Universal Clear Fog of War, A mod resurrection with a twist Options

[Hoppy]

I have released a small, uhhh, tiny work that is based on hildskialf's old Clear Fog of War mod. The old version appended area scripts and some areas already did this in some vanilla game areas. The drawback with this is not every area has a script or modded areas with scripts weren't affected. I modified the code to work with party AI and explore any area and the bonus here is it will work for any modded area.

For now it works just for BG2 type games, mods, TC's and Baldur's Gate Trilogy but I am working on making it compatible with other IE games as well. The only drawback with my addition is that it may not work for cutscene mode that transports the party to a new area.

To some this may be a cheat but I always played most of my BG2 games and mods with hlid's CFOW as I do not like the black fog and I enjoy seeing the full area scenery.

Here is the link and I appreciate any feedback or criticism.

http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?showtopic=43845


Cheers,

Hoppy

[Hoppy]

The original clear fog of war would only work with regular game areas, if they have a script. With other mods, like IA for instance, other area names may be used with different prefixes other than ARxxx so the original mod will not touch new modded areas whether they contain a script or not.

My version uses a trigger and action within players' script(s) that will clear the fog of war so the area looks clean (no blacked out parts) after the party enters the area. It will work with any mod areas and is probably compatible with just about everything and the bonus is that you won't have some areas unaffected by the action. It will do it for all of them, major and minor.

I think Jarno was right about certain graphics cards making the fog of war appear "blocky" in IE games. This will surely remove the blackness but you will still see a "blocky" texture with the lighter fog which is the line of sight. This mod doesn't do anything about the line of sight texture, removal or otherwise.