Building Distance View Issue [Solved]

DarthAphotic · Post by **DarthAphotic** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:22 am

I was finally able to successfully convert lots of custom models I created through Sketchup and got them ingame. I am extremely pleased with how they turned out and they work with no problems but there is one issue, you can't seem them good unless there close to you. I once had a problem similar to this but it was when it would "white-out" instead, and I was using a different Sky file, I've provided my sky file information and a video showing it below, hope there is a fix for this to make them work at their very best!

http://www.xfire.com/video/608ed5/ (P.S- Friend took the video)

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SkyInfo()

{

	Enable(1);

	PS2()

	{

        }

	XBOX()

	{

	}

	PC()

	{

	}

}

DomeInfo()

{

	Texture("dag1_Skydome.tga");

	Angle(-90.000000);

	Ambient(255.000000, 255.000000, 255.000000);

	Softness(1);

	SoftnessParam(60);

	TerrainBumpTexture("yav_detail", 1.0);

	DomeModel()

	{	

		Geometry("dag1_skydome.msh");

	}

	DomeModel()

	{	

		Geometry("");

		Offset(100.0);

		MovementScale(0.995);

	}

}

Noobasaurus · Post by **Noobasaurus** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:24 am

forums/viewtopic.php?p=493497#p493497

That should work.

Of course, assuming your friend had all of his view distance settings up to max.

DarthAphotic · Post by **DarthAphotic** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:58 am

Nothing changed D: Anything else I could try?

Marth8880 · Post by **Marth8880** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 5:29 am

Is the prop disappearing at a certain distance? If so, create a lowres mesh for it.

DarthAphotic · Post by **DarthAphotic** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:48 pm

Yes, It's disappearing or becoming transparent very easily unless your close to it which is extremely annoying, how do I make a lowresh msh, I didn't see anything about in the FAQ's incase I missed it, or is it just a simple process making a copy, renaming it, and adding it to the .odf and such?

Edit: Nevermind, I found the tutorial, hope everything goes well.

Edit: Yea... I'm going to be honest, I have no idea how to do that... O_o
Is there anything else other than making a lowrez model, or could someone
explain making the lowrez model better?

Post by **AceMastermind** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:44 pm

The tutorial for making a lowrez model is the simplest way to explain it. Theres nothing special about a lowrez object, its just a lower resolution version of the primary object with UVs. It uses a specific naming convention (somename_lowrez) that gets exported with the primary object. Your buildings in the video look 'low res' already based on the simple shapes i'm seeing. You could probably get away with just duplicating and renaming the primary object.

DarthAphotic · Post by **DarthAphotic** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 5:00 pm

Alright, so just copy the original .msh, rename it for example: "citadel_lowrez", and then add the definition for it in the ODF? Sorry for all the questions, just need to get it correct.

Post by **Maveritchell** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 5:17 pm

DarthAphotic wrote:Alright, so just copy the original .msh, rename it for example: "citadel_lowrez", and then add the definition for it in the ODF? Sorry for all the questions, just need to get it correct.

AceMastermind wrote:The tutorial for making a lowrez model is the simplest way to explain it.

DarthAphotic · Post by **DarthAphotic** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:37 pm

YES! It worked, thanks so much >:)

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