Starfield

About this mod

A realistic Reshade with smooth shadows for Neutral LUTs 1.3 made by fadingsignal. Works with Gravity LUTs.

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Adjust Brightness and saturation to your own liking!

Video Tutorial on how to do it:




Check out my new reshade: 
Better Light and Shadows


HUGE
thanks to fadingsignal for doing a great job at actually making the game look better!

Thanks to Elum302 I'ts confirmed it works with Gravity LUTs as well.

(o} DESCRIPTION

I like my games as realistic as possible and the game is way to colorful for my taste. It is to a point where to colors actually clips and creates artifacts.
I like my games a bit ''darker'' and highlighted with less contrast, especially in Starfields dark areas like caves, outer space, abandoned mines etc.
I also want the characters skin, hair and eyes to look natural, it makes the game more immersive. People love colors but if you try this reshade out you'll feel the immersion at another level.

This reshade uses an AI based sharpener that only sharpens the textures (almost look like 4k sometimes) and not edges. It has a depth function that lets distance object remain unsharpened. Makes the skin and near objects stand out. Looks crisp!

There is about 4 fps loss when using this reshade, keep that in mind! I can try to make a less demanding preset if people are interested.

This preset is created with in mind that people use some kind of saturation enhancer on their screen, nvidia panel etc.  

(o} INSTALLATION

--> Neutral LUTs 
Neutral LUTs - No Color Filters at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com) (Install 1.3)
--> Reshade 5.9.2 Home (reshade.me).

  • Drag PRS and reshade-shaders folder into your Starfield main folder that contains the Starfield.exe.
  • Download and install Reshade. Select Starfield.exe or in case of GAMEPASS, you need to select gamelaunchhelper.exe.
  • Select DirectX12 as your renderer. 
  • When it asks which packages you want to install, select my preset in the preset selection screen to only download the shaders it needs.
  • Start the game and use Home button to open Reshade menu or whatever button you've set in your Reshade.ini.
  • Follow the instructions on the screen to finish the tutorial and during it select the PRS preset.
  • That's all! Enjoy.

(o} Optional

Im using an ini tweak (StarfieldCustom.ini) that brings down the brightness of the stars and the outer space to a much more natural look. 

here's the ini tweak: 

[Display]
fMaxAnisotropy=16
fSpaceGlowBackgroundScale=0.0
fStarIntensity=500.0
fStarSystemFarViewDistance=10000000000.0
fStarfieldBackgroundScale=35.0
fStarfieldStarBrightnessScale=7.0
fStarfieldStarCoordScale=10.0
fSunScale=1.0


This is a video that shows how to make this character. Use head preset 26 for her :)


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