Custom Visuals 3.5.0

Custom Visuals v.3.5.0 by Techengage

OVER 18K DOWNLOADS! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT, FOLKS!

Custom Visuals is a partial graphics overhaul that makes your game look much more realistic; from police lights to clouds! This Mod increases the ambience of all lighting in the game, makes rain, cloud movement, shadows, and sunlight more realistic, makes motion blur more tolerable, and makes coronas more vibrant and lifelike. This Mod also adds environmental lighting to vehicles, especially emergency lights. You also now have the option to have all blue, all red, and all amber lighting! There are many more things to list, but I just recommend trying it out. After all, it's only two files, not twenty.

This Pack includes two Visualsettings.dat versions, two Carcols.ymt, and a All Blue Lights Template Library. Below is an explanation of each.

Bright makes slight changes to the original game settings, while allowing full use of all police sirens. Use this if Brighter is too much.

Brighter is a complete rework of the original game settings, revamping everything from emergency lights to clouds.

Carcols.ymt is necessary to give vehicle environmental effects and allows you to change light color. One gives fast ELS-style lighting, the other is normal light pattern speeds.

Blue Light Templates is an enormous library of blue/blue lighting templates needed to make vehicle lights blue. Any requests to add to this collection will be granted in a reasonable time period.

BEFORE INSTALLING, MAKE SURE TO CREATE BACK UP FILES. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CORRUPT SAVES/FILES. THANK YOU!

PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME HOW TO INSTALL THESE FILES BEYOND THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS. YOUTUBE & GOOGLE ARE GREAT!

IF YOUR LIGHTS ARE NOT BRIGHT OR ARE WHITE ONLY, MAKE SURE YOUR SHADER QUALITY & POST FX ARE AT LEAST ON HIGH!!

INSTALLATION:

Use Open IV to drop either of the visualsettings.dat files into Mods>Update>Update.rpf>Common>Data

Use Open IV to drop the carcols.ymt file into Mods>Update>Update.rpf>x64>Data

Add the lines in "ADD THESE LINES TO CARVARIATIONS.TXT" to your carvariations.meta (I recommend mpvalentines2, it works for every model). Make sure to change the vehicle name and the sirensettings="" to the corresponding number (14 for all blue fast, 15 for all red, etc)

IF YOU WANT ALL AMBER / ALL RED / ALL BLUE / ALL BLAHBLAHBLAH ENVIRONMENTAL LIGHTING/CORONAS (Must have carcols.ymt installed):

• All Amber Lighting: Change your vehicles sirensettings to 17 for LEDs, or 9 for rotary strobes. (Rockstar doesn't support amber LED reflections)
• All Red Lighting: Change your vehicles sirensettings to 15. Recommended for police add-ons used as fire rescue vehicles.
• All Blue Lighting (Fast Patterns): Change Sirensettings to 14. Then use the blue light templates to replace files within the .ytd file of any car you want with blue lights only.
• All Blue Lighting (Fast Patterns, alternate sequences): Change Sirensettings to 20. Lighting has different sequences compared to 14.
• All Blue Lighting (Slow Patterns): Change Sirensettings to 16. Exactly like 14, but with slower light patterns.
• Blue & Red Lighting (Fast Patterns): Change Sirensettings to 1.
• Blue & Red Lighting (Slow Patterns): Change Sirensettings to 19.
• Blue/Blue Highway Patrol Lighting (Rotary+LEDs): Change Sirensettings to 18, used to give F5544's Highway Patrol pack blue/blue lighting. Can be used with similiar models.
• Blue/Blue Lighting for Desmond98's LAPD FPIU v.0.7.5: Change Sirensetting to 21. Full credits to @CiscoFanboy for creating this specialized carcols.ymt code line for Desmond98's FPIU. This is absolutely necessary if you want the lighting to work on his newest update! Templates are still the same as previous versions.

TO FIX TAXI & TRAM SIGN ISSUES, PLEASE VIEW README IN "TAXI & TRAM SIGN FIX" FOLDER.

Credits:

• Bxbugs123 for the inspiration to work on visualsettings.meta
• TheGreatHah for the inspiration to learn how to work on carcols.ymt
• Straitdill, POLICESCO, GravelRoadCop, & PNWParksFan for the sequence numbers. I wouldn't have the new patterns without you guys!
• HUGE credits to JJDawkins for a large amount of my blue light textures and for teaching/motivating me to start coding GTAV.
• Razontex for contributing some nice screenshots to show off the awesome lighting.