Visibility

[intheair_28]

Is there any way to make the visibility between 10 and 20 miles? I'm trying to get the realistic hazy horizon look in Chicago, but if I set visibility to 20 miles, it's too white and clear, and if I set it to 10 miles, it looks too foggy. Or is there a scenery download for Chicago?

[microlight]

Greetings.

There are a couple of ways to approach this. The first is to modify a line in the FS9.cg file, in the [weather] section:

MAX_UNLIMITED_VIS=96560

which represents the minimum 60 mile distance in the sim menu - you can set this lower in the cfg file than you can in the sim itself. This does lower the visibility distance, but does give (to me and my graphics card) a very artificial (and unacceptably clear) line at the horizon.

A much better solution for me has been the use of Soft Horizons (over at avsim) which does a very good job of blurring the horizon with a very believable distance haze. So much so that I've left the default line (above) as it is.

Hope this helps.