Michiko's Weather Revamp (3.0)  

Modifies every aspect of the default weather presets to improve visual fidelity and variety without any influence on performance. Compatible with 1.5.1.

• Extract this mod's gamedata folder into your game's gamedata folder, merging the contents of both folders in your installation.
• After uninstalling, reset r2_sun_lumscale to 2 in the user.ltx or using the console command.

• Version 2.0 (November 14th): Modified all weathers with fog, lowering the fog color overall. Now, hopefully trees in the fog radius won't appear stark white.
• Version 3.0 (February 16th): Modified r2_sun_luminance with a script and overall changed the ambient and hemi lighting across almost all weathers to create much more variety and get rid of issues like pitch black darkness or dull sunlight (the new pictures should show for themselves). Much of the summary is outdated ever since the weathers were changed after 1.5.1, but hopefully this should still solve many problems and fix some of the old issues of my mod.

Modifies every single aspect of the default weather presets to improve the look of the game, add more visual variety, and hopefully to negate the need for using a ReShade just to make it look decent. The changes are as follows:

• Ambient light and shadows are darker, removing the previous flat look of the lighting and interiors, something people always try to make up for by adding contrast filters. You should no longer need this to get a pleasing and realistic image.
• Sun color is modified to look more realistic, rather than colorless. Weird instances like the sun color looking greenish at 10AM is also fixed. Foggy, rainy, and stormy weathers all have sun shadows disabled entirely, because it looks freaky when it's storming and you can see sharp shadows as if the sun is out.
• Skyboxes for every hour have been reviewed and changed to look most appropriate for the weather, time of day, and surrounding time slots. Some skyboxes created really strange lighting and shading, and they've all been replaced by better options that keep the image looking right.
• Fog for sunny and cloudy weathers has been completely removed. It should look as if the draw distance has increased in those weathers. Changed fog for rainy and stormy weathers to give the look of lowering visibility in heavier rains in the distance.
• Wind velocity had been changed for every preset to give windier options and add more wind where it belongs in extreme weather. Wind should be more noticeable overall now. Also matched the tree swaying and wind velocity values.
• Brightened or darkened the sky where appropriate so it doesn't look strangely mild in sunny weather or way too bright in stormy or rainy weather or at night.
• Weather variety:
  • w_clear1:
    • night: zero wind, day: medium win
    • zero fog
  • w_clear2:
    • night: medium wind, day: heavy wind
    • zero fog
  • w_partly1:
    • night: zero wind, day: heavy wind
    • zero fog
  • w_partly2
    • night: zero wind, day: heavy wind
    • zero fog
  • w_cloudy1
    • night: zero wind, day: medium wind
    • zero fog
  • w_cloudy2_dark
    • night: medium wind, day: heavy wind
    • zero fog
  • w_foggy1:
    • zero wind
    • medium fog
  • w_foggy2:
    • zero wind
    • heavy fog
  • w_rain1:
    • night: zero wind, day: medium wind
    • zero fog
    • light rain
  • w_rain2:
    • night: medium wind, day: heavy wind
    • light fog
    • medium rain
  • w_rain3:
    • heavy wind
    • medium fog
    • heavy rain
  • w_storm1:
    • night: medium wind, day: medium-heavy wind
    • light fog
    • medium rain
  • w_storm2:
    • heavy wind
    • medium fog
    • heavy rain

WARNING: I've recently gotten reports that your game may look way to dark with these on AMD cards with DX10. I can't guarantee your game will look how mine will so keep that in mind. I calibrated these settings specifically with my RTX 2070 at default gamma, on DX11.

Compatible with 1.5.1. Earlier versions are incompatible due to the script file. If your game crashes and the log points to "exec_console_cmd" in the script as the issue, just delete the script file and input "r2_sun_lumscale 3" in your user.ltx or as a console command. Is compatible with anything that doesn't touch the default weather preset config files.