FS22 Relight
A downloadable mod
is a free lighting modification for Farming Simulator 22 that drastically alters the range of lighting conditions for a more immersive experience at no additional performance cost.
With the update to V1300, Relight now works by being placed in your FS22 Mods folder then enabling the mod via the ingame menu before loading up any level you wish. A big thanks to TwistedGA who scripted relight into a standalone mod which will automatically overwrite any existing environment xml that vanilla or map mods use so you don't have to get your hands dirty. Map authors are still welcome to copy relights environment.xml settings to be included in their official map releases (no credit necessary but I do highly appreciate it) to hopefully allow console users to experience the same thing we have on pc. The goal was to improve the games lighting for all to enjoy! I would like to give a big thank you to The FarmSim Guy for helping test and doing a video preview of the mod on his youtube channel. Relight has a variety of visual enhancements including:
SHADOW CASTING SUNSET/RISES with bright reds and oranges
WIDE RANGE OF BRIGHTNESS from intense warmly lit surfaces to completely unlit overcast terrain
CUSTOM CUBEMAPS that help ground objects into the world [vanilla cubemaps on the left | relight cubemaps on the right] (V1.1 Includes better, smoother transitions)
MOON LIGHT SHADOWS ARE BACK with V1.1 without messing with relights better sunrises and sunsets. (Nights are still intentionally dark)
RELIGHT helps add that extra bit of warmth and believability into each scene.
Thanks for checking out the mod. I hope you enjoy!
If you're a map author and experience any issues adding relight to your map you can hit me up on discord and I will help as best as I can!
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Suchsneak: MainDev/Artist
TwistedGA: StandaloneScript/Consultant
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Install instructions
I recommend avoid using relightstandalone overtop previous releases. Best to use up to date official vanilla files, or unedited mod maps for the sake of multiplayer compatibility. Simply put RelightV1200Standalone.zip inside your Farm Simulator 22 mod folder and enable it via the mod menu before loading or starting a save game.
Map files for map makers are also available.
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I love your mod, but you should consider trying to adjust the interior brightness. What i mean is, using the ouside vehicle camera, all look nice, but using the mod and being with the inside camera, is very bright. I tested this with and without the mod, and sure has an impact (easily tested with that more options mod).
HI! I Kinda solved this with the advanced settings mod, that one that allow you to use other maps lighting configuration on any other map, and in this instance, im using Court Farms config. I think Oxy did a good job with his config of relight, and the vehicles dont get bright inside. I think you should try, but for this to work, you have to download Court Farms and dont use the original Relight.
Just downloaded this mod, and I'm impressed so far.
Just a small comment:
I'm on a calibrated, capable SDR display, and my initial thought was that it's a bit oversaturated. Especially my very first look at the mod, an overcast September morning. The oversaturation was milder as the day progressed, and especially as the sun came out. The oversaturation seems to be replaced by a haze, or overly bright weather. Again, this is based on a September day going from overcast to full sunny at around lunchtime.
I'll try to lower the saturation value in the XML, but is there a way to lower the midday haze or brightness a bit?
Edit: The haze is more pronounced from inside a vehicle, outside the oversaturation prevail as the day progress.
Edit2: Lowering the daytime saturation to 1.0 makes it look quite a bit better on my display.
Could you take a picture of what your describing? The custom cubemaps have a blurred look to them, not a perfect mirror. I did this because it was easier to make and edit them rapidly, second to try to make chrome blend into the environment with brighter ground color and sky. The vanilla was very dark in comparison. There's a few adjustments I'd still like to make but I'm saving that for a later update
For example this truck which has a chrome tank, with relight it looks matte (upper part). Tried it with two different trucks on different maps but get the same result. I think on modded vehicles that use Chrome relight might look a little brighter, besides that the matte look is intentional as I'm using it less as a reflection and more as a ambient light. Still looks good on vanilla vehicles since I tested it heavily on the chrome mac truck. I'll be tweaking it in the future but the matte look is staying
It's probably due to a few factors such as color correction, hdr, skybrightness. You could try setting the saturation to 1 instead of 1.1 in the colour correction xmls and see if that looks better. Otherwise there's a bunch of parameters that work together and changing one thing sometimes negatively effects something else, it's a balancing act. I'm still working on it but I'm trying to see if I can't open up the sky and cloud settings which will give me alot more freedom with how bright stuff is and when.
Been playing with v1.3 standalone with proshot fix
Its perfect honestly, I don't think it can get any better than that; even the moon lighting/shadows is better than base game you can actually SEE it :)
I had the opportunity to see shadows fade away during the day with full overcast (level 4 clouds) practically no shadows at all as expected.
in a couple of days I'll be playing a map that is based in the arctic and has different day/night times and curious how relight will enhance the effects!
:D great mod, and thank you.
