Clarity - An Orange Tint Remover

Clarity

Description ____________

New Vegas is a phenomenal game with tons of character and charm, but I have always hated the unnatural filters and hues that overlay the landscape. Having lived in a desert, I can say with certainty that the sky is not supposed to look like an orange creamsicle.

In a nutshell, Clarity changes the RGB entries for all Weather types, ImageSpaces, ImageSpace Modifiers, and Lighting Templates in the base game and DLC's to neutral numbers. What does this mean? No unnatural ambient colors, instead all color comes from light sources and the sky like it should.

Color intensity was kept the same as well, so as an example take an ambient weather RGB as Red-162 Green-202 Blue-112 and add them together for a total of 476. I divide this number by three to get 158. 6 repeating or 159 rounded and then replace this number for R, G, and B to keep the same intensity while neutralizing the tint. Additionally, no entries in the Lights category were changed so some areas that seem a little bit redder are because of the warm lighting used.

Don't worry about a performance hit because no textures or models are added to achieve these results. What you see in the pictures is what you will get!

Dark Nights ______________

An additional file has been added for the New Vegas version of Clarity called Dark Nights. This does exactly what it says, modifying all the nighttime values in the original file to half (50%) of their respective values after tint neutralization. Check the comparison shots to make sense of my ramblings. I use this version personally because it doesn't make it too hard to see, but it enhances the feeling of nighttime considerably. I'm not a fan of mods that make nighttime overly realistic, but at the same time it's a little bit silly to see across the whole world at night--hence the extra file.

Some Clarification _______________________

Fallout 3 was relatively simple to correct for RGB values, but New Vegas is a different beast and a lot of locations had to be tackled independently, and some left entirely to vanilla settings. Off the top of my head, here are some specific changes that are outside of the original scope of Clarity:

Hoover Dam, the Fort, and the Colorado River have had their Regions modified to display a different weather that exists in the GECK, but not in the game. This was necessary, because if I only changed the RGB settings, instead of an orange cloud you would see a grey cloud obscuring everything and it looks pretty bad. Don't worry, the weather type does not use any new assets and it looks MUCH more f