ACRL Lighting Mod

⭐ ⭐ (115 endorsements) 📥 3,580 downloads 📌 v1.51 📅 4/1/2025
🟠 Updated over a year ago

By swefan · Weather and Lighting

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 4/14/2025 📅 Created: 4/1/2025
⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
1🛠️ F4SE — Fallout 4 Script Extender Download ↗
2🔧 UFO4P — Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch Download ↗

Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 3.2% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #16 of 17 Weather and Lighting mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

ACRL is a lighting mod that aims for realism, improves the color palette and overall lighting. Vanilla, NACX, TrueStorms, Vivid Weathers. NO Reshade or ENB. ZERO FPS LOSS.

ACRL "Aces-Colors-Real-Light" is a lighting mod that aims for realism, improves the color palette and overall lighting. 

100% compatible with: 

Vanilla, NACX, TrueStorms, Vivid Weathers.  NO Reshade or ENB. ZERO FPS LOSS.

All image spaces are modified and corrected, base game and all DLC.

Converts colors from RGB to ACES color space.

No more cartoonish colors.

As in real life, colors are desaturated in the dark.

Night is now realistically dark.

Realistic impact of sunlight on surfaces.

Corrects the change in brightness based on time and weather.

Corrects excessive bloom in many environments.

Improves the appearance of interiors, no more unrealistic eye adaptation.

Interiors have a darker and more realistic appearance.

ACRLightingMod

Fully compatible with Vanilla and True Storms.

Compatible with other mods that do not add new weather events

ACLR should be placed at the bottom of the load order Mod Tab and Plugins Tab

ACRLightingMod-VW-

Fully compatible with Vivid Weathers.

Tested with:

Visual Changes:

Default - NO change

ACLR should be placed at the bottom of the load order Mod Tab and Plugins Tab

ACRL for NAC X Legacy Edition 

This version is a work in progress!!

Load Order:

Very important, ACRL for NAC-X is calibrated with certain NAC settings, using others may result in poor visuals.

So you have to start from where I calibrated the mod

Calibration Instructions:

Reset NAC to default settings

Auto reset does not reset everything, for example presets

So make sure no preset is activated.

Disable Vignette filter, ACRL is already dark by default.

Disable any in

📊 Mod Details

Game
Fallout 4 Mods
Author
swefan
Version
1.51
Downloads
3,580
Endorsements
115
Category
Weather and Lighting
Created
4/1/2025
Updated
4/14/2025

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