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Asked By | Zylann |
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Old Version | Published before Godot 3 was released. |
I have projects in mind involving heavy reliance on Level of Detail, however something confuses me with Godot:
Usually, the idea is to render a different mesh depending on the distance you are from it. So it looks easy to script that on a Spatial having several MeshInstances as child, each of them being a different LOD.
But…
This will not work if there are multiple cameras in the world, because only one LOD can be active at a time with this method 
So I’m wondering… how is this possible to do with Godot, assuming that the project could be an open-world with a huge streamed map?
You could measure the distance to the nearest camera and determine the LoD from that distance.
One thing to think about is:
When you have one camera near at your object and one far away, the object will be rendered in high LoD. I don’t know if it’s better to render the same high-LoD mesh twice or two different meshes with one high and one low LoD…
timoschwarzer | 2016-08-14 18:56
This is exactly what I’m concerned about. The only way I know would be to determine the LOD at the render stage, not the process stage. But I have no idea how Godot handles it, or if it handles LOD at all.
Zylann | 2016-08-14 18:59