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Originally Posted by Contact
Spotted a graphical issue when observing smokes coming from a damaged ship in a distance.
I spotted a convoy, unfortunetlly I was short in torps only with two left at stern. I took an aim at 09 Tanker and fired one at it, after I fired I noticed that convoy is changing course but luckily I managed to hit Granville in the way. The bloody granvilles ain't sinking from one torp as ussuall for me 
So it strated spliting black smoke up in the air. I kept monitoring whether she will sink or not, but she kept going, badly listed to port and managed to keep up the speed of the convoy  Visibility was good so I continued monitoring her smokes high in the horizon, when suddently smokes started to flicker before vanishing. I assume this happened because even smoke has reached it's visibility limit ? However I was waiting for a nice fade out of the smokes.. Well it is small thing of course, but still looks weird  |
I assume this happened at sunrise/sunset.
At sunrise/sunset, when looking (more or less) in the direction of the sun, the effect you describe can happen. It bothers me too, but there's not much that can be done about it (and what could be done would make the game look very bad IMO).
All objects "vanish" in SH3; in order to give the appearance of fading-out, the engine gradually changes their colour to match the fog/haze colour as they get further away (based on various parameters in the environment files which I've already tweaked so that the "fading" is complete before the object vanishes). The problem with sunrise/sunset is that the sky colour is very different at the "front" (near the sun) than it is at the "back" (away from the sun) but the fog/haze colour is the same for both front and back (SH3 limitation) so I can only match the haze colour to one or the other (and I matched it to the back). Make sense?