LOD changes anyone?

posted on December 9th, 2011, 10:25 pm

Normally torpedoes look like this:


But I want them to always look like totally zoomed in.


What do i have to do? Is there any value in the specific torpedo ordnance? Or in the ART_CFG.h?
Need some advice please 

posted on December 9th, 2011, 10:33 pm

I don't believe those torpedoes use LODs at all fedW_volley2.SOD is the file, and there are no LODs listed for it near as I can tell 

posted on December 9th, 2011, 11:15 pm

Thx for your answer!
The effect starts disappearing the further you zoom out, so there must be "sth"...

posted on December 9th, 2011, 11:18 pm

No problem

I think the effects seem to be disappearing more due to the pixels or quality of your screen - I blew up both images, and I definitely can see the trails and things like that 

posted on December 9th, 2011, 11:50 pm

the distance fadeouts are done with the texture lods. try removing the texture lods of the flare texture

posted on December 10th, 2011, 12:09 am

Ah, right, totally forgot about that  ...and I even wrote a section on the guide about that a month back or so 

Models and Textures - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fleet Operations

posted on December 11th, 2011, 5:38 pm

the distance fadeouts are done with the texture lods. try removing the texture lods of the flare texture

Unfortunately there are no lod textures for torpedoes.
Changing the LOD values in ART_CFG.h does only affect textures but not the "glow" animation of the torpedo sod's.

posted on December 11th, 2011, 7:14 pm

they have lods, but its probably not affected by the art config, as - as far as i remember - we use the normal directX mipmap handling. You can identify "lods" for textures by their _1 _2 etc ending