diff --git a/LIGHTING.md b/LIGHTING.md
index 6a3a2d69..938ae2e6 100644
--- a/LIGHTING.md
+++ b/LIGHTING.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ behind each constant.
 | Ground-effect spells | Flamestrike, Rain of Fire, Consecration, Flare and fire traps light the ground for their duration; frost and nature areas stay dark | `spellLightGain` |
 | Volumetric fog | near-field haze that converges on the zone fog colour (clear within 10 yd, full by 150 yd; mistier at dawn and in bad weather, faint indoors) and sun/moon light shafts through gaps, sampled from the shadow map; own fullscreen pass after the main pass (`benilla-app/src/volumetric_fog.rs`) | Advanced Graphics → Volumetric Fog (Off/Low/High), cvar `volumetricFog`, env `WOW_VOLFOG=0\|1\|2` |
 | Sky dithering | a faint screen-space dither in the FFXGlow combine so smooth sky and fog gradients do not band (MONKEY p0; was env-only) | Advanced Graphics → Sky Dithering, cvar `skyDither` 0/1 (default 0, Graphics preset High = 1), env `WOW_DITHER=1` still forces it on; bridge in `benilla-app/src/monkey_gfx.rs` |
+| Modern fog | MONKEY (fog): distance fog in the style of the modern client. Radial distance; exponential from the zone's own start, fitted so 60 % survives mid-span and closed over the last stretch so the fog still ends where the zone authored it; a sun-fog lobe (the fog leans to the sun colour around the sun, fading out through dusk); the far fog shifts toward the sky's 1.8° ring so fogged land, the WDL hull and the sky dome's horizon meet in one colour; volumetric haze takes the same colour and no longer hazes sky pixels. The fog end stays the zone's up to farclip 777 and grows with farclip beyond it. Optional per-`LightParams` fields (height fog, sun/end fog, curve) from our `LightFogBand.dbc` (absent = derived from the 1.12 bands). Interior WMO fog stays classic | Advanced Graphics → Modern Fog, cvar `fogModel` 0 Classic (default, byte-identical) / 1 Modern (Graphics preset High = 1), env `WOW_FOGMODEL=0\|1`; `fog_hook.wgsl`, `benilla-world/src/lighting/fog_model.rs`, `benilla-formats/src/light/fog_band.rs` |
 | Night and interior level | global dimming of the night sky term and of interior ambient | `nightGain`, `interiorGain`, `interiorBakeFloor` |
 
