How come modders are so much better than devs, /v/? https:

>>386576446
>so much effort to make the game look worse
hmmmm

>>386576446
is this screenshot supposed show how much better looking the mod is? because it actually looks worse.

>>386576446
Vanilla is better faggot u blind?

>>386576446
holy shit thats ugly, all they did was fuck up the lighting

They made it slightly brighter at the cost of 10 first person shooters?

1200 wasted hours. It looks like shit.

>>386576673
Look at the buildings in the distance. They have much more photorealistic lighting.

>>386576446
Are those pics switched? Vanilla looks much better.

>>386576446
>the mod looks like modded San Andreas

Probably because they had to make the game's content and systems. You can't give the graphics code monkeys too much freedom or the game'll never come out.

>>386576446

the picture on the right actually looks worse, Xbox 360 tier even

the puddle now appears to be floating

>>386576446
This guy wasted his time. Candy Land always posts the shittiest graphics mods. What the point when voss is 70% done and he literally invented graphics and has a degree in actual meme color and temperature warmth.

Ops vid like most people just end up being over contrasted or something.

>>386576893
What does that do for me, the player?

>>386576446
>no deadlines
>no management telling you to keep it within a reasonable spec requirement (what's the point of having high quality ENB if nobody but the richest and mustardiest of pc mustard races can play it?)
>no cost/benefit ratio
to name a few.

>>386576446
The buildings and trees look better thanks to the boost in saturation, but everything else is worse because the saturation is fucked.

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>1200 hours wasted on this shit

kek even the console versions look better than this

Everyone in this thread is fucking blind

>>386576446
>no ripples in the puddle at all
What the fuck kind of downgrade is this?

>Vanilla looks better and has 10 more frames
Loving Every Laugh

>>386576446
Wow, I was looking at the right thinking it was vanilla and was thinking they did a good job. How do you spend so much time on something to make it look worse? He could have just lowered the graphics settings and called it a day.

>>386577042
Blurs the line between fantasy and reality for you

Looks worse to me.

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WOAH SO FUCKING GOOD
MODDERS=GODS ROCKSTAR BTFO
holy shit does this mod make everything look like trash

>>386577161
/v/ being contrarian as usual. The modded side has much more photorealism.

The Rain water on the asphalt looks better in vanilla. Even the texture looks more realistic.

>>386576991
And the reflections in it are totally fuckered.

>>386576446
When was the last time you saw yellow paint on curb edges? Protip, never. Yellow paint is for the lines in the street, red is for dictating the sidewalk.
Whoever made this mod is a fucking moron.

>>386577393
>3 more fps
Probably because of the removed shadows kek, how dumb

>>386577617
>California’s colored curbs

>Let’s look at the rainbow of examples in California. The California Driver Handbook says:

>Red: No stopping, standing, or parking.

>Blue: Parking is permitted only for a disabled person or a driver of a disabled person.

>Green: Park for a limited time.

>White: Stop only long enough to pick up or drop off passengers or mail.

>Yellow: Stop no longer than the time posted to load or unload passengers or freight.

>Red curbs are typically reserved for emergency vehicles and are often found in front of fire hydrants. They’re also usually long enough to fit a fire truck. And take note: you can get a ticket for being parked in a red zone even if you’re with the car.

The mod looks like shit, but you're retarded.

>>386577469
The vanilla picture actually looks like a gloomy rainy day, the modded one looks like a level that hasn't touched up on the lighting,
>>386577393
He literally just took off atmospheric fog on this one to get rid of the light shafts, and removed shadows for some reason. This mod looks like shit, it's just like turning the graphic settings down.

>>386577617
This, what's wrong with GTAV modders? GTAIV had much better mods.

>>386577393
It does look more realistic if the scene is supposed to be cloudy though. There's no direct sunlight shining through like that in that case, like in the vanilla version. It's not prettier though, that's for sure.

Some of the examples really look good.

Some.

There is a lot video game devs put into the game to try and make it look pretty. Sometimes it is too much, thd game will look pretty but not realistic.

GTAV is a pretty game, but it does not look really realistic. Taking away some of the visual effects, fogging and haze. It begins to look a bit more realistic.

Still far off from photo realistic graphics though, we simply do not have the processing power yet, so it is a bit of a wasted effort.

>>386577929
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>>386577767
The yellow paint is literally the only smart decision this dumbass modder made.

>>386576446
>The author has viewed more than 40 hours of video footage, hundreds of photos and researched a variety of neighboring districts within the Los Angeles and Salton Sea areas.

