IV Released iCEnhancer 3.0 Natural by DayL

[DayL]

2 hours ago, koboltzz said:

Steal a police car and activate the siren. Shift+F12, so enb off, light rotates visibly, turn your enb on again, then it is transparent, because your enb refers to an external texture which is not there.
And that the LIGHTSPRITE intensity has to be set to 1.0 to have visible siren light, icelaglace already confirmed on facebook.

I've tested your enbseries.ini changes to lightsprite and it definitely looks better. It also fixes the corona problem with Project2DFX so I don't have to make a seperate enbseries.ini for Project2DFX users. Thanks for your tip my friend

I forgot to take a screenshot with sirens but I've saw the difference ingame between old and new settings and it also looks better.

Edited December 28, 2020 by DayL

[koboltzz]

8 hours ago, DayL said:

Thanks for your tip my friend

 

I'm glad I could help
Your enb has such a nice dark realistic tone, really very coherent and not as oversaturated and glowing as 99% of the others.

 

[GTAVI(CE)]

Ehrenmann

[Gtamodpacker]

14 minutes ago, GTAVI(CE) said:

Ehrenmann

du auch xD 

[BRONXBX]

Hey man I'm kinda interested in this mod but before I brick my game I just wanna know is it compatible with the complete edition?

[sr_Ghost141]

On 9/14/2019 at 10:06 AM, DayL said:

iCEnhancer 3.0 Natural by DayL

Videos:

 

 

Screenshots (1080p, 1440p and 4K) : Flickr album

 

Download: Download here

Description:
This mod aims to make GTA IV more natural, less dark and more vibrant. My inspiration was the never released Icenhancer C by Icelaglace and Natural Vision Remastered by Razed for GTA V. I spent about 300 hours to make this mod. This mod was developed for GTA IV patch 1.0.4.0 but later I decided to add compatibility to patch 1.0.7.0/1.0.8.0 and also to EFLC. A lot of thanks to BisonSales and Icelaglace who helped me with some issues I had. Also thanks to Icelaglace again for his great Icenhancer 3.0 graphic mod. Without his mod this modified Icenhancer 3.0 version wouldn't be possible obviously. Big thanks goes to donnits who helped me to make iCEnhancer 3.0 compatible for patch 1.0.7.0/1.0.8.0 and EFLC.
 

About 1.0.7.0/1.0.8.0 and EFLC version:
It's not same as polished and beautiful like the 1.0.4.0 version but it works fine which was my only goal here so please don't complain when your game doesn't look same as good as on my shown screenshots. Foggy and lighting weather are both different in visuals compared to the 1.0.4.0 version but other weathers are almost identical. I still strongly recommend to use the 1.0.4.0 version if you want the best visuals.

 

Screenshots using iCEnhancer 3.0 Natural with patch 1.0.7.0: See here

Updates:
I would recommend to keep revisiting this mod page sometimes to check for mod updates. I will keep try to improve this mod. You can see any update changes here in the description.

Update changes:

(August 2019) 1.0:
-First mod release

(August 2019) 1.0.1:
-Updated "Readme.txt" file
-More recommended mods added
-Disabled Rays by default if not using Project 2DFX
-Added enbseries.ini with enabled Rays which is needed for Project 2DFX

(September 2019) 1.0.5:
-Improved sky colors for extra sunny and sunny weather
-Improved Clouds for sunny and sunny windy weather
-Added more distance fog for extra sunny, sunny and cloudy weather
-Added more optionals (They are really worth to check out!)
-Added ingame screenshots for all optinals
-Added more recommended mods

(September 2019) 1.1:
-Completely new sunny windy weather for all daytimes (6am-7pm)
-Improved 7pm sun and sky colors for extrasunny, sunny and sunny windy weathers
-Improved 7-9am sky colors for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weathers
-Improved 12am and 6pm sky colors for extra sunny and sunny weathers
-Improved lighting strength and colors for extra sunny and sunny weathers for all daytimes (6am-7pm)
-Slightly improved clouds for sunny weather
-Added better burnt out vehicle texture for "HD Vehicle Textures" inside optionals folder

 

