multiple visual lod levels

docs/src/progress/renderertodo.md

@@ -1968,6 +1968,7 @@ Performance improvements
  - Character services references set of already-loaded characters when simulating macro data
  - Normal outline pipeline use draw accumulator
  - Reduced the visual LOD cutoff
+ - Multiple visual LOD levels
 
 
 

src/main/java/electrosphere/client/sim/ClientSimulation.java

@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ public class ClientSimulation {
         Globals.profiler.beginCpuSample("update actor animations");
         for(Entity currentEntity : Globals.clientState.clientSceneWrapper.getScene().getEntitiesWithTag(EntityTags.DRAWABLE)){
             Actor currentActor = EntityUtils.getActor(currentEntity);
+            if(currentActor.getLodLevel() == Actor.LOD_LEVEL_STATIC){
+                continue;
+            }
             if(currentActor.isPlayingAnimation()){
                 currentActor.incrementAnimationTime((float)Globals.engineState.timekeeper.getSimFrameTime());
             }

src/main/java/electrosphere/renderer/actor/Actor.java

@@ -47,12 +47,17 @@ public class Actor {
     /**
      * full-resolution lod level
      */
-    public static final int LOD_LEVEL_FULL = 1;
+    public static final int LOD_LEVEL_FULL = 2;
 
     /**
      * lower-resolution lod level
      */
-    public static final int LOD_LEVEL_LOWER = 0;
+    public static final int LOD_LEVEL_LOWER = 1;
+
+    /**
+     * Performs static draw
+     */
+    public static final int LOD_LEVEL_STATIC = 0;
 
 
     /**
@@ -523,7 +528,7 @@ public class Actor {
 
         //fetch the model
         String pathToFetch = this.modelPath;
-        if(this.lodLevel == Actor.LOD_LEVEL_LOWER && this.lowResPath != null){
+        if(this.lodLevel <= Actor.LOD_LEVEL_LOWER && this.lowResPath != null){
             pathToFetch = this.lowResPath;
         }
         Model model = Globals.assetManager.fetchModel(pathToFetch);
@@ -581,7 +586,7 @@ public class Actor {
     public boolean isStaticDrawCall(){
         return 
         //is low lod level
-        this.lodLevel == Actor.LOD_LEVEL_LOWER ||
+        this.lodLevel == Actor.LOD_LEVEL_STATIC ||
         //actor doesn't have anything complicated render-wise (animations, custom textures, etc)
         (
             this.animationQueue.size() == 0 &&

src/main/java/electrosphere/renderer/target/DrawTargetEvaluator.java

@@ -26,7 +26,12 @@ public class DrawTargetEvaluator {
     /**
      * Cutoff after which we start using LOD models
      */
-    public static final int LOD_CUTOFF = 50;
+    public static final int LOD_STATIC_CUTOFF = 50;
+
+    /**
+     * Cutoff after which we draw lower resolution models
+     */
+    public static final int LOD_LOWER_CUTOFF = 30;
     
     /**
      * Evaluates the draw targets
@@ -75,10 +80,12 @@ public class DrawTargetEvaluator {
             
             //evaluate LOD level
             if(currentActor.getLowResPath() != null){
-                if(dist < LOD_CUTOFF){
+                if(dist < LOD_LOWER_CUTOFF){
                     currentActor.setLodLevel(Actor.LOD_LEVEL_FULL);
-                } else {
+                } else if(dist < LOD_STATIC_CUTOFF) {
                     currentActor.setLodLevel(Actor.LOD_LEVEL_LOWER);
+                } else {
+                    currentActor.setLodLevel(Actor.LOD_LEVEL_STATIC);
                 }
             }