>guy who has never even seen southern california in real life tries to make it look more realistic and his research included looking at 40 whole hours of video footage and "hundreds" of photos
>implying video capture devices and cameras replicate reality and things like f-stops and shutter speeds wouldn't change the lighting.
this is super autistic.

Is this "1200 hours spent" the same way I spend 10 hours studying for an exam, mostly browsing 4chan and playing shitty games?

>>386576446
It looks like someone slapped on reshade and increased exposure and contrast a bit. Why this is such a waste of time? I mean my GTA5 looks better than this just with reshade and doesn't drop framerate. Useless.

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>>386577990
Can you find me a pic of LA with yellow paint under a traffic light?

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>Looks worse AND lower frames

>>386576446
He literally just removed atmospheric effects from everything. It looks so much worse.

You're probably him, too. kys

>>386578220
It also wouldn't make you any more capable of adding real life lighting into a video game using some shitty modding tools, regardless of how many hours of video footage you watch. Guy is beyond retarded.

>>386576446
Vanilla fits into 512mb of ram
NVR fits into 8.5mb of ram.

>>386578826
gb*

>>386576446
>How come modders are so good at zero effort simple ini configuration files modifications and modifying easily substitutable decals and textures that R* makes relatively accessible to your average PC consumer
Gee I dunno OP.
Yet how come modders can't actually fix the godawful flat and shit boring deferred lighting, ugly cubemapped reflections and everything that's actually hardcoded in the graphics engine?

>>386579003
512 gb?!?! How the fuck?

>>386579121
hueeuhheueheue

>>386579064
Boris the enb dev could, but he's busy jerking off to bayonetta

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>>386576893
>photorealistic lighting

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Even if the mod didn't look worse, (It does for the most part) you can tell that it was made by someone who doesn't live here in LA.

That yellowish tint that's in the game during sunny days? We have that shit. It's called smog.

Removing it to make it crystal clear blue skies is stupid. We only get those kinds of skies the day after it rains 3 weeks out of the year.

And the overcast days? Much more realistic on vanilla, it actually looks grey and gloomy.

>>386579429
>We only get those kinds of skies the day after it rains 3 weeks out of the year.
Pretend you're playing GTAV during one of those days. Should the game look like shit just because LA looks like shit most of the time?

Can someone check for added ferns and/or bridges?

>>386576446
>How come modders are so much better than devs, /v/?
Perfect example is bethesda, where 6 years later they release their 2011 game again with an HD-release textures that are worse than the modders HD stuff in every way.

>>386579596

That's idiotic though.

Imagine playing a GTA game based on Norway and there's zero snow anywhere.

If you're a Norwegian gamer your immersion is fucked.

The fantastic thing about GTAV is just how closely it resembles LA, and that's because the devs actually spent time here researching.

>>386579429
fucking this, every time I drive through that shithole you can see the giant brown smog bank that permanently covers that pit from like 40 or 50 miles out

Vanilla games are superior in every single way. Mods completely ruin any game and are inferior. They're not the way the game is meant to be played. Ever.

>>386576446
>Those reflections in the water

Jesus christ, Its hurting my brain, how far are these buildings?

>>386579429
We need someone to invent a giant vacuum cleaner and suck up all the smog

>>386579429
And yanks mock the brits for their weather.

>>386576446
This is the second time I've seen you post this thread
I wonder what I would see if I searched the youtube link on the archive

that video makes the mod look much worse than it actually is

https://www.flickr.com/photos/137735387@N03/sets/72157679291777445

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>>386580109
>we invaded iraq to cover up us stealing their fresh air

>>386576446
>The author has viewed more than 40 hours of video footage

What ?

>>386577393
>remove post processing
IT LOOKS SO REAL BECAUSE CONTRAST LEVELS

>>386576446
No - lifers have all the time in the world to work on this stuff, devs don't.

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>>386579429
Why is the sky the same color as the skin color of the inhabitants?

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>>386580239
>video of normal gameplay from a third party
>doctored bullshots from the modder
who should I believe?!

>>386580239
Or maybe the author is cherrypicking and using tricks to make it look better than it is
I tried it and it's pretty meh

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what a shitty thread

>>386577469
there is no lighting and shaders on the cars. There are clear lines in the rain in the right picture that are jarring.

>>386580171
>only 2 hits
Shoulda checked before you wrecked yourself

>>386576446
looks like shit
vanilla puddles are way better

Have these people ever been to L.A.?
Or California in general?
Why did they remove the thick haze layer and pretend it looks more realistic?

