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[MR.D]

If the engine starts supporting LOD's for models, then sure why not use them.

If the scripts can be translated easily from LOD model to LOD, then its a piece of cake, extra work sure, but if it helps the game run more smoothly I'm all for it.

[daan 79]

i believed it was somehow allready possible.

And i was told blender does decimate models with ther textures easely.

But i think trepan knows about this.

Not sure any mod ever used it tho

[Jasper1984]

Pretty sure there is LOD, i asked someone once and i see trees swap models(am i right?), units swap to sprites when distance is very high. I am not sure how much work is involved in making different LOD versions, and setting the ranges, making sure movements stay in sync at different LOD levels. If it is a lot of work, and people want to do it, the often-used objects get better performance faster, of course.

That said, i am pro at saying, 'hey, this and that could be done better' at way higher frequency i contribute or am even capable of contributing. :)

[FLOZi]

There is limited LOD support hardcoded into the engine:

Terrain is LODed
Trees are LODed (default trees are totally seperate to any other model rendered in the game)
Units are rendered to a billboarded sprite above a certain distance (this doesn't work with s3o, hence the 'ugly grey squares')
Units become icons above a distance set by the user in the settings.

(This is what I've been lead to believe; any of it might be wrong )

Proper LODed meshes for units are not supported except by coding it yourself in lua.

[daan 79]

Its done with Lua.

Its fully implimented and it should work.

Trepan made it and you can find topic somewher in Lua topics.

I not able to find his more comprehansible example yet tho.