lods

Say I have lod 0,1,2,3 and 4 for a car.
Then how do I know which lod the car uses in the game?
I mean,can I delete lod 0,1,2,3 and keep only lod 4 without causing any problem to the game?
Only Pedro's mods use lod 0 for all cars,else the game crashes,no other mod has this feature.

Kimi forever!

If you want to run only 1 lod in your cars.wad, delete lod1, lod2, lod3, lod4. The game uses Lod0 the majority of the time. The other lods are for keeping the PO low. I dont understand why people dont use them. I need to use them as I run it on a laptop but my po rarely goes over 40-50% at 40 fps.

Glenn(Cdn)

I deleted all lods 0,1,2 and 3 from cars.wad,how now there is an error while loading the track.See the log.

Starting log
GPxPatch version: 3.93
GPx version detected: decrypted GP4 v1.02
Verbosity level is 0
OS version info: Windows XP Service Pack 2 build 2600
Total physical memory: 984 MB (free: 362 MB)
Debugging GP4.exe
Process will run on CPU 1 only
Waiting for debug events...
Injecting DLL loading code...
Injection succesful
First chance exception
Exception address: 0x0045b267
Exception code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Process tried to read from virtual address 0x0000000c
Unhandled exception
Exception address: 0x0045b267
Exception code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Process tried to read from virtual address 0x0000000c
Stack trace:
0045B267: Games\GP4\GPxPatch.exe! <no symbol>
04AA37E0: <no module><no symbol>
35F19787: <no module><no symbol>
Registers:
EAX=04A65CB8 ECX=00000000 ESI=00000000
EBX=00000000 EDX=00000000 EDI=04A65CB8
CS:EIP=001B:0045B267
SS:ESP=0023:0012E154 EBP=04A651C0
DS=0023 ES=0023 FS=003B GS=0000
Flags=00000216
Stack dump:
0012e154: 00000000 04a65c78 00000000 3f800000 '....x\.........?'
0012e164: 00000000 00000000 00457e9d 00000000 '.........~E.....'
0012e174: 00000000 04aad0f8 00457f70 ffffffff '........p.E.....'
0012e184: 00000000 04a65a18 7f7fffff 7f7fffff '.....Z..........'
0012e194: 7f7fffff ff7fffff ff7fffff ff7fffff '................'
0012e1a4: ff7fffff ff7fffff 04a65cb8 006445a8 '.........\...Ed.'
0012e1b4: 04a651c0 004864ff 0012e274 04a65cb8 '.Q...dH.t....\..'
0012e1c4: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
0012e1d4: 01000000 04a6961c 00a4cd08 006448e8 '.............Hd.'
0012e1e4: 006445a8 ffae9c4c 00000003 04a652cc '.Ed.L........R..'
0012e1f4: 7466654c 7261625f 625f6567 6472616f 'Left_barge_board'
0012e204: 00000000 3f800000 00000000 00000000 '.......?........'
0012e214: 00000000 00000000 3f800000 00000000 '...........?....'
0012e224: 00000000 3c23d70a be158106 3f800000 '......#<.......?'
0012e234: 01cbd16b 005e0f58 01cbd16b 00140000 'k...X.^.k.......'
0012e244: 00000007 00000007 0012e270 005db32a '........p...*.].'
0012e254: 01cbd16b 0001d26d 00000007 0012e1bc 'k...m...........'
0012e264: 00140000 0012e064 7c90e920 0012e4a4 '....d... ..|....'
0012e274: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
0012e284: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00643ba8 '.............;d.'
0012e294: 04a651c0 00000000 00000000 04a442b8 '.Q...........B..'
0012e2a4: 004841c2 7c9100c4 00140000 00643b20 '.AH....|.... ;d.'
0012e2b4: 00643b44 00000024 00000030 65656877 'D;d.$...0...whee'
0012e2c4: 636d5f6c 6572616c 2e325f6e 00616774 'l_mclaren_2.tga.'
0012e2d4: 68676972 2e325f74 00616774 048e1000 'right_2.tga.....'
0012e2e4: 04830000 04000000 0012e334 7c91191e '........4......|'
0012e2f4: 0000023f 008e0db8 00000000 00140000 '?...............'
0012e304: 048e0db8 00000000 00000fb0 048e1000 '................'
0012e314: 7c94b1be 04830000 00000000 00000000 '...|............'
0012e324: 00000000 00000049 00000000 04460040 '....I.......@.F.'
0012e334: 7c94b1be 04460178 00000e88 feeefeee '...|x.F.........'
0012e344: 00140000 04946fa0 00004fb8 0012e374 '.....o...O..t...'
0012e354: 7c9116ef 00140000 04946fa0 04946fa0 '...|.....o...o..'
0012e364: 00140000 7c90d9ba 7c90e5bb 0012e660 '.......|...|`...'
0012e374: 0012e37c 00000001 00010007 07946fa0 '|............o..'
0012e384: 00000000 00140000 04946fa0 00000000 '.........o......'
0012e394: 00000d60 0496e000 0445ff48 04830000 '`.......H.E.....'
0012e3a4: 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000000c '................'
0012e3b4: 00000000 000001ac 0012e4a4 7c935fc1 '............._.|'
0012e3c4: 04947000 00027000 7c926256 04946fa0 '.p...p..Vb.|.o..'
0012e3d4: 00140000 04946fa8 052b0000 011a58b8 '.....o....+..X..'
0012e3e4: 00140000 00000000 0012e420 7c96e57f '........ ......|'
0012e3f4: 00000000 00000000 00000002 00140000 '................'
0012e404: 011a0000 7c920000 0012003b 7c960023 '.......|;...#..|'
0012e414: 011a0023 7c859f08 0012e6dc 04d29d28 '#......|....(...'
0012e424: 0012ea00 00000000 0012e660 0012e6b0 '........`.......'
0012e434: 7c812a6b 0002001b 00000202 0012e65c 'k*.|........\...'
0012e444: 00000023 00000000 7c96f86c 031a0000 '#.......l..|....'
0012e454: 04460048 00140000 00000000 0012e494 'H.F.............'
0012e464: 0496e57f 00140000 00140000 7c926256 '............Vb.|'
0012e474: 0012e4a8 7c96e57f 00140000 00000000 '.......|........'
0012e484: 00000000 00140000 0012e6f4 005e0304 '..............^.'
0012e494: 00000073 0012eb38 005ed74e 00000000 's...8...N.^.....'
0012e4a4: 0048d7d8 01cba568 00000001 0012e509 '..H.h...........'
0012e4b4: 0012e529 00363026 00000000 00000000 '...&06.........'
0012e4c4: 00000000 7c9100c4 00000000 00000000 '.......|........'
0012e4d4: 7c80abd1 00363026 00c9cdb9 00c7d1cf '...|&06.........'
0012e4e4: 00212024 00000001 000f0b09 00201c1a '$ !........... .'
0012e4f4: 00e3dccf 007b6129 000a0a0a 00e9e9e1 '....)a{.........'
0012e504: 04a651c0 63696d01 696c6568 7c96006e '.Q...michelin..|'
0012e514: ffffffff 7c96f86c 7c94bc5a 00140000 '....l..|Z..|....'
0012e524: 50000061 7c003056 00140000 04946fa8 'a..PV0.|.....o..'
0012e534: 40000060 7c91043e 04000fc8 00140000 '`..@>..|........'
0012e544: 0012e488 00000002 00363026 63696d02 '........&06..mic'

