Xbox 360 Stuff Pack [v4.1]

NEED FOR SPEED MOST WANTED (2005) - XBOX 360 STUFF PACK
Version 4.1

This mod will try to make your game look more like Xbox 360 release.

Key changes:

Xbox 360 shaders ported to PC version:
- Car Shader, which supports noise flake on metallic paints, normal maps, ambient occlusion and visible sun specular
- Visual Treatment filter with adaptive exposure (brightens image when in dark; darkens when too bright)
- Next Gen sky, which has more depth to it thanks to horizon gradients and support for unique overcast clouds
- Sky bloom which can emit vibrant glow when: going into / outside of dark areas; glows closer to sunset and during sunset (blue during pre-sunset, red during sunset)
- Reflections in building windows are distorted/transformed in more interesting ways
- Shadow filtering
- Water with reflections and distortions
- Soft foliage which has more vibrant autumn colors, especially during sunset
- Volumetric fur-like grass
- Parallax scrolling (fake 3D effect) for some surfaces like rocky cliffs
- And other changes...
Xbox 360 high-resolution textures for game world & garages / shops
Ingame sky is also present in garages / shops which allows for sky bloom
Time of day lighting from Xbox 360
Accurate to Xbox 360 presets of time of day lighting and sun angles for some of ingame cinematics that carry into gameplay
Visual treatment filter settings from Xbox 360
Depth of Field effect in ingame cinematics
Xbox 360 motion blur with DOF masking
Xbox 360 car light materials
Xbox 360 car light flares
Xbox 360 screen rain drops
Xbox 360 race neon barrier textures (more transparent)
Sun and Cloud textures were replaced with their uncompressed versions from Xbox 360
Added Xbox 360 sun flare
Higher resolution of title screen image
Added bootup screen (logo and copyright on black background)
Changed dialogue windows to Xbox 360 ones
Xbox 360 car reflections in garages / shops
Dynamic shadows in garages / shops
Xbox 360 more dense tire smoke & some other particles
Xbox 360 quality soundtrack
Fixes for various PC-exclusive bugs

This mod is compatible with (and is recommended to be used with):
- Widescreen Fix
- HUD Adapter
- HD Reflections
- Xenon Effects (For now already bundled until Xan posts update)
- Front-End Shadows
- Xbox 360 Recompiled vinyls
- Xbox 360 Converted Movies
- Xbox 360 UI Texts (if you're playing on English (US) version of the game)
- Xtended Input (if you're playing with controller)
- Original Button Pack

All additional information is provided in ReadMe.
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Trailer video
Gameplay comparison video

Comments

Opex Rah (August 10, 2021 @ 18:49)

"NextGenGraphics" is required for this mod, but it replaces the game textures in its texture pack, and if you try to play without the texture pack the game crashes. it also overwrites TexMod .tpf... please fix this :C

therazorkille (August 09, 2021 @ 20:57)

Oh believe me, I saw what it actually looked like without the Vulkan wrapper. Very broken indeed. But it is playable with the wrapper, which is nice. @kryogen11 It was determined years ago that it would be impossible to bring those particle effects over because the code is flat out not there in the PC version and can't be added without some serious reverse-engineering.

kryogen11 (August 09, 2021 @ 17:52)

You may also include spark dashes when scratching the walls? it is seen obviously on xbox, and also on carbon which is basically a NextGen blackbox game

ICERIG (August 09, 2021 @ 11:11)

This version really feels different, I really like the sunset shadows

elaymm4 (August 09, 2021 @ 07:50)

[ Also if this is what "completely broken" looks like (running on a 6900 XT), then I'm pumped for what the future holds. ]
Well, if you don't have the wrapper - you'll see what I mean :P

[ Should I also be using the Frontend Shadows mod by Aero_ or is that functionality included in this? ]
Already included, although a little broken. Aero_'s script won't fix it though.