Ethereal Glow a lighting mod that brings out the best in The Sims 3

Get ready to break new ground with our new Ethereal Glow Lighting Mod! The first lighting mod developed for The Sims 3 with players playing with Ansel filters in mind. But don't worry, if you usually play the traditional way, this mod will be perfect for you too!

Check this Before and After:

Vanilla (with ansel filters)

Ethereal Glow (same hour the positioning of the sun is different because instead of the standard 6 pm, the day ends at 7 pm)

Defining Ethereal Glow in words is not an easy task. It contributes to the new ecosystem that I'm creating to review and improve The Sims 3 visually. With more sober tones, slightly darker shadows, smoother and less bluish, it conveys naturalness at all times of the day. From the morning sky to the soft golden sunset, this mod will give you mesmerizing screenshots!

Every lighting mod I've ever had the pleasure of playing with has presented a recurring situation. The clouds were explicitly demarcated in the sky, it didn't always sound as natural as I wanted... At this point The Sims 2 with its neighborhood cloud effect was the perfect representation of the ideal I was willing to achieve!

By the way, go to the nearest window and look up, see how the soft blue of the sky mixes with the varied colors that the clouds can present! It is almost difficult to distinguish one from the other. I wanted to bring that feeling and vision into the game. There were more than 30 attempts, infinite times opening and closing the game to check the result, fine-tune and feel satisfied.

Only I know how many versions of this mod are saved for future reference if necessary. But this is far from boring for me, on the contrary, it's pleasurable.

This mod does something that no other mod does, one of its functions, from which the idea of ​​creating it originated: It improves the water quality of lakes and oceans. As can be seen in the screenshots below:

Before (Without Ansel Filters)

After (Without Ansel Filters)

We've increased the definition of the water and its reflectivity, which gives us lakes that are relatively similar to Castaway Stories! I particularly always loved that water. It's not perfect and unfortunately it only reflects mountains, but it's better than nothing, and better than what we had before. 

With the ansel filters these details are even more fascinating:

It's easy to notice the clouds in the sky reflected in the lake, but it's even more beautiful to see the overall result in the ocean. For global reflexes, the oceans masterfully deliver!

Before and After (With Ansel Filters):

Vanilla

Ethereal Glow

I'm talking a lot, let the mod speak for itself. It can be a different experience the first time, it goes against the grain of most mods.. It can (and probably will) be less colorful than you might think, subtle and understated. Illuminated but not so much, with a light fog (which can be improved or removed by following my fog tutorial for The Sims 3), anyway, tell me, how did it feel!!

As always, thanks for your support, involvement, and suggestions. You are the people who have allowed me to take my work further and I am very grateful for that.

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Installation Instructions: From now on (except for mods that I specifically mention), all my mods can and should be placed in the Overrides folder. This will optimize the loading of the mods and prevent conflicts with other mods that might potentially load similar parameters.