Increase Draw Distance?

[Carnocide]

Im wondering if there is a way to increase the character/actor fade distance. As it stands, everything max, it seems that characters fade in too close, often making me miss my quest npc's/players that may be approaching. I am curious if this is a limitation 1.12 originally had, an enforcement made by the Nostalrius team, or oversight by myself, and if it is possible for me to alter this value. Thank you.

[Aunstic]

Off-topic: About to rename myself to AverageAun or AverageJake.

On-topic: Mob/player draw distance is determined by the server. The reason for it being low is to handle lag either on the server's end or the player's end. I have a feeling that it's on the server's end though because ~8000 players being able to see each other from >200 yards may impact the server quite a bit.

[Narkon]

I believe draw distance is client side, although I'm not 100% sure if this affects players/npc's too.

Check this thread; viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1100

Look at 'farclip'. The highest value is 777. This max value has been increased throughout the WoW expansions.

[Aunstic]

I believe draw distance is client side, although I'm not 100% sure if this affects players/npc's too.

Check this thread; viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1100

Look at 'farclip'. The highest value is 777. This max value has been increased throughout the WoW expansions.

View distance is not the same as draw distance. You can view 50,000 yards away, but you won't see the mobs/NPCs.

[AverageJoe]

Off-topic: About to rename myself to AverageAun or AverageJake.

On-topic: Mob/player draw distance is determined by the server. The reason for it being low is to handle lag either on the server's end or the player's end. I have a feeling that it's on the server's end though because ~8000 players being able to see each other from >200 yards may impact the server quite a bit.

You'd make a fine apprentice.

Viper mentioned something about this in a similar thread. Something about when there's a large number of players online all at once, the server compensates by decreasing the draw distance. Else, everyone would lag like crazy or get < 10 FPS.

[siikku]

Is this a permanent thing, or are there plans to upgrade your hardware or do some code magic to increase the draw distance? Maybe modern games have spoiled me, but the draw distance makes the game reeaally hard for me to play right now.

[Aunstic]

@siikku Viper will most likely change the draw distance variable when he recognizes the problem.