Hi. I just wanted to know if there is any way I can dim the street lights at night? Whenever I patrol around at night (especially with the snow mod), the street lights are so unrealistically bright to the point where it is just plain annoying.   I can hardly see the light bar on my cruiser. Is there like a ".ide" or ".dat" file or something like that where it allows me to change a setting or the value of a number to dim the street lights? I'm not looking for any ENBs or graphic mods because anytime I try one it screws up my game. I don't have any ENB or anything like that in my game now.

 

Thanks for your time! Please help me with this!

Try to look at your visualdata.dat file, and search for the environment lightning or turn your light bar up ( e missive )

How would you turn up the light bar?

 

Hi. I just wanted to know if there is any way I can dim the street lights at night? Whenever I patrol around at night (especially with the snow mod), the street lights are so unrealistically bright to the point where it is just plain annoying.   I can hardly see the light bar on my cruiser. Is there like a ".ide" or ".dat" file or something like that where it allows me to change a setting or the value of a number to dim the street lights? I'm not looking for any ENBs or graphic mods because anytime I try one it screws up my game. I don't have any ENB or anything like that in my game now.

 

Thanks for your time! Please help me with this!

Location- GTAIV/common/data/visualSettings.dat

(OPEN WITH NOTEPAD)

 

Look for this for your ELS lights

 

# Other emissive lights

car.defaultlight.emissive.on 40.00

car.defaultlight.emissive.off 0.05

car.brakelight.emissive.on 15.00

car.brakelight.emissive.off 0.05

car.middlebrakelight.emissive.on 15.00

car.middlebrakelight.emissive.off 0.05

car.reversinglight.emissive.on 15.00

car.reversinglight.emissive.off 0.10

car.extralight.emissive.on 40.00

car.extralight.emissive.off 0.05

 

Look for this for streetlights

 

#Config values for traffic lights

# trafficLight.red.color 1.00 0.10 0.00

trafficLight.red.color.red 1.00

trafficLight.red.color.green 0.10

trafficLight.red.color.blue 0.00

# trafficLight.amber.color 1.00 0.30 0.00

trafficLight.amber.color.red 1.00

trafficLight.amber.color.green 0.30

trafficLight.amber.color.blue 0.00

# trafficLight.green.color 0.10 0.40 0.10

trafficLight.green.color.red 0.10

trafficLight.green.color.green 0.40

trafficLight.green.color.blue 0.10

trafficLight.intensity 20.00

trafficLight.falloffMax 14.00

trafficLight.innerConeAngle 25.00

trafficLight.outerConeAngle 90.00

 

This should fix your problem,ENJOY!

Just to add to the above, I recommend opening with another editor, like notepad++ instead. http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Location- GTAIV/common/data/visualSettings.dat

(OPEN WITH NOTEPAD)

 

Look for this for your ELS lights

 

# Other emissive lights

car.defaultlight.emissive.on 40.00

car.defaultlight.emissive.off 0.05

car.brakelight.emissive.on 15.00

car.brakelight.emissive.off 0.05

car.middlebrakelight.emissive.on 15.00

car.middlebrakelight.emissive.off 0.05

car.reversinglight.emissive.on 15.00

car.reversinglight.emissive.off 0.10

car.extralight.emissive.on 40.00

car.extralight.emissive.off 0.05

 

Look for this for streetlights

 

#Config values for traffic lights

# trafficLight.red.color 1.00 0.10 0.00

trafficLight.red.color.red 1.00

trafficLight.red.color.green 0.10

trafficLight.red.color.blue 0.00

# trafficLight.amber.color 1.00 0.30 0.00

trafficLight.amber.color.red 1.00

trafficLight.amber.color.green 0.30

trafficLight.amber.color.blue 0.00

# trafficLight.green.color 0.10 0.40 0.10

trafficLight.green.color.red 0.10

trafficLight.green.color.green 0.40

trafficLight.green.color.blue 0.10

trafficLight.intensity 20.00

trafficLight.falloffMax 14.00

trafficLight.innerConeAngle 25.00

trafficLight.outerConeAngle 90.00

 

This should fix your problem,ENJOY!

I tried it, but the "trafficLight.intensity" value didn't affect the intensity of the street lights at all.

I tried it, but the "trafficLight.intensity" value didn't affect the intensity of the street lights at all.

Well can you take a screen shot of what it looks like?

 

Also did the other emissive lights settings fix your light bar lights?

Edited January 24, 201412 yr by 1997chevyboy

 

Well can you take a screen shot of what it looks like?

 

Also did the other emissive lights settings fix your light bar lights?

 

The light bar lights were fine, it was just that like, lets say I make a traffic stop under one of the street lights, the brightness from the street lights over-takes the light bar and it doesn't look realistic at all and you can hardly see the police lights.

 

Sure. I will screenshot now.

The light bar lights were fine, it was just that like, lets say I make a traffic stop under one of the street lights, the brightness from the street lights over-takes the light bar and it doesn't look realistic at all and you can hardly see the police lights.

 

Sure. I will screenshot now.

Oh so its not the actual lights on the lightbar, but the lights that shine on the ground and buildings from the light bar?

Do you have simple native trainer? What I would recommend is messing with your weather, between sunny, extra sunny and extra sunny 2 and different times of day and then freezing the time and weather to the optimum setting. I have just started doing this recently and it made a big difference in my game. Just a thought and you don't have to mess with any time cycles or ENB's!

Do you have simple native trainer? What I would recommend is messing with your weather, between sunny, extra sunny and extra sunny 2 and different times of day and then freezing the time and weather to the optimum setting. I have just started doing this recently and it made a big difference in my game. Just a thought and you don't have to mess with any time cycles or ENB's!

