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How do you manually set DTS LOD?

by Jay Barnson · in Torque Game Engine · 06/30/2007 (4:12 pm) · 4 replies

How can you manually set the level-of-detail for a DTS object? I've been able to find SetDetailLevel(); for DIF files and for TGB's 3D shapes... but nothing for TGE DTS files.

I remember having a manual slider in the Torque demo (which I don't currently have installed) to play around with Kork's detail level... anybody know offhand how that was implemented?
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    Torque Owner Barry Gallagher
    #1
    06/30/2007 (4:45 pm)
    By creating different versions of the same model with numbers stuck on the end.

    Such as Mesh512 mesh120 mesh2 .. each LOD level needs a detail maker..

    Its all on TDN under the 3d modelling guides

    Torque 3D Owner Jay Barnson
    #2
    06/30/2007 (4:51 pm)
    Thanks, Barry. While your answer is a good one... I'm actually working with third-party models and I don't have access to the modeling package used to create the originals.

    I may end up having to re-create them anyway to import them into Blender, but I'd rather avoid that as long as possible. Nobody supports Blender! :)

    Is there a scripting option already in place for DTS models, similar to SetDetailLevel in TGB?

    If I'd not be reinventing the wheel, I guess I could crack open the ol' source code again...

    Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
    #3
    06/30/2007 (5:33 pm)
    I guess you're not after the global detail level set, Jay? There's one in the prefs, but it's not per-object.

    Torque 3D Owner Jay Barnson
    #4
    06/30/2007 (11:46 pm)
    Yeah, I was looking more at a per-object thing. The way the game is being presented, there are several objects appearing front-and-center, where a high LOD will kick in immediately... which is causing even my fairly beefy machine to weep.