Tweak for max viewable distance?

Yes · 06/06/07, 3:45 PM

I remember reading a while back that there was a way of tweaking the distance at which objects dissapear on your screen beyond what blizzard lets us do. Ie on this screenshot I want the whole terrain of nagrand drawn, not faded, as my computer is suppose to handle it.
http://i11.tinypic.com/54ed7rk.jpg

I remember the solution being dumped in a ui of some sort.
PS the mod to zoom out so far is ImprovedCamera

Anyone remember what it was?

Apate · 06/06/07, 3:55 PM

It wasn't oTweaks, was it? (Which may be on wowace; Haste's site doesn't have much right now)

Most of these kinds of addons just tweak a CVar, so you could enter wow, set max terrain distance, exit wow, then open config.wtf and change it to a larger value.

Cryect · 06/06/07, 4:26 PM

You can't really change the max draw distance anymore than the UI allows.

I have a friend who's actually changed using it a custom program to values beyond the actual game allows but runs into the issue the fog doesn't change beyond what its set to normally for the max amount (if you set the max draw distance really small it does change though) and the only thing you actually notice is the low res terrain that gets drawn is pushed back further (which creates gaps because the actual terrain loaded in memory isn't far enough to reach to where the low res terrain starts).

Here's a video that he recorded of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pir_plsFxpA

Docjowles · 06/06/07, 4:33 PM

This may or may not be useful depending on what you want to do, but I think you could use WoWmapview to take such a screenshot.

Looking at the page, I see that it hasn't been updated since 2005? Maybe it still works, or a similar tool exists.

manly · 06/06/07, 4:36 PM

going by memory:

/console SET "cameraDistanceMax" 250

Cryect · 06/06/07, 4:38 PM

Thats the distance of which the camera can be which wasn't what he was asking for but instead draw distance.

Apate · 06/06/07, 4:39 PM

Originally Posted by manly

going by memory:

/console SET "cameraDistanceMax" 250

Double-check that because I'm pretty sure that you're addressing something other than what was asked in the OP (which contains a link to a mod that modifies the variable that you posted)

vespoli · 06/06/07, 8:11 PM

I have used an addon to describe what you are looking for, called "ImprovedCamera." It increases the maximum viewing distance from "30" to "50" in whatever arbitrary units Blizzard uses.

Get it from Curse here:
http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/5098/

Before:

After:

Hope this helps!

svagftw · 06/06/07, 8:15 PM

Read the post again, he already mentioned the addon improvedcamera. He doesn't want an addon to increase camera range, he wants an addon to increase the fog of war distance.

Kazanir · 06/09/07, 12:08 AM

The CVar you're tweaking is "farclip" and can be set from 177 to 777 by the user interface options, but cannot be manually adjusted with /console SET beyond those values, UNLIKE, say, "cameraDistanceMaxFactor" which can be adjusted well beyond the values available to the slider in the settings panel and controls the zoom distance. I'd bet that you'd have to use (like Cryect mentioned) a not-okay 3rd party tool to force the WoW executable to accept values higher than 777, in which case you get terrain being viewable at a distance higher than that which the client will load the geometry/textures.

Yes · 06/09/07, 9:45 PM

Originally Posted by Kazanir

The CVar you're tweaking is "farclip" and can be set from 177 to 777 by the user interface options, but cannot be manually adjusted with /console SET beyond those values, UNLIKE, say, "cameraDistanceMaxFactor" which can be adjusted well beyond the values available to the slider in the settings panel and controls the zoom distance. I'd bet that you'd have to use (like Cryect mentioned) a not-okay 3rd party tool to force the WoW executable to accept values higher than 777, in which case you get terrain being viewable at a distance higher than that which the client will load the geometry/textures.

Yeah I ended up spending an hour or so tweaking the various camera related settings and by editing the said variable I found out that it bugs out past 777. Ie I was able to create artifacts past which I could not move, make terrain dissapear, see through walls and other naughty stuff. None of it was useful to my original purpose, though.