Trees and their draw distance and also sound concern

[Witchking]

Hi guys,

 

I want to have the beautiful forests in FC but it also increases the buildings etc which come with the high scenes and visibility range.

 

Is there a way to have only trees visible at max and buildings and remaining scenes at med visibility?

 

AND

 

Is it possible to use 5.1 surround sound in LOMAC (FC)? it doesnt seem to work. :(

 

cheers,

 

aquarius

[Nate--IRL--]

the scene setting at high gives you forests, you could try lowering the visibilty range setting to improve performance.

 

Lomac only supports 2.1 sound sorry,

 

Nate

[ZoomBoy27]

in graphics.cfg you can play around with tree distances by placing the high tree values in the medium settings. Save a copy of the original.

Camera
{
   current = "Medium";
   Low
   {
       near_clip = 4;
       far_clip = 60000;
       structures = {30, 2000};
       trees = {60000, 3000};
       dynamic = {300, 20000};
       objects = {3000, 40000};
       mirage = {3000, 10000};
       surface = {10000, 50000};
       lights = {50, 10000};
       lod = 0.7;
   }
   Medium
   {
       near_clip = 0.2;
       middle_clip = 4;
       far_clip = 80000;
       structures = {40, 5000};
       trees = {100000, 8000};
       dynamic = {300, 20000};
       objects = {3000, 50000};
       mirage = {3000, 15000};
       surface = {14000, 80000};
       lights = {100, 30000};
       lod = 1;
   }
   High
   {
       near_clip = 0.2;
       middle_clip = 4;
       far_clip = 80000;
       structures = {200, 10000};
       trees = {200000, 20000};
       dynamic = {300, 20000};
       objects = {5000, 80000};
       mirage = {5000, 20000};
       surface = {20000, 80000};
       lights = {200, 80000};
       lod = 1.5;
   }
}

[Kula66]

Re: trees, you could try adding a custom section to graphics.cfg (remember to backup first!) similar to the one I have below:

 

My guess, is that the first number is the max number of objects and the second is the distance that they appear. Try playing with the values ...

 

jcHigh

{

near_clip = 0.2;

middle_clip = 4.;

far_clip = 60000;

structures = {200, 8000};

trees = {60000, 6000};

dynamic = {300, 16000};

objects = {4000, 50000};

mirage = {4000, 16000};

surface = {16000, 80000};

lights = {100, 30000};

lod = 1.3;

}

[Kula66]

Hey, Zoomboy, I think our posts overlapped!!!

[Witchking]

wow! thanx guys!

 

I will try to play around with it now. :)

 

The problem is that even though scenes is on high, visibility needs to be high to see forests.

 

so I guess I'll experiment by copying the values for trees from high to medium.

 

cheers. :)

 

PS::: ED PLEASE GIVE US SURROUND SOUND SUPPORT :D