World LOD

Overview

The World LOD dialog is used to generate LOD terrain and LOD building geometry for the world.

Data Fields and Buttons

• Worldspace list: List of all Worldspaces.
• Worldspace Stats: TBD
• Generate Terrain Meshes: Creates terrain meshes for the world from the local land geometry.
• Generate Terrain Textures: Builds texture and normal maps for the LOD terrain, also from the local land.
• Chop Terrain Texture: Allows you to instead build LOD terrain texture maps from a handpainted texture up to 8192x8192 in size. It does not build normal maps. (This might be changing - TBD)
• Generate Objects: Creates LOD geometry and texture maps for all refs in the world that are marked visible distant.

Notes

• Currently, all of the functionality that creates textures creates source TGA textures that need to go through our build process to actually be visible in the game. (This might be changing - TBD)
• The mesh generation process requires at least 1GB of memory and takes a rather long time, on the order of 6-8 hours.