Classic / Eye of Argonia view distance and fog

[BadLuckBurt]

This is a mod to change Daggerfall Unity's view distance and fog settings to approximate classic Daggerfall's original view distance and the view distance of the Eye of Argonia savegame path.

I do not use Nexus to host my mods since I do not agree with their TOS, any request for my mods to be added there will be ignored.

Credits:

All thanks and credit goes to Interkarma and the core DFU team for making Daggerfall Unity and some more thanks to Interkarma for posting the view distance / fog settings on the forum that I tweaked to get a bit closer to the classic experience.

You can find the downloads here: https://github.com/BadLuckBurt/blb-clas ... s/tag/v1.1

How to use:

Download the zip file for your platform, extract it somewhere and then place the .dfmod file in DaggerfallUnity_Data/StreamingAssets/Mods
Activate the mod in the Daggerfall Unity launcher and choose the desired view distance in the Settings.

Planned extras:

I will add pixel snow at a later date for a more retro experience.

Screenshots were taken at the Sentinel palace facing away from it.

Classic view distance:

DFU_Sentinel_Classic.jpg (67.83 KiB) Viewed 2455 times

Eye of Argonia view distance:

DFU_Sentinel_EoA.jpg (72.75 KiB) Viewed 2455 times

[Ninelan]

Splendid, absolutely splendid.
Now to ramp up that classic feel.

Do you plan to have pixelated snow be prepackaged, or will they be separate for maximum customisation?

[BadLuckBurt]

Splendid, absolutely splendid.
Now to ramp up that classic feel.

Do you plan to have pixelated snow be prepackaged, or will they be separate for maximum customisation?

Thanks. I can do it separately, it would make sense since they're not related. Not that this mod is huge sizewise so being able to disable the view distance stuff wouldn't be an issue but I might as well do it as a separate mod so people don't end up scratching their head what happened to their view distance.

[yabay]

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[BadLuckBurt]

I believe this mod should be part of the DFU engine.

Maybe it'll be merged some day after the beta is released, until then this mod will do just fine so I'd appreciate it if no-one bugs Interkarma about this. Let the beta drop and we'll see after that. Same goes for pixel snow which I'll be dropping later today, finally figured out how to access the particle system.

[yabay]

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[BadLuckBurt]

Thanks for your masterpiece.
I really like how the tree sprites pop out of the fog.

You're welcome and thank you, that is great to hear. I just followed Interkarma's lead and tweaked it a bit so most credit goes to him.

[Hazelnut]

Splendid, absolutely splendid.
Now to ramp up that classic feel.

Do you plan to have pixelated snow be prepackaged, or will they be separate for maximum customisation?

Thanks. I can do it separately, it would make sense since they're not related. Not that this mod is huge sizewise so being able to disable the view distance stuff wouldn't be an issue but I might as well do it as a separate mod so people don't end up scratching their head what happened to their view distance.

Or you could have 1 mod with settings to enable/disable various aspects. Just a thought.

[BadLuckBurt]

Or you could have 1 mod with settings to enable/disable various aspects. Just a thought.

I could, I just hate setting up the settings

I have the separate mod ready but I won't mind turning it into a bundle at some point with toggles to turn things on / off. I'll stick to separate releases for now and consider this though, just want to get this out of my system first.

[yabay]

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