Natural Mod PP Filter 26.1

Pure script:
Adjust ambient light, should look just right as sun is coming down now
Remove skydome contrast adjustment

Significant changes to exposure and ambient light, should give better visibility in general and bright tracks like LAC and High Force should look better.
Fine tuning of VAO, spectrum adaption, displays, glare, clouds, reflections, sunblinding

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Pure script:

• Enabled ambient light v2

Adjusted:​

• Ambient Light
• Spectrum Adaption
• Lambert gamma
• Stars appearance
• Emissives

didn't get a chance to test extensively or take screenshots but should be good

Changes to Pure script:
Requires Pure 0.222 + CSP 0.2.0 or higher

• Configure Pure sunblinding shader
• Configure advanced ambient light
• Exposure adjustments in dark scenarios
• A few misc tweaks
• Remove support for older versions of Pure and CSP

If you like the filter, you can get email notifications of updates via Racedepartment's "watch" function.

Pure script:
Adjust sunrays
Adjust displays brightness

Make sure you are using Natural_Mod and not some old ones which have since been removed like Natural_Mod_pure , Natural_Mod_vr etc.
If you like the filter, you can get email notifications of updates via Racedepartment's "watch" function.

Note that free version of CM doesn't install this properly via drag and drop.

Pure script:
Adjusted:

• overall brigthness at day and at night
• highlights tonemapping
• directional ambient light (more subtle)
• displays, lights brightness
• workaround a potential issue with custom tonemapping/pure config app which could cause other filters to look weird after using this one. suggest to reset pure config to default settings (and press save) to start fresh

Make sure you are using Natural_Mod and not some old ones which have since been removed like Natural_Mod_pure , Natural_Mod_vr etc.
If you like the filter, you can get email notifications of updates via Racedepartment's "watch" function.

Note that free version of CM doesn't install this properly via drag and drop.

issue with RD upload - redownload if you got this one

v21
new tonemapping via pure 0.180/CSP 0.180p218 significantly but subtly changes the whole look. not tested extensively but seems like a nice step change so thought it was worth uploading.

v21.1
add backwards compatibility for older csp version

New tonemapping (as shown in screenshots) only available with CSP 0.180p218 or above

new tonemapping via pure 0.180 significantly but subtly changes the whole look. not tested extensively but seems like a nice step change so thought it was worth uploading

Requires CSP 0.180p218

Pure script:

• Lots of fine tuning
• Changed approach to setting gamma+filmic contrast thanks to Ciba1991
• Includes fix for slow exposure initialisation with Pure 0.180 - code provided by Peter Boese

If you like the filter, you can get email notifications of updates via Racedepartment's "watch" function.

Note that free version of CM doesn't install this properly via drag and drop.

Adjust DEPTH_MASK_THRESHOLD to address issue with pure skydomes (thanks @ReturnMe ) (also added note to mod overview page re. skydome and clip planes)

Pure script
Adjusted Lambert gamma - can have a big impact on the overall look, I think its better now
Adjust sun saturation
Adjust night exposure control

If you like the filter, you can get email notifications of updates via Racedepartment's "watch" function.

Note that free version of CM doesn't install this properly via drag and drop.

Pure Script
Improve look at low sun angles
Adjust sunrays
Adjust sun saturation
Adjust skydome brightness
Adjust exposure sensitivity
Adjust emissive strength

Sol Script
Better sunrays

Natural_Mod.ini
Adjust glare
adjust DEPTH_MASK_THRESHOLD

Natural_Mod_Base.ini
Adjust saturation
Adjust glare

Natural_Mod_Photomode.ini
Remove CG

If you like the filter, you can get email notifications of updates via Racedepartment's "watch" function.

Note that free version of CM doesn't install this properly via drag and drop.

Pure script:

• Tweak lambert gamma (sun effect on materials at low angles)
• Tweak sunray length and fix excessive sunrays in some cases in VR
• Contrast and brightness in bad weather

If you like the filter, you can get email notifications of updates via Racedepartment's "watch" function.

Pure script (REQUIRES PURE VERSION 0.154):

• Switch to new Pure AE logic, tuned for minimal fluctuation to avoid noticeable brightness changes. Day/night transition should be better, brightness more appropriate in all conditions, especially on some mod tracks which were brighter than KS tracks with this filter.
• Minor tweaks to:
  • contrast logic
  • gamma logic
  • lights strength
  • emissives
  • sunrays

As the changes to the pure version were fairly drastic (despite hopefully looking largely unchanged), there might be a few more tweaks to come, so you might want to enable email notifications of updates via Racedepartment's "watch" function.

Natural_Mod_Base (for default weatherFX)

• Increased exposure

Natural Mod + Pure:

Pure script:
Adjusted the following: exposure+contrast logic, emissives, displays, lights, VAO in overcast, sunrays, sun saturation

Shouldn't look too different despite changing lots of the script

Pure:

• Improved sunrays
• Improved contrast, saturation, brightness in shade and in mixed weather (e.g. broken clouds)
• a few other misc tweaks

Pure
Improved sunrise/sunset transition
Improved appearance in bad weather

Sol
Adjusted filmic contrast, less washed out, closer in apperance to my Pure script

If you like the filter, you can get email notifications of updates via Racedepartment's "watch" function.

Screenshots with Pure:

Pure minimum version 0.142
Changes to Pure script:

• Adjusted tonemapping, improves contrast in overcast or dusk/dawn
• Much better handling of dark weather and extremely bright weather
• Better handling of tunnels
• Adjusted skydome brightness
• Complete overhal of the script, might require some fine tuning but the logic is far better than before. Please report any issues, e.g. night time brightness, lights, emissives, tunnels, transitions through daytime to sunset etc.

Properly dialed in for all weathers/times of day with Pure now

Pure:

• Overall slightly more contrast/less washed out
• Dusk/dawn brightness fixed
• Some over-bright mod tracks should look a bit better
• Glare at night adjusted
• Refined skydome appearance in bad weather
• Slightly more visible sunrays

General:

• Removed colour grading as it doesn't work in VR

Thank you very much to those who donated!

Nothing major, refining the Pure version, still some more work to do on making it not too bright on some non-KS tracks (have something planned but need to test it further)

Thank you very much to those who donated recently, seems like there was a handful all at once from nowhere, so I guess the filter appeared in a video or something?