While it was brief, I had a chance to see night time with how dark the sky was but how much it lit up the white snow and it really felt close to what I remember irl in person. Had a guy talk about adjusting the latitude at the top inside the xml to adjust to different climates. It affects crop season and how long the days are vs nights. Also while I'm not sure if it also affects anything, in the seasonal settings there's min and max temperatures. Tried messing with this and there's no visual effect so I guess it's growth related. If the arctic map already has seasonal settings, best to copy them into the environment xml but keep the relight lighting parameters.
Thanks, your welcome :)
Hi ;)
I am in great admiration for your mod. It's a really great job. As for the weather and the impact of latitude on the environment. Changing the geographic latitude will affect the angles of the sun's rays and thus the length of the shadows. Unfortunately, this change itself has no effect on the max and min temperatures and the weather itself.
I am currently working on the weather for FS22 for Poland based on the data of the metrology institute. If you have any questions about defining the weather in the enviroment file, write to discrod I invited you to my friends :)
Hello, the mod is very nice and I appreciate your work and effort put into it.
But there is a problem with the sunrise and sunset times in the winter months, where sunrise is at 9am in December and sunset is at 3:40pm. And when the moon sets, everything is dark until the sun rises, as if there were no transition between the two.
I was watching version 1 and it didn't happen.
I hope you don't take my comments badly, and excuse my English, since I'm using a translator.
Thank you!
no no, it's all good. I've been getting a lot of feedback for something I overlooked. There's a auto streetlight toggle that is seperate from the environment seemingly which is annoying because I and a few others can't find a way to change it so I might just have to roll back the day times and keep all the other improvements. Glad your enjoying the mod, I hope to have a fix out soon!
Thanks for your great mod, really loving it so far.
Only thing I noticed is, that the automatic light is turned on too late. Not sure if it`s in every month, but I`m in the summer right now, and it`s getting dark maybe a bit too early around 5-6 pm already. But even when it`s getting fully dark, the automatic light is still not on. As the helpers turn on the light same time as the automatic lights, you can`t see anymore what they are doing on the field. It`s same for standard helper, CP and AutoDrive.
Is there a way, to turn on the lights earler, already when the dawn begins?
No, it happens only with the V1200. No difference if I use the standalone or the mapfiles.
And yes, I mean the street lights and the ai vehicle lights.
For me it seems that the lights turn on at the original vanilla time, but as it`s getting dark earlier with your changes, the game doesn`t recognize that.
Maybe you can change the time when it`s getting dark a little bit. Getting dark around 6 pm in july / august is very early when you are located in western europe.
Is there a way to use v1.1 manually and even overwrite v1.0? I have proshot and don't want to disable it as it does a GRAND job at taking screenshots especially with relight enabled.
I'm still currently using v1.0 but want to see the new updates you've made but unless the standalone can be made to work around proshot and update previous versions in the future possibly???
Got it :) easy enough to understand I think; but want to make sure what I saw/think is correct hope you don't mind me asking.
copy all the files to the map itself, looks like the map environment.xml is to be replaced with your version; there doesn't seem to be a need to edit the map.xml???
Will this work with base game maps?
This is a great mod and I am really loving it!
Having a problem with RelightStandalone v1.1. The new RelightStandalone v1.1 works fine in a Griffin Indiana save but using it on a Greenlands save causes the game to stall permanently after a short while but it does not crash. However, inserting the original Relight v1.0 release into the Greenlands map causes no issue at all and the game runs smoothly. And no I am not double running RelightStandalone and Relight within the Greenlands map.
Any ideas what may be happening?
Is it just me or the standalone version is not compatible with Pro Shot ?
https://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.php?lang=en&country=us&mod_id=234705&title...
Someone on the patch note page posted a quick fix, it's not perfect but works. You'll basically have to plug it in manually like before. relightstandalone.xml it's just a renamed environment.xml if that helps. Other wise proshot would have to be edited to understand how to read from relights files.
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I found a other way to fix the Problem. I take the colorgrading and enviroment from the Standalone and put them into the Map and all work fine without any error."
from Butschern that I think shows off your hard work :-)
Hello there, I am trying to run this on Calmsden. I have changed the maps.xml file and I have also dropped the Relight folder into the root directory of the map zip file. Now, although the game looks good, I am not sure if it is running relight, as Additional Settings mod has a setting for custom lighting, and it is always on and set of a sample folder. When I change the additional setting, the lighting changes. Do you think these two mods conflict and stop Relight from working? Thanks!
