HydrabloxJoin Date: 2009-11-03
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• What?
When you play a game in a large world, everything you perceive is within this so called "Render Range" or "Render Distance". In some cases the render range at MAX graphical settings is sometimes not enough, that means we want to expand the render range and see what's beyond.
• Why?
Take a space game for example, you fly in a large map with your spacecraft to several planets but these are so far away from your position that you don't see them until you fly really close to them, this is what happens with the current render range but if we could expand it we could see all the planets.
• How?
The first solution to this problem is to be able to edit render range, this could be a property in workspace, for example: workspace.RenderRange = 6000
But that is mostly not recommended because the players may get a lot of lag, that's the reason why we have a limited graphical quality don't we? I still insist to enable this option because the developer should know what's best for his game and whatnot.
However, another solution might be to render a physical object separately from the rest within a specific range, this could be done by scripting.
For example: i'd like to render a space-station in workspace within a 100 000 studs range and let anything else in workspace be rendered by Roblox as it is currently.
I assume we'll need a LocalScript to do this and it could be something like this:
workspace.SpaceStation:RenderInRange(100 000)
• Note
This suggestion has multiple applications and would allow more freedom in game development, if you like this idea then please support the thread and if not, please explain. |
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CoinyeJoin Date: 2010-07-19
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Or add a boolean property called AlwaysRender that will determine if an object should render past the maximum distance. |
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OneShot17Join Date: 2014-04-06
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Support. @above that might work but it's less precise.
Better idea though, make it an editable advanced server-side field instead of a client method. |
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No. That's to the player to set the graphics level to what their machine can render, which already exists. |
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HydrabloxJoin Date: 2009-11-03
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@Argelius That could work as well. |
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@Maker, increasing graphics quality increases the texture quality more than render range. High texture quality makes my computer lag, but high render range doesn't. |
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HydrabloxJoin Date: 2009-11-03
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@MakerModelLua This really depends what kind of game the developer is making, i've used the example of a spacecraft game.
Sometimes Roblox's graphical settings limit what the machine can actually render, in other words, Roblox doesn't necessarily set the actual maximum graphical capacity.
And what f0rm said is also a factor. |
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ScivalJoin Date: 2011-07-23
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Supported, would add more realism to space games. |
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XenonLiJoin Date: 2009-08-19
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support |
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JDLENLJoin Date: 2009-12-23
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suprot |
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JdogmadJoin Date: 2011-12-17
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Very good idea |
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OneShot17Join Date: 2014-04-06
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lel basically every one of the supports is from a very active member of teh SC community. |
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Cav33Join Date: 2012-09-04
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I think instead of the developer controling it, the player should.
I also think that the game should just render faraway objects but with a much low detail setting. |
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DinoAndyJoin Date: 2010-02-27
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Support, because why not? |
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llaserxJoin Date: 2011-12-10
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HydrabloxJoin Date: 2009-11-03
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Some need to actually read the whole thread to understand. |
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quinn1337Join Date: 2012-08-12
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Do not support. It will break allot of scary maps. |
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Lol no one read the entire post did they?
I support thought |
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BerganJoin Date: 2007-11-23
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The concept of a single thing always rendering has never occured to me...and I like it. Support. |
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llaserxJoin Date: 2011-12-10
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HydrabloxJoin Date: 2009-11-03
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Well some red it but it seems that understanding the concept is very hard huh? |
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I read the whole thing, and I support. |
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colf456Join Date: 2014-07-25
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Support. |
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