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Fog, Wet Ground & Darkness
Three things make the Hollow feel like a place: a real ground fog that pools in low ground, rain that soaks the world, and nights that are properly dark.
How it works
- GROUND FOG sits in hollows, valleys and along rivers, with hills rising out of it. It is thickest around dawn, steady at night and thin by midday; rain, fog weather and dread nights thicken it. Pine and burnt forest get the most, the desert hardly any. It thins indoors and is gone underground.
- The fog glows warm toward a low sun and pale under the moon: walk toward the light and it brightens.
- WET GROUND: a few minutes of rain darkens dirt, roads, roofs and the dead and makes them shine. Heavy rain leaves puddles with ripples on flat ground. It dries slowly once the rain stops (fast in the desert).
- Anything under a roof, a porch, a tree crown or a vehicle stays dry.
- NIGHTS are dark. Bring a light: moonlit ground stays faintly visible, the rest is shadow. It is only the look: stealth and light levels are unchanged.
Tips
- HOLLOW SETTINGS: Ground fog (NORMAL / THICK / LIGHT / OFF), Wet ground (ON / OFF), Night darkness (HOLLOW / PITCH / LIGHT / VANILLA). THICK fog costs a little more graphics power.
- Fog and darkness work against you and for you: the dead lose you in it too.