Saahk's Photorealistic Reshade

Update(07/04/2025): Made an alternative darker night version, but you need to adjust the eye adaptation's lens attenuation. I had to adjust most of the settings I did from the main mod to compensate with the attenuation changes. So the overall look may not be on par with the main mod, but should still be OK. (No screenshots yet on this)

There is a known issue, the NPC hair has white/grey strands. I don't think I can fix this with just a Reshade tho.

See readme for instructions.

Update(06/04/2025): Updated the LUT, increased the saturation, adjusted the tone mapping, and tweaked back the color temperature. (Current screenshots in the page is outdated)

Install Reshade if you haven't yet

Extract the file into a folder, copy custom-lut.png to \S. T. A. L. K. E. R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Binaries\Win64\reshade-shaders\Textures

Open the stalker2-lut-reshade.ini preset in the Reshade menu in-game.

I'm not an expert in lightings and color but I just wanted to share this while I was playing around with Reshade. It will brighten up the overall lighting, so nights are less dark than usual.

I created this with the Dynamic Weather Overhaul Mod's Pre-release version(2. 2. 5) in mind. The changes on the sun position was a game changer for me, together with the darker nights. But the author doesn't recommend using that yet.

So I'd suggest not using it unless you're OK with dealing the issues stated by the author(and not complain at the page comments).

The reshade still holds up with Vanilla tho, but I'd still recommend the stable version of DWO.

Screenshots are from Vanilla unless specified otherwise.