 Players reach all of it from **Options -> Advanced Graphics** (a Lighting Quality preset Off / Low / Medium / High plus the individual rows; Off is the original client look). The dev build has a panel for all of it: **Ctrl+Shift+D → Lighting & shadows**, with Dim / Default /
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ is its own module, documented in `WATER.md`.
   | `fog_a` | height_fog_density | height_fog_height | height_fog_falloff | curve_blend |
   | `fog_b` | sun_fog r | g | b | sun_fog_strength |
   | `fog_c` | end_fog r | g | b | end_fog_distance |
-  | `fog_d` | fog_model (0 classic, 1 modern) | sun_fog_angle | 0 | 0 |
+  | `fog_d` | fog_model (0 classic; Modern = the scene fog end, yd ≥ 1) | sun_fog_angle (cos) | sun dir octahedral x | y |
   | `wind_a` | dir_x | dir_y | speed | gust |
   | `wind_b` | time_s | sway_strength | grass_strength | tree_strength |
   | `wet_a` | rain_rate | wetness | ripple_time_s | snow |
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
index a54f95cb..bcc20ed7 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/OptionsFrame.xml
@@ -521,6 +521,8 @@
                 interiorDarkness = "Interior Darkness",
                 -- MONKEY (p0 skyDither)
                 skyDither = "Sky Dithering",
+                -- MONKEY (fog)
+                fogModel = "Modern Fog",
                 yards = "%d yd",
                 tips = {
                     LIGHTING_QUALITY =
@@ -617,6 +619,13 @@
                     SKY_DITHER =
                         "Adds a faint noise to the final image so smooth sky and fog gradients do not "
                         .. "break into visible bands. Off is the original client's look. Practically free.",
+                    -- MONKEY (fog)
+                    FOG_MODEL =
+                        "Softer distance fog in the style of the modern client: it thickens gradually "
+                        .. "instead of in a straight ramp, glows toward the sun by day and shifts to the "
+                        .. "sky's colour in the distance, so the land melts into the horizon. Each zone "
+                        .. "keeps its own fog distance; above the original view-distance limit the fog "
+                        .. "recedes with it.\n\nOff is the original client's fog. Practically free.",
                 },
             },
             ruRU = {
@@ -651,6 +660,8 @@
                 interiorDarkness = "Темнота помещений",
                 -- MONKEY (p0 skyDither)
                 skyDither = "Дизеринг неба",
+                -- MONKEY (fog)
+                fogModel = "Современный туман",
                 yards = "%d ярд.",
                 tips = {
                     LIGHTING_QUALITY =
@@ -756,6 +767,13 @@
                         "Добавляет едва заметный шум в итоговое изображение, чтобы плавные переходы цвета "
                         .. "неба и тумана не распадались на полосы. Выключено — вид оригинального клиента. "
                         .. "Почти ничего не стоит.",
+                    -- MONKEY (fog)
+                    FOG_MODEL =
+                        "Более мягкий туман в духе современного клиента: он сгущается постепенно, а не "
+                        .. "по прямой, днём светлеет в сторону солнца, а вдали принимает цвет неба, "
+                        .. "так что земля растворяется в горизонте. Дальность тумана в каждой зоне "
+                        .. "прежняя; за пределом дальности обзора оригинала туман отступает вместе с ней."
+                        .. "\n\nВыключено — туман оригинального клиента. Почти ничего не стоит.",
                 },
             },
         }
@@ -816,6 +834,8 @@
                 "RowNightDarkness", "RowInteriorDarkness",
                 -- MONKEY (p0 skyDither)
                 "RowSkyDither",
+                -- MONKEY (fog)
+                "RowFogModel",
             },
             -- Player Guild Names is a child of Player Names, as in 1.12 (l.702-708).
             Nameplates = {
@@ -2854,6 +2874,18 @@
                                                     "BENILLA_TOOLTIP_SKY_DITHER")
                                             </OnLoad></Scripts>
                                         </Frame>
+                                        <!-- MONKEY (fog): the distance-fog model. -->
+                                        <Frame name="$parentRowFogModel" inherits="OptionsCheckboxRowTemplate">
+                                            <Anchors>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" relativeTo="$parentRowSkyDither" relativePoint="BOTTOMLEFT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                                <Anchor point="TOPRIGHT" relativeTo="$parentRowSkyDither" relativePoint="BOTTOMRIGHT"><Offset><AbsDimension x="0" y="-9"/></Offset></Anchor>
+                                            </Anchors>
+                                            <Scripts><OnLoad>
+                                                OptionsRow_OnLoad(self, "fogModel",
+                                                    BENILLA_ADVGFX.fogModel,
+                                                    "BENILLA_TOOLTIP_FOG_MODEL")
+                                            </OnLoad></Scripts>
+                                        </Frame>
                                     </Frames>
                                     <!-- The poll (see AdvGfx_OnUpdate): this is the one page whose
                                          settings move from outside it — the Lighting Quality row
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/scenarios.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/scenarios.rs
index d970a9fd..cefcb9a3 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/scenarios.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/capture/scenarios.rs
@@ -1379,6 +1379,24 @@ pub(super) const ON_DEMAND: &[Scenario] = &[
         minute: 0,
         ui: None,
     },
+    // MONKEY (fog): Duskwood's short zone fog (Light 15, LightParams 14) from above the canopy west
+    // of Darkshire toward the town, for the Classic/Modern fog A/B (`WOW_FOGMODEL=0|1`).
+    Scenario {
+        name: "fog-duskwood-noon",
+        map: Some(MAP_AZEROTH),
+        eye: [-10700.0, -900.0, 160.0],
+        look: [-10560.0, -1180.0, 60.0],
+        minute: 720,
+        ui: None,
+    },
+    Scenario {
+        name: "fog-duskwood-dusk",
+        map: Some(MAP_AZEROTH),
+        eye: [-10700.0, -900.0, 160.0],
+        look: [-10560.0, -1180.0, 60.0],
+        minute: 1170,
+        ui: None,
+    },
 ];
 
