Below Zero - A FROST Modding Guide

Lighting Mods

This section is about lighting mods that can be used together with FROST

Read this!

  • If your PC isn’t good enough for lighting mods, you can skip this section completely!
  • You have to install a FROST patch for the lighting mod that you choose later!
    • Don’t worry, the guide will tell you when to do install them.
    • The Frost Lighting Patches are included in the Frost Cell Fixes (FCF) mod
    • Do not install FCF or its lighting patches yet, the guide will tell you later when to do it!
  • You should only download lighting mods that have a patch for FROST
  • ENBs and Reshade do not count as lighting mod, so you can safely with the mods down below

Creating a Separator in MO2

  1. Right-click anywhere in the left pane of MO2 and select Create Separator
  2. Name the separator Lighting Mods

Ultra Exterior Lighting (*O)

Description

  • Ultra Exterior Lighting adds shadow cast lights to many of the physical light sources in the Fallout 4 exterior world including Far Harbor and Nukaworld. There has also been vast improvements made to the general lighting associated with physical lights sources bring you a vastly more immersive exterior lighting.
  • This mod covers lighting of exterior cells
  • This mod does not require a patch for FROST

Installation Instructions

  • Main File - Ultra Exterior Lighting from here

Read this too!

  • Download only one of the following lighting mods!
  • The following mods cover the lighting of interior cells
  • Using multiple of the following mods will crash your game or cause other problems. Only download and install one of them

Ultra Interior Lighting (*O, *F)

Description

  • Ultra Interior Lighting is a comprehensive lighting mod that brings you many more shadow lights and a general improvement to overall lighting, ambience and fog to the interiors of the Commonwealth, Far Harbor and Nuka World.
  • This is the lighting mod that I and many other FROST users are using
  • This mod covers lighting of interior cells

Installation Instructions

  • Main File - Ultra Interior Lighting 2.3 from here

Enhanced Lights and FX (*O, *F)

Description

  • Enhanced Lights and FX has the goal to create a more atmospheric and realistic lighting. It overhauls the lights, effects, ambient light and creates a new mood for interiors.
  • This mod covers lighting of interior cells

Installation Instructions

  • Main File - Enhanced Lights and FX

Clarity - A Visual Overhaul (*O, *F)

Description

  • A zero performance loss, very subtle visual overhaul. Removes many annoying visuals in the game.
  • This mod tweaks weather, lighting, camera effects, and more
  • This mod covers lighting of interior cells

Installation Instructions

  • Main File - Clarity

Interiors Enhanced (*O, *F)

Description

  • Ambient light power and fog brightness inside all interiors reduced by 60%, without touching any directional light sources whatsoever, keeping lighting 100% true to vanilla except for those dark corners and unlit areas.
  • Subways are actually dark and scary! Not just a filter, actual light data has been altered. All-DLC covered.
  • This mod covers lighting of interior cells

Installation Instructions

  • Main File - Interiors Enhanced 2.0 - ALL IN ONE 2.0