Fog Effect is too much! (Solved, I think)

[Harvey]

I'm really enjoying FS25 but I can't stand the Fog effect, it's too much, its as if Giants found a new feature and went mad with it.
I'd prefer its to be subtle and only occasionally like a wall of fog you can't see two feet in front of your face.

Is there a way/mod to disable the fog or tone it down?

On hutan pantai I barely see my crops in some of my fields, the game looks great when its not covered in fog lol.

[illgib]

Weather it's handled inside the weather.xml inside the map folder, so it's map based, don't know if there's a way or a mod to tweak it globally.

[Harvey]

Originally posted by illgib:

Weather it's handled inside the weather.xml inside the map folder, so it's map based, don't know if there's a way or a mod to tweak it globally.

Thanks, that kinda pointed me in the right direction.
In the FS25 maps folder under mapAS>config I found environment.xml.
It had several references to fog, I deleted each section relating to fog, re-loaded the game and save, NO FOG!
Not sure if it will stay like that if the game gets patched.
Will update if I see any fog lol.

[Puzzler]

Originally posted by Harvey:

Originally posted by illgib:

Weather it's handled inside the weather.xml inside the map folder, so it's map based, don't know if there's a way or a mod to tweak it globally.

Thanks, that kinda pointed me in the right direction.
In the FS25 maps folder under mapAS>config I found environment.xml.
It had several references to fog, I deleted each section relating to fog, re-loaded the game and save, NO FOG!
Not sure if it will stay like that if the game gets patched.
Will update if I see any fog lol.

Of course if you check game files integrity or a new patch come out , what you delete will appear again once files will be missed in base game maps in this case mapAS and will be reaquired

[sendjes]

Originally posted by Harvey:

Not sure if it will stay like that if the game gets patched.

It wont.

Also, tip for when messing with content files, don't delete lines, comment them out instead.

[dragonsphotoworks]

Any edited base game file will get updated when validate. As files data and time stamp and all will change. Steam will set it back to originial.

[Harvey]

Originally posted by sendjes:

Originally posted by Harvey:

Not sure if it will stay like that if the game gets patched.

It wont.

Also, tip for when messing with content files, don't delete lines, comment them out instead.

Ah okay will do.
I backed it up before changing it as well.

[Harvey]

Originally posted by dragonsphotoworks:

Any edited base game file will get updated when validate. As files data and time stamp and all will change. Steam will set it back to originial.

Thats a shame I wonder if some talented modder could implement a permanent option

[illgib]

Originally posted by Harvey:

Originally posted by dragonsphotoworks:

Any edited base game file will get updated when validate. As files data and time stamp and all will change. Steam will set it back to originial.

Thats a shame I wonder if some talented modder could implement a permanent option

Whitout scripts i don't think it's possible.

[Knottypine]

Originally posted by Harvey:

I'm really enjoying FS25 but I can't stand the Fog effect, it's too much, its as if Giants found a new feature and went mad with it.
I'd prefer its to be subtle and only occasionally like a wall of fog you can't see two feet in front of your face.

Is there a way/mod to disable the fog or tone it down?

On hutan pantai I barely see my crops in some of my fields, the game looks great when its not covered in fog lol.

I as well feel the fog is overdone. That seems typical when there is a new feature. So far in my game, haven't played a whole year yet, there is fog everyday, and present in some low lying areas pretty much at all times of the day. Normally, at least in my region of the world, it's not foggy everyday, and fog that develops in low lying areas typically burns off mid morning as the temperature rises.

Since i'm playing on Riverbend, which from what I read is loosely based on Arkansas, I'm not sure what the fog is like there. I would imagine that by noon in the summer most fog would have dissipated by then.

[Nisch]

Originally posted by Harvey:

Originally posted by dragonsphotoworks:

Any edited base game file will get updated when validate. As files data and time stamp and all will change. Steam will set it back to originial.

Thats a shame I wonder if some talented modder could implement a permanent option

I make random mods like this. I can look into making such a lua. I'll post back if I am successful. No, I'm not asking you to join a discord, pay for it, or anything like that. I'm just a coder that happens to like playing FS.

[dragonsphotoworks]

Originally posted by Nisch:

Originally posted by Harvey:

Thats a shame I wonder if some talented modder could implement a permanent option

I make random mods like this. I can look into making such a lua. I'll post back if I am successful. No, I'm not asking you to join a discord, pay for it, or anything like that. I'm just a coder that happens to like playing FS.

I make simple mods as well :-) But I dont understand LUA so cant make this myself. Glad you decided to :-)

[illgib]

Originally posted by Nisch:

Originally posted by Harvey:

Thats a shame I wonder if some talented modder could implement a permanent option

I make random mods like this. I can look into making such a lua. I'll post back if I am successful. No, I'm not asking you to join a discord, pay for it, or anything like that. I'm just a coder that happens to like playing FS.

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