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Forcing LODs as default for lower settings

  • GrillusRetardus
  • December 18, 2018 at 4:34 PM
  • GrillusRetardus
    • December 18, 2018 at 4:34 PM
    • #1

    Say you've got a model and you want to make some LODs. You've got your reference model, LOD1, LOD2, LOD3 ,LOD4

    LOD4 is just a couple of triangles, meant to be viewed from afar. While on high settings, this works fine and dandy. But the trouble comes when you go on low model detail. On low settings the "lowest" LOD is used as default and the model doesn't go through any further LODs.

    I'm wondering if there's a way of forcing, say LOD3 as default for low settings. keeping LOD4 as just a few triangles, thus somewhat optimizing the level. Or should I just set the lowest LOD to something presentable, sacrificing some potential tri reduction?

  • Squad
    • December 18, 2018 at 10:03 PM
    • #2

    It would help if you specified the game/engine.

  • GrillusRetardus
    • December 19, 2018 at 4:58 PM
    • #3
    Quote from Squad

    18 hours ago, Squad said: It would help if you specified the game/engine.

    This would be for Gmod.

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