I was wondering how to adjust the draw distance of a level. See, I want my game to be highly detailed with very smooth models and environments, but the framerate would drop severely from this. Luckily my game will be very, very dark, so if the draw distances were very low, it wouldn't be visible to the player because they wouldn't be able to see that far through the darkness. Anyway, how would I go about adjusting the draw distance or using other rendering techniques? Thanks in advance.

I posted this in the wrong forum. Sorry!

Decrease camera.clip_far and especially: use LOD.

Also, when you're building the level, inside the Map Compiler window that pops up when you hit the build button there is a slider in the lower left labled "Visibility calculations". Slide this over to on. This will allow the camera to only render the visible blocks from its point of view, which will keep the frame rates higher. However, this will increase the time it takes to build your level, so be ready for long build times.

Thanks a lot for the help; one more question. How do I go about adjusting level of detail? Thanks again!

var d3d_lodfactor[3]=20,40,60; //setting the lod stages in % of the clip far....in this case the first lod stage will flip at 20% of clip_far distance aso

camera.clip_far=10000; //distance in quants when the level will get clipped total
camera.clip_near=50; //the opposite to the far distance