Dark Souls 2 players rejoice: a new update to a fan-favorite mod will soon provide a major boost to the game's lighting, making it look better than ever. The most popular download for Dark Souls 2 on Nexus Mods, Ganaboy's DS2LightingEngine adds several new features to DS2's vanilla lighting engine.
DS2LightingEngine's next update is set to add yet another new feature, ray tracing global illumination (RTGI), to the mix (via Dark Side of Gaming). While the update has yet to set a release date, the improvements to DS2's visuals could potentially be massive,
DS2's visuals are about to get a huge upgrade thanks to the addition of ray tracing global illumination. The screenshots above, shared by Ganaboy and published by Dark Side of Gaming, demonstrate the difference between DS2's default visuals and the modded version with RTGI.
In the first image, the ruins' walls are illuminated with an unnatural, even sickly glow, looking less like an ancient forgotten hall and more like a fluorescent-lit office. In the second, the dungeon is appropriately dark; light pours in from natural sources only.
That's thanks to global illumination, a...
