Would you like to play with greater view distance?

[(4THIDUSA) SSG H.]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

I would like no limits or 2X

[margav]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

In real life there is a limit, the particles ( atmosphere on Earth and stuff in space) thats why we do not see the whole universe. well you understand me.
In game - take a sphere, and measure a sphere say diameter 1 meter ( surface area of 3.141) and one of 2 meters ( surface area of 12.5663). so to calculate the extra x2 draw distance your comp process power must be power of 2.

volume of a meter sphere - 0.523 and 2 meter sphere - 4.1887 ,

4.1887 divided by 0.523 gives us nearly exactly 8, so the volume of information is 8 times bigger in the 2 times bigger sphere. SO yo u get the idea of the strains on the pc..

I say have different view distances/sphere shapes depending on the speed/vector you are travelling at, or just extend it for vehicles a bit.

[aLi3nZ]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

Its not too bad as it is imo but it would be nice to be able to see. 1,5x farther than now.

btw here is an example of what it would be like to see further. Someone from another forum had this bug when they were commander.

[zipp0r]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

the problem comes if u want to see more it will take more raphics power. There has to be a fine line drawn somewhere!

WRONG!!!!!

use the commander bug on a single player game and you can easily view the whole map with no noticable loss in performance.

on my pc, i dont see ANY fps loss at all!!

[margav]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

thats cause your comp actually renders good in maps such as sharqi and karkand, but the map also has a fog, which the pc also layers over what you normally see.

[zipp0r]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

no performance loss at all:

fog:


no fog:






i have a feeling the fog is there just to piss off snipers

[margav]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

yes. because its mostly infantry

[i made you]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

on some4 bapms its a good ubrdea but noit ceal . f ucked up acjs **** . but not agood uidea as well.

[SaS|firestorm]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

i like it the way it is

[Daemonion]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

I would love to see anywhere from 1.5 - unlimited view range, or atleast within the boundaries of the entire map.

It unfortunately doesn't appear like any weapon is suited for extreme-distance killing, however (TV-Guided Missles, AT Missles, etc.).

[i made you]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

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[interfusion]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

in real life there is no such thing as a view distance maximum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visibility

[imported_RpTheHotrod]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

If you remove the fog, people would just settle in and start shooting at eachother at distances where they are ineffective at combat. At least with the fog, when someone sees an enemy, they actually have a chance at killing something.

[RocketChild]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

no performance loss at all:

Great examples, but I am concerned because I see you have some of your textures turned down some, looking at your terrain.

Albeit, you are right though. I would like to see different weather conditions that would permit the BF to change some.

[margav]

Re: Would you like to play with greater view distance?

Dont forget that seeing just an empty screen is no use, you must have people playing it in order to see a full effect

thats why you load the whole map before actual gameplay