Strange visibility error
by Ben Halverson · in Torque 3D Professional · 01/03/2010 (3:31 am) · 7 replies
Hi everyone, thanks for the help in the past.
Since 1.0 I have had this problem, the terrain and objects are cutting out after a certain distance. It only renders a star shape plane of view around the camera. I haven't been able to solve this yet.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0300-28-38-25.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0300-28-41-61.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0300-29-00-17.jpg
Any pointers? Again, it's only been doing this since 1.0.
Since 1.0 I have had this problem, the terrain and objects are cutting out after a certain distance. It only renders a star shape plane of view around the camera. I haven't been able to solve this yet.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0300-28-38-25.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0300-28-41-61.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0300-29-00-17.jpg
Any pointers? Again, it's only been doing this since 1.0.
#2
I tried deleting the waterplane in that scene, no luck. It still clips strangely and that black mass around the horizon line appeared when I deleted the waterplane.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0423-12-08-34.jpg
I tried starting a new project and just adding a normal landblock, and got the same error.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0423-15-40-71.jpg
01/05/2010 (2:15 am)
Hi Tom, thanks for the reply. I tried deleting the waterplane in that scene, no luck. It still clips strangely and that black mass around the horizon line appeared when I deleted the waterplane.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0423-12-08-34.jpg
I tried starting a new project and just adding a normal landblock, and got the same error.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/mistmod/cutthroats_12010-01-0423-15-40-71.jpg
#3
01/05/2010 (11:20 am)
@Ben - That doesn't look like a bug in those final screenshots. I think you just have a really big terrain and a small/default visibility distance. Try editing the 'visibleDistance' in the LevelInfo object... add a LevelInfo if your mission doesn't already have one.
#4
06/06/2010 (4:05 pm)
Logged as TQA-292. 
#5
06/10/2010 (4:59 pm)
Unable to reproduce this in 1.1 Beta 2. 
#7
08/02/2010 (4:41 pm)
Fixed in 1.1 Beta 2 
Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
Try removing the water and see if it all culls properly.