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Realistic Darkness Lighter Version V4.95 B18

STEAM ID: 745800936

This mod's motto: In vanilla, lights are for your pawns; in realistic nights, the lights are for you.

UPDATED TO A17, HAD TO REMOVE ECLIPSE FUNCTIONALITY temporarily and will rewrite the mod in xpath soon.


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One of the most powerful tools you can use IN-GAME for altering darkness levels is the Reshade program. Its easy to install as it does most of the work for you. Just select the Rimworld program folder and you're set. It will ask you if you want all the effects, just say yes and it'll install all the effects for you. Once inside the game press shift + F2 and configure it how you like.
Click here for a link to the: RESHADE UTILITY [reshade.me]
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Important Disclaimers: (+ Critical)

• +This mod does NOT alter your colonists' (or plants) feelings about or perception of darkness and light levels.
  
• + This mod also does NOT change accuracy calculations relating to darkness or the effective brightness value of a tile.
  
• + This mod DOES override your vanilla weather definitions (Could not be avoided, this was not elective). Weather effects are the same as vanilla with the exception of accuracy debuffs associated with Foggyrain and gentle snow. Foggy rain is now 0.4 (0.5 vanilla) and gentle snow is now 0.9 (0.8 Vanilla).
  
• At night and especially during weather events, unlit areas will be very difficult to see! This is not a slightly darker mod; with this mod enabled darkness really means darkness.
  
• + As mentioned later, foggy rain weather makes night extremely dangerous because you WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE UNLIT AREAS AT ALL!
  
• As of 14A, fires do NOT produce light. That is just how the game is currently coded and has nothing to do with this mod. You just never realized it before because night was'nt really that dark.
  
• + The darkness of night is pretty dependant on your monitor. Using this version of my mod; unlit areas at night should be harshly dark to the point that you can see where enemies are but you have difficulty seeing what they're doing or are equipped with. Nor should you be easily able to discern small terrain detail.

Includes:

• Daylight remains unchanged but weather patterns have a stronger effect on aesthetic (NOT effective) light levels even during daylight hours.
  
• Nights are considerably darker.
  
• Night darkness changes dynamically with weather conditions:
  
  • Hard/Gentle snow are the lightest nights
    
  • Dry thunderstorms are only slightly darker than clear nights.
    
  • Foggy Rain is the darkest.
    YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE AREAS UNLIT BY TORCHES/LIGHTS DURING THIS WEATHER PATTERN AT NIGHT!
• Saturation (color strength) changes more dynamically in response to weather.
  
• Movespeed and ranged accuracy are very close to vanilla values. Hard snow and foggy rain are harshest on accuracy and movement (foggy rain movement is same as rain).
  
• Eclipses are now as dark as clear nights.

Link to non-workshop download and this mod's forum topic:
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=23244.new#new

Issues list:

• (As mentioned before) As of 14A, fires do NOT produce light. That is just how the game is currently coded and has nothing to do with this mod. You just never realized it before because night was'nt really that dark.
  
• Toxic fallout uses vanilla light levels. Until I bring toxic fallout events under the umbrella of this mod, just consider the radiation to be so powerful that it lights up the night.

COMPATIBILITY NOTES:

• You SHOULD be able to load/unload this mod at will without any ill effects.
  
• This mod overrides 1 definition file and 1 assembly event:
  
  • weathers.xml definition file.
    
  • Eclipse events in the core game assembly. (Does not touch event handlers; only the specific verse associated with this one event)
• This mod has a very small footprint and should be compatible with everything that doesnt touch eclipses or the weather definitions.

FOR NON STEAM DOWNLOAD GO TO LUDEON FORUMS AT
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=23244.msg247075#msg247075

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