New aesthetic features here include improved particle effects, moon rays, new street lights, and a custom sky dome. In doing so, Razed has created the most ambitious Grand Theft Auto 5 visual overhaul yet – a feat made all the more impressive by the fact the game itself is five years old on PC, almost seven on consoles. This motivated me to work on a complete overhaul of NaturalVision and improve upon the lighting, colours and overall style of the mod.” It made me rethink everything and made me realise what I'd been doing wrong with my GTA project. I was completely blown away by the lighting in that game.
“Red Dead Redemption 2 came out for consoles around the same time I released the last update for NaturalVision Remastered. “I had no idea at the time I’d work on something bigger, and I thought that was as good as it gets. “When I finished NaturalVision Remastered, I did think that was it,” Razed explains. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. It’s still in early access, but has already eaten up one-and-a-half years of development time, which equates to almost 6,200 hours of work.
Well, that was it until last Friday, when Razed unveiled NaturalVision Evolved, an eye-watering visual overhaul that somehow blows his previous work out of the water. In March 2018, Razed had tripled that time-investment with a stunning hyper-realistic update, and by October that year had declared the project complete with one “final” knockout iteration inspired by the then incoming Red Dead Redemption 2.Īnd that was it. I first spoke to Jamal Rashid, aka Razed, the creator of the formidable NaturalVision Remastered visual overhaul mod for GTA 5, in 2017.īack then, his breath-taking project had consumed 1,200 unpaid hours of his free-time, wherein he’d studied over 40 hours of video footage, hundreds of photographs, and had lost count of the number of virtual visits he’d made to the real-life streets of Los Angeles and neighbouring settlement Salton Sea on Google Street Maps – portrayed in GTA 5 as Los Santos and Blaine County.
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