Miscellaneous: You could see all of NToV with no fog in your way in classic (in-era image proof)

[CrazyPro]

Was dinkin' around on the gallery of the old Legacy of Steel site, specifically the images from January of 2001, and I stumbled upon these:

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Currently on P99 there is red fog that prevents you from seeing anywhere near this far in ToV, yet in these classic screenshots they can see the entirety of NToV from Aary? Get ridda dat fog!

Edit: found another screenshot from August of 2001

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Baugi]

In-era video with some NToV ring shots. It has several pixels -

https://web.archive.org/web/20011117...lismanToVN.wmv

[CrazyPro]

Originally Posted by Baugi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In-era video with some NToV ring shots. It has several pixels -

https://web.archive.org/web/20011117...lismanToVN.wmv

Oh yeah you can see all the way across right here.

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can see Vulak's lair hanging from the ceiling from here.

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Baugi]

Came across some shots with fog -

north13.jpg

north12.jpg

src: https://web.archive.org/web/20010627.../northwing.cfm

[CrazyPro]

They could have just had their far clip plane set to lower than maximum? It seems that way with there being conflicting screenshots, unless the view distance was raised at some point midway through Velious?