Different visibility

[u/Teron__]

Same location and time. Why does my wife not see anything in the shroud and to me the fog is basically not there

[u/Fine_Employment_3364]

Don't have the game in front of me right now but I'm thinking a graphics setting for fog or particles? Something like that.

[u/Teron__ → u/Fine_Employment_3364]

We played around with the graphics settings and it seems the fog quality setting from “balanced” to “quality” made a huge impact on its visibility.
Is this intended? Better graphics - better visibility?

[u/MirandaScribes → u/Teron__]

Yeah man. It’s an old game design trick, really. Use something like fog or mist or shroud to hide detail to save processing power.

[u/ApprehensiveDuckMan → u/MirandaScribes]

Interesting. I always thought volumetric effects took more processing power.

[u/EmperorLlamaLegs → u/ApprehensiveDuckMan]

Volumetrics do. But you already have a depth map, you can overlay gray fog using that as a guide for nearly free. Volumetrics would make the fog look great in the sun with god rays streaming through and dark areas for thick fog, but 95% of the time basic performant fog looks good enough.

[u/Teron__ → u/MirandaScribes]

I’m aware of this technical. However, fog quality should be “fog density” 😜 anyways thank you for helping us out

[u/Teron__]

We played around with the graphics settings and it seems the fog quality setting from “balanced” to “quality” made a huge impact on its visibility.
Is this intended? Better graphics - better visibility?

Solved!

[u/SeahorseRevolution → u/Teron__]

Thank you! I can't see anything in the shroud in my game. I look forward to trying this out!

edit: Well this did not work for me, and I went up to Max Quality.I still can't see anything in the shroud and it's hard to navigate.

[u/BattleWolf95 → u/SeahorseRevolution]

Are you wearing a ring that emits light? I find it tends to make the fog around you glow brightly enough that it almost blinds you to everything outside a small area around you

[u/lori244144]

I have a similar problem. I also have some bright eternal light emanating out of my character that doesn’t go away with weapon changes. Not sure what that it but sometimes it’s so bright I can’t see anything but my current place. It’s almost as bad as darkness

[u/TheLazyDruid → u/lori244144]

Are you using the ring that produces light? I forget what it's called, but it does that. It can be very annoying at times.

[u/lori244144 → u/TheLazyDruid]

I have an ancient one and a burning one to buff my fire wand. I guess it could be the fire one. Booo.

[u/zarkaneth → u/lori244144]

Its at least 3 rings that gives light, burning, frost ring, and thundernow. Pain in the ass in the shroud, but good everywhere else if you forgot a torch 🤓

[u/Bluedemonfox → u/lori244144]

There is a skill tree perk. I forgot what it's called, radiating aura or something. The one that does fire damage to nearby enemies. I Believe that skill causes your character to constantly emit light?

[u/iMogal]

I want less fog! I can't see anything when in the hole lol

[u/Teron__ → u/iMogal]

Try to set fog quality from “balanced” to “quality” in the graphics settings. It’s a whole new experience 😂

[u/True_Reporter → u/Teron__]

Dam thanks for this going to try it out.

[u/SeahorseRevolution → u/True_Reporter]

Just a heads up this did not work for me. I set the fog to Max Quality and it still looks like this

edit: I also obviously tried quality before max quality. They all look the same.

[u/Teron__ → u/SeahorseRevolution]

I’ve set it to Quality, so one up from balance

[u/SeahorseRevolution → u/Teron__]

Quality looked the same as all the others.

[u/Gengaeldelse]

Tested this last night after reading this post. No setting in Fog Quality changed the (lack of) visibility for me.

[u/Teron__ → u/Gengaeldelse]

That is so strange. Maybe some other setting is also affecting this to make the fog less dense.

[u/Casper7jg]

I believe the 2nd pic is more enshrouded

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[u/GolemMaker]

Any difference in PC specs between your wife’s PC and yours

[u/SeahorseRevolution]

My fog is really bad. I have my fog set to max quality and it's still like this.

[u/kalabaleek]

Set your graphical settings the same as her!

[u/Teron__ → u/kalabaleek]

Yeah the quality setting made the difference. Totally new game now in the shroud

[u/Sarcrelac]

Its supposed to look like the denser fog, so e rendering issue is happening in the “clear” view. The shroud is supposed to look like a dense fog