LOD Help

toxic_h2o

Hey everyone I have a question about LOD. I have these giant cliff walls for my environment. I was wondering what would be an appropriate LOD for these. I will have about maybe 20 in the environment total with a vertex painting material(74 instructions) applied to them.

What I was thinking.
Player distance
Close
4096x, 2000 tri, vertex paint shader?

Medium
2048x, 1200 tri, vertex paint shader?

Far
1024x, 500 tri, standard texture?

I am very new to this so any help would be great!~

Also the cliff mesh/texture/uvs are still Wip. I just wanted to test out the shader and make sure I could swap out textures and what not.

mr_ace

i'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't really think anyones using maps as high as 4k for realtime, i think they're too stressful on the RAM, but i could be wrong, environments arn't really my thing!

Xendance

Don't make seperate textures, your hi-res will have mip-maps anyway.

Olli.

indeed 4096x seems a bit extreme.. could probably achieve the same effect with a smaller texture combined with a detail map or some blend shading.. depending on what your engine supports.