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This was a fun research sideproject. It did not take any development resources away.<\/p>\n
Download this on NexusMods here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This mod does the following:<\/p>\n Increase draw distances, less pop-in of mappieces and objects<\/p>\n<\/li>\n This mod takes a conservative and disciplined approach. It does not seek to alter NOTE: Mappieces that have shadow source\/target disabled have not been altered. This mod will not work with vanilla Dark Souls II.<\/p>\n There is a way to run this mod without ModEngine too.<\/p>\n DSMapStudio<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n See some before\/after screenshots here.<\/p>\n Screenshot #1<\/a> InfiniDetail mods for Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro were developed alongside this mod, and will appear in the near immediate future.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was a fun research sideproject. It did not take any development resources away. Download this on NexusMods here. This mod does the following: Reduce\/eliminate texture LOD (Level of Detail) Increase draw distances, less pop-in of mappieces and objects Draw some mappieces that were inside the level files but never rendered ingame This mod takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50574,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50570\/revisions\/50574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
the game’s look, it does not add additional lighting, it does not remove spot lights or
remove baked shadows. In other words, it tries to look authentic to the original game,
and yet a still noticeable visual upgrade.<\/p>\n
There will be a second version of the mod in the future that will enable shadow
source for certain mappieces. Enabling it for all mappieces at once did not turn
out to be a good idea, so it has to be done judiciously.
Altered objects meanwhile do have shadow sources enabled<\/p>\nREQUIREMENTS<\/h2>\n
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HOW TO INSTALL<\/h2>\n
Easy mode<\/h3>\n
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This will start the InfiniDetail mod with ModEngine (supplied in the zip archive)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nHard mode<\/h2>\n
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Run UXM, point it to the DS2 SOTF exe (usually C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\Dark Souls II Scholar of the First Sin\\Game\\DarkSoulsII.exe). Click on ‘Unpack’ and wait until it’s done. Close UXM.<\/li>\nTODO<\/h2>\n
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TOOLS USED<\/h2>\n
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MEDIA<\/h2>\n
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Yes, it works fine. First install the DS2 Lighting Engine mod, then walk through this mod’s installation instructions (How To Install).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWHAT’S NEXT<\/h2>\n
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