This is the roadmap I'm planning for lighting improvements.
Fixing crash issues
Fixing invisible/incorrect objects/lights
Adding custom improved rain/snow (I will focus on improving overcast weather)
Adding seasons without changing assets (it will be hard to do without changing assets but I will try)
Adding dynamic weathe...
2025-03-25 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Beta version of Lighting Improvements.
This version is just for testing and fixing new lighting improvements.
Currently there is no settings for performance/quality, dynamic weather/sky, default reflection system, night time/time of day. More features will be implemented in the future.
There are some shaders not implemented yet, if you see any object/light miss...
2025-03-23 03:57:38 +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.
- When it will be released?
Test version will be released until 23/03/2025. I will release it even if there is something missing, I don't want to delay it anymore.
- Is it free or paid?
I'm planning to keep it free if donations are enough aft...
2025-03-18 02:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostI'm trying to make everything perfect as possible but pushing the release date makes me less motivated and I become less productive. I don't want you to wait, even there is something missing I'm going to release the test version for lighting improvements until 23/03/2025. I will continue to make improvements and fixes after release. I'm sorry about the long wait.
Edit: Its not the people,...
2025-03-16 22:01:58 +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. Coming soon...
* Its not released yet. This is just a simple preview to demonstrate lighting changes and improvements.
2025-03-08 16:33:22 +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. Coming soon...
* Its not released yet. This is just a simple preview to demonstrate lighting changes and improvements.
2025-03-06 05:10:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
Lighting mod is almost ready to release. I had some work to do and also made some changes to make it better so I'm a little bit late again, I'm sorry about that.
Today ATS got 1.54 beta update and ETS2 is going to be updated soon. With 1.54 update there are some shader changes which doesn't work with lighting mod. I need a few days to prepare shaders for 1.54 version...
2025-02-26 19:14:56 +0000 UTC View PostOptimization is almost ready and I'm planning to release the test version soon as possible.
Currently there isn't any setting for lower quality and this is the result I get on test computer:
GPU: RTX 4050 (laptop) = RTX 3060 for desktop
Game settings: Highest Quality with 100% resolution scaling at 1080p (low quality mirrors for better comparison)
New lighting settings: ...
2025-02-11 14:27:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I apologize, I'm a little bit late, still working on clean up and optimization because I had to take a few days off.
Meanwhile I also made a new lighting algorithm to improve realism. You can see the comparison from pictures, background is the source of lighting and also a real life picture.
Colors match better with the lighting source compared to older versions. Its still using d...
2025-01-29 02:22:33 +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. Coming soon...
** New reflection system (SSR) cannot reflect objects that are not on the screen, when it cannot find an object sky used as source of reflection. SSR is perfect for first person driving but not great for inspecting vehicles.
** Youtube com...
2025-01-16 22:26:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The reason why I don't want to add sunlight, it looks like trash without PBR textures and small details, it belongs to garbage bin :/
Even the reason there is a lot of details on foliage because of SSS (screen space shadows), it looks a lot worse without SSS.
** Do not mind the sky, I just didn't prepare exposure settings, its not important.
This is a lighting mod to ...
2025-01-16 19:14:25 +0000 UTC View Post
** Well looks like there is fake shadow for trucks too :D Thanks to @RubberDuck <3 You just need to set r_fake_shadows to 2 from game config to enable fake shadows for trucks and trailers. But looks like its rendering fake shadows before road lines, I should fix that to make sure fake shadows rendered last.
** New reflection system (SSR) cannot reflect objects that are not on the scree...
2025-01-15 12:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post
** Because there is no fake shadows provided by game I will try to implement a custom system to add better shadows under trucks & vehicles.
** New reflection system (SSR) cannot reflect objects that are not on the screen, when it cannot find an object sky used as source of reflection. SSR is perfect for first person driving but not great for inspecting vehicles.
** Foliage assets are default game assets. Youtube compression made it a little bit blurry because of a lot of details, please watch in 4k.
** New foliage rendering/lighting improvements to make it more realistic.
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 and ATS. It is replacing default lighting system with modern lighting methods. Coming soon...
Its not rel...
2025-01-13 20:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I made some changes to improve foliage rendering and make it more realistic with new lighting system, I hope you like it <3
Improved lighting for foliage
Improved thickness of foliage with TAA blending
This is a lighting mod to improve lighting in ETS 2 and ATS. It is replacing default lighting system with modern lighting methods. Coming soon...
