NaturalVision GTA 5 mod set for major free visual update by April's end

NaturalVision is lining up another free visual overhaul for Grand Theft Auto V, and this is the kind of update that can make a fresh graphics preset feel outdated overnight. The new pass is expected before the end of April and it targets both NaturalVision Enhanced for GTA V Enhanced and NaturalVision Evolved for Legacy, which means modders on either branch need to think twice before locking in a new setup.

That matters because Razed Mods has been pushing NaturalVision in two different directions at once. NaturalVision Enhanced is built as a complete visual upgrade for Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced, designed to take full advantage of Rockstar Games’ ray tracing features, while NaturalVision Evolved is still a work-in-progress overhaul for Legacy with broad changes to weather, lighting, ambient colors, tonemapping, textures, models, props, and vegetation. In practice, that means the next update is not just a texture swap. It is the sort of release that can touch the same parts of the game that most screenshot presets and visual packs depend on.

The new features being teased are the big-ticket kind NaturalVision fans usually chase: physically based paint on vehicles, physically based lighting on weapons, physically based sky scattering, and raindrops across vehicles, pedestrians, glass, props, and weapons. Videotech said Razed Mods is working on the update and posted comparison footage and screenshots showing the paint changes, sky behavior, and rain effects. There is also work underway on ocean water, with the goal of making it fully ray-traced instead of relying on cubemap reflections, which would be a meaningful step even for a game that is already 13 years old.

If you are holding a modded GTA V install together with current weather tweaks, reflection overrides, or custom rain presets, this is the point where waiting starts to look smarter than rebuilding. NaturalVision’s last major update landed in December 2025, when Enhanced got an experimental volumetric clouds addon, improved directional light colors, and rain-weather improvements, while Legacy gained compatibility with game update 1.0.3725.0, puddle reflections, new rain-drop shaders, and NaturalVision Lite for Single Player and FiveM. Razed Mods also said then that more improvements were coming soon.

The free price tag is part of the appeal. NaturalVision keeps moving, keeps expanding, and keeps landing in the middle of the exact visual systems that GTA V players care about most. For anyone using Los Santos as a graphics showcase, the sensible move is simple: hold off on a full rebuild until this April update lands, then tune the setup around the new rain, sky, and ray-traced surface work instead of fighting it later.