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GTA4 Real Environment v1
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By Kriller2

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Description
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Changes every hour of GTA4's enviromentsettings and ambient lights in GTA4 to look closer to reality.
Changes the way clouds are drawn and how the different lights reflects and how much the lights glow in the world of GTA4.
Changes the taxis to a more New York type yellow.

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Important note about this mod and draw distance!
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This mod makes use of the 3500 farclip tweak made by Belinda to improve on the view distance and make low spec computers show
more of the city witout needing to set the view distance to more than 1 - 5, which eats up the Video ram on graphics cards with "only" 512 mb, so to avoid texture-popping set the view distance to less than 5! (mine is at 3)

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Installation:
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1. Copy the files "common/data/visualsettings.dat" and "carcols.dat "to the same folder in your GTAIV installation directory, f.ex. "/Rockstar Games/Grand Theft Auto IV/common/data" remember to make a backup of the files first!

2. Copy the file "PC/data/timesyc" to the same folder in your GTAIV installation directory,
f.ex. "/Rockstar Games/Grand Theft Auto IV/pc/data" remember to make a backup of the files first!

3. Look at the included picture "display_settings_important!.jpg" and adjust your "brightness" and "saturation" and "contrast" as shown on the picture.

Start up GTA4 and enjoy :)

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Other mods which work well with this mod:
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For a better flare effect to the vehicles and street lamps try Extacys mod "XTC's Sparkling corona" :
http://www.codenamegta.net/downloads/957/xtcs-sparkling-light-coronas/

Allso to change the textures of some of the vehicles to look more realistic try this mod:
http://gtahq.multiplayernetwork.net/file/1221/

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Bugs:
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Sometimes near sunset there is a black line in the horizont.
Sometimes when you come from indoor to outdoor the power of the sunligth will change.

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Copyrights
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The contents of this mod may NOT be used without written permission from me, I have used alot of hours on this mod, testing all the different times of day colour and comparing it with a real life pictures.

Respect this and don't use ANY part of this mod without contacting me "kriller2tester@gmail.com"

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Disclaimer
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I am in no way responsible for any accident happening to you or your computer / graphics card while
using this mod. Using this mod is at your own risk so don't contact me if any of these things happen.

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Credits
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Kriller2 for this mod.
Belinda for the farclip mod.