 /// The owner's reported vantage for the lava-glow report: `(-7048.8, -1000.6, 242.0)` facing
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
index b865aa5d..03a8bf3b 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/cvars.rs
@@ -928,6 +928,14 @@ pub(crate) const REGISTERED: &[Registered] = &[
         "0",
         "benilla's own: faint screen dither against sky and fog banding, 0 Off / 1 On",
     ),
+    // MONKEY (fog): the distance-fog model. 0 = the 1.12 linear fog (byte-identical), 1 = Modern
+    // (exponential, sun/horizon colour, end-fog shift, fog end decoupled from farclip past 777).
+    // Default 0; the Graphics preset's High sets 1.
+    ours(
+        "fogModel",
+        "0",
+        "benilla's own: distance fog, 0 Classic (1.12 linear) / 1 Modern (soft, sun-coloured horizon)",
+    ),
     ours(
         "waterQuality",
         "1",
@@ -3712,6 +3720,8 @@ mod tests {
         // MONKEY (p0 graphics programme)
         |app| {
             app.init_resource::<benilla_world::ffx_glow::SkyDither>();
+            // MONKEY (fog)
+            app.init_resource::<benilla_world::lighting::FogModelSetting>();
             app.add_observer(crate::monkey_gfx::on_cvar);
         },
         |app| {
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/monkey_gfx.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/monkey_gfx.rs
index 60ab7e9b..8a57c515 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/monkey_gfx.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/monkey_gfx.rs
@@ -5,17 +5,29 @@
 //! | cvar | values | default | Graphics preset High | resource |
 //! |---|---|---|---|---|
 //! | `skyDither` | 0 Off / 1 On | 0 | 1 | `benilla_world::ffx_glow::SkyDither` |
+//! | `fogModel` | 0 Classic / 1 Modern | 0 | 1 | `benilla_world::lighting::FogModelSetting` |
 
 use bevy::prelude::*;
 use benilla_world::ffx_glow::SkyDither;
+use benilla_world::lighting::FogModelSetting;
 
 /// The programme's cvar observer (registered by [`MonkeyGfxPlugin`]).
-pub(crate) fn on_cvar(ev: On<crate::cvars::CvarChanged>, mut dither: ResMut<SkyDither>) {
-    if ev.key().as_str() == "skydither" {
-        let want = ev.num() >= 0.5;
-        if dither.0 != want {
-            dither.0 = want;
+pub(crate) fn on_cvar(
+    ev: On<crate::cvars::CvarChanged>,
+    mut dither: ResMut<SkyDither>,
+    // MONKEY (fog)
+    mut fog_model: ResMut<FogModelSetting>,
+) {
+    match ev.key().as_str() {
+        "skydither" => {
+            let want = ev.num() >= 0.5;
+            if dither.0 != want {
+                dither.0 = want;
+            }
         }
+        // MONKEY (fog): `WOW_FOGMODEL` still wins for the session (captures).
+        "fogmodel" => fog_model.set_from_cvar(ev.num()),
+        _ => {}
     }
 }
 
@@ -25,6 +37,8 @@ pub(crate) struct MonkeyGfxPlugin;
 
 impl Plugin for MonkeyGfxPlugin {
     fn build(&self, app: &mut App) {
-        app.init_resource::<SkyDither>().add_observer(on_cvar);
+        app.init_resource::<SkyDither>()
+            .init_resource::<FogModelSetting>()
+            .add_observer(on_cvar);
     }
 }