(1.04151979) View Distance very low/bugged?
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In 1.04 or any version since 1.0
The Fog has been way too much recently and it really ruins sniping with the long-range scope, shooting people 500M+ away (That's what I always adored about DayZ Standalone and the Mod, the long range sniping at 1km+ away :D)

Currently, the view distance fog is too invasive, and you can't even see from one side of Zelenogorsk to the other which is roughly 800M away on a relatively clear day :(

Whereas pre 1.0, you could see generally far.

Any way you can increase the view distance and generally reduce the fog, especially on clear days. Or at least some customizable view distance setting for us with higher-end PCs, so we can actually snipe :) @Geez

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Severity: Major
Resolution: Open
Reproducibility: Always
Operating System: Windows 10
Category: Visual-Environment

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Thank you very much if this gets addressed :)

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jamielou.007 created this task.Jun 28 2019, 10:16 AM

It could be just the weather on your particular day, Ive sniped people an easy 1100m away from the top of lopatino hill facing the top of NWAF north at the tower and see and hit targets,... also people dont render in any further away than 1100m.. unless you edit your settings to make view distance and render distance further away :-).

was this past 1.0, and it seems like everyday I play it is way too foggy. Even when I tune into TheRunningManZ stream, it is usually foggy, limiting his view distance scouting out locations or sniping.

Possibly how the weather is set on the servers, my servers have random weather etc, and clear days regularly so its possible its been set to be static then on some servers?

Hello jamielou.007.
Adjustable view distance is currently not planned. The only way to make the fog less aggressive would be to adjust the fog server side, which is adjusted by the following script inserted into the init.c file of the server mission.

This needs to be inserted after ce.InitOffline();

Weather weather = GetGame().GetWeather();
weather.MissionWeather(true);
weather.GetOvercast().SetLimits(0.0, 0.0);
weather.GetOvercast().Set(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);

Regards,
Geez

4NDRO1D added a subscriber: 4NDRO1D.Jul 1 2019, 5:53 PM

thank you for the reply, this is very helpful :)

I've found that these init.c settings not only start the server with a clear day, but prevent the weather from rolling in later on (if you're into that):

Weather weather = GetGame().GetWeather();
weather.MissionWeather(true);

weather.GetOvercast().SetLimits( 0.0 , 0.0 );
weather.GetRain().SetLimits( 0.0 , 0.0 );
weather.GetFog().SetLimits( 0.0 , 0.0 );

weather.GetOvercast().SetForecastChangeLimits( 0.0, 0.0 );
weather.GetRain().SetForecastChangeLimits( 0.0, 0.0 );
weather.GetFog().SetForecastChangeLimits( 0.0, 0.0 );

weather.GetOvercast().SetForecastTimeLimits( 1800 , 1800 );
weather.GetRain().SetForecastTimeLimits( 600 , 600 );
weather.GetFog().SetForecastTimeLimits( 1800 , 1800 );

weather.GetOvercast().Set(0.0, 0, 0);
weather.GetRain().Set(0.0, 0, 0);
weather.GetFog().Set(0.0, 0, 0);

weather.SetWindMaximumSpeed(0);
weather.SetWindFunctionParams(0.0, 0.0, 50);

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