[SoD] how to turn off the smoke machine in lich's lair

agris

This new smoke effect that Beamdog rolled out in SoD is pretty cool in some maps, it really makes them feel like a pitched battle is taking place when smoke crosses the screen. Unfortunately, I'm getting too much smoke on the dwarven lich map. Look at this.



We might disagree on what's artistic or not, but that's hard to see. Is this supposed to be the "cool mists rising from a dank crypt" VFX? If it is, it needs to be turned down. Looking at the area map, I even found the smoke machine's source.




So is this a bug, or working as intended?

TrudeauIsSanta

At first I was like "What? I don't remember that part of the quest." Then I entered the topic. Laughed my ass off.

Sorry, not sure how to fix it. Have you tried enabling alternate renderer, or disabling weather? Shots in the dark...

Mr2150

I disabled weather because of this and it fixed it...

agris

So uhhh... did this get fixed? Can we get an ini tweak at least to disable fog so we don't have to nuke all weather to remove it?

argent77

Adding the following line to baldur.lua should disable fog globally:
SetPrivateProfileString('Game Options','Enable Fog','0')

agris

argent77 said:

Adding the following line to baldur.lua should disable fog globally:
SetPrivateProfileString('Game Options','Enable Fog','0')

Thanks @argent77, that's a good work around. Anyone know if the issue has been fixed though?

agris

Bump - has the fog effect obscuring maps as in the above images been fixed in the 2.5 beta, or is the "fix" to disable the new feature entirely?

Doubledimas

agris said:

Bump - has the fog effect obscuring maps as in the above images been fixed in the 2.5 beta, or is the "fix" to disable the new feature entirely?

SoD is not (yet) in beta at the moment.

agris

Does anyone know if this bug was fixed in the 2.5 release of SoD?