Enhanced Graphics 2.2.1 MOD (Alpha Version) for ETS2 1.60 & 1.61 + Reshade Download (Patreon)

🌤 Enhanced Graphics 2.2.1 MOD (Alpha Version) for ETS2 1.60 & 1.61

Changelog

☁️ Sky and Atmosphere

Reworked 7 skyboxes with improved contrast and more natural color saturation

Improved lighting for all updated skyboxes

Improved distant fog for a more realistic atmosphere

Improved sun

Improved sunshafts

Improved Depth of Field (DoF)

Improved moon visibility during both day and night

🌧️ Weather and Rain

Added a new water spray effect generated by vehicle tires on wet roads

🎨 Visual Improvements

Improved bloom effect for more natural light glow around bright objects

Improved overall image contrast

⚠️ Note

For now, only the reworked skyboxes will be selected randomly by the game. However, you can still manually switch to any skybox available in the previous version by using the console command:

g_set_skybox [skybox number]

For example:

g_set_skybox 8

To apply the recommended settings, open the in-game console and enter:

exec "/enhanced.cfg"

My Settings which I'm using in my videos

https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-settings-in-120256794

Installation ReShade

1️⃣ Download the .fx file from this post.

2️⃣ Go to your game installation folder:

For Steam version:Steam → Library → Euro Truck Simulator 2 → Right Click → Manage → Browse Local Files

3️⃣ Open the game root folder (where eurotrucks2.exe is located).

4️⃣ Open the folder called:

reshade-shaders

5️⃣ Inside that folder, open:

Shaders

6️⃣ Copy the downloaded .fx file into the Shaders folder.

The final path should look like this:

Euro Truck Simulator 2 → bin → win_x64 → reshade-shaders → Shaders → Enhanced_Graphics_Reshade_v1.3.fx

7️⃣ Start the game.

8️⃣ Open ReShade in-game (default key: Home).

9️⃣ Make sure the shader is checked in the list.

🔄 If the shader does not appear

Click Reload inside ReShade.

Make sure the file is inside reshade-shaders/Shaders

Make sure the file extension is .fx (not .txt or .zip)

Previously:

🚧 Infrastructure and Road Elements

New red-white crash barriers

New barrier models

Updated barrier textures for more realism

Changed lighting in some tunnels

🚛 Vehicles and Equipment

More realistic FOV mirrors

Improved truck lights

Improved Mercedes steering wheel

Wipers with 3 speed modes (slow, fast, very fast)

☁️ Sky and Atmosphere

Improved sunshafts, fog, and depth of field (DoF)

Added high-resolution textures for cloud shadows

Improved night lighting

🌧️ Weather and Rain

New rain textures and improved rain physics

Added more road reflections during rainy weather

Improved specular (light reflections) on road surfaces

💡 Lights and Flares

Improved flares of street lamps and truck lights

Changed flares from yellow to white

Improved traffic lights

Changed tunnel lights to white

🌊 High-Resolution Textures

New high-resolution water texture

New high-resolution road sign textures for: Poland, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Sweden, and Austria

High-quality road sign models (work in progress)

96 company trailer textures in 4K quality (work in progress)

7 new 4K road textures (4096x1024 px)

3 new 2K road textures (2048x2048 px)

🏙️ Various Fixes

Changed lighting color of the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge

Added more exposure and game saturation

Removed save message from the top left corner

Added line mp_mod_optional: true to manifest.sii (the mod can now be used as an optional mod in SCS Multiplayer)

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Enhanced Graphics 2.2.1 MOD (Alpha Version) for ETS2 1.60 & 1.61 (updated)

Enhanced Graphics Reshade 1.3

Hi-Res Textures for Enhanced Graphics