A free graphics mod that gives the game natural light, air, rain and night – and lets you tune every effect to your taste with sliders, live, without leaving the game. Now with AMD FSR 4.
01 What's new
17 October 2026 · The biggest FormaMod update yet: AMD FSR 4, a new Night tab, street-lamp beams in the air, a starry sky and stronger film looks.
First version for players: in-game settings window, tone and image, ambient occlusion, atmosphere, sun rays, lights in the air, automatic night, wet roads, raindrops on glass, motion blur, temporal anti-aliasing, presets shared as a text code, and multi-monitor support.
02 Features
Dozens of settings in the Image, Atmosphere, Night, Film & glass and Rain tabs. Every slider works instantly – you see the change in the game at the same moment, with no restart and no file editing. Each section has its own switch, and a slider set to 0 turns the effect off completely, including its GPU cost.
AMD's AI-based upscaling instead of the game's anti-aliasing and scaling: a sharper, calmer image and more FPS at 75% or 50% scaling. Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000 – FSR 4; other cards (including GeForce) – FSR 3.1.
AMD FSR · FSR sharpness
Street-lamp light is visible in the air as soft beams, denser in fog and rain, and lamps and headlights get a matching glow.
Lamp beams · Light halo · Halo sensitivity
Thousands of stars and the band of the Milky Way far from towns, when the moon is in the sky. Stars hide in city glow, behind clouds and in rain, and stay still as you turn the camera.
Stars · Milky Way
Air you can see: haze in the distance, sunlight scattered in the air and shadow streaks cast by trees, buildings and vehicles. Colours come from the game's sun and sky, so they match the time of day and weather.
Air density · Haze brightness · Sunlight in the air · Shadow streaks · Cabin glow
Rays spreading from the sun across the screen, cut by the cab pillars, trees, overpasses and buildings.
Ray strength · Ray length · Ray softness
Five film looks – Warm film, Cool morning, Cinema, Neon night and Documentary – that react to golden hour, rain and night. Plus grain, vignette, halation and the dashboard reflected in the windscreen (alpha test).
Look · Look amount · Grain · Vignette · Halation · Dashboard reflection
Colour and brightness of light and shadows, separately: a warmer or cooler sun, cool bluish or warm shadows, lighter or deeper.
Highlight tint · Highlight gain · Shadow tint · Shadow gain
Exposure applied before the game's tonemapping (no blown highlights), saturation, adaptive sharpening without halos, and smoothing of jagged edges on foliage, wires and railings.
Exposure · Saturation · Sharpness · Edge smoothing
Darkens corners, ground contact, trailer undersides and wheel wells, so vehicles and buildings stop “floating” above the road. Only sky light is darkened – surfaces in direct sun stay bright, with no dirty halos.
Strength · Radius
Calms the shimmer of distant wires, poles and railings. Works together with the game's TAA (it must be enabled in the graphics settings).
The passing scenery blurs as you drive, while the cab and dashboard stay sharp. The blur comes from the truck's actual movement (the game's official telemetry), so it grows with speed and disappears when you stop.
Strength · Length
Instead of a flat mirror – real wet asphalt: reflections of lights and trees stretched into vertical streaks, calmer and softer. At night the surface glistens with moisture.
Wetness in rain · Wetness always · Reflection strength, smoothness, stretch and softness
Drops act like small lenses: they bend the image behind them more clearly, have a smoother shape and a clean outline instead of blocky blotches.
Lens strength · Blur inside drop · Outline crispness
The mod recognises the time of day on its own. At golden hour the rays are at full strength, after sunset they fade smoothly, and at night street lamps and headlights light up the air. Nothing to switch.
The mod starts with the author's tuned Forma Custom preset, and the defaults button always returns to it. Save your own settings under a name and share them with others as a single line of text.
03 Gallery
Left: the game without the mod. Right: with FormaMod. Drag the line across the picture, or switch between “Without mod” and “With FormaMod” to see the whole frame. Pick a scene from the thumbnails below. Screenshots from ETS2 1.61 and FormaMod 1.2, 1920×1080.
AMD FSR – a sharper, calmer image: wires, railings and edges stop shimmering.
Mod window
Every effect in the comparisons above has its own sliders and switch. You adjust them live, while driving, and see the change instantly – no game restart and no digging through files.
Got great shots or a preset worth showing off? Send screenshots, videos and settings codes to the4ma@gmail.com. We'll feature the best ones here.
