Lighting

Collection 7/10: Lighting

This section impacts primarily the lighting and should have a relatively minimal impact on NV performance.

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Main File - Desert Natural Weathers NV

Major overhaul to all of the weathers for the base game and DLCs.

As visual mods are very subjective, not everyone will like DN Weathers. If you want an alternatives, I recommend checking out Altitude, Yellow Goodbye, or Clarity. Yellow Goodbye and Clarity aim for a much more vanilla style, mostly just removing the game's atmospheric tint. Meanwhile, Altitude aims to strike a balance between staying vanilla-friendly and being a complete overhaul. These three mods should have little to no performance loss, even on lower-end systems.

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Main File - Atmospheric Lighting Tweaks - FNV

Makes changes to Image Spaces and Lighting Templates to give interiors a more dynamic and atmospheric look.

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Main File - Climate Control NVSE
Optional File - Longer Weather Transitions

Fixes bugs and adds utilities for weather mods. The optional mod makes weather transitions take longer for realism.

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Main File - Heat Haze

Adds a distant heat haze visual effect during hot weather conditions. Uses Climate Control.

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Main File - Cloud Shadows

Changes Wasteland lighting when clouds are overhead. Great immersion tweak.

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Main File - Dusty Distance Redone
Optional File - Dusty Distance Redone - 39k (no nights tweaks)

Adds a dusty haze effect to the Wasteland only impacting your long-range view to make the world feel more expansive. I recommend the 39k version as I find the 29k makes the world feel small and it's more distracting than beneficial.