With interest I read the posts in "code optimisation" in "The Vector Café" forum. But I don't have access to this forum, so I ask here:

Is there a way to define the LOD models? Because I have small clip ranges (4000 - 8000) I normally only need two, for example a house with the interior is LOD0; LOD1, LOD2 and LOD3 are all the same map entity (only the visible outside). A house (the player can't enter) without exterior details is LOD3; LOD0, LOD1 and LOD2 are all the same model with exterior details.

I tried the "old" LOD definition this way:

entity houseA {
type = <house_0.wmb>;
lod1 = <house_1.wmb>;
lod2 = <house_1.wmb>;
lod3 = <house_1.wmb>;
}
But this doesn't work. I find it a little crazy and space consuming, to make 4 models or map entities, and 3 of them are identical.

At the moment, instead of LOD models, I have a lot of running functions in a while(1) loop:
If (variableX == 0) {my.invisible = on;}
else {my.invisible = off;}

Is this slow?

Thank you for answers.
Willi

i am only newbie.
why you do not calculate the distance between player and your object and then only you need to morph it.
So you can easily control LOD by manually.

Hi Willy,

Why make 4 LOD models if you only need 2? You can have an LOD_0 model and an LOD_1 model and that is all. The engine supports up to 4, but you do not have to use all 4. So, create only 2 and use only 2.

BTW - As you know, the old school way of doing this nolonger works because the engine does LOD automatically based on the entity name (_0 - _3).

You all must be really happy people. Everyone is happy with LOD as it is. Nobody has problems with frame rate and slowdowns from script execution. Wow! Could you tell me, how you make that?

LOD models work fine for me, but I use 4. If you have only 2 LOD models, why don't you make the clipdist 4 times longer?

Scripts are very fast if you avoid bad (slow) scripting. For example

If (variableX == 0) {my.invisible = on;} else {my.invisible = off;}

is much slower than

my.invisible = (variableX == 0);

Nice model, by the way.

I don't want to interrupt this topic, but the code of Tobias is very interesting.

For example: my.visible=1; is the same as my.visible=on; and my.visible=0; is the same as my.visible=off;. In this case I don't understand the code

my.invisible = (variableX == 0);

What does it mean? I saw never such an if-clause. Can you use it also for nestings and how do I use it for it?!

For a project I am working on the programmer programmed a custom DLL through the SDK to handle LOD in a different manner. So, if the current method of LOD does not suite you, then program your own.

It is not a if clause, it is a normal expression. It works the same way in C++ so I'm used to it:

(a == b) is 1 when true, and 0 when false.

So my.flag = (a == b) sets the flag ON (1) when the condition is true and sets it OFF (0) otherwise.