It's definitely my pleasure! :)

Thanks everyone for your replies and thank you's!
I've been trying to pass around the word to everyone in-game, hope everyone is enjoying it!
It feels great to help the community and make a lot of people happy!

HURRAY!!!!!!!! :D

Tried it myself. Looks absolutely great!

Think this should be enabled standard in VG.

I havent been able to try this command yet. But Im really wondering how it cant lower your performance? it just sounds really strange.

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Originally posted by Nitros284

 

(that's six 9's)

 

This eliminates the fog completely, and allows you to view up to 8-10km.

The result is absolutely beautiful.

/setfog 999999.

 

Thank you so much.

In my opinion, this makes it look better:

/setfog 200000, 400000, 120, 120, 240

Just my opinion

Originally posted by Nitros284

Ever since the beta of Vanguard, and every month after that in which I have played (From beta-GU2, a month in GU3, and now back after GU5) I have always had one major problem, perhaps IMO Vanguard's biggest flaw for my taste.

 

Drawdistance.

This game touted "8km viewable!" which was a lie. You could never see beyond 1.4km. EVER.
There is a fog set at around 1km, which fogs completely textureless at above 1.4km.
The slider in Settings that goes all the way up to 8km? Does nothing past 1.4km.I'd see mountains far off in the distance of Khal- completely textureless, blank. HOW FRUSTRATING! Where is my massive viewdistance?

Then finally......one day..... I learned of a secret that, for some reason, Sony doesn't want you to know about.
If you know this secret, Vanguard becomes 100x more beautiful without the loss of any performance (unless you have a very low-end system, then performance will be lost most likely, just as if increasing viewdistance beyond what is probably 1km or less)

But I urge EVERYONE to try this secret, wonderful tweak.

 

/setfog 999999

(that's six 9's)

 

This eliminates the fog completely, and allows you to view up to 8-10km.
Make sure you also have your Far Clipping Plane to the max 819200 in SETTINGS.

The result is absolutely beautiful. Try it out for the first time in places where you can see a mountain, but a textureless fog is wrapped around it. Perhaps just outside Tursh, facing the mountains. In the desert of Khal, looking far across on a high slope. At the starless sky at nighttime.

 

Just know two things: It resets everytime you completely exit the game program, and so each time you start Vanguard and login, you have to /setfog 999999.

Having your tree detail range set to 100% will mean this might hurt more performance, as trees are see further away that you otherwise wouldnt see. I have a 8800 gt and keep my tree detail range at 40%, and it blends so well you can't really notice the "paper" 2d trees. The reason performance isnt lost by increasing viewdistance from 1km to 10km, is bc everything that is so far away is drawn in 2d like paper, but bc it's so far away it's near impossible to notice and it blends in beautifully.

 

 

I have NO IDEA why Vanguard doesn't tell people about this. It's amazing. It makes the game SO much more beautiful.

I don't like the setfog command at all.  It defeats what the designers had in mind for different environments throughout the game.  For example, Misthaven is suppose to be very spooky, misty with creatures making soons in the distance that you can't see.  If you use the /setfog command the zone becomes clear as day :(  There are other places, especially on Qalia where you can see for miles because of the arid enviroment. 

while for panoramic views and scenaries, setting fog to unlimited looks nice, i like the "feel" of the fog and weather distortions for the most part.

Yeah I just discovered this the other night, it's a really great tweak that has a huge quality impact on the graphics, and on modern machines, hardly any performance hit at all.

Another nice one is to do the Shader 3.0 tweak (in vgclient.ini - there's a thread about it in the Vanguard forums).  Basically, Vanguard does have some Shader 3.0 functionality (it always has had potentially, but it was enabled a while ago), so if you have a Shader 3.0 card, you can turn this on.  It doesn't make a massive difference, but if you have everything on max/ultra/super anyway  and release the 3.0 functionality, you can look close at your character you can see that the 3-d-ness of the armour detail and other little details is actually pretty darn good (almost as good as AoC), and the shading generally a bit smoother in places.

Once the new characters are done, and the animations smoothed out a bit and synced better with the combat, then Vanguard is pretty much finished imho (apart from the adding of more content), and definitely a top class, good looking modern game, with deep, rewarding, sandboxy gameplay.

Why do you guys keep rezzing this thing?

/setfog 999999 is going to remove ALL of the fog giving the game a very unreal look.

Don't use it unless you want the game to look like a Fisher Price playset.

Those numbers are distance units 999999 is one unit short of the 10km max view in game. 100000 is 1km.

there are 2 distance settings

/setfog 100000, 400000 for example, the rest are color commands. (you do have to change the colors if you like it. The settings i use 120,120, 240 deepen the colors quite a bit)

I use 75000, 300000. It looks really nice because you get the different layers of fog in the distance getting thicker as you go. (meaning the fog starts at three quarters of a Km and becomes its normal density at 3km)

You need to experiment with the distances until you find a setting you like.

If you like an area with the fog (like misthaven) leave it alone, don't use the command. (duh)

I have to agree with the above post about doing the /setfog 9999999 thing. It totally destroys the way the game is supposed to look in some places. In others in can make things look better, but it's like taking a sledeghammer to a nail. In places where mist is important, in like Misthaven, it makes it look like crap.  Using a lower /setfog command works out better, or using the modified weatherdef file listed below works better as well...but you have to replace it everytime you reboot the game.

In anycase, there's room for imporvement using this command, certainly, but don't ruin the atmosphere of the game by using it the wrong way.

 If anyone has the default fog settings, I'd ideally like to create two macros, one for fog at 75000, 300000 as listed above for most wide open spaces, and one for the "default" setting for places like misthaven.

http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?topic_id=33644

It's insane how much better that makes it look.  What a beautiful World.