Community Shaders Expanded (CSX) - Formerly known as Particle Lights Fork

Community Shaders Expanded (CSX)

(Unofficial Fork for SE / AE / VR)

⚠️ Unofficial Fork Notice:

This is an unofficial fork of Community Shaders by Doodlum & contributors. It is not affiliated with, supported by, or endorsed by the official Community Shaders team.

Note this fork does NOT distribute nor is compatible with Effects11.

If you have any questions, please use the comments box on this page or visit the Mad Gods Overhaul (MGO) Discord in the #cs-vr-csx channel. Make sure you subscribe to The Mod Lab channel on MGO to see it and receive updates and test versions of csx

Please do not post fork-related questions on the official CS Discord. I will not answer there!

What This Fork Does different than CS or other forks 

beyond full VR support

• []Adaptive Balance — Automatically blends custom lighting, colour and water settings for daytime, nighttime, interiors and individual locations.[/]

  []Unified Water — Restores visible water surfaces in shallow streams, smooths shoreline transitions and adds custom water tinting while preserving deep-water shading.[/]

  []Wetterness — Complete overhaul of Wetness Effects with focussing on realistic ground wetness, puddles,  wet reflections, surface drying and rain-darkened grass.[/]

  []Enhanced Particle Lights — Extend particle lighting with configurable colour, radius, saturation and animated flickering.[/]

  []Contact Shadows — Extends fine-detail screen-space shadows with additional tuning and foveated rendering options for VR.[/]

  []Wrapped Lighting for Vanilla Grass — Softens harsh shading by wrapping light around grass blades, giving vanilla grass a fuller, more natural appearance.[/]

  []VR Render Scale — Adjust VR rendering resolutions at lower resolution in-game without needed a restart.[/]

  []Foveated Rendering — Concentrate upscaling and selected shader effects around the centre of each eye’s view, with adjustable peripheral quality.[/]

  []FSR 4 Support — Use FSR 4,1 on compatible hardware, with FSR 3 fallback and additional temporal image-quality controls.[/]

  []Motion-Adaptive Sharpening — Automatically adjust DLSS and DLAA sharpening strength as your head, camera or scene moves.[/]

  []VR Menu Controls — Position and resize the settings menu inside your headset, including controller attachment and pointer interaction - no other mod needed.[/]

  []VR Occlusion Controls — Configure how hidden objects are culled in interiors and exteriors to tune rendering workload.[/]

  []Performance Tuning — Includes feature cost analysis and automated upscaling comparisons to show which effects consume frame time and help you tune your settings.[/]

  []Shader Cache Packs — Reuse compatible packaged shaders to reduce compilation, with automatic compilation when cached shaders cannot be used.[/]

  []Unified Presets — Choose coordinated Performance, Balanced or Quality configurations for AMD and NVIDIA systems.[/]

  []VR API Support — Lets mods like VR FPS Stabilizer adjust shadows, SSGI and upscaling based on performance, weather and location; API files are available on GitHub.[/]

  [*]Gemstone Support: If you want to use ENB Particle Lights for G