Survival Ambience

Survival Ambience

Alters ingame light system to shift it from stylized towards natural, aimed at survival gameplay style. Adjusts weather and weather visual effects.

mod ID: 930265

Key Features:

• natural moon and darker nights - no longer nights look like days with blue sun, moonlight is still strong, so vast open spaces remain well lit, but when moon is obscured or when in unlit places, it gets dark
• reworked daily cycle with actual twighlight hour and more natural daylight better looking shadows with no oversaturation spots creeping
• improved volumetrics - smoother godrays, dynamic moving volume fog and custom pattern clouds
• no fake exposure compensation in caves - they're still pretty lit due to multitude of biolum and otherwise emissive things, but dark corners and corridors, are dark
• customized water shaders and custom light scattering function for ocean underwater that gives deep-diving more natural feel
• custom weather type: thunderstorm added to island and center map
• expanded basegame weather types - custom, distinct visuals and temperature events beyond just coldfront and heatwave
• crossplay compatible
• supports The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction and The Center maps

For discussion and/or constructive feedback please visit my discord

custom gameusersettings.ini options

[Survival Ambience] 
SA_night_brightness=0.5 
SA_fog_amount=0.5 
SA_saturation_amount=0.5
SA_PerformanceMode=false
SA_HighFidelityMode=false

first three accept float values: 0.0 to 1.0,
last two bool true/false

zero means minimum setting, one means maximum setting custom weather control system requires admin privileges

admins can force weather, by opening console and entering cheat ScriptCommand string, followed by specific weather scenario string, as listed below

for example to force rain on the Island, enter: cheat ScriptCommand SA_Weather_Rain

only listed commands work on specific map

this system is not meant to force weather back and forth, or to adjust someones live gameplay on regular basis, rather to be illustrative tool for evaluation/debugging purposes,
if abused it may break things, please do not force weather in intervals shorter then a minute

The Island

SA_Weather_Clear 
SA_Weather_Overcast 
SA_Weather_Fog 
SA_Weather_Rain 
SA_Weather_Storm 
SA_Weather_Coldfront 
SA_Weather_Heatwave 
SA_Weather_Drystorm

The Center

SA_Weather_Clear 
SA_Weather_Overcast 
SA_Weather_Fog 
SA_Weather_WC_Storm 
SA_Weather_SA_Storm 
SA_Weather_Coldfront 
SA_Weather_Heatwave

Scorched Earth

SA_Weather_Clear 
SA_Weather_Fog 
SA_Weather_Rain 
SA_Weather_ElectricalStorm 
SA_Weather_Coldfront 
SA_Weather_Heatwave 
SA_Weather_Superheat