Open any cheat menu and the ESP section has two checkboxes near the top. Box ESP. Skeleton ESP. Most people enable both, never tune the distance caps, and wonder why their screen looks like a Christmas tree at full lobby. The two modes solve different problems. Picking the right one for the right range is the difference between reading a fight and drowning in lines.
What each mode actually draws
Box ESP wraps a rectangle around the player's bounding volume. Two world-space points (highest and lowest on the model) projected to screen space, four lines between the corners. That is the entire feature. Add a name tag, a health bar, and nothing else.
Skeleton ESP queries the game's bone hierarchy. Head, neck, spine, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles. The cheat reads each bone position, projects it, and draws lines between connected joints. The result is a wireframe overlaid on the player model.
Both modes share the same data source. The choice is how much of that data ends up on your screen.
When Box ESP wins
At distance, Box is the clear answer.
A player at 200 meters is maybe forty pixels tall on your screen. A skeleton at that size collapses into a smudge. The lines overlap. You cannot tell which way the figure is facing. A box at the same range is one clean shape your eye can pick out against terrain.
Box also wins for scanning. You drop from the bus and you want to know how many players landed near you, not what each one's arm position looks like. A field of boxes reads at a glance. Skeleton at the same density is noise.
Tuning Box for distance work
Set the line thickness to 1 or 2 pixels. Anything thicker becomes its own form of visual noise. Color it something that contrasts with Fortnite's terrain palette, white or magenta both read well against the green and tan biomes. Cap the draw distance at the engine's render distance, otherwise you draw boxes for entities the game hasn't even loaded yet.
When Skeleton ESP wins
Close range fights, especially in builds, are where Skeleton earns its slot.
A skeleton tells you orientation. Which way the head is facing. Whether the shoulders are square to you or turned. That information matters because it tells you what the enemy is looking at. A skeleton facing left while you push from the right means the player has not seen you yet. A skeleton with the head snapped toward your position means they have, and the fight starts now.
Skeleton also reads posture. Crouched players have a shorter, compressed wireframe. Players mid-build have arms extended at unusual angles. Downed players have the skeleton folded on the ground. Box gives you a rectangle. Skeleton gives you context.
Tuning Skeleton for close range
Cap the draw distance at around 80 meters. Past that, the wireframe is too small to extract orientation from anyway, and you are just adding noise. Enable a visibility check so visible bones draw in one color and occluded bones draw in another, that single setting turns the wireframe from decoration into actual information.
Running both at once
Most premium cheats let you toggle Box and Skeleton independently, with separate distance caps. The sane configuration uses both, layered by range.
Skeleton on for players within 50 to 80 meters. Box on for everyone past that. The two ranges don't overlap, so at any given moment a player has one ESP style, not two stacked on top of each other.
Some people add a third tier: name and distance text only, no shape, for players past 250 meters. At that range you cannot fight them anyway, you just want to know they exist for rotation planning.
Visibility checks change everything
A visibility check raycasts from your camera to each bone or to the player's center mass. Ray hits a wall first, the entity is occluded and gets a dimmer color. Ray reaches the entity unobstructed, bright color.
Without it, every ESP shape looks identical whether the player is in front of you or behind three walls. You waste shots on people you cannot hit. With it, you read the fight in a quarter second: bright is a real target, dim is positioning info for the next move. Any cheat sold as a serious product ships this. The ones that don't are usually free or three months behind on patches.
Where Vantage fits
FN Vantage ships Box and Skeleton ESP with independent distance caps and a visibility check overlay on both. Set the close, mid, and far brackets once, and the menu handles which mode draws at which distance. Defaults are tuned for builds-mode fights, not for the player who wants every entity on the map outlined at once.
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Pick the ESP style that fits the range, tune the distance caps, leave the visibility check on. That is the entire art of reading a screen full of players without going cross-eyed.