Regardingthe "visibility radius" of an object, I wondered if you have any idea how that is set in a model. I was trying to add a wind turbine model to a hillside and it would disappear about a mile away. A different model would never (maybe > 10 miles) disappear. And I finally found a model that would disappear about 5 miles away which was perfect - couldn't see it "pop" into view. I used MCX to write out the "source code" in the X format but I could never determine some line of data that could set the "visibility radius" - any ideas?
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FSX Object Visibility Range/Radius
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I think that the visibility have to do with the Lods, someone can explain better, only I have heard about, It's a property of the model, and this Lods make the object appear at certain distances.
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As far as I know you can't control the drawing distance. If you have LODs they will influence it and I think the size of the bounding box also has an influence.
So you could try to make the bounding box of the object bigger. That might have an influence. At the moment you would probably need a hexeditor for this, I will try to have a look if it works, then it should become part of a tool
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As far as I know you can't control the drawing distance. If you have LODs they will influence it and I think the size of the bounding box also has an influence.
So you could try to make the bounding box of the object bigger. That might have an influence. At the moment you would probably need a hexeditor for this, I will try to have a look if it works, then it should become part of a tool
.Thanks for considering this issue. Personally, I want my FSX objects to be visible from a considerable distance (at least 10 miles) so I don't see any popping of the object into the scene. I don't think the the small impact in frame rate of any one object - even though it might have thousands of polys - compares to the reduction in reality of objects popping into the scene like Autogen trees/buildings do.