MP Missions and View Distance

[maturin 12]

Whenever I make MP missions and host them, the view distance drops down to about 1500m, regardless of my personal settings when I made the mission.

Furthermore, I can't change the settings one in-game, and neither can anyone else.

The mission concept relies on longer sightlines, so is there some way I can force VD or allow the game/server to respect player's local VD settings?

Edit: Also, what are some likely culprits for pre-game briefings failing to work? I have all the notes and tasks in-game, but can't get to the map screen before the game starts.

Edited July 1, 2012 by maturin

[Militant1006 11]

make a game logic called server, then in its init box put

setViewDistance distancehere;

There is also some View Distance changer scripts out there, on armaholic etc.

[maturin 12]

Thanks, that works, but only in MP (it seems), which is what got me confused.

[twirly 11]

Edit: Also, what are some likely culprits for pre-game briefings failing to work? I have all the notes and tasks in-game, but can't get to the map screen before the game starts.

Hi... I think the answer to this was to have a briefing.html in the folder even if it is a zero byte file. I might be wrong but worth a shot if you don't have one.