hey guys, are there any sort of mod or plugins that can make vam lighting look really good without elaborate lighting setup? I have tried reshade RTGI (raytraced global illumination), which does look really good and improves scenes with dull lighting and adds really nice bounce lighting, but I find it often exaggerates the lighting and adds bounce lighting on anything that's bright.
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Question Any best graphical enhancement mods or plugins?
- Thread starter dremwav1
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From what I can see, RTGI is a screen-space postprocessing shader, so it doesn't know what is a light and what isn't, as it can only see the color values. For "real" light bounces you need native realtime GI, which Unity 2018.1 has in theory (Enlighten), but I don't think you can enable that and do the necessary calculations outside of the editor. There are a few 3rd party realtime GI solutions, which _might_ be portable to function as a VaM plugin, but that would probably be a huge undertaking.
VaM 2 will probably get true raytraced lighting. Until then, elaborate lighting setups are the way to go
The HDRI-based GI in the lighting tab is an under-appreciated feature imho, I mostly see it dialed out completely, even though you can use that to add some decent diffuse lighting. I've also gotten pretty nice results using Custom Unity Assets with baked lighting and then adding a few VaM lights that match the scene lighting.
VaM 2 will probably get true raytraced lighting. Until then, elaborate lighting setups are the way to go
The HDRI-based GI in the lighting tab is an under-appreciated feature imho, I mostly see it dialed out completely, even though you can use that to add some decent diffuse lighting. I've also gotten pretty nice results using Custom Unity Assets with baked lighting and then adding a few VaM lights that match the scene lighting.
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