First LODs for 2x2 blocks doesn't look right on high?
I don't have a technical problem but I have an aesthetic one? I'm trying to build a tower that's visible across the server and my idea was to use symbols with pixels consisting of 2x2 blocks. However, I've noticed that even at the first level of LODs with High Quality the generated LODs don't look correct? They're correct when I go to extreme quality but then it seems that LODs all the way to render distance are accurate to 1x1 instead of 2x2? Is there some way I can build to fix this or change my settings without tanking my fps?
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don't know if that's possible to avoid, it intentionally renders an approximation, and is not meant for things that need their shape to remain untouched like numbers/symbols, it's meant for arbitrary structures and terrain
If I changed to 3x3 or 4x4 pixels would it have the same problems?
Also the build is chunk aligned
idk, probably not, dh is just not meant for that type of thing
Not even for the closest highest quality lod?
It works fine on extreme.
I'm guessing the LODs are optimized for horizontals but not vertical?
maybe if you mabe it bit bigger it would remain coherent on just high quality and on the closest lod level
basically yeah
it might be the vertical quality that is messing it
I'm pretty sure it is
so maybe you could set the overall quality to high and try to tweak the vertical quality separately
Is that an option?
but i wouldn't hold my breath for it
yes, somewhere in advanced settings
Ooh interesting
there are loads of things that can be tweaked, I don't even know what half of it means
I can understand lods not working for 1x1. Just was surprised to see chunk aligned 2x2 also not work
@Rammy Does changing the vertical quality re-generate all the LODs?
no
it will just reload them but not rebuild
interesting... well I'm gonna give this a minute and send some results
The idea of the tower is once you spawn in you can see the whole server 😛
yeah dh is king
And you can see the tower from the whole server
Solution
The solution is to just set the vertical quality to max
how funny, the max preset is called pixel art