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>>386577263
>for you

>>386581636
This. I mean, Los Santos is a fictional city, but this kid pretends like everything he did is accurate to LA ("watched 40 hours of video footage", holy shit what a faggot), and then removes all the shit that makes it resemble LA.

>>386580837
>there is no lighting and shaders on the cars
Maybe not the fault of the mod tho, vanilla has pretty shit lightning and shaders

>>386580113
LA is still better than bongistan

>>386576446
>developers made everything from scratch
>modders just easily edit shit on photoshop

hmmm I wonder

>>386584476
>edit shit in photoshop
Something tells me you've never modded anything beyond a texture, if that.

>>386580113
Id take smog over cloudy with a chance of beheading any day.

>>386576446
this is bait right? i live in LA and afaik shit doesn't look like modded san andreas here, not while you're sober anyway

NVR stands for "not very ready", is not done yet.

>>386585765
it stands for New Vegas Republic, the nation the Courier founded to counter the New California Republic

This it's actually pretty sad how much shittier it looks. The right looks like fucking half life 2.

>>386576446
Infinite time

>>386576446
>Looks literally the same for a 10FPS hit

fuckin 10/10 my dude bredy gud

usually i say something like "because there's already something to work off of, if modders started from scratch it'd look like shit"
but their modding also looks like shit

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>>386576446
>1200 hours put into making the game look like a San andreas mod
Wow.

>>386576446
so they removed a lot of post-processing, shadows and fucked up reflections, and somehow lost performance as well? lmao

>>386576618
>>386576673
>>386576741
>>386576761
oh good its not just me

ice enhancer makes gta iv look better than anything gta v has

>>386587803
GTAV is better at distant scenery.

>>386588009
Yeah when it's not completely obstructed by distance fog / smog, which is most of the time. And when you use mods like this it starts to look unnatural.

What the fuck is that, they made it look worse AND run slower? Congratulations...?

I mean, good for anyone who feels the one that I feel looks worse looks better, they can now have... that, and only get a slightly lower frame rate in return, I guess. But honestly. It does not look better. Bunch of shit.

Not even going to lie, looking through the video, consistently EVERY comparison shot looks worse in the "mod". It's like there's some smartass going oooh noooo lighting effects, filters, any sort of post processing is baaad, let's fucking remove everything and make it look crisp and clear and simple like some unity stock shit. It doesn't look more "realistic", it looks less good, that's about it. How does it even make the framerate be worse. I don't even get it.

I don't even want to be snarky about it, really I'm glad for anyone who likes that. It just baffles me.

Vosswar is doing a way better job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZqH11eKp44

>>386576446
Modders took 4 years to slightly improve graphics, and took a framerate dip to do it.

It looks like it spends like 5fps just to up the contrast and saturation.

>>386588869
Kill yourself Voss stop making these threads and release the damn mod already.

>>386576446
NVR Dev please gtfo. It looks even worse than the last time you made this thread.

>>386576446
the left actually looks like rainy LA. The right looks like a ps2 game.

Both "modding" and "magic" start with M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bTZ6hEWSy4

Tweaking is easier than creating from something from scratch.

>>386577140
lol yeah man. 360 version at that

>>386576446
Why do stupid gamers/modders keep on wasting time, trying to change the vanilla version, with silly filters which decreases the realizem AND causes lower framerates?? THE VANILLA LOOKS BETTER IN EVERY ASPECT - YOU IMBECILE, USELESS , THINK YOU KNOW IT ALL, AMATEURS!!! You know it's a multi-million dollar brand with top of the line UX/UI experts, making the best possible experience with existing limitations, and yet you keep trying to fill that void, you call life, with such useless efforts...

>roads in mod look like new, black asphalt
>roads in vanilla look like a godawful pile or shit that's turned grey from wear and tear with shit repair
vanilla is way more fucking accurate.

>>386576446
>vanilla looks better
>also RUNS better
literally fucking WHY?

>photorealism is good
No

>>386591776
>photorealism is bad
Then why is Uncharted 4 GOTY?

people are STILL playing GTA V , a 2013 release

so modern gaming is dead now huh

well back to playing Stalker Call of Chernobyl Mod

>>386592078
Gaming died in 2007, last gen consoles took care of it

>>386579875
>Live in Norway

Snow is basicly just 2-3 months most of the day. Most of the time it's just rain and clouds.

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