Question about LODs

This is the last one I open, I promise!
I noticed my cars.wad is a bit slow. I reduced the size of all the textures but I noticed the .gp4 files are somewhat big. Sometimes, when a car is released, it has only the #1 lods for both cars, so I copied them and renamed until lod #4. Some lods are quite big, about 1.5 megabytes.
Sp my question is: shall I use ALL the lods for any car or is it possible to use only one?
Thanks everyone!

You can use the lods 0 only and use team Editor to force the best carshapes. So, you will get a smaller cars.wad but the game will use only the best carshapes.The wad will load faster, that's all. if the game runs slowly at the base, it may not come from the size of your cars.wad. it depends of several things: processor, graphic card, memory ram, the f1graphics file... But test it with the lods 0 and see...

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/15/2009 08:07PM by Excalibur.

Thanks!
In many cases, I used only Lod0, so my computer is just old enough...

james84 Wrote:
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> Thanks!
> In many cases, I used only Lod0, so my computer is
> just old enough...

With Lod0 only that will increase the PO

If you have old pc i suggest all lods and reduce the size
of the lods 1 - 4.

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Oh yes, I hadn't mention it.I thought his problem was just to reduce his wad but... You're right, Jorge!

@James84: I've got a small configuration, too. I was even obliged to reduce the lod0 a little bit and to make lower lods from it (but the shapes still keep a good quality anyway...)

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Thanks, how can I reduce the lods? :D

Have a search for lower lod tutorial its very good

Here it is: Gp4 faq: Tutorial: How to build lower lods

Thanks Fongu

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Fantastic!
Thanks!