Range Fog Incoming

(posting on behalf of @maxvee)

Just a heads up. In a couple of weeks we will be replacing depth fog that used vertex depth (view space z coordinate) with range fog that uses the proper distance between each fragment and the camera.

The switch is fully automatic, you don’t need to do anything. Posting this so that nobody is surprised or alarmed when this happens.

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Does this mean fogs are now circular instead of rectangular??

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Looks so much better then having things in a square. You’ve just gotta sort the skybox now :wink:

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Alright! That issue has bothered me for a while when I was seeing the fog being too “linear”. Glad they introduced this.

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Loosely connected: Fog controls for ViewportFrames when?

Also small features such as allowing decals, textures, certain particles not be affected by fog. Fog is currently very cumbersome to implement into games as it can break a ton of visual effects such as overlays and distant textures. BillboardGUI-based UI is completely useless, for instance.

Wondering what the future plans for are for this! :slight_smile:

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This is a nice improvement. :+1:

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I believe this is exactly what it means.

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Super glad this is coming. I remember playing games with fog and an easy cheat was to use the side of your camera instead of the front as you could see farther into the fog. This will fix this and also make games that utilize fog more realistic. Great work guys :+1:

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Oh… my! Horror games are gonna go to a next level with this new update!!

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TL;DR: Radial fog.

Best lighting update other than FiB.

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but are we going to see fog covering skyboxes?

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Yes please! The fog would look so much cooler this way! Or at least add a option for this so anyone can use it in any style they want.

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That’s amazing, I really like this :heart:

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Love this! It looks so so much better! :smiley:

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This is nice, I never really liked the old fog, this is a much needed improvement.

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This update will be very useful for horror games if it changes the way how the fog works around the player,not just the camera direction, because people could easily abuse of the first person by looking sideways instead of foward.

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Will we ever get a updated system for fog on how it looks? This is a improvement from before but fog seems like it could use a big update on how it looks visually and or be more realistic.

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Glad to see the fog feature get some attention. It really needed some improvements.

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Yes, yes please Roblox! I personally have a few ideas for quality-of-life updates and overhauls to the skybox and heavenly bodies.

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Finally, some good bloxxin food :wink:

But for real, this is an awesome update! No more having to deal with weird fog distance shifts at the edges of the screen! Thank you :smile:

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