A simple question

[Deathblane]

Will spring ever support loding (level of detail)?

[AF]

I thought ti already had very basic LOD stuff?

[FizWizz]

What Spring does for LODing is just stopping rendering unit animations beyond a certain distance. Spring doesn't have 'true' LODing at the moment.

[jouninkomiko]

are you talking about the terrain? or the units and features? I know for fact the terrain is LOD, but as far as units and stuff are concerned, I wonder how much of a pain it would be to do that. I'd say its a necessity though.

[SinbadEV]

I think it used some on features... I remeber when I made a really huge "deathstar" feature (it was just a metal sphere), it would "cheap render" it as like a 2 tier cyllinter

[Deathblane]

The question was prompted by the new Bulldog someone created. I mean it would be nice to have HW style numerous LOD's allowing 1K+ poly glamour models for up close.

[AF]

Units have the same lod'ing as features, they get smaller and then they get really blockish, almost unrecognisable, then once they get out of a certain range they dissapear, usually the LOD range is bigger than the culling range so it makes no difference to most....

[Zenka]

The question was prompted by the new Bulldog someone created. I mean it would be nice to have HW style numerous LOD's allowing 1K+ poly glamour models for up close.

I think HW had 3 stages of LOD. (radar blobs not included)
Can such thing be made by algorithm, or does it require a model for each LOD stage?

[Das Bruce]

Agorithms can be done, but they can be bad.

[krogothe]

black and white 1 had a terrain/unit lod. Looked funny seeing mountains slide about but it was really effective at the time, no lag from viewing the whole island in one go compared to zooming in.
I tried springs terrain LOD on mimimum and it just stops being rendered at a certain distance (even on TA camera :/)