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Originally Posted by Matyas
Hi Rubini,
As everyone here seems to be highly satified with your mod, I have decided to switch back from 16km to 8km to be able to try it out (was a tough decision for me, though).
However, I have some questions before I start using it:
1. Does cloudiness have an influence on visual detection ranges (especially during night time)? In RL you can hardly see anything in the night when the sky is overcast...
2. Are the visual detection ranges for airplanes the same for the nighttime and for the daytime? It's hardly imaginable to spot a Hurricane during a cloudy (or overcast!) night from 4 km...
Thanks for your reply in advance.
Matyas
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Hi Matyas,
This is an always important question.
First of all yes, at night, mainly with fog, your visibility range was much less even in this mod.
But as i already said - and this is the main problem also with 16km mod - SH3 just diminish the visibility range in a percent of the main mid clear day one. So the high that this "perfect conditions" distance are, the major the distance that you will detect things also at night and/or fog - here is where that vampire night vision born - a stock bad implementation. The parameters that controls specifically the light and fog factor also will mess with the less lighted hours of the day even when you yet have good visibility what will bring again a blind crew for half the day if you carry so much on these factors.
Then we need a compromise for these settings. To have a more smart crew you need to make them detect things early and this can occur once in a while on the edges of the vampire night vision on some hours of the night or with fog. This is why I don't made it for 16km. 16km is already a tweak. Then a tweak over a tweak could have a not so good results.
The settings that I made can be easily tuned down or high. I just need feedbacks.
But I'm sure that the game is far better now than before. At least you are changing a very odd behaviour (to say the minimum) to a 90% right behaviour now.
Feedbacks please!
Rubini.