What is the point of...

[PeterDutcher]

What is the point of making items transparent from the bottom? Very frustrating.

[Ulysses Dare]

It happens with certain pieces because when they were made being able to see them from below wasn't contemplated. So the artist saved time—and processor cycles—by not drawing a surface on the bottom. In the virtual world, transparent is the default state.

[Oubliette_Red]

  On 2/25/2020 at 7:30 PM, Ulysses Dare said:

It happens with certain pieces because when they were made being able to see them from below wasn't contemplated. So the artist saved time—and processor cycles—by not drawing a surface on the bottom. In the virtual world, transparent is the default state.

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This.

Rendering textures uses resources, which is why so many items do not have textures on the bottom/top/back.

Which is why I was so baffled when I found a hole in Faultline and got to explore around underneath it and found so much of the original Faultline's canyon intact. No wonder Faultline is such a lagfest even when not that many people are present in the zone.

[Ulysses Dare]

  On 2/25/2020 at 9:14 PM, Oubliette_Red said:

Which is why I was so baffled when I found a hole in Faultline and got to explore around underneath it and found so much of the original Faultline's canyon intact. No wonder Faultline is such a lagfest even when not that many people are present in the zone.

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Did it have any mobs?

[Oubliette_Red]

  On 2/26/2020 at 12:31 AM, Ulysses Dare said:

Did it have any mobs?

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Just the normal mobs in the zone. Nothing below the new water level. If I recall correctly, the old 'floor' was removed and the buildings that had been there, but the canyon wall were huge, going down at least as far as the war wall went up. Most of which you cannot see from above but still get generated none the less.

 

They patched the hole I used to access it, by the way. It was kind of interesting seeing the hospital from the outside. Three identical floors that you rez in that lead to the lobby.

 

Edited February 26, 2020 by Oubliette_Red

[Dacy]

That's really interesting! Also, if clearing the map is the same amount of work as clearing a base, I understand why they did it that way....

 

-Dacy

[Oubliette_Red]

Just to give you an idea of some of the stuff you don't see but is generated anyway.

 

 

All these objects are like Lego® blocks snapped together, but you may only see a portion of the piece. Many walls and ceilings are textured on only one side, which is why you can see into these rooms.

[Guardia]

Backface and occlusion culling of unseen surface textures should help with the rendering load. Does anyone know if CoH uses this?

[Oubliette_Red]

  On 2/28/2020 at 1:55 PM, Guardia said:

Backface and occlusion culling of unseen surface textures should help with the rendering load. Does anyone know if CoH uses this?

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That would be a question for one of the Devs.

[ShardWarrior]

What is the point of posting a thread with an incomplete title? 😉

[WanderingAries]

  On 2/28/2020 at 7:33 PM, ShardWarrior said:

What is the point of posting a thread with an incomplete title? 😉

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To make you ask questions...

[Oubliette_Red]

  On 2/28/2020 at 7:33 PM, ShardWarrior said:

What is the point of posting a thread with an incomplete title? 😉

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This is why I like the popover preview you can get when you hover over a title, saves me from entering a thread I wouldn't be commenting in anyway.

 

[PeterDutcher]

  On 2/28/2020 at 7:33 PM, ShardWarrior said:

What is the point of posting a thread with an incomplete title? 😉

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Because people may have different questions.

[KC4800]

  On 2/28/2020 at 7:33 PM, ShardWarrior said:

What is the point of posting a thread with an incomplete title? 😉

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Click bait, duh!