In many maps, Stayd added many more dynamic lights and fixed many cases in the game where the lights don't match what you see in the environment (i.e. With a Unity-based map editor I created, Stayd is able to edit the placement of dynamic lights and map objects. The most ambitious part of the mod is the map and light edits. Stayd is also able to edit per-object rendering parameters to make many more objects shadow casters and increase the number of point lights that can cast shadows at the same time, making the game look much less flat. It's kinda like tweaking a reshade but since it's in engine, you have much more control over the look and can tweak it on an area basis.

The mod also adjusts the game's 'filter parameters' which control things like the sunlight, ambient light levels, color grading, fog, and other things. Everything from material shading, antialiasing, ambient occlusion, bloom, skin shading, and more was upgraded with higher quality versions. By reverse engineering and decompiling the game's shaders, Stayd was able to rewrite many of the effects to be of much higher quality.

DS2 SOTFS is ultimately based on a PS3 era game and most of the shaders and post-processing is very low quality compared to PS4 counterparts. So I'm a Souls modding tool developer and I've worked closely with Stayd (the author of this mod) on developing the tools needed to make this mod possible, so I can give an overview on what this mod is doing and how it works.Īt the core of this mod is the upgraded shaders.

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