Kimi forever!

Dont delete lod0.

Glenn(Cdn)

You will ALWAYS need lod_0, this is the most detailed lod of the carshapes
If you want to run on lower lods you will have to rename them as 0, with teameditor you can set a option for GP4 to only use lod_0, 1-4 then can be deleted
If this is not enabled you will always need lod_0 to lod_4

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LOD (Level of Details) is part of rendering technique adapted by Direct3D engine to "simulate" textures to be viewed from different distance of views. This technique help the 3D graphics to display the proper look of textures degradation to smoothening their appearance. If a texture rendered without LOD sequence, we might lost the "smooth" feel because the texture are shrinking only by dithering methods, which is faster (optimized for real-time rendering) but takes cost in quality. With LODs, texture designers allow to generate texture sequences that already pre-fined e.g. using better dithering or using smooth filtering. Just imagine if a 1024x1024 texture rendered to 10x10 part on the screen. LODs also help improving framerates while rendering objects at the farther distance.

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MDBSnake écrivait:
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> You will ALWAYS need lod_0, this is the most
> detailed lod of the carshapes
> If you want to run on lower lods you will have to
> rename them as 0,

You are 100% right maikel but be careful before to rename lod1,2,3 or 4 as lod0.

for a car done using "GP4 standart", lod1, 2 and 3 don't have "z_cockpit" objects and lod4 has just 1 object named "cockpit_low", so take account missing objects they can't be used directly as lod0 which ask the presence of all objects.

If I set the option use lod_4 only in globalvars,will the cars use lod_4 in the game?

Kimi forever!

if you use only lod4, you won't noticed any correct car ingame, because this is the lowest lod without any details for the shape

then should I use lod_3?

Kimi forever!

can you read? there's already written which lods you should use

Here's the rule for LOD texture:
LOD 0 = mandatory
LOD 1 = optional, require LOD 0
LOD 2 = optional, require LOD 1
LOD 3 = optional, require LOD 2
LOD 4 = optional, require LOD 3

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In reality, doesn't matter who's right but most important is who's left.

So,can I delete lod 2,3,4 if I use only lod0 and 1?

Kimi forever!

ooleeeo Schreef:
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> So,can I delete lod 2,3,4 if I use only lod0 and
> 1?


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