actual game project:
The level is 196608x196608 Quants large, done some tricks with rendering.
The white cube is de default CUBE_MDL with 16x16x16 Quants size, player is 64 Quant high

hmm.. it's ten times larger than my standard small worlds, so the area is x100, i.e. huge. do you use more hmp or mdl or dx mesh?

it is only one large terrain, renderer with some trick to get the extrem high view range

if I was more advanced, I would try to use multitexturing only on close distances, and show a blended one on far, and maybe make some tricky sky cubes imitating far terrain.
but extreme high view range alone is not enough, and causes other problems, because the landscape should look alive and densely populated.

Added modified default water shader, now going to build some "level editor" for placing entities into the level and creating their sprite pendant for really far view

okay, got the first part of my LOD system finished
the reflected texture of the terrain needs to be edited but everything else works fine.
After a certain distance the trees will only be sprites so the render time won't be too high

Since the var range is -99999.999 to +99999.999, a total level size of ~200000 quants can be reached. The only problem raises the camera->far_clip range, because it can be only max=99999. Anyways, why do you need such a large terrain and what meter scale do you use?

I only use a clip_far of 15000 for the main view. there is a large range view to render this "huge" distance. i can get max. viewrange of over 400 000 Quant (in theory)
Atm i can't publish the project as is but i will make a techdemo of this tomorrow so you can fly or walk around in the terrain.
My meter scale is the "default" meter scale with 1.8m = 64 quant (so i don't have to adjust my current player and network synchro code)

In fact the var range is -999999.999 to +999999.999, i.e. 10 times as high.

No offense but in general I would like to see less frequent posts here, one post per day per user is more than enough I think and adding a default water shader is not so huge.

If people want to post more about their project I encourage them to open a thread in this projects forum, so it feels more alive and this thread stays a little organized. Just my personal opinion, of course.

Superku@ +1