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Slow flickering when transitioning out of Lod4 lods and into full models?


Megaloblast

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https://youtu.be/YnXyFobHiQA

 

 Here are my mesh rules - I'm also wondering if I should add the slabs to the list as well to help with this?

 

my block distances are set to about 15000, 60000, and 500000

This is how the engine works. It displays LOD and when a cell attaches it loads all full models. Once all full models are loaded the LOD is disabled. In the meantime both models show.

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I mean, it might be how it works, but I've never noticed the models flickering that badly for 5 full seconds directly in front of my nose.

 

With DynDoLods uninstalled, the same transition is much quicker, and much smoother.  https://youtu.be/Rra6hnTfnzc - sorry for the video quality

 

I don't mean to sound accusatory in any way, but something isn't right and I'm hoping I can fix it. 

 

Please take a look at the two videos and let me know if you have any advice. 

 

Just to verify - I can use full models for the mountain meshes in lod 4 correct? I had done this on a previous run of dyndolods and everything looked great. 

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I can not "fix" how the engine works. It may take longer because there is more data loaded. Read the Performace section of the manual for pointers.

 

The change maybe more obvious because LOD can only have 2 different snow shaders and neither is matching the full model shaders. To lesson that you could make all/most mountains use the same snow shader and set the HD-LOD snow shader to the same values.

Also LOD does not have shadows, there is nothing that can be done about that.

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So Sheson, your idea about adjusting the snow shaders is golden. 

 

Here's vanilla ish

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here's with identical mountain shaders

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And here's a zoom in of the vanilla lods

 

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@Zilav - that makes a ton of sense, and I'm not sure why I didn't think of it. That also likely explains the flickering of the Hybrid Trees - I'm wondering then if using EVT tree meshes and Dyndolod Vanilla hybrid meshes is the best fix for this. Thoughts?

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If you are using ultra trees (and installed the correct EVT hybrids), the trees should be identical in their branches so the resulting flicker between models should be minimal.

Check the full model fMeshLOD for trees is "disabled", so full models always show all details.

The full model may be animated/swaying so they don't match perfectly for that time both are showing, maybe lowering the amount of animated/skinned trees could help.

I also could imagine shadow on full model on no shadow on LOD model to have more of an affect. Try lowering shadow distance for a test.

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