Clarity - A Visual Overhaul

This is a fan made modification made with unofficial tools. Use this at your own risk, and back up all save files and mods before using.

This mod tweaks weather, lighting, camera effects, and more.

Scroll through the comparison images to get a quick feel for the mod.

A note for returning users upgrading to version 4. 0 and up:

• Fog no longer starts directly at the player - it starts 1000 units away more like the vanilla game. However, I have adjusted it to be so gradual that you cannot tell where the fog starts. This greatly reduces any sense of fog pop in, while also making the image much more crisp and clear as if fog was disabled. Interior and exterior fog settings are very likely to be adjusted in the future.

• There is now an extremely subtle static DoF in the distance, rather than disabling it completely. You won't be likely to notice it, but it helps a little bit with aliasing issues on trees.

• Transparent objects have had their intensity reduced. This applies to glass, bug wings, plastic, etc.

• Godray intensity has been reduced in all scenarios.

• Sun lens flare were added to glowing see and radstorm weathers, just like how far harbor does it. This looks better with the reduced godray settings. Some misty/rainy weathers now use this new sun flare instead of the standard clear weather one.

• Godray performance settings were commented out in the ini. Feel free to re-add these.

• Pip boy light range increased slightly.

This mod does the following:

1: Make it easier to see without completely removing all sense of atmosphere in the way that completely disabling fog would.

2: Fix or remove many visual annoyances such as flickering water, bad bloom, etc.

Consider my other mod that does something similar in regards to the interface files: Clarity UI

Performance

Possibly a very slight performance gain for some users since some effects have been disabled, but likely there is no change. Check the included ini for a command that will greatly improve performance with godrays enabled. This mod does not decrease performance.

Blur

Blur when aiming, blurry camera effects, and blur in VATS has been removed. Distant blur has been standardized, creating a very subtle static