Lad's Lighting Overhaul

Lad's Lighting Overhaul! Hello everyone! This mod is introducing some lighting changes that reflect for both day and night, as well as overcast. This aims to give a more cinematic feeling to the game. This mod comes with 9 separate configs that you will have to configure on your server. These changes purely affect the brightness of the night for OVERCAST ONLY. 4 of these will add the film grain filter to help combat against Gamma. Clear nights will remain the same regardless of which config you go for. This mod also reintroduces a long lost lighting setting that was present during the Beta build of DayZ. After many requests, I have decided to reimplement it. (With some minor changes to noise levels to make it playable). The mod also makes changes to the HDR settings, making your eyes take longer to adjust as well as adjusting the lighting overall. Further to this, interiors and forests appear darker during the day when you are outside, but your eyes adjust as you enter them, making them brighter. Experimental Version can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3012019528 I await your feedback and I am looking forward to hearing from you all! Compatibility Issues If you use Deer Isle, there will be a conflict with the Personal Light. I recommend you switch off the personal light for the best result. Night Vision will be affected by Namalsk, and will be darker. Lad's Modding Workshop Discord You can join my Modding Workshop discord to help report issues, give feedback and talk about my projects: https://discord.com/invite/jm49NcTPgh Please let me know if you run into more compatibility issues. Plans for future updates Toggle-able Vignette Effect Interchangable Glow.emat effects (Choice of colour, saturation etc) Instructions for use Please change your lightingconfig line in both your serverDZ file and cfggameplay.json. Simply change it to the corresponding numbers: 2222 = Darker Overcast Nights. 3333 = Brighter Overcast Nights. 4444 = Darker Overcast Nights w/ film grain. 5555 = Brighter Overcast Nights w/ film grain. -Livonia Configs below 6666 = Livonia Darker Overcast Nights. 7777 = Livonia Brighter Overcast Nights. 8888 = Livonia Darker Overcast Nights w/ film grain. 9999 = Livonia Brighter Overcast Nights w/ film grain. 1010 = DayZ 0.63 Lighting Usage & Terms This item is NOT authorized (strictly forbidden) for any of these conditions: - posting on Steam, except under the Steam account Lad. - hosting on any download server other than Lad's current workshop download. - hosting on any launcher for distribution other than Lad's current workshop download. - to be packaged in any form other than Lad's current workshop download. - to create derivative works. PERMISSION IS NOT GRANTED FOR THIS MOD TO BE INCLUDED IN A "SERVER PACK" or "MOD PACK". Use a Collection if you want to include this mod on your server for your users. Monetization while using this mod is approved. Support If you like this mod and want to support this or future mods you can do so below. Thanks. PS it does not get you sweaty feet pics. That is the platinum tier

Workshop 2873016243 · mod updated 2024-11-05 · analyzed 2026-10-03 04:38 UTC · history · 13 script files

Environment Workshop tags, chosen by the author

Stall risks

None found

No file I/O on hot paths, no timers created per event, no per-player-per-frame hooks.

Compatibility

37 to review

37 chain breaks on base classes or persisted data. 12 more are whole-class replacements of specific classes.

Structural footprint 1.1

37 to review

Heavier than 55% of 328 scripted mods analyzed.

0.00248% of each server frame at 100 players (0.025 ms/s). Counts hook dispatch and timers only, not what the hooks do inside. Methodology.

Where this mod sits

Structural load of the 328 scripted mods analyzed, lightest on the left. This mod's bar is lit; 17 others share it. Ranked list.

24 mods
0.0000022 to 0.0000046 ms/s · grade A
7 mods
0.0000046 to 0.00001 ms/s · grade A
1 mod
0.00001 to 0.000022 ms/s · grade A
1 mod
0.000022 to 0.000046 ms/s · grade A
37 mods
0.0001 to 0.00022 ms/s · grade A
26 mods
0.00022 to 0.00046 ms/s · grade A
33 mods
0.00046 to 0.001 ms/s · grade A
23 mods
0.001 to 0.0022 ms/s · grade A
13 mods
0.0022 to 0.0046 ms/s · grade A
10 mods
0.0046 to 0.01 ms/s · grade A
5 mods
0.01 to 0.022 ms/s · grade A
This mod
17 mods
0.046 to 0.1 ms/s · grade A
40 mods
0.1 to 0.22 ms/s · grade A
26 mods
0.22 to 0.46 ms/s · grade A
28 mods
0.46 to 1 ms/s · grade A
8 mods
1 to 2.2 ms/s · grade A to B
10 mods
2.2 to 4.6 ms/s · grade B
1 mod
4.6 to 10 ms/s · grade B to C

A316

B11

ms/s, log scale: each labelled step is ten times the one before. Letter grade and mods holding it below the axis.

Where the load comes from

Every-frame hooks carry 100% of this mod's structural load. 0.025 ms/s in all.

100%Every-frame hooks · 100%
1 hook · 0.025 ms/s

Lifecycle hooks · <0.1%
1 hook · 0.000002 ms/s

Every-frame hooksrun every server frame	1 hook	0.025 ms/s	100%	`ScriptedLightBase.EOnFrame`
Lifecycle hooksrun when an entity is created, loaded or deleted	1 hook	0.000002 ms/s	<0.1%	`ScriptedLightBase.EOnInit`

Counts how often each hook is dispatched and how many timers stay alive, not what the code inside does. Some rates are order-of-magnitude estimates; the methodology lists which.

Chain breaks, by consequence

49 overrides that skip super(), ranked by how much they can affect. On any server a break replaces vanilla's behaviour on that method and silences every earlier-loaded mod hooking it.

Review

Base class · every ScriptedLightBase (62 vanilla subclasses)

ScriptedLightBase.AddLifetime