LauriFB stated in Discord: stations will be visible from 200km, up to 1000km eventually
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Pfft, who cares about performance when we can see our targets from hundreds of km's away!? 
In all seriousness, render distance is always a tricky thing to get right. It can definitely impact performance substantially, but it's also really useful to have a high render distance, especially in games with PvP. I guess it's about striking the right balance between performance and practicality. With that said, there are things that can be done to give the illusion of longer render distance without such a heavy hit on performance, such as replacing the actual models with sprites at extreme distances and such.
In all seriousness, render distance is always a tricky thing to get right. It can definitely impact performance substantially, but it's also really useful to have a high render distance, especially in games with PvP. I guess it's about striking the right balance between performance and practicality. With that said, there are things that can be done to give the illusion of longer render distance without such a heavy hit on performance, such as replacing the actual models with sprites at extreme distances and such.
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That's not necessarily true. Just because it's rendered doesn't mean it's a 100% accurate render. They could use 2D sprites to represent them or extremely low voxel renders. If the station looks 10cm x 10cm x 10cm, then there's only a few hundred voxels representing the station. I would seriously doubt they would fully render the station.
Computing Wise this would have 0 impact. I think they talked about LOD being around 20km.
This would be nothing more then a simple directional location being sent to the client.
I think the 200km now and 1000km later is not rather tech limitation but player progression not really needing more vast distances yet. Our movement is slow and young and we are not going that far quite yet without proper navigation systems like being able create beacons and load them from outside or view distance.
But the good news is this should help us create some sort of basic location / gps system in the area depending how close other stations are. This is really going make early game GPS awesome and possible now.
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Never Mind it was visually so yeah this not going be performance hungry if they do it right via LOD and fake magic... For example if it gets far enough they just use a couple textures and pretend to be at a spot.
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So no real word on Transmit distance. I hope it's going be High Lauri already said they will probably be higher then default player set ranges.
This would be nothing more then a simple directional location being sent to the client.
I think the 200km now and 1000km later is not rather tech limitation but player progression not really needing more vast distances yet. Our movement is slow and young and we are not going that far quite yet without proper navigation systems like being able create beacons and load them from outside or view distance.
But the good news is this should help us create some sort of basic location / gps system in the area depending how close other stations are. This is really going make early game GPS awesome and possible now.
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Never Mind it was visually so yeah this not going be performance hungry if they do it right via LOD and fake magic... For example if it gets far enough they just use a couple textures and pretend to be at a spot.
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So no real word on Transmit distance. I hope it's going be High Lauri already said they will probably be higher then default player set ranges.
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200 km is current, 1000 km is indeed something where even largest stations most likely render only pixel-sized, which is the goal. Our station LOD's are more like smart LOD logic combined with well done hand-created LOD's than superior LOD tech. Even with Starbase it's not always tech first, but rather than smart thinking first . But of course this wouldn't be possible without our superior streaming technology
. But of course this wouldn't be possible without our superior streaming technology
200 km is current, 1000 km is indeed something where even largest stations most likely render only pixel-sized, which is the goal. Our station LOD's are more like smart LOD logic combined with well done hand-created LOD's than superior LOD tech. Even with Starbase it's not always tech first, but rather than smart thinking first . But of course this wouldn't be possible without our superior streaming technology
. But of course this wouldn't be possible without our superior streaming technology
What is LOD ?
I am missing something here.
I am missing something here.
Pretty much the further you go away from the object the less complexity it has to cause less performance hit to your PC. Sometimes these systems can turn it all the way down to say a simple texture vs an object to be like 0 hit even.
LOD tech something devs always are working on to making better in the industrial especially in Multiplayer games.
