This is preview of new plugin I am working on for BeamNG. It improves lighting and adds Temporal Anti Aliasing (TAA) for both Vulkan & DirectX11.
It is not released yet, I am still working on it so there might be some changes in the future.
I am planning to keep it for free after release until problems fixed. Then it is going to require 1$/Month subscription.
2025-11-11 09:10:46 +0000 UTC View Post
From now on paid plugins/mods will be free on Sundays. It is based on local time so it is full Sunday for everyone.
If you want to try before buying plugins/mods you can try on Sunday without any license key.
Free Sundays added to end support system. I would like to answer all the questions and support requests but I must say replying support tickets for 30 minutes is harder than w...
2025-10-18 16:43:18 +0000 UTC View PostI am here with a new idea again: Video as Game.
Imagine a relaxing driving game where you drive alone on a single lane road inside a vehicle.
What is the freedom you have?
You can speed up and slow down
You can move left-right a little bit
Corners are wider so you have more freedom to move left-right
You can turn your head 2025-10-11 17:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post
My Settings for ETS 2/ATS Lighting Improvements v2.
Important: I like to use these settings. But it doesn't mean you should. Also these settings are calibrated for average monitor and for ETS2. You can do some adjustments for your monitor and for ATS.
I don't use any mods. If you are using some weather/lighting mods you might need to change settings.
You should focus on :
<... 2025-10-04 13:56:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you everyone!
We reached 10000 players just in a month for ETS2/ATS Lighting Improvements v2. I will continue to keep fixing issues and improving the plugin.
I am trying to create a platform with easy to use stable mods/plugins for different games in similar genres (ETS2/ATS, BeamNG, Assetto Corsa, Farming Simulator, OMSI2 etc) to improve games you like to play. The platform i...
2025-09-29 17:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostFrom now on please use https://support.snowymoon.io to report bugs/issues. Describe the problem simple as possible and provide screenshots or logs if you can.
New tool will be released soon to gather more information inside a single file so you can easily report all the data required.
2025-09-26 07:27:38 +0000 UTC View PostI am currently working on improvements for BeamNG and after it is released I want to try creating custom maps for ETS2/ATS.
I am not talking about creating map mods inside ETS2/ATS. What I want to do is create map mods only with roads and paths inside ETS2/ATS and create/render environment in custom engine so you can drive on the roads.
Vehicles will be handled by game, they will be...
2025-09-23 12:04:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first test of new plugin I am working on for BeamNG. It improves lighting and adds Temporal Anti Aliasing (TAA) for both Vulkan & DirectX11.
Sorry about the bitrate, higher quality screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/9GlKTPU
It is not released yet, I am still working on it so there might be some chang...
2025-09-16 09:53:57 +0000 UTC View PostWhile keep working on ETS2/ATS I'm also going to start working on other projects for other games. I'm planning to make mods/plugins for similar genre games so same people can enjoy similar games with improvements by using single subscription.
List of games I want to try
BeamNG - Anti Aliasing, Lighting/Color Improvements
OMSI 2 - Performance, Graphic Improvem...
2025-08-28 18:21:08 +0000 UTC View Post
If Windows Defender blocks dxgi.dll, try this to update Windows Defender database:
Extract files
Right click "defender_update.bat" and click "Run as administrator"
More information: 2025-08-01 10:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post
*** Its not released yet. This is the last preview before release. It will be released soon.
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 and ATS. It is replacing default lighting system with modern lighting methods while using default weather and day&night cycle.
- Lighting Improvements v2 is not released yet and it will be released when its ready. Unlike v1, v2 is usin...
2025-07-27 03:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Preview after new changes. More information: https://www.patreon.com/posts/important-for-v2-131617318
Its not released yet.
I will release it when it's ready to release.
Compatible with other mods including environment/weather/map/truck etc mods.
It ...
2025-06-21 08:16:11 +0000 UTC View PostIn last a few days I was working on lighting algorithm to make lighting improvements v2 compatible with default rendering pipeline.
First some information about the mod:
I will release it when it's ready to release.
Compatible with other mods including environment/weather/map/truck etc mods.
It will work on 1.54/1.55.
It will be r...
2025-06-16 20:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 and ATS. It is replacing default lighting system with modern lighting methods while using default weather and day&night cycle.
Ingame speed is x60, thats why you cannot see rain particles. Also thats why trees etc shaking.
Lighting Improvements v2 is not released yet and it will be released when its ready. Unli...
2025-06-01 16:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 and ATS. It is replacing default lighting system with modern lighting methods while using default weather and day&night cycle.
Lighting Improvements v2 is not released yet and it will be released when its ready. Unlike v1, v2 is using default weather and day & night cycle so you can use with the weather mods as you want.<...
