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Started by sockman Apr 13, 2000 at 12:57 AM 2 replies 400+ views
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sockman
sockman
Chris, any way you can modify the terrain engine to display more tiles in the viewing frustrum? It''s annoying when a mountain goes out of range when viewed directly, and back in range on the sides.
ChrisE
ChrisE
This happens because the terrain is a square and the fog is cutting off one corner. Imagine a square rotated by 45 degrees and then chop off the top corner along a plane.

I think the only solution would be to make the terrain mesh a circle rather than a square, but this complicates things greatly.

You can adjust how many tiles that are drawn but it will never change the way fogging is done.

Author of Power Render (http:/www.powerrender.com)
sockman
sockman
Thanks Chris. I knew that was the problem, I was just hoping there was a solution that I was missing.

BTW, what is PR_TerrainDetailScale for?
ChrisE
ChrisE
PR_TerrainDetailScale controls how many times the detail texture repeats across a terrain tile.

Author of Power Render (http:/www.powerrender.com)

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