Yes this does help but he obviously has some bad settings bc, the street lights shouldn't overwhelm his lightbar!

 

Well can you take a screen shot of what it looks like?

 

Also did the other emissive lights settings fix your light bar lights?

 

Here are the screen-shots:

 

Do you have simple native trainer? What I would recommend is messing with your weather, between sunny, extra sunny and extra sunny 2 and different times of day and then freezing the time and weather to the optimum setting. I have just started doing this recently and it made a big difference in my game. Just a thought and you don't have to mess with any time cycles or ENB's!

Yeah, I have that. I always adjust my time of day/weather settings according to the time of day in real life I am playing/patrolling. It doesn't fix the street lights thing, though. It does, however, give me more flexible options for weather and time of day. I don't know what I would do without that setting.

Here are the screen-shots:

 

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K so what it looks like is your ENV lighting need to be set, find your ELS.ini in your main gta and change these settings

 

[ ENV LIGHTING ]

Range_PRML = 65

Inten_PRML = 50

Range_SECL = 15

Inten_SECL =25

Range_WRNL =20

Inten_WRNL =2

EnvMult_Morning = 0.4

EnvMult_Evening = 0.6

EnvMult_Night = 0.6

 

and for the red ,blue ,and amber lights on the ground you go to the els manila folder, default_config

 

[ ENV_LIGHT_COLORS ]

Extra_1 = red

Extra_2 = red

Extra_3 = blue

Extra_4 = blue

Extra_5 = white

Extra_6 = white

Extra_7 = amber

Extra_8 = red

Extra_9 = amber

 

 

Edited January 24, 201412 yr by 1997chevyboy

 

K so what it looks like is your ENV lighting need to be set, find your ELS.ini in your main gta and change these settings

 

[ ENV LIGHTING ]

Range_PRML = 65

Inten_PRML = 50

Range_SECL = 15

Inten_SECL =25

Range_WRNL =20

Inten_WRNL =2

EnvMult_Morning = 0.4

EnvMult_Evening = 0.6

EnvMult_Night = 0.6

 

and for the red ,blue ,and amber lights on the ground you go to the els manila folder, default_config

 

[ ENV_LIGHT_COLORS ]

Extra_1 = red

Extra_2 = red

Extra_3 = blue

Extra_4 = blue

Extra_5 = white

Extra_6 = white

Extra_7 = amber

Extra_8 = red

Extra_9 = amber

 

 

Thanks, but this is for the light bar, not the street lights. The problem I'm having is that the nights are too bright and the reason I think that is causing these bright nights is the street lights being too bright. I want to make them dimmer, not the light bar brighter. If I waited until night time and looked outside of my house, the street lights would emit some light, but if you were to try to drive without headlights, you wouldn't be able to see. The reason why I mentioned the light bar was to help everyone better understand what I was trying to say, reason being because I have posted this issue in the past and nobody really helped me or was really bothering. You seem to be helping me the most, though- I must say!

Thanks, but this is for the light bar, not the street lights. The problem I'm having is that the nights are too bright and the reason I think that is causing these bright nights is the street lights being too bright. I want to make them dimmer, not the light bar brighter. If I waited until night time and looked outside of my house, the street lights would emit some light, but if you were to try to drive without headlights, you wouldn't be able to see. The reason why I mentioned the light bar was to help everyone better understand what I was trying to say, reason being because I have posted this issue in the past and nobody really helped me or was really bothering. You seem to be helping me the most, though- I must say!

Thanks man, i would want someone to help me if i needed it as well, but back to your problem. The only thing that i know for shure that will fix this, is using some new timecycle files- like this one here http://www.gta4-mods.com/misc/realityiv-162-timecycle-mod-f7929

This wont have a huge impact on your pc like an ENB or ICE will! It will also make your game look much better! Now if you dont want to try this, all i can say is try messing with your ingame display brightness and contrast.

 

Let me know how it goes, also this does have a new visualsettings.dat, so make a backup of your old one if you like how your ELS lights look now. You might have to change them alittle with the new timecycle files, but its worth it!!!

 

Also my post about your ENV lighting, this is not the actual light that is on the light bar. It is the light that is emitted onto objects around you and on the ground from the light bar. I say this because i knoticed in your pics with ELS on, that there is no lights on the ground from your lightbar! Like seen in my video here

 

(WATCH IN 720P)

Edited January 24, 201412 yr by 1997chevyboy

Thanks man, i would want someone to help me if i needed it as well, but back to your problem. The only thing that i know for shure that will fix this, is using some new timecycle files- like this one here http://www.gta4-mods.com/misc/realityiv-162-timecycle-mod-f7929

This wont have a huge impact on your pc like an ENB or ICE will! It will also make your game look much better! Now if you dont want to try this, all i can say is try messing with your ingame display brightness and contrast.

 

Let me know how it goes, also this does have a new visualsettings.dat, so make a backup of your old one if you like how your ELS lights look now. You might have to change them alittle with the new timecycle files, but its worth it!!!

Okay. Thanks! Yeah, I downloaded it. The amount of files don't look so bad. I'll try it out. Thanks for the help!

Okay. Thanks! Yeah, I downloaded it. The amount of files don't look so bad. I'll try it out. Thanks for the help!

K, also check my above post again for a description of what your ENV lighting is!

K, also check my above post again for a description of what your ENV lighting is!

Oh, yeah, I have the police light env set. lol- it's just hard to see with those damn street lights! Thanks, though!

Oh, yeah, I have the police light env set. lol- it's just hard to see with those damn street lights! Thanks, though!

K was just makin shure, im shure all the white snow doesnt help!

K was just makin shure, im shure all the white snow doesnt help!

yeah, I know, but surprisingly, there's almost no difference with the lighting