a Improved Emergency Lights

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.

Recommended to decrease brightness for other cars cars such as taxis: Vanilla Vehicles Emissives Fix


Note that the brightness looks different depending on the game's resolution. To change the brightness, edit the defaultlight and sirenlight values, it is recommended to increase or decrease these values in increments of around 10-20% before testing when making adjustments.


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
// 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
// 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

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 1.4

    • Cj24
    • May 16, 2026 at 8:49 AM
    • 3.82 MB
    • 368 Downloads

    Adjusted siren emissive shader settings to match default lights to support vehicles using that shader.

  • Version 1.3

    • Cj24
    • June 20, 2022 at 10:04 AM
    • 3.51 MB
    • 4280 Downloads