Adam's Sol Enhanced | Realism Filter for Sol 2.0 (2024)

Sol Enhanced is now RECREATED and updated for SOL 2.0

DISCORD

Feel free to join my discord server for this mod. You can receive any help you might need, post your videos and images and hopefully, in the near future, create a small community and keep growing this project together.

SUNRISE

NIGHT

By @uuᴉɟ ɯopuɐɹ on discord

DAY

SUNSET

co*ckPIT

WHAT IS SOL ENHANCED

Hello you graphically obsessed sim racers

If you are anything like me, then even the most perfectly, immersive and technically brilliant game can be ignored if the graphics are not also perfect. This is why after trying out the best of the best graphical mods and not being satisfied, I decided to give it a try myself. After many months of tinkering, fiddling and meticulously editing numbers, I present to you my Sol Enhanced mod.

Sol Enhanced is an attempt to create photorealistic lighting behaviour and colour reproduction that matches what we as humans perceive through our eyes using the incredible power of the Sol + CSP mods. I want to be able to load up any time of day or night and any type of weather and not be able to distinguish the game from real life, without affecting performance compared to any of the other most popular filters. This is possible through colour correction, exposure, RBG levels, gamma and contrast values.

Because this is a specifically realistic focused mod, there is no vignette, chromatic aberration, excessive bloom, over contrasted or oversaturated effects. Days are bright. Light is less faked from brightness and exposure and relies more on sun light and sky light. I specifically want to simulate what the eye sees and how it sees it on a second to second basis. Obviously this will be based on my eyes and my individual experience. So for each track I test on, I am using images as reference to how colour and light is presented around the world.

COMMUNITY PHOTOGRAPHY USING ASE

Here I will display my favourite images from the ASE_Photographers on my discord server that show off the photography side of ASE even thought it focuses on 1st person visuals.

By ChemFlummi

By TonySSS

By Zakon

By uuᴉɟ ɯopuɐɹ

DOH-NATION$

Wanna buy me a bottle of Red Bull so I can stay up another night, abolish any final traces of positive mental health and improve this mod? Use my PayPalMe link to chuck your pocket change the ground for me to pick up and I will forever be in debt to you....and my bank, parents and the 2 loan sharks in my town Coronavirus has been a b***h so I am going to become a full time graphical enhancer

MONITOR CALIBRATION

In the past, when I have drooled over GTA graphical mods and then been disappointed to not be blessed with the same results as I have seen from other users, I have been deeply saddened (cry every tim). This lead me to find out about monitor calibration which will ensure your personal screen is displaying what is meant to be shown (colour, contrast etc) that the author intended you to see. Below is a link to a popular, free online calibration tool, that takes 5 minutes but should guarantee you receive the same results in your game, that you see here in my images.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Sol - https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/sol.24914/
2. Assetto Corsa
3. A pc :L

If you want your game to look exactly like mine then make sure to add this fantastic mod to your game:
Search Custom Shaders Patch into google and use the acstuff.ru website link.

YOUR VIDEOS AND IMAGES

I would love to see some of your own results and experiences through different tracks, cars, weathers, times of day with my mod. So please feel free to send me any media you create on my discord server for this mod using the link at the top of this page.

MOD MEDIA

OLD VERSIONS OF ASE

WHAT ABOUT SOL ENHANCED 2.0 FOR SOL 1.6.2

After completing 1.2 and feeling happy to leave it as a finished project, I restarted, with the same goals and ambitions in focus, but taking a different approach. Sol Enhanced 2.0.2 is a separate mod to that of 1.2.

What I could not achieve with 1.2 was the perfect colour palette where a tint is not visible and only the sun and sky tint the rest of the world just like in real life. You will notice now a blue tint across 1.2 which is now cleared in 2.0. You will also notice no brightness is lost during the day, but at night I can get a darker contrast which I couldn't in 1.2 without losing sky details.

So in summary, for photorealism and proper colour correction, 2.0 achieves that and the day/night transitions are much more contrasted and pleasing. Where as 1.2 does have the warmer tone and brighter clouds but a more dense atmosphere. Which ever you choose, I hope you thoroughly enjoy your Assetto Corsa experience.