Camera's viewfinder reticule going yellow

[Dweller_Benthos]

I know when I point the camera at the south island that i haven't gotten to yet, there are sparkles all over the place. I have also seen the sparkles at places where there was loot or a relic but I've already picked it up, so it seems it's attached to the place, not the item.

[mandru]

Early on in my play though FC3 I was on a mountain top facing West at night and wanted a better look at the face of the mountain across the deep valley I was above.  So I pulled out the camera and went to high zoom.  I was surprised when the mountain I was trying to check out lit up with sparkles as if I were viewing a distant city through a heat haze.  At the time I'd wondered about that effect and this thread has given me a better understanding of what I was seeing.

It would appear that I was not only seeing the artifacts and treasure chests on the side of the mountain I was facing but I was actually seeing all the items of interest stretching far beyond with something like X-Ray vision and possibly considering the vast number of sparkles I was seeing all of the way to the Western coast of the North island.

[Art Blade]

I had a few interesting observations:

The viewfinder turned yellow while I was facing a wall. Hoyt's mansion, to be precise. When I moved it around, it turned blue to the left and the right of the first position but kept turning yellow when I looked in one particular direction. On my mini map I could see that there was a loot chest behind the walls in that direction. :)

Then it did turn yellow on bodies that I could loot. After looting them it still turned yellow. It has got nothing to do with weapons on the ground, apparently, they don't register. However, I also found "blue" bodies that were still lootable.  ????

[Art Blade]

Sometimes you see a glimmer in the distance where a relic is

There was some discussion elsewhere about what those glimmers were, as I recall nobody knew and the general consensus was that they were merely decorative. This solves that little mystery. Cheers Jim :-X

Not long ago I found out that those sparkles are mission objectives, "unfinished business" you might call it :) Anything that you have yet to do sparks up.
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[PZ]

 :-X  Now it will be a bit easier to find the objectives when using Ziggy's mod.

[Art Blade]

true :) the left light was a relic, I went for the light after taking the pic  :)