@Smitten said in Is it just me, or is NaturalVision not much more than a fairly minor lighting / color correction mod?:
Had the same curiosity you had actually so i put it to the test. Each image is the same time and place and weather as well.
Without NVR
With NVR
I mean, that specifically does just show changes to lighting and color.
@ReNNie said in Is it just me, or is NaturalVision not much more than a fairly minor lighting / color correction mod?:
Very balanced and well done timecycle edits paired to controls for it via visualsettings.dat, weather.xml etc etc. And in the optionals a lot more edits
I totally get that, but it just doesn't seem to be that much of a leap visually if you were already running the game at maxed-out settings.
Also, things like the weather stuff would come across much more nicely with skybox textures better than the game's relatively low-res default ones, for example.
@ReNNie said in Is it just me, or is NaturalVision not much more than a fairly minor lighting / color correction mod?:
it's you
Maybe the problem is that I'd kind of assumed it was also something of a large-scale texture overhaul, which it isn't.
I wouldn't necessarily have a hard time believing Alexander Blade really is one guy. There's much larger projects out there that are explicitly known to be "one man shows".
Either way, all I know is the manner in which major GTA mod software like ScriptHook (and also, notably, OpenIV) is closed source contrasts with equivalent software for just about every other "very popular" game I can think of, which is pretty much open source across the board.
E.G. with OpenIV, I'd love to take a look at the source to figure out just why exactly it insists on installing itself in one very specific folder, on the C drive, which I find to be an odd / annoying limitation. It's like, come on, what are you, Visual Studio 2013 or something?
What strikes me as most odd about NVR is that without at least using the ENB option it comes with, it's not immediately clear to me that it does anything.
One thing I'd certainly like in general though is a good HD texture pack. Are there any out there you know of, even if they're not "complete"?
High time for a proper open source alternative to SHV, I think. A piece of software depended on by possibly hundreds of thousands if not more people, maintained by literally one guy, is a very bad idea.
There's been working alternatives in the past such as this one that seems to have been intended as a drop-in replacement for the original SHV, so clearly this isn't something that's outside the realm of possibility.
I'm certainly not "wowed" by it as some people seem to be. It doesn't look nearly as different from the vanilla game as I'd expected it to based on the hype.
Are there other mods people typically use alongside it to get a better result, or something?
@chonkie said in [Consolidation Thread] New update 09.19.2019 broke ScripthookV:
@Akira1364 Cierangill explains in that exact same post how it is relevant, just read the whole post.
Yikes, I missed that part somehow. Doesn't work properly for me regardless... loading any ASI mod in-game (Menyoo, etc.) gives an error message in the console, and then the game CTDs.
On a side note, doesn't OpenIV have some kind of ASI support that isn't related to Script Hook or RPH? Is it an alternative here?
How exactly is Rage Plugin Hook relevant here? The sole reason anyone uses ScriptHook is that it automatically loads any and all ASI plugins present in the main GTA V directory when the game is launched.
RPH does not do this by default, and it's not clear to me that it can load ASI plugins at all in a way that does not depend on the presence of a working ScriptHook.