I am not sure if such a thing has been made already, but here's the idea for a cool 3rd party tool. Basically, it loads up a Minecraft world and, based on the instructions you give it, it renders the map from a specific position at a specific angle and time of day, and you can specify exactly how far the view distance is. In theory, you could specify a view distance of thousands of chunks (although it can't render past the edge of your explored area obviously), as well as setting where it begins to add distance fog. Because this is just a single render (presumably for getting an impressive-looking screenshot), it doesn't have to worry about maintaining a certain FPS... it's fine if it takes 15 minutes or whatever to render the shot.
This would be very useful for getting screenshots of things that are too big to fit even in the normal distant view in the game... such as a realistic-sized city. Or also for getting a realistic horizon.
If such a tool already exists, I would be interested to know about it. If not, maybe this will give some intrepid programmer an idea.
This would be very useful for getting screenshots of things that are too big to fit even in the normal distant view in the game... such as a realistic-sized city. Or also for getting a realistic horizon.
If such a tool already exists, I would be interested to know about it. If not, maybe this will give some intrepid programmer an idea.