(December 2019) 1.2:
-Less saturated and more natural sky colors for sunny and extra sunny weather
-Improved 7am, 9am, 6pm, 7pm top sky and azimuth colors for sunny, extra sunny and sunny windy weather
-Fog added at 6am for sunny, extra sunny and sunny windy weather
-Slightly fog added at 8pm, 9pm and all night times for sunny, extra sunny, sunny windy and cloudy weather
-Foggy weather got reduced fog and more fog saturation for better athmosphere at midday
-Tweaked fog settings for thunder weather
-Slightly more distance fog added for sunny, extra sunny, sunny windy, and cloudy weather
-Slightly reduced direct color lighting for 7pm and 7am sunny, extra sunny and sunny windy weather
-Reduced far distance gamma for 7pm and 7am sunny, extra sunny and sunny windy weather
-Reduced vehicle glass reflections for more naturalism
-Slightly improved vehicle reflections for taxis and modern vehicles

(December 2019) 1.2 (Hotfix):
-Replaced "Doge" meme moon texture from Icelaglace with a better high resolution moon texture. (I didn't noticed it until now lol)
-Disabled lightsprite rays by default again from enbseries.ini for users who don't use Project 2DFX. Lightsprite rays are only required to make Project 2DFX work with ENB.

(January 2020) 1.3:
-New drizzle weather with slightly rain and a bit sunlight that cast soft and natural shadows
-Reduced top sky saturation at daytime for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Adjusted sky brightness at 7am and 8am for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Improved sky colors at 9am for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Improved sky colors at 7pm for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Slightly reduced sky brightness at night for all weathers
-Removed shadows from moonlighting to fix vehicle shadow issues at night (other lights will still cast shadows at night)
-Darker clouds at 7am, 7pm and 8pm for sunny and sunny windy weather
-Improved sun at 7pm for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Improved distance fog color for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Improved ambient colors at 6am for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Reduced reflections for Algonquins Middle Park entrance and arpartment
-More improvements (I can't remember all lol)

 

(February 2020) 1.35:
-Reduced bottom sky color height at 9am, 12am and 6pm for extra sunny and sunny weather
-Improved bottom sky colors at 7am for extra sunny, sunnny windy and sunny weather
-Improved ambient colors at 6am and 12am for extra sunny, sunny windy and sunny weather
-Improved sky colors at 6am for extra sunny, sunny windy and sunny weather
-Improved ambient colors at 6pm and 7pm for cloudy weather
-Slightly reduced lighting strenght and lighting saturation at 7pm for extra sunny, sunny windy and sunny weather
-Slightly cloud improvements 6am and 7am for sunny and sunny windy
-Reduced lighting saturation at 7am
-Reduced adaptation brightness
-Slightly more tree ambient amount
-Small AO changes
-Brighter street lights at night
-Brighter vehicle lights at night
-Optinal commandline added for graphic memory issues and more
-Other minor changes

(March 2020) 1.35 (Hotfix):
-Tweaked color power
-AO settings restored to default iCE 3.0 to fix dark models and interior AO
-Skylighting ambient changes

(April 2020) 1.4:
-Improved sky settings inside enbseries.ini
-Reduced chrome reflection intensity on vehicles
-Tweaked vehicle specular, vehicle glass specular and wheel specular intensity
-Slightly reduced direct lighting at night
-Tweaked skylightning ambient settings
-Improved sky settings at 6am,7am,9am,12am and 7pm for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Adjusted direct color intensity at 12am for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Reduced CloudsEdgeIntensity to make clouds more "fluffy"
-Many other small improvements have been made

(June 2020) 1.45:
-Reduced adaptation for less horizon brightness and sky saturation in shadowed areas
-Reduced direct lighting at daytime for extra sunny and sunny
-Reduced vegetation reflections
-Small ambient brightness and color changes for several times and weathers
-Fog color changes at 6am, 7am, 9am, 6pm, 7pm and 8pm for foggy weather

 

(June 2020) 1.5:
-Decreased midday top sky color for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-More contrast added for better image depth
-Slightly more bloom added for better sun effects
-Smaller ambient changes to fit new contrast tweaks
-Areas without lights at night are brighter now
-Tweaked top sky color at 6am, 7pm and 8pm for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Increased global reflections for sunrise, night and sunset times for several weathers for better vehicle reflections
-Tweaked sky horizon colors and brightness at 7pm for extra sunny, sunny, sunny windy and drizzle weather
-More clouds and less direct lighting intensity for sunny windy weather
-Tweaked clouds at 6am, 7am, 7pm and 8pm for sunny and sunny windy weather
-Changed water color at cloudy, rainy and drizzle weather to a more greenish tone for more realism
-Added clean water option in "Optionals" if you don't like new water changes
-Compatibility added to patch 1.0.7.0/1.0.8.0 and EFLC (Big thanks to donnits)
-Many more smaller improvements

