I HATE FOG! (1.2.5 complaint)
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Upshaw Underhill
Techno-Hobbit
Join date: 13 Mar 2003
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01-08-2004 11:52
(scroll to bottom for issue, I just had to vent a bit)
When I log into Second Life every day (well pretty close) the first thing I do is hit Ctrl-Alt-6 (disable fog) and sometimes Alt-Shift-3 (dont render Trees)
Trees I dont mind so much unless I'm in the middle of Darkwood at which point my more pitiful machine drops to sub 1fps trying to download and render all those alphaed leaves.
Fog on the otherhand... have hated it in every game I've played. SL is no exception. (Fog on an airless moon in... Mechwarrior 2 was it?... particularly set me off.) Perhaps in LA you can start to see haze at 40 Meters but in most places that kind of smog is just totally unknown. Currently I'm in Wyoming and 2 or 3 miles out I can barely see haze over the mountains. Thats the length of the entire world in SL currently.
I understand the purpose, the ground and sky and the edge of my draw distance do meet in a rather sharp clash when I turn it off but I *much* prefer that to wandering around in a Maine fog permanently.
Down to brass tacks: Ctrl-Alt-6 used to completely disable fog. Now it only partially does. It still disables over Land and Water at any distance but over prims its still there. Normal view or any option chosen with the scroll-wheel has full fog over prims but if I Alt-Zoom around sometimes its there sometimes not... especially if I rotate. It seems it might only exist directly in front of me?
first noticed on GF2 32M, not at home to try on FX5700 but ran into ATI and FX5600 users in game who could see the same effects
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Maxx Monde
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01-08-2004 12:15
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Upshaw Underhill
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01-08-2004 12:26
heh, and my bug report screen capture has your giant build in it Maxx  that's what I'd logged in to look at as I didn't explore it much on New Years. |
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Jellin Pico
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Re: I HATE FOG! (1.2.5 complaint)
01-08-2004 12:27
From: someone Originally posted by Upshaw Underhill
(Perhaps in LA you can start to see haze at 40 Meters but in most places that kind of smog is just totally unknown. Hey, on some days the smog is so thick you can see it only 20 feet away! <coff coff> |
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Upshaw Underhill
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01-08-2004 12:35
oof... you have my symapthies Jellin.
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Maxx Monde
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01-08-2004 12:56
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Upshaw Underhill
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01-08-2004 13:03
Larger?? @.@
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eltee Statosky
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Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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01-08-2004 13:23
i've found the fog can actually look quite realistic and natural at 512 draw distance...
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now if only i could *PLAY* at that i'd be happy ^.^
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eltee Statosky
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01-08-2004 13:25
then again i live in jersey so what the heck do *I* know about what air is *SUPPOSED* to look like
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Theda Twilight
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01-08-2004 15:27
Well, for one thing you aren't supposed to be able to see air. |
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Jellin Pico
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01-08-2004 16:17
From: someone Originally posted by Theda Twilight Well, for one thing you aren't supposed to be able to see air. I try to think about it as reasuring that it's still there. <coff coff> |
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eltee Statosky
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01-08-2004 23:21
From: someone Originally posted by Theda Twilight Well, for one thing you aren't supposed to be able to see air. okay someone has obviously *NEVER* been to LA/NYC in the summer ;P
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Oz Spade
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01-09-2004 05:31
I don't get what your talking about, I see no extra fog that wasn't there before. *shrug*
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