Empress_RealismOverhaul v1.0.1

A full visual overhaul with cinematic clarity and depth. Darker contrast, richer lighting, and a clean realistic tone that makes every scene feel alive.

What this mod does

• Uses a proper tone mapper for a natural look
• Disables the game's Post Processing Overlay so the scene is clean
• Removes stylized filters like chromatic aberration, grain, vignette, and lens distortion
• Keeps shadows consistent and soft with sensible defaults
• Works on the client only and stays friendly with multiplayer
• Gives full control over Ambient Occlusion with intensity and radius options
• Offers optional Bloom and Depth of Field with intensity, threshold, focus distance, aperture, and focal length
• Lets you choose TAA or FXAA and disables MSAA to avoid conflicts
• Forces Motion Blur off at the source for a cleaner image
• Dynamically scales internal resolution to stabilize FPS
• Resets the render texture to the large base size to prevent pixelation
• Sets anisotropic filtering and reflections to keep distant textures and highlights crisp
• Pushes LOD bias for better detail retention and less pop in
• Reapplies everything on scene load and after the game's GraphicsManager runs so changes persist
• Adds a post process layer to every active game camera and keeps it configured
• Applies safe defaults in the game's own settings for Vsync, gamma, FPS cap, bloom, chromatic aberration, grain, lens effects, and render size
• Locks in quality choices so the sliders cannot undo them if you choose

Config options

General

• General.EnableOverhaul: true by default
• General.RespectGameSliders: false by default
• General.DisableStylizedFX: true by default
• General.DisablePostProcessingOverlay: true by default

PostFX

• PostFX.Antialiasing: TAA by default. Valid values are TAA, FXAA, None
• PostFX.AmbientOcclusion: true by default
• PostFX.AOIntensity: 0.9 by default
• PostFX.AORadius: 0.35 by default
• PostFX.Bloom: false by default
• PostFX.BloomIntensity: 3.5 by default
• PostFX.BloomThreshold: 1.08 by default
• PostFX.DepthOfField: true by default
• PostFX.DOFFocusDistance: 3.5 by default
• PostFX.DOFAperture: 4.0 by default
• PostFX.DOFFocalLength: 50 by default
• PostFX.PostExposureEV: 0.0 by default
• PostFX.MotionBlur: false by default
• PostFX.MotionBlurShutter: -3.576279E-08 by default

Quality

• Quality.ShadowCascades: 4 by default
• Quality.ShadowDistance: 180 by default
• Quality.ShadowResolution: VeryHigh by default
• Quality.LODBias: 2.0 by default

Credits

• Created by Omniscye / Empress
• Screens and testing by Skript

"I polished the light until it started telling secrets."