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Disappearing objects when view rotates

Thralni

Thralni

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Here's something that I've noticed in some sceneries, and I understand that the developers have done this to save FPS when objects are out of the user's sight. I've been wondering how this is done - in part so that I can disable it! In some sceneries, when your rotate your view and an object, typically a building, is out of sight, it disappears. How is this accomplished, and how can it be undone? The problem is that when this happens the object usually disappears too early, so that I can actually see it disappearing. I'd like to turn this function off so that this doesn't happen anymore.

Any help appreciated!

Best,
Benjamin
 
This is usually done by altering the the size of the Bounding Box, which determines when an object becomes visible as you rotate to it. For example I make a large 100 x -100 bounding box for ramp light splashes to avoid them disappearing too soon. The Bounding Box can be edited using ModelConverterX (Special Tools/MDL Tweaker). But note that this can change the size of the crash radius too (I think?) I turn crash off in these cases.
 
Wonderful, thanks for the clear answer! I will have a look at this when I get home to see if I can change this. Fortunately I have always turned collision detection off, so I shan't be bothered by that too much.

Thansk!
Benjamin
 
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