Vanderlinde Vision - Total Vision Overhaul (VDLV)

Completely change the visual style of the game to make it more realistic and natural without looking monotonous. (please read detailed description)

Van der Linde's Vision - A Visual Overhaul (VDLV)

"Real", oh how I hate that word. Such a lack of imagination! - Dutch van der Linde

🌟Mod Overview

This visual mod completely changes the visual style of the game, making it look and feel more realistic and natural. Every weather has been completely reworked with more realistic conditions and appearance.

✨ Main features

🌞 Fully redesigned lighting and shadows

• Significantly adjusted direct sunlight and moonlight to make them more realistic
• Sunlight has bright rays and sharp shadows
• Moonlight is softer and cooler, with softer shadows (the original moonlight effect is too exaggerated)
• Weather conditions determine the intensity of direct sunlight from the sun and moon
• Adjust lighting for better, more natural ambient occlusion and contrast

☁️ Realistic depiction of clouds

• Extensive research ensures accurate cloud appearance and characteristics for every weather
• Each cloud type has different lighting and height
• Certain cloud types are more active at different times of day and cloud location
• Restored cloud shadows, intensity and darkness depending on cloud type (no more bright direct light from sunlight penetrating three layers of clouds)

🌦️ Improved weather transitions and probabilities

• The probability of each type of weather occurring in different areas is different
• Take advantage of each type of weather in different areas (unlike the original where many weathers don't appear at all)
• Adjusted weather transitions to be slower (no longer changes from sunny to thunderstorm in 40 seconds)
• Weather duration is more persistent (no weather switching every minute)
• The overall weather flow has been improved and no longer appears chaotic

🌌Reproduced night sky

• Completely revamped the overall look of the night sky to make it more realistic
• The Milky Way is more permanently visible in all kinds of weather
• Add more stars and more obvious constellations

⛈️Customized storm weather

• Introducing custom weather with localized storms in the mountains and southern Lemoyne areas
• Storm has dynamic growth effects and has been fully polished
• Take advantage of the game's ability to manually position clouds to create this kind of weather
• Can appear in almost all areas of the map with appropriate transformation effects

🛠️ Other improvements and quality of life adjustments

• ✅ Adjust and improve dusk color and duration
• ✅Real wind speed for all weather
• ✅ Fixed original issues (such as zombie indoor lighting, sky strips, etc.)
• ✅ Remade precipitation particle effect
• ✅ Improved TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing)
• ✅ Improved water reflection and puddle effects
• ✅ Remove vignetting effect
• ✅ Removed glowing pickup effect
• ✅ Reduce but not completely disable color correction
• ✅ Revised and improved mission weather

🙏 Acknowledgments

• **TuffyTown** provides VSR (this game cannot be completed without this mod)
• **khorvair** provides the module name
• **Wockenheimer** and **stges** provided help with certain parts of the mod
• **PlanKing33** offers Lod Light Fix

⚠️ Instructions for use

• It is recommended to adjust the game settings to match the .txt file for best performance and appearance
• Any suggestions can be made in the "Posts" tab, bugs/faults can be reported in the "Bugs" tab
• The visualsettings.dat file is incompatible with any other mods that modify the same file
• If using Dynamic Seasons, download the merged version instead of the main version

🐛 Known issues

• Certain frames in certain missions (such as "Revenge is a dish best eaten hot" and the Guarma ship sequence) are very dark
• Local time periods were not working properly in version 1.4 (fixed and improved in version 1.5)
• There are some minor issues with reflections, such as rare flickering or t …