This looks great! I subscribed, but it's not showing up in my list of mods in the content manager. Is this expected behavior?

For people wanting to simulate this effect with Render it! and Theme mixer, 1. Go to light tab and reduce the intensity of sunlight to 0, this will get rid of the diferential brightness between faces of the buildings completely. 2. Go to theme mixer and adjust the exposure of sunlight until brightness fits. You could also try adjust the sliders in Render It! color tab equator colors according to the render it guide linked in the mod page. If pursuing 1 and 2, rule of thumb is total brightness = intensity + exposure, adjust intensity to achieve softer shadows

Daylight Classic + Softer Shadows + Dynamic Resolution + Real Neutral LUT,Thank you, these four mods are still valid until December 2024.

I respect and thank every mod creator, but I have to admit that after 9 years, the simplest and most effective mods in terms of light and shadow effects are still those from 8 years ago.

this 4 mods combination still cannot be replaced, such as' Render It! ',' Lumina ', and' Relight '. Although these complex mods are more flexible and free, they require patience to adjust the values. Most players just want to achieve a simple and beautiful light and shadow effect.

What I most want to adjust is the part of the building that faces away from the light. The latest Mod [Natural Lighting] can replace [Daylight Classic], but still cannot fully replace [Softer Shadows]

A gamechanger for me, thx!!

Render It! has this covered

of all the cool things you can adjust in this game, making shadows not a void of darkness never seems to be a thing you can do...

It doesn't work for me

I don't think I lost resolution. This mod was making my colors shift while I moved the camera. I;m still having an issue with flickering lines on the ground, if anyone knows what might be causing that.

did this make anyone elses city lose resolution

gmrsb

It also does not work with with daylight classic. But it kind of works without DC, but just with the vanilla LUT.

@boformer Well that was my issue, I didn't have classic sun color enabled. My bad!

make sure to also install Daylight Classic and enable classic sun intensity/color/position.
This mod is just an addition to make the shadows a little bit brighter.

It does not work anymore. The shadows are as dark as without the mod.

It is weird why the "dark side" was fine before, and after a week of not playing, it broke. Become really really dark. This mod lighten it a bit but still was unable to recover back to what it supposed to looks like. See my detail here : https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylinesModding/comments/slcujq/what_might_be_the_cause_of_such_weird_dark/

This just either doesn't work for me or I need the shadows to be even less dark because it does not have the same effect as your screenshots show. I'm using this mod, daylight classic and just the default boreal lut.

Same here @lemonsterOG @Dr_J0nes

@Dr_J0nes -- I know this is listed as a conflict on the Relight page, but I've been using this with Relight, Ultimate Eyecandy and Theme Mixer 2 all at the same time without a single issue, and for over a year now. Are you experiencing an issue?

Is there any way to make this mod work with relight?

This is great! I had been using Shadow Strength Adjuster, but I realized it wasn't affecting quite the objects I wanted. In fact, it made my trees look "washed out"

This mod is just what I needed!

it's fine. I hope you managed to find the look you wanted!

Yeah, you are right. I kept trying that at UEC just the past few days.(reduced one intensity and increased another one.)
(and trying with other color settings like Theme Mixer 2, Relight.)
And, I find my comments on February 6, the link-picture is totally wrong and unnecessary.
Because the “Relight mod” description said “Definite conflict” with “Softer Shadows”.
Therefore my picture (February 6) is wrong, Softer Shadows did not work in my picture. I’m so stupid that’s my fault.
Please ignore my comment on February 6. Sorry I wasted your time.
In order not to cause misunderstanding, I will delete my comment of February 6.

I think the mod still uses the default values at night, but I don't think that's the issue here.

I think you could probably get the look you want by increasing the global illumination and reducing the sunlight strength. The ultimate eyecandy mod might have a setting for that.

I noticed some values were 255, 255, 255 (Source Code/ github ). I’ve guessed that it may be the brightest in some parts. I still came to ask, just for a hope.:) Thank you for response anyway.

this mod already sets the brightest possible values (pure white)

I have "shadow strength adjuster", The 2 mods handle different shades.
The shadows on the buildings itself are not changed by that adjuster mod. It can be changed by your mod. However, I need less dark shadows on the building itself.
I'm satisfied with that sort of shadows adjusted by "shadow strength adjuster". I hope your mod have a slider as well.

I think there is another mod called shadow strength adjuster

I love the mod. I need more. Could you add a bar to adjust less dark? It's still too dark.

When I enable the mod in the content manager and load my game, my buildings and networks don't render unless my camera is very close to them.

Beyond a shadow of a doubt this is a very good mod. :)

imagine throwing shade at ronyx lol

Amazing mod, thanks. After using this i can actually see something on the shadow side of vehicles :D

@boformer. OK. Thanks!

Wow....the shade of it all.

@xerxesaria idk probably some bullshit mod that thinks it knows better what works and what does not :P

Hi boformer. This is a fantastic mod. After 5 years of playing, I don't know why I hadn't seen it before....
However, I also use Relight. My asset compatibility report says that "Relight" is incompatible with this mod. I have been using them both actually in my games and have had no problems at all. They both work side by side. So I am wondering why this "incompatibility report" shows up? Can you please let me know?

@XDorazio -- It should be "incompatible" with any other mod (meaning it will crash your game), but there would obviously be potential conflicts with other mods that control shadows, as they may use the same game controls. Example: It's possible the Shadow Strength Adjuster mod would conflict with what this mod is trying to do. (Note: I have not tested them together. This is just a guess.)

Hello, is this Mod incompatible with any other Mod?

From one side of my city the skyline would be really dark and ugly, real game changer

Also use a neutral LUT that doesn't darken the shadows!

it is not adjustable. it does what you can see on the screenshots. It's recommended to combine it with Daylight Classic for best results

Unfortuantely I don't see any result of this mod work. It is listed in content manager, switched on, but no corresponding item in mod options in game. No any keyboard shortcut list in description, and i don't see any effect.
Is it adjustable or not? Is there any menu, GUI or adjuster?
Of course i can suupose that it works witout any user menu or gui, but... i don't see any significant effect anyway. Shadow from sun opposed side are totally black. I have last actual verison 1.12.3.
Please advise

Actually, I think I need almost none in snow... SNOMO..... Thanks for the open source!

Wow, this is needed in snow.

An absolute must.

no, doesn't affect performance at all.

If the game lags, try to set your graphic settings to minimum.

does this make the game lag less?

Nice to hear that. I wonder what they were thinking when they made the game.

Thank you very much, the game was for me almost unplayable with those often even "black" like ashes walls in shadows in vanilla.

Nice that it works for you! It's actually just 37 lines of simple code :D