Have you ever wanted your game to have a darker feel to it? Have it be more grim, but not so that it loses all its colors? Without any color filters, or any effects that would be deemed too much, or unnecessary when the desired effect is simple? There are many beautiful ReShade presets that I have used in the past on this website, and many lovely creators behind them. But a lot of them suffer from issues like too much contrast, colors too vibrant, or heavy use of color filters. There are great mods out there, that look to make the world look more grim, like lighting mods, that are sadly unfinished. But nothing simple, with a small performance hit, that'd look the way I wanted it to. So I decided to KISS. Keep it simple, stupid. I made a LUT with the intend of it being used, just for this, and it. It works.

This preset is made around vanilla weather, and if you want it to look like it does on screenshots here shown, you probably wanna stick to it, or use it with Vanila Lighting Enhanced, or some other mod that keeps the original weather more intact than less. But if you want to use it with other lighting mods, then it might work, cause of the way the effect is achieved.

There are two options, Default, and Performance. The only difference between them, is the fact that the Peformance version doesn't use the Ambient Lighting effect. Which, makes a difference, smaller or bigger depending on the situation, but does not detract from the look the preset is going for at all.

The only effects you need from ReShade are Ambient Lighting, Curves, and LUT. Only Curves and LUT if you want to use the performance version.

• Download the newest version of ReShade from the website.
• Install it onto your Witcher 3, by starting the installer, going to the folder where the game is located, entering the folder "Bin" then "x64" and selecting the witcher3.exe file. Then clicking on Direct3D 10+ on the installer.
• When prompted to download a collection of standard effects, click "yes". From the list of shaders, select "Ambient Lighting", "Curves", and "LUT".
• Once that is done, open the archive you downloaded from this mod page, and throw the two presets, along with the reshade-shaders folder, into the same folder ReShade was installed (the folder containing the "witcher3.exe" file). Replace any files it might ask you to replace. (It needs to replace the default LUT texture, with the one made for this preset)
• When you open the game, you can open the ReShade window with the default key "Home" on your keyboard. Here you can select the preset you desire.