 

(August 2020) 1.6:
-Slightly tweaked midday top sky color for extra sunny and sunny weather
-Increased direct lighting intensity for midday and 6pm for extra sunny and sunny weather
-Tweaked top sky color at 8pm for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Less blue top sky color at 9am, 10am and 11am for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Improved sky and horizon colors at 7am for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-More colorful direct lighting color at 7am for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Slightly more colorful direct lighting color at 6pm for extra sunny and sunny weather
-Slightly increased global reflection at 7am
-Improved tree settings inside enbseries.ini
-Increased building light intensity at night
-Overhauled ambient colors at night (from 9pm-5am) for all weathers
-Improved street light colors at night (from 9pm-5am)
-Small fog changes for rainy weather
-Improved moon settings
-Improved sun settings for all sunny weathers
-Many more smaller improvements
-Removed clean water optional

(August 2020) 1.6 Hotfix:
-Improved vehicle reflections for patch 7/8 and EFLC

(October 2020) 1.7:
-Improved clouds at 6am, 7am, 7pm, 8pm and 9pm for sunny and sunny windy weather
-Improved sky and azimuth colors at 7am, 9am and 7pm for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Slightly more blueish top sky color at 12am for extra sunny and sunny weather
-Improved sky settings inside enbseries.ini
-Improved sun colors at 7am, 6pm, 7pm and 8pm for extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Slightly increased building lights for more light pollution at night
-Slightly reduced vehicle front light intensity
-Improved fog colors at 6pm, 7pm, 8pm and 9pm for foggy and lightning weather
-Slightly increased bloom
-Improved Taxi and Police vehicle reflections + added carcols.dat for better colors/brightness
-Improved transition between 5am and 6am extra sunny, sunny and sunny windy weather
-Ambient color changes at 7pm and 8pm for cloudy, drizzle, rainy and lightning weather
-Slightly increased ambient color intensity at midnight for almost all weathers
-Improved sky color at 9pm and 10pm for rainy, drizzle and lightning weather
-Improved night sky colors for all weathers
-More small improvements

Contact:
-Discord: DayL#3320
-Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/falcogray
-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officaldayl

Man, your modification is awesome. For now I can't use very demanding modifications, one because I don't want to demand too much from my 1650, and secondly, because I don't want to use too many modifications. uFor now I can't use very demanding mods, one because I don't want to demand too much from my 1650, and second because I want something a bit simpler, so I'm using Reality IV. But I was looking at your 4 textures (airport, middlepark, outlook and the island) and they are also great. Keep creating mods, please!

[Badelino]

hi, when i install your mod my game freeze at launching the game

[GTAVI(CE)]

Best ENB mod out there!

[bl3]

Hi, I've been having problems with mods. I've done a clean install of 1.0.7 which works fine, but as soon as I install your mod files the game loads to a black screen.

 

Any ideas?

[DayL]

On 7/12/2021 at 6:47 PM, bl3 said:

Hi, I've been having problems with mods. I've done a clean install of 1.0.7 which works fine, but as soon as I install your mod files the game loads to a black screen.

 

Any ideas?

 

Blackscreen at night or overall ingame blackscreen:

 

ENB is probably not loading. Check if you have installed ENB properly (ENB logo/watermark should appear at game startup) and check if your anti virus tool blocks ENB .dll (d3d9.dll/dax.dll) files.

 

It could be a broken shaders folder as well. Use original shaders from the optionals folder for needed shaders. If you use patch 7&8 or EFLC you have to install iCEnhancer 3.0 Natural's shader files again included in "Main Files (Patch 7&8 and EFLC)" folder.

 

Black screen can also be caused by different types of anti aliasing interfering with each other. For example, you got FXAA enabled in Nvidia Control Panel and use SweetFX/Reshade SMAA at the same time.

 

In a very rare case your system could be incompatible with default ENB method. Maybe you need to inject the "d3d9.dll" with ENBinjector tool: http://enbdev.com/download_injector_generic.htm

[bl3]

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

I actually just tried a clean install and downgraded to 1.0.4, and the game loads fine. Until I install your mod.

 

I'll take a look at my AMD driver, see if I can turn settings off to make the game load.

 

Otherwise, it might be the inject method.

[bl3]

After adding your ENB, the 1911 splash doesn't load at the start. I don't see an ENB splash either.

 

I copied over the original shader files from your download.

