Colder Atmosphere for CotZ v1 [CotZ 1.2] addon - DoctorX Call of The Zone mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

This addon will allow you to have a different weather and sky mixed with a simple and fast reshade shader giving a slightly more bleak/cold atmosphere to the game

The weather was inspired by Misery, reworked to fit what i wanted this addon to be.
The Reshade setup is only using an updated "Watchdog Tonemap" (that was updated to latest version of Reshade 4.x) and a "Vignette" presets.
Both are very light shaders so they should have not impact your game framerate smoothness at all.

-------
CREDITS
-------
Misery and Call of Misery teams for the basic of the weather ltx files
Reshade for the Watchdog Tonemap and Vignette shaders
Unknown source for the sky textures (that i desatured a bit in Gimp to get the effect i wanted ingame)

--------------
HOW TO INSTALL
--------------

Depending if you're playing Call of the Zone in DX8 / DX9 or in DX10 / DX11 , you must install slightly differently :
(this is because the reshade dll for dx8/dx9 can't co-exist in the same folder with the reshade dx10/dx11 dll for some reason)

--------------------------------
IF you are playing on DX8 or DX9
--------------------------------
Put all the files and folder contained in "DX8DX9Colder.zip" into your
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\bin\

----------------------------------
IF you are playing on DX10 or DX11
----------------------------------
Go to the "For DX10 DX11" folder

Put all the files and folder contained in "DX1011Colder.zip" into your
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\bin\

Next step :

Once you are done with the reshade DX files and folders

Move the "gamedata" folder into your
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\

Then

- Launch STALKER : Call of the Zone
- Go to Options -> Video , change the "Quality settings" from "Medium" to "High" (or any of the settings that is not your default) and press APPLY
- Go to Options -> Game , press APPLY
- Go to Options -> Video , change the "Quality settings" from "High" to "Medium" (or what is your default setting) and press APPLY
- Exit to Window , then relaunch STALKER : Call of the Zone

This is to make sure the change the tonemap/lumscale/dof/and other settings are really corresponding to this addon.
It's required to really benefit from the atmosphere to its best.

----
NOTE
----
Your screenshots will now be saved in your
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\bin\reshade-screenshots

Additionally, thanks to Reshade screenshots can now be saved even if you are playing CotZ in windowed mode.

----------------
How to Uninstall
----------------

To uninstall, it's very simple , go to your
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\bin\

delete the files
(if you're using the DX8 / DX9 version)
d3d8.dll
d3d9.dll
(if you're using the DX10 / DX11 version)
dxgi.dll

then delete the folders
reshade-presets
reshade-screenshots
reshade-shaders
reshade-temp

Once done , go to you
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\gamedata\

Delete the folder "environment" found in
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\gamedata\configs\

Delete the files "atmosfear_default_settings.ltx" and "atmosfear_options.ltx" found in
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\gamedata\configs\

Delete the 5 .ltx files that name start with "rspec" found in
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\gamedata\configs\

Delete the files "level_weathers.script" and "atmosfear_options.script" and "surge_manager.script"found in
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\gamedata\scripts\

Delete the folders "sky" and "fx" found in
...\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of The Zone\gamedata\textures\

Then

- Launch STALKER : Call of the Zone
- Go to Options -> Video , change the "Quality settings" from "Medium" to "High" (or any of the settings that is not your default) and press APPLY
- Go to Options -> Game , press APPLY
- Go to Options -> Video , change the "Quality settings" from "High" to "Medium" (or what is your default setting) and press APPLY
- Exit to Window , then relaunch STALKER : Call of the Zone

This is to change back the tonemap/lumscale/dof/and other video light and setup to the default one of Call of the Zone.