Modder ‘bravo16mt’ has released a new mod for Kingdom Come: Deliverance that greatly improves its ambient occlusion effects. This mod, called Ambient Occlusion Fix, makes ambient occlusion more noticeable, thus making most of the environments feel less flat and more realistic.
This mod also makes Rim Light less shiny, reduces textures overbright effect, has been tweaked for SVOTI (and packs some SSDO tweaks) and does not bring any additional performance hit.
In order to showcase the newly improved ambient occlusion effects, the modder released some comparison screenshots that you can view below. The vanilla version is on the left and the modded version is on the right.
Those interested can download the mod from here. And here is how you can install it.
- 1. a) (Steam): Add “+exec user.cfg” command into Steam, by “Set Launch Options” – (without quotes).
or, b) (other than Steam): Add “+exec user.cfg” into game shortcut – (at the end of line, without quotes). - 2. Download, and unpack “Ambient_Occlusion_Fix_user“.
- 3. Put user.cfg (file) into Your main Kingdom Come: Deliverance dir – same folder, where Data and Engine folders are.
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on the picture I see no difference….?
Open them in new tabs (right click an image and then open in new tab), it will be way easier to notice the improvements.
open your eyes in new tabs
Darker doesn’t necessarily mean better though. The issue with these tweaks is that they might give you a bad result in certain situations.
Indeed.
Yes, better, but necessary? There are always the purists and I understand, but for me and for most gamers, mods like this really aren’t needed to enjoy the game. I stopped with most visual mods for games like Skyrim, Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3. because it became an obsession it ruined the fun of just playing.
Visual mods can sometimes destroy the consistency of the graphics. Also, I like seeing games as they looked back then. If I play a title from 2002, I fully accept its archaic looks. If I was to install some comprehensive visual mod, I’d do this after finishing the game.
Games from 2000s have old gfx yea but i mean if it’s good it’s good right? Same goes for movies. Terminator 1-2 were really good and yet the new ones with so much cgi don’t even come close.
Gfx are overated in many cases.
Purists? Visual mods are the most popular mods.
It’s generally about fixing the game than overwriting it. Fixing pop-in, bad shadows, texture quality, filtering, aa etc.. if you are modding to your liking with the mods then you are no longer fixing it rather molding it to your preference over the artistry of the game itself. But, it’s really on you to stop when you feel it’s right.
I feel one of the greatest things about PC gaming is fixing the game. When you can play your game at widescreen, no jaggies and minimal pop-in; why suffer through the lower quality? it’s not doing the game any benefits.
It is on you. It is necessary for me, if it’s not for you then it’s your choice. That’s the whole point. Choice.
John never said it was “necessary” and anecdotal hobbyist burnout hardly qualifies as a good reason for modding to be pushed aside for others still enjoying themselves. I agree, modding games can be tedious may induce burn out if you are not enjoying it – just like any hobby where one is not having fun. Move on to other hobbies or play the games stock.
Also, “necessary” is subjective to the individual and mods are not for meant to target “all gamers” – just those enthusiastic about applying modifications. Every hobby has customization enthusiasts and there is no binary (necessary/not necessary) application for all modifications. People are just having fun contributing their work, collaborating, and sharing knowledge.
We are in every hobby – not just video games – and modding is not for all who use the products being modded.
OO My GOD
Its hell of a diffrence.Thanks.
Just open the console and modify these values to your liking:
r_ssdoamountambient
r_ssdoamountdirect
r_ssdoamountreflection
r_ssdohalfres
r_ssdoradius
r_ssdoradiusmax
r_ssdoradiusmin
For myself I only set r_ssdoamountambient to 1.5 (default is 1.0), r_ssdoradius to 0.1 (default 0.3), and r_ssdoradiusmin to 0.04 (default 0.1)
Most of these aren’t better at all but worse. The outdoor shadows are much too heavy and unrealistic with this mod. Sunlight with light scattered throughout the sky does not make strong shadows like this mod is doing.