 

I've excluded the entire folder from Window Defender.

 

No AA settings in Radeon software, it's set to use application settings only.

 

It just loads to the black EULA screen and sits there.

 

I guess that just leaves the injector to try!

[DayL]

On 7/12/2021 at 8:14 PM, bl3 said:

After adding your ENB, the 1911 splash doesn't load at the start. I don't see an ENB splash either.

 

I copied over the original shader files from your download.

 

I've excluded the entire folder from Window Defender.

 

No AA settings in Radeon software, it's set to use application settings only.

 

It just loads to the black EULA screen and sits there.

 

I guess that just leaves the injector to try!

 

Have you deleted the settings.cfg file located in %localappdata%/RockstarGames/GTAIV/Settings ? If not do it.

Seems like your system won't load d3d9.dll to the game so yeah the injector is probably the only thing which is left. 

[bl3]

On 7/12/2021 at 7:44 PM, DayL said:

 

Have you deleted the settings.cfg file located in %localappdata%/RockstarGames/GTAIV/Settings ? If not do it.

Seems like your system won't load d3d9.dll to the game so yeah the injector is probably the only thing which is left. 

 

I did try that. Injector doesn't work either. Damn

[Jabba1992]

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Edited October 21, 2021 by Jabba1992

[DayL]

On 10/16/2021 at 1:56 AM, Jabba1992 said:

@DayL: Could you help me, please? I'm very satisfied with your timecycle mod on patch 1.0.7.0, there's only one issue that's bothering me: the overly bright sun glare during sunny weather at midday:

 

 

White crosswalk markings glow so brightly it hurts to look at them:

 

 

At first I thought that ENB that's included in the mod was to blame, but the issue persisted even after I deleted all of the ENB-related files from the game folder. This issue occurs roughly between 9-10 am and 1 pm during sunny weather. It's especially noticeable in the south-western Algonquin and southern Alderney. 

 

I have default brightness settings, and non-white surfaces are unaffected by this glare glitch. The same roads/buildings look completely fine at other times of the day.

My Natural Timecycle graphic mod gets updated soon. You can download an early access version of the new update on my Discord Server if you want.

[Jabba1992]

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Edited October 21, 2021 by Jabba1992

[Jabba1992]

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Edited October 21, 2021 by Jabba1992

[DayL]

@Jabba1992 Could you please delete your posts? It's not related to iCEnhancer 3.0 Natural so I'm not sure why you're commenting here. Use my Discord server instead like everyone else. Not sure why I answered first but please don't use my iCE 3.0 Natural thread for your personal issues with a completely different mod. Thank you.

Edited October 21, 2021 by DayL

[Jabba1992]

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Edited October 21, 2021 by Jabba1992

[DayL]

@Jabba1992 Thank you very much. As I said you can always ask on my Discord server if you have an issue with another mod I made.

[Guest]

Does this affect game fps because I applied your timecyc mod on GTA IV CE 2020 June build and the game runs okay.

Is there a way to keep the dlcs and run with patch 4?

Edited October 28, 2021 by Guest

[DayL]

9 hours ago, Saad31 said:

Does this affect game fps because I applied your timecyc mod on GTA IV CE 2020 June build and the game runs okay.

Is there a way to keep the dlcs and run with patch 4?

Yes it affects performance compared to my timecycle mod and also iCE 3.0 Natural is not compatible with the latest version/patch of IV. No, unfortunately there's no way to run DLC's with patch 4.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, DayL said:

Yes it affects performance compared to my timecycle mod and also iCE 3.0 Natural is not compatible with the latest version/patch of IV. No, unfortunately there's no way to run DLC's with patch 4.

Thanks for the info.

[ant_sh]

For AMD GPU users running  GTA IV 2020CE: if the game can't initialize display and shows hourglass mouse cursor check enbseries.ini and set ForceNVidiaCard=false

[Rebel Titan]

Love your mod . BTW is it possible to remove the enb series logo/watermark during startup?

[red84140]

How to do install Reshade along with this?

[DayL]

On 1/17/2022 at 5:19 AM, red84140 said:

How to do install Reshade along with this?

Sorry for the very late answer but if you still use this mod I have good news. It's updated now and I've added a optional Reshade preset with added instructions what to do in order to run Reshade with ENB. However you need to have patch 4 in order to do this.

[DayL]

 

[batmanrules17]

the final version crashes for me with the d3d9.dll in the game directory, btw im using 1.0.7.0

Edited April 28 by batmanrules17