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"It took a lot of back and forth before I managed to nail it," says Razed.

The final version of sundown that occurs around 9 pm in-game required between 36-40 hours work alone, he reckons, however a huge amount of iterating and reiterating took place in the weeks leading up to launch. "Something that looks realistic, everything from the sunset to sunrise, whether it has clear weather, clouds, I wanted to make something unique."Īgainst the OpenIV closure scare, it seems somewhat ironic that creating NaturalVision Remastered's sunsets proved Razed's biggest challenge. "I saw other mods that didn't appeal to me and wanted to create something that no one has ever done," adds Razed. Razed took issue with certain aspects of similar mods like Redux-"the sky, for instance, doesn't have a gradient or fade towards the horizon"-and learned that only by furthering his own work could he fully realise his creative vision. Unlike much of its competition, NaturalVision Remastered doesn't require ReShade and instead serves to highlight what's possible by virtue of both learning the game's time cycle and leveraging the tools Rockstar already provides. In turn, what began life as a less complex reshade mod, NaturalVision Remastered took on a life of its own while becoming one of the prettiest and most sophisticated GTA 5 visual overhaul mods the community has to offer. Regular beta testing was an integral part of this process, affirms Razed, as he valued multiple perspectives against his own personal outlook. Razed's sleep schedule suffered throughout development, he put his job on hold to focus on seeing his pet project through, and, while creating builds for beta testers to pore over on a daily basis, worked ten to 12 hour shifts seven days a week. The result is pretty spectacular, but it came at a cost. I had to find a balance and had to decided on what colour saturation, gamma, tone mapping to use, so that it looked as good as possible. I had to do a lot of research on that, watching tonnes and tonnes of videos over and over and over again. "But it's no good focusing on just one perspective-each person would use a different camera, some cameras are misconfigured, or they'd take oversaturated shots, or have too much contrast.