[1.5.2] increase partical view distance

Hallo,

i want to make my own particles for a nice chimney, but the view distance is only by 16 blocks.

those any body have a solution to increase this distance to 128 blocks?

i found that threat http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=184.0 but they did not offer a solution.

i would be very thanks full for your help.

with kind regards

Spycoclown

Hi

The answer is in the post - i.e. you probably can't do it directly for particles, but if you turn the top of your chimney into a TileEntity or an Entity, and create a custom renderer for it that draws smoke, you will be able to see it from further away.  Probably as simple as creating the appropriate EntityFX objects, storing them in your chimney object, and calling their onUpdate and renderParticle methods when the corresponding chimney object methods are called.

-TGG

Sort of.  There's also a draw distance limit for TEs as well.  It's longer, but not by a whole lot (I think there's a way to override that distance on a per-TE basis, but I do not recall how offhand).

Sort of.  There's also a draw distance limit for TEs as well.  It's longer, but not by a whole lot (I think there's a way to override that distance on a per-TE basis, but I do not recall how offhand).

public double getMaxRenderDistanceSquared()
{
    return 4096.0D;
}
i think that if you increase that it can render further away.

Sort of.  There's also a draw distance limit for TEs as well.  It's longer, but not by a whole lot (I think there's a way to override that distance on a per-TE basis, but I do not recall how offhand).

I think you mean:

public double getMaxRenderDistanceSquared()
{
    return 4096.0D;
}
i think that if you increase that it can render further away.

That's the bit, yes.

(For reference, that value is 64 blocks, as a sphere)