Hoop's GRAPHICS OVERHAUL

Hoop's GRAPHICS OVERHAUL

I made this mod because default Garry's Mod lighting looks super flat, washed out, and dated, while most graphics configs out there either blind you with overblown bloom or tank your FPS.

This addon is a complete post-processing, lighting, and material shader overhaul built entirely within Source Engine's native limits. It doesn't replace any map textures and doesn't require external programs like ReShade. It just pushes the engine's built-in shaders and rendering pipeline as far as they can go without breaking your game.

What it actually does:

Filmic Color Grading & Highlight Compression: Deepens shadows and crushes that ugly grey Source ambient look while keeping bright skies and white walls from blowing out. Auto-Exposure Adaptation: Smoothly adjusts brightness depending on how bright or dark the area you are standing in is. PBR-Style Fresnel & Specular Polish: Disables flat half-lambert shading on models and boosts Fresnel rim reflections on weapons, playermodels, NPCs, and props so they actually react to light. Selective HDR Micro-Bloom: Only glows on actual light sources and the sun, instead of putting a blurry white fog over your whole screen. Volumetric Sunbeams & Horizon Fog: Adds subtle godrays when looking toward the sun and depth fog that blends distant map geometry into the skybox. 4 Built-in Presets: Switch between Next-Gen Filmic, Golden Hour, Dark Photorealism, or Clean Natural anytime.

How to customize or toggle: Open your Spawnmenu (Hold Q) -> go to the Options tab on the top right -> Hoop Mods -> Hoop Next-Gen Shaders. Every effect (Bloom, Sunbeams, Fog, Vignette, Sharpening, Depth of Field, Exposure) can be tweaked or turned off individually. You can also type hoop_shaders_toggle in the console to turn the whole mod on or off instantly.

Keep in mind this is still running on Source Engine, so it's not magic ray tracing, just a heavily tuned shader setup that makes any map look way deeper and more modern with almost zero FPS impact.

Created by Hoop.