POV 3.5 Objects

[Lee Braiden]

On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 6:38 pm, Leon Pennington wrote:
> If you look on the bottom left of the pick you'll see a slider called
> display detail. It quite high but it will go further as well. So you can
> have as much or as little detail as you need. Push it all the way down (The
> default) and it goes back to the simple box. (the staticStructure).

Hi,

I'm a lurker, who contributes absolutely nothing to KPM right now.  Just 
thought I should mention that ;)

Before I say anything else, I'd like to add that landscapes are a great 
feature, and I'm really looking forward to using it.  I really like the 
implementation for the most part, too :)

Anyway, I was just thinking that the slider seems a little too absolute.  I 
mean, if you set it to maximum, you'll probably need to adjust it later, as 
soon as you want to work with some other object.  If you move to another 
group of objects, or double the complexity of your scene, you would need to 
change it again.  It might be slow and awkward until you actually get the 
change done.

What if you could set the maximum scene complexity somehow (in terms of total 
polys, or update time, or whatever), and set the landscape complexity 
relative to that, or have it automatically adjust based on the (actual, 
in-context) object visibility level?

-- 
- Lee.