MM7 Draw Distance.

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MM7 Draw Distance.

Unread postby Glergo » 05 Apr 2012, 21:08

Hello,

I've tried to search the forums, but to no avail.

Is there a way to increase the draw distance in the game?

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Unread postby unknownone » 05 Apr 2012, 22:39

I think that it's not possible, sorry
I've played and enjoyed many RPGs:
MM6,MM7,MM8,MM9, Fallout 1&2, Planescape Torment, Torment: ToN, TES3, TES4

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Unread postby Glergo » 06 Apr 2012, 10:13

We could maybe make it so the game uses an OpenGL render, a new version and then we can make some tweaks to it. I see no problems with rendering the whole worlds you visit now with the computers that re available today.

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Unread postby solitaire345 » 06 Apr 2012, 14:17

I see problems in implementing this into existing exe with no source code published. It's possible, however it is probably a hard task and not much worth doing.

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Unread postby Glergo » 06 Apr 2012, 15:55

I'm gonna look into this. Has anyone decompiled the main executable? Does anyone know where mm7setup.exe stores the settings?

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Unread postby GrayFace » 07 Apr 2012, 08:16

Create mm6.ini in game folder with this inside:
[shading]
dist_mist=11000

This is how far you can get it. The ground can't be rendered further. It seems the game hits the limit of drawn polygons or something like that.
Nomad is working on decompiling the whole game into C code. There's also an unfinished modern rendering there, just what you're proposing. Here's the project: http://www.assembla.com/code/bb7/
mm7setup.exe stores settings in registry. See HKLM/Software/New World Computing/...
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Unread postby Nomad » 12 Apr 2012, 16:10

True. Number of triangles per frame is fixed and should you try to draw the entire map - only first or last n will be drawn.
Terrain, sprites and 3ds model, however, have diffirent draw triangle buffers.


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