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Broville Note that you can still see the pick axe guy on the mountain from clear on the other side normally you wouldn't even be able to see the ships and docks note the awesome clouds

Nighttime screenshot to show better clouds, obstructing the stars




I always wanted a mod that increased the draw distance, I started working on this like a month ago.
I'm aware that there are other mods that do this, they however are different they added a "very far" distance and didn't work in SMP, it also changed the UI options so it conflicted with UI mods.


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All the View distances increases you can now Toggle in game, the "Tiny" view distance in game becomes what Vanilla's "Far"

So "Far" is now double more view, Normal is 50% more, Short is 25% more, Tiny is the Exact same as Vanilla's Far.

THIS MOD PRETTY MUCH WILL HAVE STABILITY ISSUES WITHOUT A BIGGER HEAP SIZE SET/ OR 64BIT JAVA INSTALLED!!!

HERE IS THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD 64BIT JAVA, ANY COMPUTER WITH 4gigs+ ram and a 64BIT VARIANT OF WINDOWS SHOULD BE USING THIS 64bit JRE

BY DEFAULT MOST PEOPLE's COMPUTERS ARE INSTALLING THE WRONG VERSION! IT DETERMINES THE VERSION ON ORACLES SITE BASED ON THE WEB BROWSER, NOT THE OS, MOST BROWSERS ARE 32BIT!

MAKE SURE YOU UNINSTALL THE OLD ONE FIRST!

MC Enhanced View Mod v1.4.2 Client

MC Enhanced View Mod v1.4.2 Server

I highly suggest people set the view distance to normal, it increases the view distance to 50% more than Default "Far" and will be the best performance/Quality ratio.

People on your server do not have to use this mod if they don't want to. It only affects the limit of how many chunks the server is willing to send to the client.


NEW 1.3.2!!!!!!!!!!!!!! READ THIS OR IT WILL NOT WORK!!!!!!
With the merge of SSP/SMP You now have to set how many chunks the new serverclient will load, I have made a "View.txt" file to set the "view-distance" parameter for the client. It goes in the mods folder in the folder where you run the game from.
The settings is the same as it was for the old server properties as follows on the following list. Just make sure you only change the number, without the View.txt in the right place the game will defualt to normal chunks.

Warning!!
SIDE NOTE!!!! With the new way levels are loaded via running a server even in SSP it takes a bit of time to initially load a level you may experience blackness for up to a minute before it actually loads the chunks on the higher settings! Just wait it will load! Epecially on new levels!!

Server Properties/View.Txt settings need to be changed for the mod to work!!!!!

Default is 10 in View.txt/Default is "view-distance=10" in the server.Properties
This is how many chunks from the player that will load. ONLY CHANGE THE NUMBER.

You can adjust it up to 24, recommended is 20 that is double view.

For better in game performance with crappy computers you can also use this mod to lower the amount of chunks the server loads from 10 down to as low as 3 this should help on computers that are having issues with the new client being hardcoded to load 10 chunks out regardless of in game settings.

Enjoy!




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