Rendering distance?
by Tim Tebow · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 08/23/2008 (10:16 pm) · 5 replies
So just few general questions as I have been thinking about some things I seen earlier today.
I thought TGEA would only render things x distance from the camera view?
I loaded probably 60 orcs into a small area and made me very laggy when I would turn and look at them. I would expect this to be the case for allot of people. So I flew the camera for probably 5 minutes in 1 direction turned around and couldn't see anything but sky / greyness but I could tell when facing the orcs because I would get laggy in that 1 spot but if I kept turning the camera it would no longer be laggy.
So that problem brings me to the next, if thats the case a massive world would really never work because if you wanted to have more then lets 6 camps of orcs all with 10 orcs in the camp lets say they followed a straight line north but were spaced out by a long distance. I would lag because its reading/rendering the orcs even though i cant see them.
Maybe theres a different issue if this isn't the case with anyone else, which i have not heard of being a problem yet.
I thought TGEA would only render things x distance from the camera view?
I loaded probably 60 orcs into a small area and made me very laggy when I would turn and look at them. I would expect this to be the case for allot of people. So I flew the camera for probably 5 minutes in 1 direction turned around and couldn't see anything but sky / greyness but I could tell when facing the orcs because I would get laggy in that 1 spot but if I kept turning the camera it would no longer be laggy.
So that problem brings me to the next, if thats the case a massive world would really never work because if you wanted to have more then lets 6 camps of orcs all with 10 orcs in the camp lets say they followed a straight line north but were spaced out by a long distance. I would lag because its reading/rendering the orcs even though i cant see them.
Maybe theres a different issue if this isn't the case with anyone else, which i have not heard of being a problem yet.
#2
Anyone else able to replicate this problem?
08/24/2008 (8:17 am)
Thats what I thought from what I have read but no matter how far away I am(running the camera in one direction for 5 minutes is a long ways away) so not sure why I would get laggy when I point towards all the orcs. Anyone else able to replicate this problem?
#3
08/24/2008 (9:34 am)
What is the maximum viewing distance allowed in your mission (sky property)?
#4
08/24/2008 (3:40 pm)
Its set at default which was 1000 and fog of 800 i haven't played around long enough to understand how that relates in world. 
Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
Not sure what problem you're seeing.