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Huns Valen
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Join date: 3 May 2003
Posts: 2,749
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03-18-2005 03:08
Right now, draw distance seems to work in a partially 2-D sense. When I am flying high above the ground, all I can see is the sky and sometimes the clouds - and yet, my mini-map fills up with objects, and my bandwidth is way up over 700 kilobits/sec in densely-built areas. I do think it is useful to have that, since the light blue objects are yours and you can use it to locate things you've lost, but it would be nice if we could turn it off. There is no sense in streaming tons of content to me, and forcing my CPU to handle it, when I cannot see it. So I would like to see a toggle that lets us specify that our draw distance is to work in all three dimensions.
If this is implemented in the new render architecture, bravo!
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,989
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03-18-2005 03:19
Wow, they still haven't "fixed" that?
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
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Maxx Monde
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Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,848
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03-18-2005 04:53
I really wish I could disable texture downloads beyond a certain radius too, because you just *know* its joe-prim's 1024x1024 on a 0.5 meter cube that is choking the download pipe. Gah. How about flat-shaded beyond max distance? Please?
Anything would help, really.
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
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03-19-2005 14:17
That's a given that should come along with the whole package. Actually, I think he meant that too. It's wasting tons of bandwidth. I think the texture stuff is the biggest chunk of the waste though.
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
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