Not if some time and effort goes into making the LODs, CSP features and refractions work absolutely fine. No good reason not to include a decent set of LODs in a public released mod. Then anyone can chose to manually disable them for maximum quality, CM/CSP even has this feature now to extend massively the visibility of LODA etc etc for those with beefy machines or just like to hot lap/screenshot. But yeah, object count is a very major player as well.
From RSS latest release:
The biggest issue with this is not everyone is aware of how to modify data files (even if it is a simple procedure) and trying to get people to read and apply instructions is a challenge in and of itself. Just look at how many people still are confused about Sol and rain even though on the RD page one of the first things it says is sol does not bring rain
I totally undrrstand your meanings now.
We(Me and Dan) believed that someguys wants to drive alone without visual impact. So we just include lod_a and it has no cockpit_lr.
the idea of LODs is to reduce frame rate hits when the model is far enough away that you arent going to see it up close like in your screenshots, so at the end of the day, no LODs is just a cop out
that's just completely missing the point tho. The argument was never whether lods should be included or not, which I have mentioned that stance twice now
Oh, I know how LODs work and all that, I just wondered why it was felt necessary to have a separate car with only LOD A for single player hotlapping when no other content creators think it's a good idea to do this. If it really was worthwhile then Kunos (and every other developer, and every other modder) would surely do it too... and we'd need double the bandwidth, time and storage space for additional LOD-free duplicate cars in our collections, AND have to remember to pick them for hotlapping, and the proper version for racing.
missing the point about as much as you are missing the entire point of LODs and their use, probably because your argument has no point
I assume based on what Young is saying:
as well as mentioning "High Quality Textures" which I assume is just uncompressed 8888 and maybe higher resolution too (again completely useless for regular use), I presume the purpose of this version is more for screenshots and completely prioritizing visuals above all. In this specific scenario, LODS aren't necessarily needed, because the model is (likely) incredibly unoptimized for regular racing use anyways
I don't necessarily think so. Young says
which doesn't really push the message that lod's aren't necessary
I still don't get the reasoning behind it, it seems like unnecessary bloat and unnecessary duplication to me. Kunos, PD, Turn 10, Studio 397... hell, even RSS and URD... none of these think it's a good idea or they'd all be doing it too. Instead, they kill two birds with one stone by making LODs.
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@Young78 unfortunately this excellent skinpack no longer works with your F50GT update. Any ideas for a quick fix? Changing the skin names to body.dds doesn't work.
Skinpack for Ferrari F50 GT1 96
Hi all ! As it is always a shame when a racing car doesn't have racing liveries to play along with the friends of its field, this time I choose to help out a bit the really great F50 GT 96 from F40_LM_lover by letting it race against fellow GT1...
It's also easier on the fps. I find myself regularly racing both, but if I had to choose one, I'd also go with JL/T21. 👍
I tend to agree but the AI is not as good as FM7 so for testing physics FM7 is a good base to test the AI lap speed. I think both have their place in AC.
Never noticed that, so I went driving. My AVG fps after two laps is 140, with a MIN of 115,6. Must have missed the MIN while driving because my counters showed 123 fps on the start/finish until after the first corner.
Does your update include, or improve, DaBaeda's update?Teretonga Park (Neil Shaw) shader and tree fix by Rainmaker
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Patch for this track: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hecm079rut623ir/teretonga_park.zip?dl=0
Changelog:
- fixed all trees, mirroed them in Blender, new normals, shadows and shader
- shader overhaul
- shadows for track side cars
- added loading screens
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Oh yes, at that distance, ofcourse the visual differences are striking. But like you also said, not hardly likely to be noticed at normal driving distance, so not really an issue is it? Unless the user has LODs disabled or the opposite, set distances really close between switches. In either case then the user is obviously competent to sort out any issues with bad LODs on a car (such as edit data for farther distance etc)
No it's for the Neil Shaw version.
