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Simple and Effective Dithering 1.0
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Hello there!....




Probably a lot of GTA V players have experienced this disgusting and annoying artifact, called "Banding".


Banding is when colours represented in a virtual space are not following a smoother transition between tonalities, 
resulting in ugly contrasting color strips, instead of one soft, eye-candy gradient.


Basically, it is caused because the lack of a dithering feature, which, sadly, was not implemented by Rockstar in the 
game, and it alyaws have been present, since Xbox 360 - PS3 versions. Some users might try setting up their monitor brightness, but that is not a real fix, and all the environment and 
surrounding objects are affected. 


You can say: "But dude, SweetFX already has a dithering feature!" Yes, but it does not reduce gradient banding, it 
prevent the game from creating additional artifacts, and itīs not very efficient, sometimes it works, 
but most of the times it has no visible effect. However, i recommend to use both at the same time, SweetFX + my mod.



This little enhancement will fix the 99.9% of the banding issues in the game, injecting a considerable amount of grainy dithering, but 
unfortunately, still cannot keep the image quality at 100 percent(because noise).




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(Only)Feature:

-Fixed color banding in dark areas, nightfall-night time, and during foggy, smog, snow and blizzard weathers.


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For some strange reason, the quality of the screenshots is greatly decreased, even those captured with Rockstar Editor, but in game banding will be totally unnoticeable.

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Installation:


-With Open IV, go to mods/update/update.rpf/common/data/timecycle/timecycle_mods_1.xml, extract the file to some
random location, open with any text editor and search this line:


 <modifier name="nextgen" numMods="5" userFlags="0">


-Add below:


  <postfx_noise>0.075 0.000</postfx_noise>
  <postfx_noise_size>0.000 0.001</postfx_noise_size>


Same with:


 <modifier name="NG_first" numMods="11" userFlags="0">


-Add below:


  <postfx_noise>0.075 0.000</postfx_noise>
  <postfx_noise_size>0.000 0.001</postfx_noise_size>

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I decided to just include a readme because editing the file is extremely easy, just a few lines must be added, and since many users have graphic mods 
installed, replacing the file would make them to lose their custom graphic mods :) 





Your eyes will be eternally grateful!













Mod created by LanGonCer9807












