FogVisualOnly

A BepInEx plugin for PEAK that removes fog visuals to boost FPS while preserving fog damage.

Features

• Remove atmospheric fog, rising sphere fog, particles, plane, animations, shadows, VFX, sounds, colliders allllll seperatly
• In-game floating settings window (F3 to open/close)
• Fog damage is always active regardless of visuals — fully safe with vanilla players online

Installation

1. Install BepInEx into your PEAK game
2. Copy FogVisualOnly.dll to BepInEx/plugins/
3. Launch the game

Settings

Fog Toggle

The large button at the top of the SETTINGS tab controls fog visibility.

• FOG: OFF (green) — All fog visuals are removed. This is the default for maximum FPS. Your current settings are saved automatically.
• FOG: ON (red) — Fog visuals are restored to their previous state. Toggle back to instantly re-apply your saved settings.

Toggling fog OFF saves a snapshot of your current visual/performance settings. Toggling it back ON restores that snapshot. This means you can freely tweak settings while fog is off, then switch back to your customized look with one click.

Max FPS

The most aggressive performance preset. Everything fog-related is disabled.

Balanced

Keeps a faint atmospheric haze for atmosphere while disabling heavy effects.

SphereOnly

Removes atmospheric fog completely but keeps the rising sphere with all its effects.

Visuals

Controls the two main fog types in the game.

Tip: Use opacity sliders instead of toggling fog OFF to keep partial visibility while still gaining FPS.

Performance

Disables non-renderer fog components for additional performance gains.

Sphere

Separate controls for the rising sphere's effects. Independent from the PERFORMANCE section so you can keep sphere visuals while disabling atmospheric ones.

Audio & Physics

Non-visual fog components. These affect gameplay, not FPS.

Note: Fog damage is always active regardless of these settings. Disabling colliders does not disable fog damage.

Reset to Vanilla

The red RESET TO VANILLA button at the bottom of the SETTINGS tab resets every setting to its default value and captures vanilla as the saved state. Requires a double-click to confirm.

Appearance

Customize the look of the settings window from the APPEARANCE tab.

Window Focus

Compatibility

• Conflicts with CoddingCat-FogRemover — disable that mod first
• Fully safe with vanilla players online (local visual only)
• Uses MaterialPropertyBlock — no material cloning
• All settings are saved to BepInEx/config/com.peaked.fogvisualonly.cfg

Building

Requires .NET 8.0 SDK targeting .NET Framework 4.7.2.

dotnet build FogVisualOnly.csproj -c Release

Output: bin/Release/net472/FogVisualOnly.dll

Changelog

v2.0.0

Basically Full rework — cleaner internals, better performance, polished UI and maybe new bugs.

Core

• Split dirty flag: scene rescan (OnSceneLoaded) vs value-only apply (sliders, toggles, presets) — dragging sliders no longer triggers a full object cache rebuild
• Sphere subtree classification — all descendants of FogSphereSystem registered, not just renderer owners (animators/colliders/particles on child objects now properly tracked)
• _BaseColor support — URP/HDRP fog materials now respect opacity sliders
• ParticleSystem caching — emission paused on apply, resumed on restore
• Sound/collider toggles fully wired to SettingChanged
• UnpatchSelf() on unload — Harmony patches cleaned up on destroy

UI

• Tabs renamed FOG / SETTINGS with procedural 22px gear icon
• Glass-style tab outlines with wobbly asymmetric radii and glow animation
• Tabs are content-hugging (measured once via CalcSize, not full-width)
• 10px breathing room under tab row
• Scrollbar thumb reworked — proper pill shape (radius 3, not ellipse)
• Slider label row breathing room (30px height, 6px left padding)
• Slider drag identity via object reference, not rect equality
• Window position persists across sessions (clamped on-screen)
• OnApplicationFocus insurance — clears drag state on alt-tab

Bug Report

• Reads real version from BepInPlugin attribute (not hardcoded)
• Log capture reads while game holds file open, multiple path fallbacks
• Tail-reads last 8KB, code-fence sanitization
• Empty submit validation (title or description required)
• GitHub checkbox with GL-drawn tick/X marks

Removals

• Accent color system fully removed (config entry, HSV picker, SanitizeAccent, RefreshAccent)
• Subheadings are plain white bold + divider line
• Dead code deleted (unused styles, duplicate helpers, stale fields)

Safety

• Global skin restore on menu close + OnDestroy
• All button styles have active states (no 1-frame flash)
• NaN/Inf accent sanitizer
• Drag state reset on open AND close (prevents softlocks)
• Reset tab + activeDrag + keyboard focus on menu open

v1.2.1

• Updated to right license
• Nicer README

v1.0.1 – v1.0.8

• Initial release with full fog removal (atmospheric, sphere, particles, plane, animations, shadows, VFX, sounds, colliders)
• F3 settings menu with presets (Max FPS, Balanced, SphereOnly)
• Settings and Appearance tabs with styled UI
• BepInEx Configuration saving
• Full HSV color picker with hex input and R/G/B fields
• Fullscreen darken overlay behind settings window
• Halo strength slider for multi-layer glow effect
• Added bug report popup with clipboard copy + GitHub issue link
• Clickthrough fix* (main window hidden while popup open)
• Fixed bug report version label (now reads real version from attribute instead of hardcoded 1.0.0)
• Fixed log capture (reads file while game holds it open, tries multiple log paths, clear error messages)
• Added GitHub issue page checkbox (on/off toggle with visual feedback)
• Auto-growing textboxes for description and steps fields