# Environment: Level of Detail

## Summary

**Published**: Mar 02 2024 by [mana vortex](mailto:undefined)\
**Last documented update**: Mar 02 2024 by [mana vortex](mailto:undefined)

This page explains how the level of detail is handled in environment files.

### Wait, this is not what I want!

* To learn how components (equipment) casts shadows, check [Meshes, Shadows, and Shadow Meshes](/cyberpunk-2077-modding/for-mod-creators-theory/files-and-what-they-do/file-formats/3d-objects-.mesh-files/meshes-shadows-and-shadow-meshes.md)

## Auto-hiding

Many world objects are automatically hidden if you move away from them, freeing the engine resources that had been used to render them.

{% hint style="info" %}
Hiding an object will also hide its shadows and occluders.
{% endhint %}

The distance at which this happens is controlled by the `forceAutoHideDistance` property of each world node:

<figure><img src="/files/S0PJGS8OumwTeCsxVLJf" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

This probably corresponds directly to the `nearAutoHideDistance` in the proxy mesh ndoes below?

## Proxy meshes

There is a specialized node type for world proxy meshes: the `worldGenericProxyMeshNode`. (Which raises the question if there are specialized / extended `worldXXProxyMeshNodes?)`

<figure><img src="/files/8ckVG0VUeJ7ooLxlHZ6y" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>


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