does anyone know how to set an effect so that u can see it from really far away? i made a blackhole and it will pull u to it but it is weird since u can only see it up close and it kills u before u can see it. so can anyone tell me how i would increase the distance from which you can see this? i tryed setting the "LOD" min to 0 and max to 500 but that didn't really do anything.

Perhaps try playing around with the distance values in the LUA files. I'm working purely on memory, but I think there's a value for setting max distance to see objects, and it's in the cmn file (for space maps). Try that.

Actually, a good way to control that is the LOD setting of the first emitter. Load up the effect in PE, select the first emitter in the list, and play around with its LOD settings near the bottom of the property view.

Most time I would just edit the .fx file and increase or add these lines. Then save with note pad.
MaxLodDist(50.0000);
MinLodDist(10.0000);

icemember wrote:Most time I would just edit the .fx file and increase or add these lines. Then save with note pad.
MaxLodDist(50.0000);
MinLodDist(10.0000);

those were already there, i even tryed increasing them like i said in the first post of the topic.

Fiodis wrote:Actually, a good way to control that is the LOD setting of the first emitter. Load up the effect in PE, select the first emitter in the list, and play around with its LOD settings near the bottom of the property view.

Whether you're doing it in PE or in Notepad, are you making sure it's the first emitter in the stack?

yes i set it the same on all emitters.