Texture, Sky and Lighting Overhaul (V2)
A much improved version 2 of my tweaks to lighting, weather, ground and road textures, trees and skybox to get things looking as realistic and pleasing as possible.
In general I’m shooting for realistic, characterful, attractive, and not being too dark to play no matter the weather.
The look is a fair bit more bright, contrasty, colorful and less foggy than default, and gives much longer view distances too.
Lots of major reworks including HDR skyboxes, much better balanced tree colours, new road textures and lots more.
Compatibility note: As this takes advantage of some fairly fancy texture compression features of Direct X 11.1 to get the HDR skyboxes, it will not work correctly in the Windows 7 mode of the launcher, only the Windows 10 mode
Skyboxes
Weather/Lighting/Fog settings
Ground Textures
Road, Runway and Path Textures
Water Settings
Some Resource Textures
Some Tree Textures & Tree material settings.
Road Dust Particles
Lots of tweaks to lighting and sky brightness to stop sunsets from being so bright etc.
Improved road markings
Nicer (more yellow) fall grass
Assorted other small visual tweaks.
Fixed some missing road and path related material files, should fix overly dark paths and overly bright gravel roads.
REMEMBER YOU WILL NEED TO MANUALLY COPY THE FILES TO MEDIA_SOVIET AGAIN!
1. Subscribe to this mod and wait for it to download.
2. Right click on the game in Steam, select Manage > Show Local files. You will be taken to the game folder, usually ‘steamappscommonSoviet Republicmedia_soviet’.
3. Find the folder with the mod. To do this, open another window with the same address that you have open now, then go up a few levels to the folder ‘steamapps’, then go to the subfolder with the mod ‘steamappsworkshopcontent7841503228447902 ‘.
4. Copy the folders from the Media_Soviet.zip file into the Media_Soviet folder of your game install. (if you have terribly slow internet you might want to make backup copies of the original folders in your install)
For updates you have to copy the current data again into the appropriate folder as before. If your mod folder does not contain the Current Data, you will need to unsubscribe & resubscribe the mod once so that it downloads the latest version.
Just do a verify integrity of game files by right clicking on Workers and Resources in Steam and going to the installed files tab.
If this doesn’t work for any reason, just delete these folders (grass, particleeffect, paths, resources, tiles_normal, trees, waterriver, weathers) from your media_soviet folder and then do the verify integrity.
I did a reskin of the entire UI & Resources icons of Soviet Republic, if that’s your kind of thing.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2988567639
I’m also a game developer as a day job, if you like really detailed games about cars and engineering them, check out Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game
If you like what I’ve done, please consider contributing to the staggering amount of coffee it took to do the late nights on this mod <3 – https://ko-fi.com/daffyflyer
Maps in the screenshots are Tannheim Valley and Petersplatte – Advanced Realistic Start
Compatibility note: As this takes advantage of some fairly fancy texture compression features of Direct X 11.1 to get the HDR skyboxes, it will not work correctly in the Windows 7 mode of the launcher, only the Windows 10 mode
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
