DiRT Rally Germany Lighting Overhaul 1.02

GethemaAT · Dec 11, 2015

GethemaAT submitted a new resource:

Germany Lighting Overhaul - Realistic color lovers rejoice!

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What's this mod about?
Following up from the Color Palette Mod I made a while back, this mod alters the lighting in Germany to be more realistic, including

realistic color palette, brightness, contrast and saturation

new skymap for the midday setting

re-colored ground cover and distant terrain maps

tweaks to the environment map (improves the...

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GethemaAT · Dec 11, 2015

GethemaAT updated Germany Lighting Overhaul with a new update entry:

Backup files corrected

Discovered a small error in the backup files, should now be corrected!

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astro83 · Dec 11, 2015

Oh!! Great great job! Looks fantastic! What about Monte??

GethemaAT · Dec 11, 2015

Thanks

I'll wait and see what the feedback for this one (Germany) will be like and then decide which location - if any - will be next. A modification like this requires a LOT of time and testing, and I've basically settled for Germany first because I felt it was in the most dire situation lighting-wise.

GethemaAT · Dec 11, 2015

PS: A vid will be up shortly, currently uploading!

leoramfo · Dec 11, 2015

thanks. awesome.

TheeSTALKER · Dec 11, 2015

I got a bug after installing this mod; basically, the ground is too dark. (btw i can't find the "route_x" folder in the "panzerplatte_rally_01" folder)

007licensed · Dec 11, 2015

same here...

GethemaAT · Dec 11, 2015

TheeSTALKER said:
I got a bug after installing this mod; basically, the ground is too dark. (btw i can't find the "route_x" folder in the "panzerplatte_rally_01" folder)

There is supposed to be no 'route_x' folder in this directory. As written in the readme, you have to copy and paste the content from the extracted route_x folder to the route_0-5 folders respectively.

I'd have uploaded all files, but that would have exceeded the size limit for a file here on RD, thus you have to do this manually. And that's also the reason why I can't stress enough how important the readme is

If the bug with the dark ground (cover) persists after installing everything correctly please upload a screenie so that I can see what is wrong.

007licensed · Dec 11, 2015

here are some pics...

setting was Sunny/Midday

TheeSTALKER · Dec 11, 2015

Yeh, I tried copying the files from route_x folder from panzerplatte_rally_02 folder to all other route files I could find, but still no cigar.
Also, I started another rally on a different stage with Lancia Stratos and it worked perfectly (also in sunny setting), however, I came back to this stage and the problem is still here. So I guess this bug doesn't occur at every stage.

GethemaAT · Dec 11, 2015

007licensed said:
here are some pics...
setting was Sunny/Midday

Thanks, will look into it. What's the name of the stage please? Also, read comment below.

TheeSTALKER said:
Yeh, I tried copying the files from route_x folder from panzerplatte_rally_02 folder to all other route files I could find, but still no cigar.
Also, I started another rally on a different stage with Lancia Stratos and it worked perfectly (also in sunny setting), however, I came back to this stage and the problem is still here. So I guess this bug doesn't occur at every stage.

Okay, that's interesting. A bug like this could occur if you copied the files from the 'route_x' folder within the 'panzerplatte_rally_01' to the route_0-5 folders of the 'panzerplatte_rally_02' directory or vice versa. That would also explain why it happens on some stages, which are then most likely part of the rally section with the wrong files, while on others it's working fine.

Please, make sure you really copy the
4 files from inside panzerplatte_rally_01\route_x only to panzerplatte_rally_01\route_0-5
and the
4 files from inside panzerplatte_rally_02\route_x only to panzerplatte_rally_02\route_0-5
respectively.

A ground texture as dark as those on the pics at least signals to me that it can be related to the circumstance that the game is trying to load the incorrect local and distant map terrain textures. If that's the case, a simple test would be to check how many stages are affected by the bug. If it's 6 (out of 12), than it's most likely this issue.

Edit: Please ignore and read comment below!

GethemaAT · Dec 11, 2015

Sorry guys, just realized that I made a 'tiny' mistake while uploading 1.01, which also explains the bug that you are experiencing. The 'route_x' folder inside panzerplatte_rally_01 is missing, will upload a corrected archive in a minute!
Doh!