[AC - APPS] Natural Graphics Mod

[Alessandro Pollini]

File Name: Natural Graphics Mod

File Submitter: Alessandro Pollini

File Submitted: 05 Jul 2015

File Category: APPS

Author : Chris Kennedy

 

To install: unzip to the root of your AC install folder. Run JSGME and activate Natural Weather and optionally Natural SweetFX Addon then select the Natural Int PP filter in game, set saturation to 100% in graphics options.

Natural Int is set up for cockpit view, probably works best for any view when driving. Natural Ext is for screenshots replays. Natural Photomode is for screenshots only, has higher quality DOF effect and other tweaks. For specific details of all filters see the readme.txt

Note: The weather and SweetFX addons are not essential, you can just extract the pp filter alone and get the majority of the improvements.

 

Weather
The default weather files included in 1.1 are pretty good so I only made fairly small tweaks some of them, noteworthy ones are to the sky/horizon, cloud speed and fog in clear/mid clear, fog colour/blend in heavy/medium fog. Mid clouds modified to look like an overcast day, Heavy clouds modified to look like its about to rain. Ambient light balanced to stop some weather looking too dark.

What does the SweetFX Addon do?
Attempt to balance the oversaturated cars and undersaturated tracks, small boost to highlights too. Not essential by any means but a subtle balancing tweak not possible without SweetFX.
Note: If you use SweetFX, avoid using F8 to take screenshots as they will be taken before SweetFX is applied

 

Weather
The default weather files included in 1.1 are pretty good so I only made fairly small tweaks some of them, noteworthy ones are to the sky/horizon, cloud speed and fog in clear/mid clear, fog colour/blend in heavy/medium fog. Mid clouds modified to look like an overcast day, Heavy clouds modified to look like its about to rain. Ambient light balanced to stop some weather looking too dark.

What does the SweetFX Addon do?
Attempt to balance the oversaturated cars and undersaturated tracks, small boost to highlights too. Not essential by any means but a subtle balancing tweak not possible without SweetFX.
Note: If you use SweetFX, avoid using F8 to take screenshots as they will be taken before SweetFX is applied

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