Lod system.

[smoth]

Ok, so some of you know I have started building feature sets. I want to make some features that really would require a LOD system. I remember some talk about it, I want to try and make use of it. I understand that when trepan was playing with it I was unable to help him work on this stuff but I have some stuff planned that can actually make use of such a system..

[Master-Athmos]

Yes - a LOD system would be nice. For textures it probably would be enough to "simply" switch to a lower res mipmap. We might want to discuss though what would be the best way for the geometry itself - I guess OpenGL also has the possibility to do some on-the-fly polycount reduction what can be handy (for DirectX it has been there for ages although I don't know the exact name for it anymore - TA:K would be the first title that comes to my mind which actually did use it). Imo it definitely needs switching between premade versions of a model while a dynamic poly reduction would be like the cherry on the cake...

[Argh]

Spring supports LOD internally within UnitRendering. The feature's already there. See the Wiki.