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Nukesub
08-07-14, 03:16 PM
Ahoy Kaleuns,

Does anyone know what might effect this?

I'm not sure what has been causing this, but basically it seems the horizon disappears into fog in the distance, even on a clear day. And if I fly the camera above my boat I can see the terrain/ocean has not loaded very far out.

I know there is the 16km Atmosphere GWX mod that I "think" would effect this distance? It does not seem to, even with MEP v4.2 the draw distance is, well, not that far (less than with the 16km GWX atmosphere mod enabled).

Just trying to figure this out, seems to me that the draw distance should be decently far so that I can see ships/smoke on the horizon.

Thanks in advance

Something I just thought of. I recently installed Merchant fleet mod and patched my Sh3.exe with the 4 gig patch. Would that be sucking memory that previously contributed to the render/draw distance?

Sailor Steve
08-07-14, 03:55 PM
This mod sets the distance at 20km, and there is no fog. Also the water itself looks much better. It's one of my favorites.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=3314

HW3
08-07-14, 04:08 PM
There is a newer version of that mod.

"SH-5 Water For SH-3 Ultimate V10 20 Km"

:up:

Nukesub
08-07-14, 04:37 PM
Gents,

Thank you! Your suggestions have indeed very positively effected my view distance.

I have to say though that I am not used to the SH5 water and so it looks very strange right now, perhaps I will get used to how it looks.

Only bit I am sad about now is that I can't used the OLC dat boot green mod b/c it has a very strange patterning effect on the SH5 water graphic - wit it enabled it looks striped with black, clearly not how it is supposed to look.

Sailor Steve
08-07-14, 05:17 PM
There is a newer version of that mod.

"SH-5 Water For SH-3 Ultimate V10 20 Km"

:up:
Yep. As I posted in the original release thread, I tried it and liked the original water color better. :sunny: