Dark Souls Lighting Engine
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DS3LE - Lite V_0_2_21_Alpha
🕑 Added 2025-07-19 13:41:39 +0000 UTCDS3LE-Lite with the following Features
1. DLSS/FSR
2. GTAO with Contact shadows.
3. Screen space shadows.
4. Updated Lighting Model to GGX from BlinnPhong, Produces better metal/non-metal surfaces.
5. Scene SSR - Physically based. It combines the existing cube maps
6. Reverse z buffer - This significantly improves the quality, providing a significant improvement in Image stability like Fog.
7. HDR monitor support.
8. Auto Exposure based Tonemapper.
9. PCSS Shadows - However use a mod like shadows mod. as this is Lite and shadow casting needs to be enabled using that
10. SSGI.
11. Improved Motion blur - you can choose only on objects or full scene vs base ds3 full scene blur.
12. Cinematic DOF - Near dof can cause some issue, however Far DOF is perfect.
13. HDR Monitor support with Tonemapper.
14. Hair shading improvements.
15. Player shadow is always rendered now even if hollow, in-line with other hollows in-game.
16. Player ambient lighting control to avoid it being too bright in many zones.
Note : LE works before postprocess and actually changes the rendering engine. All effects are rendered before UI. Also UI Is rendered at native resolution when upscaling using DLSS.
Latest Change Log
1. Player shadow is always rendered now even if hollow, in-line with other hollows in-game.
2. Improves contact shadows for all lights.
3. Player ambient lighting is now reduced by 70%
4. Adds support for DS3 Debug menu
Existing Bugs
1. Flicker when you open the stats screen.
2. Disable Blood. Enabling it causes blood splatter everywhere and causes flickers
More features in Future
1. Water SSR which also combines with planar seamlessly.
Installation
1. Paste all contents in the DS3-Game folder.
2. Use modengine/mod engine2 to make sure the mod folder is loaded.
3. Disable Blood. Enabling it causes blood splatter everywhere and causes flickers
Enable Motion blur in-game. This is required to ensure DLSS/FSR works correctly. You can control if you want motion blur applied using LE-Menu.
Discord for help with Troubleshooting : https://discord.gg/wwyPerckJP
