Atmospheric effect: Haze

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Atmospheric effect: Haze

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One of the things that bothers me is the lack of proper atmospheric effects. When we speak of visibility there are essentially two things going on: the atmosphere partially obscures our view of things, and the atmosphere distorts our view of things. At close distance, we don't really notice this, but as distances get greater the effect becomes more pronounced.

I have noticed that trees in the distance are much more sharply defined than they would be IRL. Distant mountains become lighter in color as they get farther away. This works fine for the day but at night the situation is reversed. There is in fact less light reaching your eye from distant objects. This is in fact always the case. The light you see is the ambient light reflected by the atmosphere. A light fog if you will. Once the sun goes down the fog is no longer illuminated and light coming from them is somewhat obscured.

Has there been any attempt to reproduce these two effects: distance blurring and proper atmospheric fog?
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Distance blurring AKA depth of field (DOF) is implemented in the "postprocessing mod" by the Lacus. Unfortunatelly, its downright impossible to set that effect up using the sliders he provided so its a no-go. Would be cool to have some functioning alternative to that.

I agree that the fog in the night should be dark. Would be cool to have that.
Also the fog underwater is completely off. Its so bright it makes no sense in the dungeons. ID like to know how to mod that.

And IF we have DOF implemented it would be nice to have it applied in the foggy weathers. Like this:
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Lightning and weather system is what makes or breaks open world game, Im still very surprised that nobody ever jumped on this seriously and all we have for years is the old Enhanced sky with 6 weathers and boring light all around. Sorry for criticism, but its constructive. DFU is lacking so much in this crucial department

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It might seem a bit pedantic of me but, distance haze is a result of atmospheric interference with the light passing through it and not "depth of field". unless one is nearsighted. The moon is much farther away than any object you might see otherwise but is not distorted or hazy because the light coming from it passes through mostly rarified atmosphere at a low temperture.
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