Love the side by sides comparing to vanilla. I got the game only when PL launched and played on vanilla lighting til about a week ago. Looked perfectly fine til I saw your first comparison videos, really puts it into perspective how yellow/green vanilla is next to basically every other lighting mod.
Thanks! Yea it was the same for me too, my first 300hrs or so were played on vanilla and the first lighting mod I tried was GITS 1.63, it was a literal night and day difference and I couldnt go back to vanilla after that.
Yea thing about lighting mods is there's alot of artistic choice and subjective preferences that go into it. I know a few folks who like the vanilla look too, I personally find it way too dark, green and yellow.
Love the new style of the video, dramatic changes though. It feels more script heavy but still feels much more organic which must be hard to do. Must be a nightmare to create, especially when editing. How does it look on nor rt though? Is the road still get better than vanilla? Thank you though for creating an updated video!
Thanks! Yep it definitely took more work but I enjoyed the process. The goal was to make it feel more organic rather than just rolling out side by sides one after another. I haven't tested this version without RT but if the previous versions were any indication, non RT loses some of the deeper reds and looks just a tiny bit flatter. Doesn't look bad though.
veo mucho popping en las sombras sobre todo en los edificios , yo uso iluminacion nova lut 2.0 , hd reworked, ultra texture remaster de 13gb y path tracing y se ve mucho mejor calidad que en este video
The slightly muted colors of the e3 mod do so much to make the world feel more weathered and natural, especially on surfaces like single-color painted metal
I think strictly from an E3 replication perspective the Cyberlighting E3 Restoration mod is the most accurate one. But theme aside I prefer the overall look of this one. My go to lighting mod is still NCLM though.
Yep for sure, I'm a little out of my depth when it comes to themed mods tbh, especially the e3 ones. It's not that I don't like themed mods, it's just that my eyes can't "see" the similarities and differences, so I can't appreciate it. I've watched the e3 trailers and gameplay many many times and it just looks "kinda warm'ish and desert-like" to me. So ultimately I tend to lean toward whichever looks nicer to me, rather than which is more accurate to e3 haha.
Ive never really been going for complete accuracy though is the thing as I say on my mod page. The goal has always been to make a final product version of the visuals during those times if they stayed with that route. Instead of handing the game off to the visual studio they hired to do the current look they came up with in mid 2020. Some of the other mods disable certain things in the main files or edits them too much away from what works in the current game engine and as a result can have some small issues. And Im trying to avoid all of that. And agreed NCLM is a fantastic mod both it and its creator. And was actually a big motivation to make my mod looks as it does now. When I first saw the early work of it in the discord I saw for myself that it looked like what Cyberpunk could have been. Thus the changes in mine started to become E3VR vs what it was before.
@@l3monguy It doesnt so much flicker as it is moving. Ive been trying to get as good of a quality with the fog as I got out of the clouds and so I tried to move it as close to the player as possible. But the game has a camera rendering limit for post processing stuff like fog and on a exe level so can only be so close. So when you turn the camera it has to dissolve and move. Just limits of the engine there but the trade off I feel is worth it for extra volume looks in different areas with the fog
@@Skater6453Wait, are you the author of both the E3VR and Cyberlighting E3 Restoration? I saw you in the comments on this channels first vid about E3VR and I thought you were the author of it.
(bad english) To me, this mod look really great,its make the lighting feel more "cold-ish" which is my taste but it's just that maybe it's a bug ? or overtuned or a feature or something but seem like some emmisive lights( neons,car lights) such as the pyramid building in dogtown have all lost their bloom effects which look somewhat worse than vanilla. Also i know the author try to make it look more realistic but i wish i could change the rain weather lighting back to the greenish vanilla just because it's look really asthetic and atmospheric to me compare to the realistic,dull boring looking rain lighting in the mod.
Whats the impact on reflections with rt off and space screen reflections ultra ? After this video im considering this mod. i don't play with rt i have a 6800 and play on native 1440p
imgsli.com/MjI3MjEy Stills don't really provide a comprehensive representation of the reflections, I'd say there is a slight difference(e3vr's SSR reflections are somewhat less intense but that could be down to just lighting differences), I'm not even sure if the gloss changes in v2.91 affect SSR at all, what I do know is editing reflection roughness threshold via INI only affects RT and not SSR. Either way, if there is any difference it is no where as stark as with RT on.
Hey, Krishna! I wish you could do a comparison between E3VR 2.82 and 2.91 versions in the same locations. I loved how 2.82 made the game look. I may be wrong but it seems like 2.91 is more contrasts and a bit darker. Would love to have non-visual improvements of 2.91 in the 2.82 version of the mod. P.S. I wonder if it’s the OLED cellphone screen that makes it look more contrasty. Gotta rewatch the video on my LCD monitor.
It is actually an OLED thing you are right. As I have an OLED monitor and when I watch on an LCD it doesn't look like what it does for me. Wasn't so much an issue for 2.82. So I'm actually working on an update already to address this and dial back some things and I think I went overboard with the red. Also have a few issues to fix.
@@Skater6453 hey skater, thanks for all the hard work on this mod. Just wanted to chime in on the discussion, I think 2.82 looks better than 2.91. It seems 2.91 has more fog and therefore a lot of the colors is more washed out. Also from far away the distance fog is slightly worse. Was this indeed altered?
@@ItsBlitzysorry about that and I agree. I made some backpedals in the new 2.92 update to address a lot of those concerns that I have noticed myself. It's crazy how your eyes adjust and see things different sometimes after working on an update for a while. Hopefully the new version going back more towards the older look with the same improvements looks better for you.
this mod doesn't work with HDR for me, but more importantly, for me the best E3 inspired graphics mod is the cyberlighting e3 2018 demo restoration project.
I have Cyberlighting downloaded and plan on checking it out once I'm done with the next coupla videos, currently trying out preem lut and nova lut. Also waiting on E3 2018 lighting mod to get its update, then maybe I'll do an e3 lighting mod round up sometime.
