Question about LOD's

[minilogoguy18]

Figured this would be a good place to ask, from those who may have stumbled upon the code to see just how useful it can be. I pretty much just want to know if LOD's can be used on more things than just character models like we've only been using them on. I have a feeling if I try it on a vehicle it probably will work but also mainly want to know about map objects and weapons as well since they normally don't have a hierarchy structure like an animated object does.

 

Thanks for any info.

[eezstreet]

Figured this would be a good place to ask, from those who may have stumbled upon the code to see just how useful it can be. I pretty much just want to know if LOD's can be used on more things than just character models like we've only been using them on. I have a feeling if I try it on a vehicle it probably will work but also mainly want to know about map objects and weapons as well since they normally don't have a hierarchy structure like an animated object does.

 

Thanks for any info.

You can use LODs on any Ghoul2 model, and patches (and MD3 models I think) have automatically generated LODs.

[Tempust85]

Afaik, MD3 don't have auto generated LODs.

[Xycaleth]

Like eez said, any ghoul 2 and md3 models can use LODs. If you're placing the md3 in a map you'll need to add it as a misc_model_static otherwise the model geometry gets 'baked' into the bsp file (and therefore no LODs). Keep in mind as well that LODs for md3s are stored as separate files.

[minilogoguy18]

What's the naming convention for the md3 LOD? Is it similar to glm where you add an underscore followed by a number?

[Boothand]

There is something called q3map_surfaceModel in shadering, which draws models onto a surface after this recipe: q3map_surfaceModel modelpath density odds minscale maxscale minangle maxangle oriented.

 

I tried to involve LODs with these md3 models:

 

q3map_surfaceModel models/map_objects/bootland/trees/grasschunk1.md3 64 0.6 0.5 0.7 0 270 1

q3map_surfaceModel models/map_objects/bootland/trees/sapling2.md3 1500 0.12 0.8 1.2 0 270 0

 

 

Xycaleth says that it needs to be a misc_model_static, otherwise it's baked in. Any idea if these surfacemodels get baked into the bsp, and if so a way around it? I would really like to use LODs with them, but it didn't work when I tried earlier like this (*_1. *_2 etc). I was told md3s don't support LOD.

[Tempust85]

For the DEMP2, it looks to be set like this:

 

demp2.md3 - Original Mesh

demp2_1.md3 - LOD1

demp2_2.md3 - LOD2