04 Downloads
FormaMod is free. You download a single ZIP package, no sign-up needed. There is no installer and nothing runs alongside the game. The mod does not modify game files – remove its files and the game is exactly as before.
FormaMod.zip
No public release is available yet.
Download FormaMod 1.21.2 · e9871006f0-20261017090242
dinput8.dll – the mod itself,lighting_ng folder – the effects (shaders) and AMD FSR files (lighting_ng\fsr),plugins\forma_telemetry.dll – plugin for motion blur,INSTALL.txt (English) and INSTALACJA.txt (Polish), CHANGELOG.txt and LICENSE.txt.FormaMod.zip anywhere.bin\win_x64.dinput8.dll, the lighting_ng folder and the plugins folder there. If plugins already exists, just add forma_telemetry.dll to it. When updating from an older version, replace the old files.forma_telemetry.dll) – click OK / Enable. The plugin only reads the truck's movement for motion blur.Problems? Check the FAQ or report a bug.
05 Support
If you enjoy the mod, you can support the developer on Suppi. Every contribution means more time for new features, fixes and testing. Support is entirely voluntary – it does not unlock any features and is never required to download. There is also a support button in the mod window's footer.
06 FAQ
A free graphics mod for Euro Truck Simulator 2 (shown in game as formaets2mod). It adds atmosphere, sun rays, night lights and stars, ambient occlusion, wet roads, raindrops on glass, film looks, motion blur and AMD FSR – with sliders you tune live. It is an independent project, not affiliated with SCS Software.
Yes, FormaMod is free. If you like, you can voluntarily support the project. The mod may not be sold or resold. A free download does not transfer any rights to the software or make its source code open.
No. FormaMod is proprietary, closed-source software. A free download does not grant users ownership of the software or make its source code open source. See the terms of use.
Only from the Downloads section of this site. Do not download FormaMod from other websites.
Copy dinput8.dll, the lighting_ng folder and the plugins folder from the package into the game's bin\win_x64 folder. The game loads dinput8.dll by itself at startup, so you need no injector and nothing running in the background. Full steps are in the Downloads section.
Close the game, download the new package and copy its contents into bin\win_x64, replacing the old files. Your own presets are kept. The version number is shown in the mod window's footer.
Turn on AMD FSR in the Image tab. Radeon RX 9000 and RX 7000 run FSR 4; other cards, including GeForce, run FSR 3.1 – the mod picks itself. In the game, set anti-aliasing to TAA (not “SMAA + TAA”) and scaling to 100% or lower; above 100% FSR does not turn on. Below the switch you can see whether FSR is running and at what resolution.
In game, press Ctrl + Alt + Plus. The mod starts switched off – click MOD at the top of the window. While the window is open, the mouse belongs to it, so moving sliders does not turn the camera. The window is available in English and Polish. On multiple monitors it appears on the left screen.
It is the game's official plugin mechanism. The forma_telemetry.dll plugin only reads the truck's movement, which motion blur needs. Click OK / Enable.
AMD and NVIDIA cards, at various resolutions including 4K and triple monitors (NVIDIA Surround) – effects work on every screen. DirectX 11 mode (the ETS2 default) is required. Effects that are switched off or set to 0 cost no GPU time. On weaker hardware, set Shadow streaks and Lamp beams to 0, or turn on AMD FSR and lower the game's scaling.
The mod is intended for single player.
If another mod also uses a dinput8.dll file, rename its file to dinput8_next.dll and leave it next to ours. FormaMod loads it by itself and both mods will work. Combinations with other graphics mods have not been widely tested.
In the Presets tab, save the current settings under any name – a preset stores every slider and every section switch. Copying the settings code gives you one line of text to paste in a chat or forum; the other person pastes it and gets exactly your look. The built-in Forma Custom preset cannot be overwritten.
If something is missing, the window says in red what it is and the mod switches itself off – the game then runs normally. Check that all files from the package are in the bin\win_x64 folder.
Write to the address in the Contact section and attach the lighting_ng.log file the mod writes next to dinput8.dll.
Delete dinput8.dll, the lighting_ng folder and plugins\forma_telemetry.dll from the bin\win_x64 folder. The game returns exactly to its state before installation.
07 Contact
A contact address has not been published yet.
Report a bug in the issue tracker
Do not send passwords, access tokens, private keys or unnecessary personal data.
lighting_ng.log file from the bin\win_x64 folder.