Authentic Nature Reshade

Major Update: Version 1. 4 “Harmony” is now available!

Noticeable lighting optimization, with reduction of excessive brightness, fuller shadows, and other balancing!

Also includes all the previous tweaks, such as the color correction and Blue Skies rework.

Please check out the new example pictures, and see the update notes below!

This will likely be the last and final version of Authentic Nature Reshade. Thank You to all, and happy Games!  : )

As we all know, Witcher 3 is phenomenal experience through and through, especially with mods. However, though graphics of the game themselves are top quality, I was always dissatisfied with the colour scheme and lighting of the game. It felt little lackluster compared to the jaw-dropping views of games like Witcher 2 in it's days. Vanilla colour scheme is also strongly tinted to the red, which makes for nice sunsets, but overall makes environment look out of place and turns most people comically red-faced.

Hence, I sought to create this Reshade which presents the world of Witcher 3 the way I always imagined it to be:

With vibrant, authentic greens that make the forests and meadows flourish and shine

With realistic lighting and exposure, that is properly bright sunny and hot at noon, and dark and shadowy during nights

With realistic slight desaturation, that makes the world seem as authentic as possible, instead of cartoony

With people and their skin hue that look like realistically human

I've spent overall tens of hours empirically testing and adjusting the Reshade in different scenarios and lightings. It's a terrible curse to be a perfectionist like myself, but now I can say I'm 99,9 % satisfied with the results.

Please check out the example images. There are also some comparison shots with vanilla (Wiedzmin) lighting and with Authentic Nature Reshade enabled.

Also on Kaer Morhen this might cause over-and-under-exposure especially regarding sun, because of difference in lighting.

That is why I recommed trying Kaer Morhen Reshade file (found in optional files) while in Kaer Morhen.

This solves most of these occasional problems. Please see also Update 3 notes (16. 5. 2019) for details on t