destructible scenery and LOD tutorial

zosobudro · Post by **zosobudro** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:30 am

http://files.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=12744

TheMissingLink117 · Post by **TheMissingLink117** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 9:18 pm

Edit: Oh, just a question, how do LODs help the gun? Could you explain more about what they do?

Yeah, I posted a destructo scenery/vehicle tut on gearbox about 3 weeks ago, puny little halomodders never got to see it though.

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 9:32 pm

LOD = Level of detail, LODs are lower poly versions of a model. LOD5 is what you see at point blank range, farther away the less detailed it is. Unless you zoom of course.

master_wolf · Post by **master_wolf** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 9:53 pm

very nice tutorial that is

TheMissingLink117 · Post by **TheMissingLink117** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 10:23 pm

I see, thank you Dan. Good tutorials.

DocOctavius · Post by **DocOctavius** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:11 am

LOD's don't work how you described they should with scenery objects. I have sucessfully compiled my tree model with 5 different levels of detail, into one gbxmodel, and I have set my LOD cutoffs, but in the game they do not change as you get farther away. Is there another setting I'm missing that specifies wether or not LOD's are used? None of the tree tags provided with the HEK have LOD's as far as I know- are scenery objects not intended to have LOD's? Please help- I need to figure this out asap. Thanks.

Locke · Post by **Locke** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:07 pm

Dont bump old topics

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:45 pm

... That's a righteous bump.

Most scenery objects don't have an LOD, vehicles, units, etc usually do. I think a few scenery pieces might. Not too sure.

hitmanbob · Post by **hitmanbob** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:32 pm

i have a question about lods and the lot, can you make different lod for skins, like i know some maps have destructable banhsees and stuff but instead of changing the skin and model can you just change the skin and keep the model the same ?

Danke · Post by **Danke** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:45 pm

You'd have to copy the normal banshee model tag/meta and change the shader reference to the blown up banshee's. Then just change the banshee's blown up reference in the vehicle tag/meta to point to the one you just made. And there you go.

That would make it so if you blew up the banshee, it wouldn't "crunch". But you won't be able to get in it. If you do want to get in it, don't make a copy of the model tag/meta, just edit it directly. And don't edit the vehicle tag/meta.

That works for both CE (tag) and PC (meta & xml).

DocOctavius · Post by **DocOctavius** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:51 am

Also, the bitmaps in Halo already have "LOD"'s - they're called mipmaps.

So, basically nobody knows if scenery has LOD's? Great.

I haven't found one in the tags that came with the HEK. I think this means that none of them do, and that's one reason why you can't put many trees in a map- they're all rendering at full detail no matter where you are. X( Damn it!

DocOctavius · Post by **DocOctavius** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:48 am

Ok, I fixed it.

I was setting my LOD cutoffs like the warthog, but the trees were bigger, so I just kicked them up a thousand or so... and it works. Thanks for the tutorial and help guys!