Render distance for cars... please fix it. Should only be a number somewhere. | Forums

[ztommm]

So I am on PC,

landscape details on.. Ultimate.
Level of detail on Ultimate..

I'm hovering in helicopter above a base with destroy a truck mission goal .. AND THE TRUCK DOES NOT EVEN RENDER IN from like few hundred meters of direct visibility!!!!

I had to go down and get easily targeted by the brave NPCs to notice where the truck renders in to give it a salvo of rockets and be done with the mission.

Guess what does render in: the SHADOW for the car! You know what else renders in? PEOPLE sitting in a car, well floating in air where the car is supposed to be.This is how I first notice most of the cars from helicopter: just people floating along the road in sitting position above the shadow of a car.

WHY?!?!

Please make the render distance of cars at least the same as people render distance. there are only few cars at a time around anyway, unless it's one of these "pile all the enemies you can into one burning train of wrecks in 2 minutes". Then there are maybe like 8 or 10. Still not a lot, compared to all the things you have to render for ultimate settings anyway.

[ztommm]

Ok, I\m now hovering above weapons truck destruction mission. The truck is in the middle of the forest. I am pretty much grazing the tops of the trees wih helicopter here and o.. ooh, it finally rendered in!! At 170 meters! And it renders out again at 180 meters!!! LESS THAN 200 meters!!!!

Are you kidding me?

At the angle helicopter missile targeting works, I can't even get low enough to have the truck in my sights and have it rendered in at the same time!

[ztommm]

If you feel confused, then this is how cars look when viewed from few hundered meters away. There are 3 of them in this picture, as you can guess by the shadows and people, that have rendered in without the actual cars themselves.

[ztommm]

HAHA, even the cargo INSIDE the truck is rendered, but not the truck itself?!

[Noonie167]

Now that you mention it, it is strange. I thought it was amusing the first couple of times, and thought it was just my 1 year old 1050TI rust bucket laptop. Maybe one of the devs/artists or whoever was hired from CIV.