Reduce vision range

[Porteffroi]

Hi,

 

does anyone know how i can alter the client such that the player is only able to see blocks in a radius of 10 meters ? I don't want to do it only for a single custom block type but for the whole world.

 

Thanks.

[Numbers32]

When you say reduce vision, do you mean how far out the chunks are rendered, or where the fog is around the player, ie when at bedrock level, you can only see so far in front of you?

 

If you are looking to "thicken" the fog surrounding the player, try looking at the blindness potion effect. Pun not intended.

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

 

The vanilla render distance is controlled by

Minecraft.getMinecraft().gameSettings.renderDistance

 

It affects the fog settings and far plane settings (see EntityRenderer) and the rendered chunks (see RenderGlobal.loadRenderers)

 

Blindness potion has good clues too (EntityRenderer.setupFog)

 

-TGG

[Porteffroi]

Thanks for these hints. I'll have a look to these locations and see if i can find what i need.

 

The best of all solution would be a way to mark blocks as "to render" or "not to render". In fact i have a field of view algorithm and i want the player to see only blocks this algo considers as visible.

 

I suppose there's no build-in solution to do it, so I'm looking to reduce the player vision range to make it looks like only the blocks from the field of view are displayed. So the objective is not really to increase the fog effect but more to block rendering of blocks which distance to the player is higher than 10. But if the fog can be set such that blocks at distance 9 are fully visible and blocks at 10 are absolutely not visible it also works.

 

It's a bit tricky, i know. ^^

 

 

Edit : I had a look on renderDistance in the game settings but it seems it doesn't allow to set a custom distance. It looks like more a switch between the different distances already accessible from the option menu.

 

Edit 2 : For the blind potion i found some code stubs concerning it but i cannot find the item in the creative tabs of the game.I forgot to mention that i'm still in 1.6.2. It may be the cause.

 

[Porteffroi]

I still did not found how to do it ...

 

It can also be a modification in the basic code of minecraft, it's not o be part of a mod. If it's a modification in the render code of the game it's ok.