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a Improved Emergency Lights

    • Accurate Studio
  • Cj24
  • June 20, 2022 at 10:04 AM
  • 4.2k Downloads
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  • Versions 1

A modified visualsettings.dat to increase the brightness of emergency lights, improve the bloom, and adjust the brightness of taillights, brake lights, and turn signals for more realistic visuals.

The included visualsettings.dat is optimized for the default vanilla graphics. When used with different graphics mods, results may differ.

Settings for VisualV

Settings optimized for VisualV, requires manual file editing:

Open VisualV's visualsettings.dat (GTA V/update/update.rpf/common/data/visualsettings.dat) in a text editor and replace the following lines. Replace the original visualsettings.dat with the modified one.

Code
# emissive bits
car.headlight.day.emissive.on	20.00
car.headlight.night.emissive.on	20.00
car.headlight.day.emissive.off	0.001
car.headlight.night.emissive.off	0.001
car.taillight.day.emissive.on	30.0
car.taillight.night.emissive.on	30.0
car.taillight.day.emissive.off	0.001
car.taillight.night.emissive.off	0.001
car.indicator.day.emissive.on	500.00
car.indicator.night.emissive.on	400.00
car.indicator.day.emissive.off	0.001
car.indicator.night.emissive.off	0.001
car.reversinglight.day.emissive.on	20.00
car.reversinglight.night.emissive.on	20.00
car.reversinglight.day.emissive.off	0.001
car.reversinglight.night.emissive.off	0.001
car.defaultlight.day.emissive.on	1.50
car.defaultlight.night.emissive.on	1.50
car.defaultlight.day.emissive.off	0.001
car.defaultlight.night.emissive.off	0.001
car.brakelight.day.emissive.on	100.00
car.brakelight.night.emissive.on	100.00
car.brakelight.day.emissive.off	0.001
car.brakelight.night.emissive.off	0.001
car.middlebrakelight.day.emissive.on	50.00
car.middlebrakelight.night.emissive.on	50.00
car.middlebrakelight.day.emissive.off	0.001
car.middlebrakelight.night.emissive.off	0.001
car.extralight.day.emissive.on	9.00
car.extralight.night.emissive.on	9.00
car.extralight.day.emissive.off	0.001
car.extralight.night.emissive.off	0.001
car.sirenlight.day.emissive.on		1400.00
car.sirenlight.night.emissive.on	750.00
car.sirenlight.day.emissive.off		0.001
car.sirenlight.night.emissive.off	0.001
car.emissiveMultiplier 2.00
Display More
Code
// Bloom
bloom.threshold.min	0.4
bloom.threshold.expsoure.diff.min	0.0
bloom.threshold.expsoure.diff.max	0.0
bloom.threshold.power	1.0

bloom.blurblendmult.large	1.0
bloom.blurblendmult.med	1.5
bloom.blurblendmult.small	0.8
Settings for VisualVanilla

Settings optimized for VisualVanilla, requires manual file editing:

Open VisualVanilla's visualsettings.dat (GTA V/update/update.rpf/common/data/visualsettings.dat) in a text editor and replace the following lines. Replace the original visualsettings.dat with the modified one.

Code: visualsettings.dat
# emissive bits
car.headlight.day.emissive.on    20.00
car.headlight.night.emissive.on    20.00
car.headlight.day.emissive.off    0.001
car.headlight.night.emissive.off    0.001
car.taillight.day.emissive.on    30.0
car.taillight.night.emissive.on    30.0
car.taillight.day.emissive.off    0.001
car.taillight.night.emissive.off    0.001
car.indicator.day.emissive.on    500.00
car.indicator.night.emissive.on    600.00
car.indicator.day.emissive.off    0.001
car.indicator.night.emissive.off    0.001
car.reversinglight.day.emissive.on    20.00
car.reversinglight.night.emissive.on    20.00
car.reversinglight.day.emissive.off 0.001
car.reversinglight.night.emissive.off    0.001
car.defaultlight.day.emissive.on    1200.0
car.defaultlight.night.emissive.on    800.0
car.defaultlight.day.emissive.off    0.001
car.defaultlight.night.emissive.off    0.001
car.brakelight.day.emissive.on    100.00
car.brakelight.night.emissive.on    100.00
car.brakelight.day.emissive.off    0.001
car.brakelight.night.emissive.off    0.001
car.middlebrakelight.day.emissive.on    50.00
car.middlebrakelight.night.emissive.on    50.00
car.middlebrakelight.day.emissive.off    0.001
car.middlebrakelight.night.emissive.off    0.001
car.extralight.day.emissive.on    9.00
car.extralight.night.emissive.on    9.00
car.extralight.day.emissive.off    0.001
car.extralight.night.emissive.off    0.001
car.sirenlight.day.emissive.on        1200.0
car.sirenlight.night.emissive.on    800.0
car.sirenlight.day.emissive.off        0.001
car.sirenlight.night.emissive.off    0.001
car.emissiveMultiplier 2.00
Display More
Code: visualsettings.dat
// Bloom
bloom.threshold.min            0.4
bloom.threshold.expsoure.diff.min    0.0
bloom.threshold.expsoure.diff.max    0.0
bloom.threshold.power            1.0

bloom.blurblendmult.large        1.0
bloom.blurblendmult.med            1.5
bloom.blurblendmult.small        0.8

Images

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    • 258.44 kB
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    • 138.12 kB
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Credits
Visualsettings.dat modified by Cj24.
Installation Instructions
Recommended: Automatic installation with LML (Lenny’s Mod Loader)
Copy the folder with its contents into your GTAV\lml folder.

Manual Installation
Use OpenIV to replace GTAV\update\update.rpf\common\data\visualsettings.dat with Files\visualsettings.dat.
Permissions

Redistributing this file or its contents is permitted, credit to all authors involved is required.

Modifying this file or using any of its assets to create other modifications is permitted, credit to all authors involved is required.

Using this modification in multiplayer servers such as FiveM is permitted.

  • Version 1.3

    • Cj24
    • June 20, 2022 at 10:04 AM
    • 3.51 MB
    • 4151 Downloads

File Details

Credits
Visualsettings.dat modified by Cj24.
Installation Instructions
Recommended: Automatic installation with LML (Lenny’s Mod Loader)
Copy the folder with its contents into your GTAV\lml folder.

Manual Installation
Use OpenIV to replace GTAV\update\update.rpf\common\data\visualsettings.dat with Files\visualsettings.dat.

Author

  • Cj24

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    Accurate Studio

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