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LOD, how much do I gain ?

by Jorgen Ewelonn · in Torque Game Engine · 03/18/2004 (2:08 pm) · 2 replies

Hey (again), I've been reading about all the trouble fellow modellers go trough to add LOD meshes to their DTS shapes.
Recently I've been working on some of the main characters for my project and they are about 1200 - 1500 polys.
It made me wonder how much performance I would gain to properly add LOD levels to these shapes..

Do anybody know ??
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Torque Owner John Vanderbeck
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#1
03/18/2004 (2:35 pm)
Properly setup and tweaked LOD will make a very large difference IMHO. Our modellers have strict instructions to make as much use of LOD as they can, and to make as many statics as DTS to take advantage of LOD as possible. We are aiming for very detail rich scenes, and without LOD we would be in trouble.

Torque Owner Jorgen Ewelonn
#2
03/18/2004 (11:17 pm)
Thx John, a couple of hours later, laying in my bed trying to sleep I realized the ignorance of this question.

I should have been able to figure out myself that it comes down to how complex your scene will be.