Standalone object with geometric occluder

[tpw 2313]

Howdy all

 

I've got some ideas I'd like to try out with improving FPS by spawning simple geometric occluder objects around the player to reduce the amount of rendering in busy scenes. May or may not be naive bullshit, but the problem is that  I am simply unable to generate a simple geometric occluder object to test my ideas out with.

 

So, based on this page: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Geometric_Occluders , I fired up object builder, created a simple 5x5x5m object with only a view geometry LOD, selected the cube, converted it to convex using Structure->Convexity->Component Convex Hull and renamed the selection  from Component01 to occluder_01 as per the page. I saved the p3d and wrote a very simple config packaged it up using BinPbo to give an object which can be placed in the editor.  So far so good. However when I preview the mission, the placed object does not occlude a single bloody thing.

 

So am I missing something obvious here? Is there in fact a way to make a standalone object which will prevent rendering of the other objects it obscures? Any info appreciated, thanks!

 

 

 

 

[tpw 2313]

Here are the p3d, config.cpp and final pbo files I've been working on, if anyone would care to take a look (a dev would be great).  

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/481663/test/tpw_test.p3d

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/481663/test/config.cpp

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/481663/test/tpw_test.pbo

[x3kj 1247]

Or you could try different approach - use the house sample as base, add occluder to where it is obvious that it works, then reduce the unnecessary files that you think you don't need (LOD) step by step, until you have removed enough, or until it doesnt work anymore...

I dont think an object with exclusively vieGeo is going to be liked by the engine.

[lappihuan 178]

afaik geometric occluders only work on terrain placed objects, no spawned via mission or script

[chernaruski 338]

On 2/24/2017 at 3:13 PM, lappihuan said:

afaik geometric occluders only work on terrain placed objects, no spawned via mission or script

so you actulaly need to bake it to terrain first to see it in action ?