LOD's for aircraft

[Fracture]

HI all,

how are LOD's set up for aircraft?

The basic guide for static objects just exports 1 .EDM with the lod info baked into the object properties.

But aircraft have seperate lod files and a .lod description file.

Search of both english and RU forums returned nothing.

The beginners guide doesn't yet have info on setting up LOD's.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Fracture

[luckybob9]

HI all,

how are LOD's set up for aircraft?

The basic guide for static objects just exports 1 .EDM with the lod info baked into the object properties.

But aircraft have seperate lod files and a .lod description file.

Search of both english and RU forums returned nothing.

The beginners guide doesn't yet have info on setting up LOD's.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Fracture

You might be able to do the same method as the guide. But the other way is pretty much identical, except you're just separating everything and the data in the ROOT LOD dummy, is what will be in the .lods file

 

Im going off memory here, so for a model with 4 pieces, (tower_lod0, tower_lod1, tower_lod2, tower_lod3), you would export each one independently. Then you would need to make a .lods file which is just a text file. The information you enter should be in the following format:

 

model={

lods={

{"tower_lod0.edm",250.000000};

{"tower_lod1.edm",750.000000};

{"tower_lod2.edm",2000.000000};

{"tower_lod3.edm",50000.000000};

};

collision_shell="tower_lod0.edm";

}

 

The last part declares the collision file. Then numbers after declaring the model name is the maximum range in meters that the specific LOD will be rendered

[Fracture]

Got it sorted, thanks to luckybob9.

I was doing it the correct way, so it had to be my .lods file. Went through it character by character and found an extra quotation mark. Felt like an idiot when I found that, lol

 

So Fracture's tip of the day is don't work too far past your bedtime, and triple check your text files for typos.