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Improved Lights & Shadows

This simple mod aims to do one thing and one thing only, improve the damn lights and shadows in the game.
This mod adds NOTHING, just tweaks internal settings so the game looks better.
Imagine, now you can actually hide in/behind asteroids/caves, there's even actual darkness on planets, how about that.

Since this is currently a simple variable tweak, it should be compatible with any other mod, provided that you load this mod last!

List of current features:
- Reduce the light that's emitted from the cube map. (1%) Translation: The galaxy cloud thingy / stars you see etc.
- Reduce the brightness of the cube map just slightly. (-35%) Translation: The galaxy cloud thingy / stars you see etc.
- With the above changes in mind now where there is no light shining or actually reflected from somewhere there will be pure darkness, just like in real life. So now you can hide in the dark on asteroids/planets/ships with semi exposed light etc.
- Took an attempt to fix the minor light bleed on some blocks in the game.* (Cat walks in pics)
- Took an attempt to fix the VERY BAD "in-door" light bouncing.* (Mini-hallway in pics)
- Slightly increased the density of the atmosphere so that the damn stars don't shine through it in the middle of the frikin day. (Sky in pics)
- Took an attempt to improve shadow quality at odd angles slightly. (Tank in pics)
- Made the atmospheric reflections a bit more brighter. This will make the shadows way less dark on planets, while still keeping the nice pitch darkness on planets at night and behind/in asteroids.


* - These specific changes might increase GPU req. very slightly tho, maybe.

If you would like to see more frequent updates on my content, feel free to help make it worth my while.
Donations: Patreon[www.patreon.com]

Recent changes/updates:
- Made the atmospheric reflections a bit more brighter. This will make the shadows way less dark on planets, while still keeping the nice pitch darkness on planets at night and behind/in asteroids.