Its not released yet. This is just a simple preview to demonstrate lighting changes.
Currently using simple static weather/sky system, going to change later
Some surfaces are not ready yet, their colors migh...
2025-01-12 21:36:32 +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. Coming soon...
Its not released yet. This is just a simple preview to demonstrate lighting changes.
Currently using simple static weather/sky system, going to change later
Some surfaces are not ready yet, their colors migh...
2025-01-12 01:55:15 +0000 UTC View PostIf you have anything else to ask please leave a comment so I can add it to the list.
- When it will be released?
I'm trying to release it soon as possible, I don't want to release anything broken and I like to make it perfect as possible I can.
- Is it free or paid?
I'm planning to keep it free if donations are enough after release, if its not enough its going to be 1$/m...
2025-01-09 13:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Its not released yet. This is just a simple preview to demonstrate lighting changes.
Currently using simple static weather/sky system, going to change later
Some surfaces are not ready yet, their colors might look weird
Reflection amount of reflective surfaces are currently same
for all so some trailers etc reflect a lot of li...
2025-01-06 18:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Its not released yet. This is just a simple preview to demonstrate lighting changes.
Currently using simple static weather/sky system, going to change later
Some surfaces are not ready yet, their colors might look weird
Reflection amount of reflective surfaces are currently same
for all so some trailers etc reflect a lot of li...
2025-01-05 14:36:08 +0000 UTC View Post
New reflection system for water and wet surfaces.
Next I will try to make roads wet and add realistic rain.
***Its not released yet.
2025-01-04 17:59:47 +0000 UTC View Post
*** Its not released yet
Improvements :
New SSAO implementation
New fog system
Small lighting improvements
Next :
Screen Space Reflections for water and rain reflections
Adding puddles to create a realistic rainy weather
(Ignore sky and fog, sky is for reference to real life comparison and I didn't replace fog yet :D)
Album: https://imgur.com/a/HR0K0zC
Game textures are not PBR textures, when its rendered with PBR sunlight its losing a lot of details compared to PBR textures and becomes washed out.
Even if gam...
2024-12-21 12:22:09 +0000 UTC View PostI'm currently working on weather system for new PBR lighting and I'm focusing on realism + performance. I have an idea but some people might not like it.
If you saw any video about "realistic graphics in games" on youtube, probably it had overcast weather with maybe rain. Why? Because sunlight is expensive to calculate with bounce calculations, even you let it use a lot of resource its ne...
2024-12-18 15:45:54 +0000 UTC View Post
While working on foliage I decided to try implementing PBR lighting again to get proper foliage lighting (I changed a few trees with a new tree to do some tests), currently it looks promising but I cannot promise anything yet.
Because it depends on a lot of things. I think I need to implement my own weather - sky - day/night system to get best results.
I will try to replace all the ...
2024-12-09 03:46:58 +0000 UTC View PostDo you want a better foliage (tree/grass) mod for ETS 2 and ATS?
Foliage is the worst looking part of ETS 2/ATS for me but I'm not sure if its same for you so I wanted to do a poll.
Its not going to be a mod like other foliage mods. Its going to be a .dll file with new high quality models/textures with new shaders. I cannot replace the whole lighting system (because most default tex...
2024-12-06 09:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
IMPORTANT: If its crashing, delete "snowymoon...cfg" files from "/bin/win_x64/" folder. If you have "NVIDIA Smooth Motion" enabled, disable it.
Added Per Object Motion Blur
Full motion blur applied in interior camera but intensity used as 0 with other cameras, motion blur is going to affect less outside of interior camera
(Wheels require radial motion...
2024-08-27 23:02:57 +0000 UTC View PostI previously gave information about the game I was working on in this post ( https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-1-scale-open-104162095 ) .
But while working on it I noticed something. There is no game that uses the full potential of high-end computers.
I like to play a game where I drive...
2024-07-23 05:09:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I see some people asking "Why should I use your TAA when ETS2/ATS has it". Lets check with some comparisons.
1080p 120 FPS Comparisons (same vehicle speed for in motion comparisons)
TAA Soft (Native), 0 Sharpening vs TAA Clarity by Snowy Moon, 0 Sharpening (In motion)
2024-07-15 19:34:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a test version, if you see any problem please leave feedback.
Currently only TAA - TAA Clarity - DLAA included, I might add DLSS in the future.
Download v1.1.6 : https://cdn.snowymoondl.net/gta5_v1/taa_gta5_v1_1_6_snowymoon.io.zip
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