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this would be great if connected with the lod core of the gs engine so you dont need to trace twice and could manage it directy with the engine....would be a nice add in for the future/feature of gs.
Especially open space levels benefit from that.....just one more line in the starter: clip_fade_in_percentage = 0...100 (0 is lod stage 3 = pops out when it reaches the lod3 distance, and 100 is the distance of lod2 = set to 100 it will take till it reaches lod distance 2 to completele fade in)

cheers

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That would be a very neat feature!

 
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//Include this wdl as the first include
//in your main script. After the path definitions.
//Then choose the action that you want to have the
//detain model properties and put detail_model();
//at the top of its action.
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var DM_DistFromCam;
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Var DM_Fade_Start = 2000;
Var DM_Fade_End = 2500;
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Starter Fading
{
	DM_Fade_End -= DM_Fade_Start;
}
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function detail_model()
{	
	while(me)
	{
		DM_DistFromCam = vec_dist (my.x, camera.x);
		My.alpha = 100 - ((DM_DistFromCam - DM_Fade_Start) / DM_Fade_End) * 100;
		my.transparent = ((DM_DistFromCam - DM_Fade_Start) > 0);
		
		wait(1);
	}
}
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Nice contrib. Just saved me some work!!

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I'm glad this little snippet saved you some work Steempipe.

@ tramper, thanks for sharing your mod with the community. I like what you have done to it.

@ everyone else, this snippet was meant to be like the way models fade in GTA( cars, trash, people, ect... ), but if you turn the range higher and use it with LOD( making each section of your huge world map entities ) then it could help the framerate a bit like in GTA.

If you don't have the comm or pro versions and wish to use LOD in-turn with this little snippet, then you can use the fake LOD script contributed by Bright. Fake Geometric LOD