CyberLighting mod E3 2018 demo restoration project

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Update for patch 2. 31

changelog :

- switched back to standard ACES tonemapper

- reduced emmisive lights exposure contribution to make the lighting less flat

- fixed over saturation

- better contrast and image stability

- more accurate fog settings to the 2018 build

- better accuracy for colorgrading to the 2018 build

- better sunlight curve accuracy to the 2018 build

- overhauled the mod GI settings to better match the 2018 build

- tweaked standard RT to match the 2018 lighting

- tweaked PT to roughly match the reveal trailer

- the mod is made for standard native antialiasing not DLSS or any other AA methode, you can obviously play with any AA you want but if accuracy to the 2018 build is your goal better use native AA

- you have 2 bloom options, standard and wide ( the one on the preview youtube is the  wide )

CLM is a mod that restore the lighting and colorgrading of the 2018 version of the game using the original files

i wasn't a fan of how the game colors ended up looking compared to the

2018 footage, the extremely heavy contrast and the constant yellow/gold

cast everywhere like a Hollywood movie disappointed me, the original

colors direction was more like an 80/90 cyberpunk movie/anime which i

preferred a lot

so i started to work on the mod on and off a bit after the initial release of the game, what took so long was figuring

out how to make the change across the entire main questline and zones,

since the old files are not compatible with the release version of the

engine and i didn't want to alter them and make them fit, the goal was to

keep it strictly like they were left from 2018 build as much as

however those old files were extremely incomplete, they used variables/settings that don't exist/work anymore, so i had to

figure out 80% of the rest on top of making them work for the version of

the engine that we have

Tonemaping:

- switched from Linear to ACES, ACES is the tonemapper used in the 2018/2019

builds of the game, it has a softer/ brighter/neutral colors look to it

compared to the heavily contrasted Linear mod used in the released

LUT/colors:

- switched from the linear LUT to the SRGB LUT from the 2018 build applied across the en