Fallout 4 Community Shaders - MEGA BETA

FO4 Community Shaders

Modern rendering for Fallout 4.

Configured through Dear Modding UI

FO4 Community Shaders brings modern lighting, shadows, reflections, weather effects, and upscaling to Fallout 4 as a single F4SE plugin. It is a port of Skyrim Community Shaders, rebuilt on the game's own renderer.

Every feature ships turned off, so you enable only what you want.

Beta: Features are still being developed and tested. Expect rough edges, and please report what you find.

FEATURES

• []Screen Space Shadows: Contact shadows and finer shadow detail.[/]

  []Terrain Shadows: Long-range shadows cast by distant terrain.[/]

  []Screen Space GI: Ambient occlusion and indirect lighting.[/]

  []Inverse Square Lighting: More natural light falloff.[/]

  []Exponential Height Fog: Weather-driven fog that thins with altitude.[/]

  []Dynamic Cubemaps: Reflections that respond to the surrounding scene.[/]

  []Wetness Effects: Rain-darkened surfaces and wet reflections.[/]

  []Water Effects: Sunlight caustics on submerged surfaces.[/]

  []Upscaling: TAA, FSR 3/4, and DLSS.[/]

  []Frame Generation: FSR 3/4 and DLSS, including supported Multi Frame Generation modes.[/]

  []Motion Vector Fixes: Motion-data corrections for temporal rendering.[/]

  []Performance Overlay: FPS, frame-time, and latency graphs.[/]

  REQUIREMENTS

  • []Fallout 4 1. 11. 240 on Windows (OG and NG at your own risk)[/]

    []F4SE matching your game version[/]

    []Address Library for F4SE Plugins[/]

    []Dear Modding UI for the in-game menu (recommended)[/]

    []Addictol for engine stability and bug fixes (recommended)[/]

    Upscaling and frame generation need a DX12-capable GPU. DLSS requires an NVIDIA RTX card, and FSR 4 requires a compatible AMD Radeon card.

    INSTALLATION & USAGE

    • []Install F4SE, Address Library, and Dear Modding UI.[/]

      []Install FO4 Community Shaders through your mod manager.[/]

      []Launch Fallout 4 through F4SE and open Community Shaders in Dear Modding UI.[/]

      []Enable the features you want, then restart the game.[/]

      Enabling or disabling a feature takes effect after a restart. Settings for enabled features apply live.

      Without Dear Modding UI, enable features in Data\F4SE\Plugins\FO4CommunityShaders\FO4CommunityShaders.toml, created on first launch (in MO2, under Overwrite). Uncomment and set:

      load = true

      Hotkeys: F10 toggles the performance overlay, and Ctrl+F12 writes a diagnostic dump. Rebind them in Dear Modding UI.

      FAQ

      Is this mod compatible with ENB?

      I will now have to publicly execute you.

      What about HDR?

      Windows Auto HDR and NVIDIA RTX HDR work. Native HDR output mods such as RenoDX or Special K HDR are not supported.

      I installed it and nothing changed.

      Every feature ships turned off. Enable the ones you want in Dear Modding UI, then restart the game.

      Does it work on the OG or NG runtime?

      The code paths exist, and they have received exactly zero testing. Have fun. Only 1. 11. 240 is supported.

      Which upscaler should I use?

      DLSS on NVIDIA RTX cards and FSR 4 on compatible AMD Radeon cards. TAA and FSR 3 work on other DX12-capable GPUs.

      Frame generation won't turn on.

      Switch the game to borderless windowed mode.

      Terrain Shadows does nothing.

      It needs a terrain heightmap exported with xLODGen.

      Why is the first launch slow?

      Shaders compile after installing or updating. Later launches load them from the cache.

      The game froze for a moment when I changed upscalers.

      That's expected. Switching upscaling or frame-generation methods briefly pauses rendering.

      Can I add or remove it mid-playthrough?

      Yes. It has no plugin file and writes nothing to your saves.

      Will updating keep my set