Generate farther LOD ONLY

So I know the vanilla render distance and the Distant Horizons LOD render distance, the problem is Distant Horizons doesn’t generate the chunks themselves meaning if I actually want 64 LOD and 8 render distance I either have to go to the chunks to generate it or up the vanilla render distance, both not optimal options. Chunky is an option but having to pregenerate the chunks beforehand also doesn’t seem optimal Any way to generate the chunks but only render them as LOD constantly?
13 Replies
majo24
majo248mo ago
so the LOD chunks appear, but only after you've been in the chunks? Are you on a Server?
Cubed
CubedOP8mo ago
Wait you're right, I paid closer attention and it was loading in just much slower than I expected
majo24
majo248mo ago
DH relies on the slow world generation, but you could try increasing the CPU Load
Cubed
CubedOP8mo ago
I turned the render distance down to 4 and I could see it slowly load in but it stopped
Cubed
CubedOP8mo ago
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Cubed
CubedOP8mo ago
is that supposed to happen?
majo24
majo248mo ago
iirc they should generate, just wait a bit
Cubed
CubedOP8mo ago
Didn't know it actually generated chunks, had to load up a new world with 4 chunks to see it I was hoping I can walk around with 64 LOD render distance but oh well Is the time taken to generate the chunks or do the LOD? Because is it possible to have something pre-gen the chunks constantly around beyond your render distance and have distant horizons render it as LOD?
majo24
majo248mo ago
The generation takes the most time, loading is really quick not sure what you mean with that DH already generates chunk outside of your render distance and then renders them as LOD chunks
Cubed
CubedOP8mo ago
I feel mods like chunky or normal vanilla does it a lot faster though, is it just because of the CPU limitations in DH settings? Like for example 12 render distance minecraft loads pratically instantly, but in that image with 4 render distance the LOD barely goes ~8 before slowing way down
hardester
hardester8mo ago
Distant Horizons does more than just generating chunks beyond your render distance. It also needs to generate lods, load lods from disk, store lods to disk, render lods for display, those are to name the few things Distant Horizons do that I can see.
EXfighter
EXfighter8mo ago
I though DH did pre-gen already? As in, it generates LOD for chunks outside of your renderer distance. (This only works on single player). It isn't super fast but noticeable.
Cubed
CubedOP8mo ago
Sorry how late this is but no way thats the issue, going to unloaded chunks and generating them yourself will really quickly finish the LOD For example, waiting for the chunks to generate into LOD takes minutes, but walking to the chunks and leaving within a minute and the LOD is there On the other hand, going to an already generated and loaded world (either through Chunky or just a downloaded world) and Distant Horizons will start rendering the LOD (still not quick but much faster than going into a new world and waiting) The main bottleneck seems to be the generation for some reason and not the conversion to LOD
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