2025-05-30 13:36:32 +0000 UTC View Post
While working on rain system for Lighting Improvements v2, I wanted to try adding a simple snow system. It adds snow to every surface based on normals except wet roads from rain.
I want to switch weather from rainy to snowy randomly while default game is raining. Its going to add thin snow on surfaces and melt later back to rain again.
But there are some small issues like its adding...
2025-05-27 18:23:41 +0000 UTC View Post
There are some issues while rendering rain reflections. Game doesn't consider some part of the roads as road (reflective surface) and it looks weird because of sharp transition from wet to dry surface. Also surface normals are not perfect so we see seams while rendering wet surfaces. I'm trying to find ways to fix these.
Default rain system is not realistic and default reflections are cal...
2025-05-24 08:21:58 +0000 UTC View Post
With new improvements now interior is using local lighting to match better incoming lighting from the environment.
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 and ATS. It is replacing default lighting system with modern lighting methods while using default weather and day&night cycle.
- Lighting Improvements v2 is not released yet and it will be released when its ready...
2025-05-19 06:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostLighting Improvements require a lot of changes inside client functions and rendering pipeline. Every new game version takes long time to update, that's why v1 is not updated for 1.54. To implement 1.54 and 1.55 support I decided make some changes. These changes will make it easier to update for new versions of the game in the future (unless there is a big update breaking the system). I will re...
2025-05-12 09:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 and ATS. It is replacing default lighting system with modern lighting methods while using default weather and day&night cycle.
Lighting Improvements v2 is not released yet and it will be released when its ready. Unlike v1, v2 is using default weather and day & night cycle so you can use with the weather mods as you want. ...
2025-05-02 02:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sorry, I know today you were waiting for Lighting Improvements v2 release but I need a few more days to fix everything. Using ingame reflection system instead of screen space reflections was a little bit more challenging than I expected because of the pipeline changes I made. I want to release it perfect as possible so I will continue to work on it and release it soon as possible.
2025-04-27 00:39:25 +0000 UTC View PostEDIT: You are right, let's make everything better for players instead of wasting time with these rats. I won't do anything about other mods, I will continue to improve mods I'm working on, let's have some fun <3
CANCELED: I see developers & moderators of some mods in ETS2/ATS community still spreading lies about me without showing any evidence, like "snowymoon is malware". Its been...
2025-04-22 01:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to release the v2 for lighting improvements until 27/04/2025. I will be busy for next 2 weeks so I may not be able to read your messages.
Supports default weather system, sunlight and day/night cycle (also you can use weather mods)
Not mixed lighting, it is going to be fully PBR lighting like v1
Better vehicle paint support to handle metalli...
2025-04-13 13:27:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Problems will be fixed and it will be improved by time until release
Its going to support day & night cycle, rain etc (using default weather system)
When its ready, I will release it
It will probably be paid (tier 1 subscription - 1$/month) 2 weeks after it is released
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 an...
2025-04-04 16:46:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Problems will be fixed and it will be improved by time until release
Its going to support day & night cycle, rain etc
When its ready, I will release it
It will probably be paid (tier 1 subscription - 1$/month) 2 weeks after it is released
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 and ATS. It is replacing default ...
2025-04-03 09:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 and ATS. It is replacing default lighting system with modern lighting methods.
Lighting Improvements v2 is not released yet and it will be released when its ready. Unlike v1, v2 is using default weather and day&night cycle so you can use with the weather mods as you want. Also it is going to support night time.
You might see so...
2025-04-02 09:59:41 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, thank you all for using and testing v1 Beta version. Already more than 20000 players are using it, thank you.
I started working on Lighting Improvements v2 and I have some nice plans and ideas. I'm going to try my best. No spoilers.
Until v2 Beta is ready to release I'm going to be pretty busy so I may not be able to read your messages.
Have fun <3
2025-03-30 14:23:32 +0000 UTC View Post
As you know game assets are designed for default lighting system and they are not PBR textures. So there is no way to get full potential of PBR lighting without changing all the assets with PBR textures. But I have an idea to mix systems together for best result.
I want to use improved default lighting for environment and PBR lighting for cabin & metallic/reflective surfaces like vehi...
2025-03-28 05:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You voted for default lighting system improvements ( https://www.patreon.com/posts/lighting-for-ats-125179494 ) and I'm going to do it. I will spend my next 2 weeks to improve default lighting system. I will continue new lighting system (PBR) after that. There is not that much I can do with def...
2025-03-27 01:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostIts going to take time to finish all the changes for new PBR lighting system. I see a lot of people want sunlight/nights/dynamic weather/day cycle etc soon as possible. If you want I can spend like 1-2 weeks to improve default lighting system so you can play with it until I finish new lighting improvements.
What I'm going to change for default lighting system :
Improve folia...
2025-03-26 01:48:32 +0000 UTC View Post