GTA V graphics mod, NaturalVision Enhanced, just got a major new update. The favourite mod by Razed and other developers has gained a ton of significant upgrades. The team have spent the past few months since the last update overhauling the graphics of GTA V in many ways. We’ll be taking a look at all the highlights for this update.
Whilst this update is for the Enhanced version of the game on PC, Razed notes that the dev team are going to soon start on bringing some of these new features to the GTA V Legacy version on PC which is great to see. Without further ado, let’s get into this new update.
NaturalVision Enhanced Next-Gen Graphics Update Features
Upgraded Vehicle Shaders
Physically based rendering (PBR)-inspired paint has been applied to all vehicle parts using GGX specular and clearcoat. This will work across base game and modded vehicles. Metallic flakes have been added to certain paint types.
Upgraded Weapon Shaders
PBR-inspired GGX specular and coat have been added to the game’s weapons.
Upgraded Bloom Shaders
Convolution bloom and halation and lens effects has been added. You can adjust the bloom intensity, samples and number of spikes through the NVE Graphics menu.
Upgraded Sky Shaders
A physically-based sky scattering model has been added. This will provide realistic colors and lighting across all times of day.
Upgraded Motion Blur Shader
Tweaks have been made by increasing samples and velocity.
Rain Changes
Raindrops and wetness has been added to vehicles, peds and props. Plus, the resolution of puddles has been increased and shaders look better.
Upgraded Skin Shaders
There is now realistic skin translucency and cloth sheen using modern PBR techniques.
Upgraded Water Shaders
The water shaders has been improved by the team adding subsurface scattering, GGX specular, whitecaps and physically-based water absorption.
New Vegetation
Brand new palm trees, ficus trees, coconut trees, yucca plants and more have been added.
More additions include:
- Added raytraced mirror reflections to over 70+ stock game vehicles
- Improved lighting in various weathers such as Extrasunny, Clear, Overcast and Rain
- Modified headlight shaders to improve headlight start position
- Modified reflection shaders in order to slightly desaturate reflections
- Fixed an issue with flickering vegetation shadows
- Fixed various texture related bugs around the map
- Misc. bug fixes, additions and tweaks
- And more!
You can watch the new NaturalVision Enhanced trailer here. If you want to check out NaturalVision Evolved for yourself, get it on Patreon. Supporting the creators will allow them to continue their impressive work.
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8 Comments
The graphics upgrade sounds pretty cool. I wonder how it compares to other games out now.
Lol imagine thinking motion blur is a good thing
I love this game
Gta
Title is click bait – GTA V is NOT getting a next Gen graphics update; a MOD is getting a next Gen graphics update. HUGE DIFFERENCE.
Console players don’t give a fuck.
Hi, the title says “NaturalVision Update”, NaturalVision is a mod.
GT5
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