Just want to say thank you again to the amazing feedback and reviews I have received so far. I hope 1.3 is a step up for you to experience.
I have now created a discord server which you can find a link to on the mod page. This is simply for anyone who wants to join to share their images and videos, offer feedback, receive any help and have a little community that I feel I could grow from the past few days of lovely feedback I have been receiving.
Below is a brief explanation of ASE 1.3 and the main changes. Enjoy
I have spent the last 12 hours attempting to recreate the well received 1.2 version, but with more light from the sun and sky and less from faked "brightness" settings. This has led me to have to redo at least 75% of the values from ASE 1.2 to arrive at the same photorealistic quality, if not better, but with much more consistency through out times of day and weather changes.
What you will notice is that my mod is much brighter than what you will be used to viewing. But the sun is bright, is it not
You can always lower the brightness of your monitor/tv to your liking, which will then not affect any of the lighting or colour representation in game.
1.3 Changes
Brighter light from the sun and sky
Brighter night sky, moon light for beautiful night transitions
Star brightness increase
Sky hue and saturation change
Saturation reduction
Slight contrast increase
Optimised the 2 mod files to only contain the necessary values that I have changed so you are free to edit others (thanks to peter boese again for this help)