This looks like a lot of work, very good!

Regarding FPS: LOD will help for a small scene but it will not help to render a complete city. You need some very good scene management, some very fast and intelligent culling/occlusion. But even this will not help completely. For larger levels with much detail some background loading and unloading is needed in a several thread to not slow rendering down.

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