Environment: Level of Detail
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This page explains how the level of detail is handled in environment files.
To learn how components (equipment) casts shadows, check Meshes, Shadows, and Shadow Meshes
Many world objects are automatically hidden if you move away from them, freeing the engine resources that had been used to render them.
Hiding an object will also hide its shadows and occluders.
The distance at which this happens is controlled by the forceAutoHideDistance
property of each world node:
This probably corresponds directly to the nearAutoHideDistance
in the proxy mesh ndoes below?
There is a specialized node type for world proxy meshes: the worldGenericProxyMeshNode
. (Which raises the question if there are specialized / extended worldXXProxyMeshNodes?)