DS2LightingEngine SotFS

An update to Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin's lighting engine which adds Pathtracing to the entire game, It updates its shading model techniques to the latest ones. The mod has dynamic shadows for the entire game. Almost all torch sconces/bonfires, ambient lights now casts shadows.

Distant scenery has been added to multiple levels in the game. The mod includes pre-configured presets for each area, but you can also configure the settings yourself; however, note that areas are detected based on the original lighting data DS2 provides.

DS2LE also includes other features, such as TAA support, improved bloom, LUT-based post-processing support, and the option to customize DS2's UI.

DS2LE has it's own its own in-game GUI. Pressing "F1" will bring up the GUI so you can customize the mod's features and settings to your liking - and easily share those changes with other users by sharing your atmospheres.ini file. Press "save atmosphere" to save your changes. This will save all atmospheres. See the "Advanced" section for more details.

Important, please read:

• []This is an beta version of the the mod. Expect settings to change. There will be weird rendering errors in some places, as listed below in known issues. Thank you for your constructive feedback, bug reports, and patience.[/]

  []The mod only updates shaders, lighting, and fog effects. There are no gameplay changes and none are planned for this mod. The idea is that this mod will be used by other mod creators to make it easy for them to customize visuals.[/]

  []Leave a Like and / or feedback on the Nexus page or on Discord. If you find issues, please report them under the "Bugs" section.

  Official Discord server: (Share presets, configuration settings, discuss the mod, and provide feedback!)[/]

  []Thank you all for trying the mod![/]

  DS2 Lighting Engine(Raster/PT):

  []Backup your "shader" folder in the Game directory. Usually this is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin\Game".[/]

  []Copy the "shader" folder, "ds2le_atmosphere_presets" folder , "dxgi.dll" and other dll's to your game directory from (1).[/]

  []If you face issues updating to new version of the mod. Please delete your previous "shader" folder and paste the new contents in.[/]

  []Set in-game video settings to "High",  and turn off anti-aliasing if you're using the Antialiasing features. You can enable/disable motion blur or depth of field effects.[/]

  []HWRT Sun-shadows is disabled by default. Please enable it in F1->Shading quality performance if your GPU has extra performance.[/]

  [*]You will most likely need DL