Perhaps, but what about ent_morphskin... we can sacrifice detail with distance, and this is a good way. And as I already said, the alpha decreases with distance.

Or you could have both trees, the hi poly and low poly there at the same time, and turn 1 invisible depending on distance.

Another would be a sprite rather than a low poly tree.

The problem is, I think his intention is to maintain the look of a forest even from a great distance.

Assigning an action only for switching off the dynamic flag won't do any good for the frame rate.

For low-poly models, the dynamic flag has a miniscule effect. For high-poly models (like 2000 polygons or more), however, it has a strong effect reducing the frame rate by 25% as all of my tests have shown.

Ullillilia, with all due respect, this is nonsense. The dynamic flag is not set at all on static entities. You're just setting it by assigning your action, and then resetting it again. Thus the only effect of following your advice would be a slower level loading.

Use some common sense: If you really would get a 25% better frame rate by assigning an action that just resets a flag, don't you think that the engine would then have that flag not set anyway? . In some cases it can even help to _set_ this flag (by assigning an action) if you want to prevent the automatic animation of a model, which consumes rendering time on very big models.

It does have an effect when an entity is imported into WED. I've done it. Try importing an entity with 60,000 faces and 30,000 vertices into WED without an action. Then add an action to it with nothing more than turning the dynamic flag off and the frame rate increases by 25%. I've tested it so I know. This same thing happens no matter how many polygons I use and the effect diminishes with low-poly models like 50 polygons.

Edit: forgot to mention that ent_created entities don't have this.