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what is .lod??

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:13 am
by small_sumo
I'm trying to build some custom drivable vehecles, and am havig some troubles and I wonder if the lod file has something to do with it???

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 7:53 am
by mohaa_rox
I think u have to have bones. Go to TMT and see their "Sticky: Modelling, how they work!" Or something like that. Learn to create the bots necessary for creating a tank.

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:08 pm
by Yarik
Hey small sumo no need to worry. Im making a tutorial on Bones. Hopefully i will have Pictures unlike the first tutorial I made.
I think u have to have bones. Go to TMT and see their "Sticky: Modelling, how they work!" Or something like that. Learn to create the bots necessary for creating a tank.
MOHAA_ROX I myself have checked that out and gotta to say that it is not really helpfull/

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:21 pm
by small_sumo
Custom drivablevehecles? Have any of you guys progressed further than the work that scorpio did, the stuff I have? Please show me links or give up any info that might help. It just seams to me its a sleeping giant if only we could wake it. Imagine rocket jeeps etc, could be awesome fun.

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:50 pm
by Yarik
Small sumo. Read the news section. Medal of honor is coming out with a new expansion pack other then rising sun. Which will feature drivable vehicles. So just wait for that.

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 12:33 am
by small_sumo
Yeah maybe, its just that mohaa will always have a much bigger audience than any of they expansion packs. The possibilitys are there, scorpio reconed you can make a brush based vehecle, anything is drivable, he made my bulldozer drivable. You should be able to glue any kind of turret flakk88 whatever. If only I had the skills for scripting etc.

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 3:14 am
by mohaa_rox
Trench rats will include some driveable vehicles and usable howitzers.

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 5:18 am
by small_sumo
Thanks guyss but I think I will stop this maddness and do what I know I can do and stop waiting time being stoopid.

:(

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:54 am
by jv_map
Just getting back on topic :roll:

A .lod file is a 'level of detail' file, containing information on what triangles to draw for a given lod value. Lod values are higher if you increase model detail or move closer to the model. A model will 'work' without a .lod file, but will be worse for fps.

As far as I know the file format is not know by the community, so you cannot make your own .lod files :(

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:03 pm
by small_sumo
Cool explanation jv, ever noticed they went way overboard with the haystack lod? It looks stoopid from not far off. The lack of ea support is wak also these expansion packs should be free downloads to mohaa owners that just improve mohaa, they just profiteering is all.
Its just wak.