Reduced or Disabled Character Lighting

⭐ ⭐ (190 endorsements) 📥 14,621 downloads 📌 v1.2 📅 2/8/2025
🟠 Updated over a year ago

By Czbuendel · Visuals

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 2/23/2025 📅 Created: 2/8/2025

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 1.3% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #44 of 293 Visuals mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

Removes the fake lighting around characters in dark scenes. Does not require user.cfg changes. Some minor bugs with eye lighting.

NEW: New Reduced files do not fully turn off 3 Point Lighting but reduce its effects. This should help in dark shadowed scenes where Henry or characters are completely black.

Lessens or disables the lighting effect around characters which fakes light sources to illuminate characters in dark scenes. Provides a more realistic view on characters using actual in game light sources. Does not require user.cfg changes or usage. Utilizes the r_DeferredShading3PL or r_3PLMaxRelativeIlluminanceRatio command.

Changes can be seen in the comparison images. Effect is slight in most cases but can be seen in non-existent lighting reflections coming from around Henry on reflective armor pieces, hands near bowls in dark scenes as the bodies are not being lit on their own, headscarves being illuminated consistently, and faces on the far side from single light sources being actually dark which can be seen in a number of images.

Installation:

Install with Vortex (Recommended).

Unzip and place "disablecharacterlighting" or "reducedcharacterlighting" folder into  "Mods" directory.

Modification:

If you want to edit the amount of lighting reduction being set by the mod all you simply need to do is change a single value in the mod.cfg in the mod folder.

For reference, 1 is the value of the vanilla game and 0 is the original mod version with lighting off. Therefore and increase in the value in mod.cfg will brighten characters and a decrease in the value will darken characters.

  • []Weird eye and mouth lighting. (This appears when characters are backlit, may be a model issue with occluding lights from behind. After quite a bit of testing, caused by specific light sources in the world that character head meshes do not block the light from. NOT CAUSED BY THIS MOD.)

    []Eyes glowing in tunnels. (This is actually a vanilla bug and not caused by this mod.)

📊 Mod Details

Game
Kingdom Come 2 Mods
Author
Czbuendel
Version
1.2
Downloads
14,621
Endorsements
190
Category
Visuals
Created
2/8/2025
Updated
2/23/2025

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