Fog Distance

Fog Distance is a configurable, client-side PEAK HUD that shows how much room and time you have before fog or lava reaches you, plus the relevant campfire timer.

What 1.5.1 improves

• Replaces the IMGUI overlay with a TextMeshPro panel attached to PEAK's HUD canvas.
• Removes the rectangular background and keeps the text readable with PEAK's font, a configurable outline, and a subtle TMP shadow.
• Respects the safe area and supports nine anchors and scaling.
• Converts world units with PEAK's own CharacterStats.unitsToMeters value before showing metres; feet are also available.
• Keeps hazard, timing, and fire rows independent, with clearer safe, warning, danger, paused, and unavailable states.
• Samples hazard data at a configurable rate instead of polling and rebuilding UI every frame.
• Supports English and Russian text.
• Press F8 to show or hide the HUD for the current session.

Only the local player needs the mod. It does not patch Photon, send RPCs, or modify lobby/network state.

What the HUD shows

FOG: 38.4 m
ETA: 01:27
FIRE: 03:12

Modern spherical fog uses the shortest clearance to the safe sphere. Legacy flat fog and rising lava use vertical clearance. Lava rows are hidden outside PEAK's actual X/Z damage footprint. On The Kiln and Peak, the label switches to LAVA automatically. While dead, the values follow the player you currently spectate.

The timing row is deliberately compact:

At the warning threshold, the row gains a ! prefix. In danger, it shows FOG: DANGER or LAVA: DANGER, followed by TO SAFETY: 2.4 m on the second row.

The fire row shows FIRE: mm:ss, FIRE: mm:ss · PAUSED, or FIRE: OUT. Its countdown follows PEAK's actual fuel and rest-pause state, prefers the current segment's fire without position-based timer switching, and remains independent when no hazard row is relevant.

Russian mode localizes labels and number formatting. Language = Auto uses Russian on Russian-language systems and English otherwise.

Installation

Install with a Thunderstore-compatible mod manager. The required BepInEx pack is installed automatically.

For a manual installation:

1. Install BepInEx 5 for PEAK.
2. Fully close PEAK.
3. Copy PeakFogDistance.dll to PEAK/BepInEx/plugins/PeakFogDistance/PeakFogDistance.dll.
4. Start PEAK once to create the configuration file.

Updating and removing

To update manually, close PEAK and replace the existing DLL. Keep only one copy under BepInEx/plugins; your configuration is retained.

To uninstall, close PEAK and delete the DLL or its PeakFogDistance plugin folder. You may also delete BepInEx/config/com.bronekot.peak.fogdistance.cfg to remove saved settings.

Configuration

Settings are created in BepInEx/config/com.bronekot.peak.fogdistance.cfg and grouped as follows:

Defaults are a top-left anchor, 10 Hz updates, a 10 PEAK-metre distance warning, a 20-second ETA warning, and a 10-second FIRE: OUT message. Alert distances remain metre-based even when the display unit is feet.

Troubleshooting

• If nothing appears, confirm the mod and BepInEx loaded, make sure Enabled = true, press F8, and test during island gameplay. The HUD intentionally hides when no relevant row exists.
• If it disappears behind a menu or prompt, review the two settings in 3 - Visibility.
• If settings are missing, launch the game once and check BepInEx/config/com.bronekot.peak.fogdistance.cfg.
• If behavior is duplicated, remove extra copies of PeakFogDistance.dll from BepInEx/plugins.
• If ETA: UNKNOWN appears for a legacy hazard, check the BepInEx log for a PEAK compatibility warning.

Verification note

Automated builds and package validation do not replace an in-game visual check. A runtime smoke-test in the current PEAK client is still required before release, including multiple resolutions, safe-area placement, outline/shadow readability without a background, anchors and scaling, pause/prompt visibility, and live fog, lava, danger, spectating, and fire states.

Changelog

1.5.1

• Remove the black HUD panel so the overlay consists only of text.
• Preserve readability with the existing configurable outline and a subtle TextMeshPro underlay shadow when PEAK's font material supports it.
• Remove panel padding so configured offsets measure directly to the visible text.
• Keep pause labels after the timer on every timed row, including the campfire row.

1.5.0

• Replace the legacy IMGUI overlay with a responsive TextMeshPro panel on PEAK's HUD canvas.
• Reuse PEAK's font and material, respect the screen safe area, and add nine anchors, scale, font, background, outline, and color settings.
• Convert Unity world units with CharacterStats.unitsToMeters so displayed PEAK metres are correct; add an optional feet display.
• Add English/Russian localization with automatic system-language selection.
• Add a session-only F8 visibility toggle and grouped BepInEx configuration for content, visibility, layout, alerts, colors, and update rate.
• Clarify timing without expanding the normal countdown: keep START: mm:ss, and add explicit waiting, paused, stopped, and unavailable states.
• Show distance back to safety while in danger and use PEAK's strict spherical-fog danger boundary.
• Match lava's X/Z damage footprint, stop legacy lava at PEAK's exact final height, and distinguish receding hazards from approaching ones.
• Smooth the modern lava start countdown for non-host clients between PEAK's sparse host synchronization packets.
• Keep hazard, timing, and campfire rows independent so fire status no longer inherits a hazard alert color; prefer the current segment's fire without position-based timer switching.
• Fix legacy flat-fog waiting and final-stop reporting, including non-owner states where no synchronized numeric countdown is available.
• Sample hazard values at a configurable rate, poll campfires at 5 Hz, cache TMP updates, back off missing-object searches, and reset cached state across scenes.
• Add validated Thunderstore packaging, portable PEAK_GAME_DIR builds, and model tests for formatting, conversion, severity, hysteresis, and localization.

1.4.1

• Hide the distance and start line while a static/tidal lava stage keeps LavaRising dormant.
• Reveal the lava HUD only after PEAK starts a real countdown or continuous rise.
• Allow the campfire line to display independently when no hazard HUD is relevant.

1.4.0

• Add a third-line countdown for the relevant lit campfire.
• Show FIRE: OUT for 10 seconds after the campfire is spent.
• Follow PEAK's real campfire timer, including its rest pause.
• Replace the unused static lava start number with START: WAITING until the game actually begins its countdown.

1.3.2

• Show the HUD on the first segment before the fog visual is enabled.
• Display START: WAITING while initial fog waits for the team's progression trigger.
• Keep danger styling disabled until PEAK activates the fog effect.

1.3.1

• Show the shortest distance to the current spherical fog boundary.
• Keep distance and ETA based on the same approaching boundary.

1.3.0

• Calculate distance and ETA for the currently spectated player.
• Add a second line with the hazard start countdown or arrival ETA.
• Read PEAK's synchronized fog and lava timing data when available.
• Support trigger-based legacy hazards that have no numeric start countdown.

1.2.1

• Restore support for PEAK's current shrinking-sphere fog implementation.

1.2.0

• Use PEAK's bundled Binggrae Bold interface font.

1.1.0

• Add rising-lava distance support for The Kiln and Peak.
• Move the HUD to the upper-left corner.

1.0.0

• Initial release with rising-fog distance display.