Hiding entities

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Moraldi (Posted 2007) [#1]

Is there any way to tell Blitz3D do not render entities (animated or static) when these are far away from camera, in order to improve speed execution? Thanks

big10p (Posted 2007) [#2]

Well, you can do this using EntityInView, EntityDistance (from camera) and HideEntity. Don't know how much of a speedup this would buy you, though. Guess it depends on the game. Also, If you use HideEntity, those entities no longer take part in collisions. If this is a problem, set the mesh's EntityAlpha to 0 to hide them instead. This will stop them from being rendered, but still participate in collisions. I think that's right.

Rob Farley (Posted 2007) [#3]

or just set the camera draw distance and blitz will handle it for you.

big10p (Posted 2007) [#4]

And there's EntityAutoFade, too.

Moraldi (Posted 2007) [#5]

Thanks!