb a lot of sunlight/moonlight so cloud shadows are relatively light and not very intense. Overcast weather contains stratocumulus clouds which typically covers most of the sky and absorbs a decent amount of sunlight/moonlight to where the ground is duller/darker, there are still small gaps that allow sunlight to break through sometimes. Weathers like Overcast Dark, Drizzle, and Misty have stratus clouds which are usually thick and close to the ground, they darken the ground a lot and usually hide the entire sky. Fog weather has thin and relatively high clouds that create minor shadows, Rain weather has nimbostratus clouds which has moderate rain. Weathers like Thunderstorm, Thunder, Shower and Hail have cumulonimbus clouds which are the biggest type of clouds that have anvil shaped tops, they block out the most sunlight and don't have much color.
-More Realistic Weather Transitions and Much More: Transitions between weathers have been slowed down significantly, but depend on the type of weather. For example: a transition from high pressure weather to overcast takes a lot longer than a transition from cloudy weather to rain weather.
Other changes include:
-Revamped Night Sky
-A custom weather with a big storm over the mountains
-Vignette Removal
-Glowing Pickups Removal
-Drastically decreased Color Correction (basically removes the color changes with areas like New Austin and Lemoyne which are very exaggerated)
-Improved Ambient Occlusion
-Improved twilight times and colors
-Improved water reflections and puddles
-Improved rain and snow particles
-Improved interior lighting
-Improved TAA
-Adjusted wind speeds to better represent real life
-Revised and Improved mission weathers
-TheRealJohnModding for VSR (without it this mod wouldn't have been made)
-khorvair for the mod name
-Wockenheimer for helping me with the mod a bit
-I recommend matching/tweaking your in-game settings to be similar to the .txt file for the best
-Any suggestions can go in the "Posts" tab, Bugs/Glitches can be posted in the "Bugs" tab
-The visualsettings.dat IS merged with Persistent and Natural Dirt, but is incompatible with any other mod that edits this same file.
-If using Dynamic Seasons, download the merge instead of the main version.
-I have put many months of research and hard work to get this mod as good as I could make it, an endorsement would be appreciated!
KNOWN ISSUES:
-Specific missions like Revenge is a Dish best Eaten and the Guarma boat sequence have certain frames that are very dark, there isn't really anything I can do to fix this right now.
-Some minor issues with reflections like rare flickering or trees blocking water reflections, there is not much I can do about this as of now.
-Certain areas like Annesburg and sometimes near valentine the weather will be quickly set to sunny, I have no idea why this happens.
Mods used in screenshots:
(For some screenshots I used Dynamic Seasons)
Beta Swamp Trees
Beta Douglas Fir
Beta Redwood Textures
Beta Engoak
Autumn Vegetation
Remington Model 1875
Recommended mods:
4K Upscaled Stars (Makes stars look more high quality at night)
Stash That Lantern (I recommend using this mod so you can keep your lantern on you at night at all times)
Any timescale mod (I believe the nights and days are way too short in-game)
Any of beniguess1899's mods, all of his map mods add better variety and colors throughout the map.
I hope you enjoy the mod!