I don't recommend using it with additional settings mod. It was cool that I could swap out the environment.xml on the fly but I soon learned it break something when trying to load because I use a different cubemap lookup, when these are different between xmls or even a simple spelling mistake would make it crash. Additionally the lighting would not update and switch between Relight and other environment xmls. Calmsden is my favorite map and I've had no issues so far putting it on there
If you both play a mod map that has relight packaged into it you should be able to play together. Right now I don't think it will let you play vanilla maps, I could be wrong tho. I'm trying to get a standalone version released today so hopefully your issue will be resolved even if you have no luck yourself
2022-09-20 01:41 C:/Users/Diamo/Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2022/mods/xECHELON_ESSENTIALS/placeables/misc/toolShelter/toolShelter.i3d (11.29 ms)
2022-09-20 01:41 C:/Users/Diamo/Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2022/mods/xECHELON_ESSENTIALS/placeables/misc/frames/ibcTankFrame.i3d (1.78 ms)
2022-09-20 01:41 Warning (script): 'setColorGradingSettings': Argument 1 has wrong type. Expected: String. Actual: Nil
2022-09-20 01:41 2022-09-20 01:41 D:\auto_builder\cache\svn\1439bdbdb2e647a66733235d7978a817\src\base\scripting\lua\LuaScriptSystem.cpp (903)2022-09-20 01:41 : 2022-09-20 01:41 expectedType == Value::VoidType || expectedType == Value::ClassType
2022-09-20 01:41 LUA call stack:
dataS/scripts/environment/Lighting.lua (172) : setColorGradingSettings
dataS/scripts/environment/Environment.lua (400) : update
dataS/scripts/BaseMission.lua (1257) : update
dataS/scripts/FSBaseMission.lua (1972) : update
dataS/scripts/missions/mission00.lua (577) : update
dataS/scripts/main.lua (1225) : update
2022-09-20 01:41 Warning (script): 'setColorGradingSettings': Argument 1 has wrong type. Expected: String. Actual: Nil
2022-09-20 01:41 2022-09-20 01:41 D:\auto_builder\cache\svn\1439bdbdb2e647a66733235d7978a817\src\base\scripting\lua\LuaScriptSystem.cpp (903)2022-09-20 01:41 : 2022-09-20 01:41 expectedType == Value::VoidType || expectedType == Value::ClassType
2022-09-20 01:41 LUA call stack:
dataS/scripts/environment/Lighting.lua (172) : setColorGradingSettings
dataS/scripts/environment/Environment.lua (400) : update
dataS/scripts/BaseMission.lua (1257) : update
dataS/scripts/FSBaseMission.lua (1972) : update
dataS/scripts/missions/mission00.lua (577) : update
dataS/scripts/main.lua (1225) : update
It's just the way the enviroment.xml works. Sure we could maybe separate it but then we'd have to convince map makers to also split weather separately. Everything just kinda works together in the single file. However you can copy paste your weather settings into relight and it will then use the settings you previously had. Or copy relight into your environment xml ect ect
I think it's possible, you can simply just not include the clouds/weather/season part of the xml and just have it in it's own seperate xml but I'm unsure how to make the map.xml load the now two seperate environment files. The caveat to all of this is that the clouds/weather are responsible for assigning the appropriate cubemaps to the environment. Without it, or the wrong cubemaps will make objects look very out of place.
Try not unpacking it and see if that helps, by that I mean dump the relight folder inside the zip without unpacking. Go edit the xml, save, and this is important, winrar will prompt you to overwrite the contents inside the zip, click save changes. Then fire it up and tell me what happens.
In anycase a standalone version will be releasing soon that can be toggled on in the mod menu and it will override the base game and modded maps environment file from being loaded and load the updated relight one it has.
First, great mod!
I´ve tested the night in summer (august).
I don´t know the region you come from, but in Germany it is longer bright in the summer nights. (gets really dark around 11 pm, however in winter it´s way earlier.)
Does the engine supports this implementation? (longer and brighter nights in summer and vice versa in winter)
I'm from canada, hello! A standalone version is almost ready to release, I'm adding a update to the night lighting, initially I had to sacrifice the moon light shadow to allow for the smooth sun rotation transition but I figured out a way to add it back in but hiding it much better than the vanilla game did. For example, vanilla game had a sun rotation of -80 degrees to 80 degrees and when the sun set at 80 degrees in the sky it would switch to -80 degrees and become the moon. It was very jerky. What I did was give both moon and sun 360 degrees of rotation, but I couldn't figure out how to swap the moon without ruining the sunrise sunset. I figured it out by replacing it about 2 hours after sunset when the moon is high in the sky. the shadow comes in gradually. The night sky is darker and looks more realistic. Moonlight will slightly give shape to objects that you can barely see in the dark, and everything that's in shadow is pitch black. I'm really happy with the new behavior and I'm excited to roll it out soon.
in terms of day length vs night my settings make things set a little later and rise a little earlier than default. However seasons drastically will change this parameter allowing for longer nights vs days. My own weather and seasonal changes will be coming in the future
Learned about your mod, tried it on Frankenmuth; and it gets stuck loading at 20% something about license plates so I put the original map without relight back in and it works fine.
I don't have a clean load so I'm sure some mod is breaking it (a mod with errors perhaps), but any chance do you know if there are any issues with this map or any other maps? Any chance you could create a list of maps that it doesn't work well or at all with?
I will have to load the map clean with no mods and see if relight works and report back.
I can test later today. Also the standalone version is coming sooner than expected, working back and forth with an amazing fella who's scripting it into a toggleable main menu mod, no more overwriting. The current relight will still be important for map modders who want to keep this lighting for console maps tho
