Meet the lod family

[Stag]

Where's the LOD for custom crosshairs hidden, eg, for rifle scopes?

[CupidMoon]

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It&#39;s view geo. lod, I think

[MadDogX]

Hi there. I myself have made a few rules for making models in O2, be it vehicles or map objects.

1. The Geometry LOD should be slightly larger than the model itself.

(if the Geometry LOD is smaller than the model you get the error of being able to look through the object when you run up to it.)


2. The Fire- and View Geometry LODs should be slightly smaller than the model.

(if they are bigger you sometimes get strange effects like bullets hitting thin air and objects that are partially behind the model sometimes disappearing.)


3. I have a system for making weapon LODs:

View Pilot: max 800 poly (LODnoShadow - 1)
LOD 0.1000: max 500 poly(LODnoShadow - 1)
LOD 0.5000: max 300 poly
LOD 0.7500: max 200 poly
LOD 1.0000: max 100 poly
LOD 1.2500: max 70 poly
LOD 1.5000: as few polys as possible

(This way the weapon should work fine and cause no lag.)

[mooncaine]

3. Memory LOD. Handles definitions for animated things, axis points, lights, smoke and so on. Quite a bitch because it&#39;s all in czech ***

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...but if you dont like Czech, you can change most of the memory point names from the config

I thought so .... but how exactly to do that? Could someone here post a brief snippet, even one line, that shows how we can remap the Czech vocabulary to a language we are more familiar with [in my case, English]? That&#39;d be super.

[Drill Sergeant]

I have but one question.
If I have made a model of a man that has some special objects attached to him that are nonloded. IE the texture isn&#39;t looser on them and such as the degradeing quality on other lod section models. So how can I reduce the vertex and pollyandquality of the showen texture on the model?
Or do I have to go and make a whole new low resolution model of the man ? Or wil the lods automaticly increasing in number change the quality of the model if I copy paste it?

[mooncaine]

The only way I know to do this is make a new model for the LOD--but I&#39;m no expert. The point of the LODs is to have models with fewer faces on them, so pasting the same model into the LODs is the wrong thing to do.

The good news is that the LOD models don&#39;t need as much work--you can make them pretty basic. The bad news is that you have to map them with the images, though.

[Drill Sergeant]

How many lods are good 3? any bigger than that and thep3ds seem unwieldy. (I&#39;ll just copy paste BIS lods and re add hat I need.)

[VXR]

How many lods are good 3? any bigger than that and thep3ds seem unwieldy. (I&#39;ll just copy paste BIS lods and re add hat I need.)

minimal 4 or 5 Lods up to 8 or something

[Leone]

It all depends on the model. The numbers on the previous page are a good guide, but obviously an addon with only 100 faces doesn&#39;t need 5 LODs

[mooncaine]

...but if you dont like Czech, you can change most of the memory point names from the config

Kegetys: could you please post a snippet of code in this thread that shows how to change these memory point names? I would appreciate it. No one else has responded to my request--perhaps no one else who&#39;s read this thread knows how.

thank you,

MoonCaine