[REL] 20mm Gun Sight Mod

[Krishna]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

what chance is there that maybe while they are at long distance the plane textures could be swapped out for a black dot so its easier to locate them, then as they get closer switch to the plane textures?

Well, the LOD settings in the dat only seem to affect the caustics (sea relflections) which are disabled on aircraft anyway, and bumpmapping.

Texture LOD is controlled via the objects texture mipmaps, which if you open the objects texture .dds file in photoshop (with a necessary .dds plugin filter) you will see.

An example of what it should look like (not from SH4 obviously :P) is:



With the mipmaps being the increasingly smaller versions to the right of the main image.

You could (theoretically) edit the texture so the furthest right version(s) are just black boxes and see if that works.

Krishna.

Note: I'm only a week into playing SH4, let alone modding it, so anything I say is theoretical until I learn more about the way SH4 handles things, and there are more people here I'm sure with a better idea of how the engine works, if so please feel free to correct me if I go down the wrong track :P