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Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
I'm wondering if its a bug or if the draw value was left accidentally at console spec, has anyone else noticed this?
edit for visability:
copy this insto your miscmaps.lua
https://pastebin.com/FgWvrmrc
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Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
Optimalisation I'm afraid =/Gunsmith wrote:is it me or is there a lack of consistency with object draw distance? things like barrels, dead peds and debris all seem to pop into existence at random distances.I'm wondering if its a bug or if the draw value was left accidentally at console spec, has anyone else noticed this?
Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
if you dont have an existing CR misc_maps.lua just copy pasta my custom .lua into the MD one and away you go.
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Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
Edit: works fine! also found out that if you set your Shadow options to Low or OFF you will get allot of Light popping in the distance :P so remember to have the shadow qual on Medium or High
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Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
Same happens in version 1 and 2. You smash into a post or tree THEN it shows up.Gunsmith wrote:is it me or is there a lack of consistency with object draw distance? things like barrels, dead peds and debris all seem to pop into existence at random distances.I'm wondering if its a bug or if the draw value was left accidentally at console spec, has anyone else noticed this?
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=D thanks Trentarino!Trent wrote:In the \Data_Misc\config\ folder.
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Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
Well not improvement
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1184000877
Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
/sighCzechDeath wrote:LOLZ it fucked up the culling entirelly! peds are gone and most of the details on the cars are also POOF. what the fuck is this suppose to be? =DWell not improvement
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1184000877
copy paste this clerner version into your misc maps and try again.
https://pastebin.com/FgWvrmrc
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Keep your sighs dude =D we are all friends here.Gunsmith wrote:CzechDeath wrote:LOLZ it fucked up the culling entirelly! peds are gone and most of the details on the cars are also POOF. what the fuck is this suppose to be? =DWell not improvement
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1184000877
/sigh
copy paste this clerner version into your misc maps and try again.
It's what I did. unless you really mean copy paste in to and not over, resulting in duplication of everything.
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Wellp It works now =D TY cheers and remember chinice medicine teaches about benefits of breathing with our nose ;)
Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
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=D c'mon man I'm your loyal subscriber on youtube =3Gunsmith wrote:well at least its working now
Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
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That unfortunately is locked deep within SDK at this point. There was live disscussion amongst modders for some time regarding exactly this lack of shadowcasting. Unfortunatly only discovery produced by that, was that it cannot be enabled by any mod or script. =Ckrudanze wrote:wouldnt there by any chance be such magic trick for re-enabling the car lights shadows too?
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By any chance, they didn't happen to mention that the absence of shadows from dynamic sources is a result of the Umbra configs?
That unfortunately is locked deep within SDK at this point. There was live disscussion amongst modders for some time regarding exactly this lack of shadowcasting. Unfortunatly only discovery produced by that, was that it cannot be enabled by any mod or script. =C
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Shame that I have no idea what even are umbra configs, what is umbra? What-where am I ? Hello?! MOM?
EDIT*
Also Mike u gonna have to ask Trent or somthin'
Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
For those who don't know: Umbra is the middleware which the game uses for occlusion culling, or determining which objects are visible in the scene to decide whether to draw them or not.
As far as my own investigations went I could see the lights were still set to cast shadows and the graphics settings still had them enabled and everything else pointed to it being either a bug in the rendering code not drawing the shadows or a deliberate "optimization" in the graphics pipeline. It never occurred to me that Umbra might be culling everything from the headlight's lightmap rendering.
Removing the Umbra setup script (Data_Core\Levels\[Level_Name]\Umbra\setup.lol) does give you headlights but that is NOT SOMETHING YOU SHOULD EVER DO in most of the game's levels for one very good reason: it destroys the framerate. My i7 6700k with GTX1080 doesn't dip below 100fps on Outskirts, but removing the Umbra script and thus disabling culling entirely drops it to below 10fps. That's not even due to the GPU being pushed too hard, without culling the GPU is actually used less than with culling enabled, it doesn't hit more than 30% usage because the game is trying to make far too many draw calls each frame causing both the CPU and GPU to spend a lot of time idle while they wait for each other to respond.
The issue is clearly in the TOME files which controls how Umbra culls the scenes. Being a propitiatory middleware this is a bit of a blackbox, I haven't come across any tools to edit the files or information about the structure of them. I would assume there's some culling plane settings in there which determine shadow culling but I've got no idea where those settings would live in the files and at a few megabytes a piece they're not easy to skim through. It would be handy if I could find some good info about the format somewhere :/
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Trent beat me to it on the explanation, I know what Umbra does, but I've got absolutely no idea how to make changes to the configurations of it hehe.AW mah LAWD! We need this so much!Shame that I have no idea what even are umbra configs, what is umbra? What-where am I ? Hello?! MOM?
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Also Mike u gonna have to ask Trent or somthin'
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Object draw distance [Fixed - solution inside]
I had tried using a tome from CR in CMD which ended up culling 99% of objects in the scene. You wont get a stock tome to work with your custom level so youre best off optimizing the level's geometry to work without a tome.
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