Increase Camera Far Clip Distance

[raisins]

Hey guys, I'm working on an open world game and I have a problem with the editor. I can't see enough to navigate my map. The map is 1000* larger than the default setup (default template with round floor). Also, the map disappears after some distance?

How can I fix this?

Thanks.

[SolarPortal]

There is a dockable panel which is called "scene settings". You can get to this with the default layout by scrolling across the panels in the bottom right, when you see scene settings click on it and the panel will change.

Look for the camera options and you will see a far clip distance.

Remember to be careful, large far clip with close near clip will start to cause depth fighting issues of materials over distance

Hope this helps

[raisins]

Thank you

[lordalmighty1]

hey sp, question if you don't mind?. or 2 lol, I have a map that is 10000 big and I change the far clip to 15000 but never new about the issue with close clip lol. so what would be ideal to change these to please in your opinion m8?.
I normally just change the far clip so I can see the whole map when editing the terrain etc.
any other tips regarding this would be appreciated thanks m8

[SolarPortal]

Near clip is down to what mechanic and camera is at play.

Example: FPS - Camera close to weapon and other buildings, floor etc.. so a near clip of 0.01 to 0.1 would be ideal. My preference is 0.1 (10cm), but can lead to a gap at the camera.

Example TPS - Camera is further away - So a near clip of 0.3 to 1.0 can be used depending on whether the camera collides with the walls etc...

Example Vehicle from TP - This in an open world could almost get away with 1m a unit of 1.0 for near clip, but you cannot get close to walls otherwise they clip out.

Example Vehicle from FP - This is similar to the FPS, a value of around 0.1 will be good or even 0.2

The near clip is also down to whether you see flashing in the distance as this is caused as described before from depth fighting. If you have too much flashing, reduce the far clip or move the near clip up. It all depends on a game.

0.01 is a low value and is advised to be higher than this

Edit: I believe the default value in the default scene is a good setting, which is what we use and only change when issues arise with depth fighting or near clipping of objects.

[lordalmighty1]

thanks m8

[TattieBoJangle]

[SolarPortal]

nice tattie

10000 is a big map (10km) but one of our older users who hasn't been active for a long time used to run at 16km and built road systems etc... But 32bit struggles with the memory consumption lol

A few pointers on the video:
> A Lod Bias of 0.15 will affect the terrain when it has hills and undulations. I tend to set the lod bias to what works with the terrain which is usually around 0.8 and then base my mesh lod distances on this.
> The flashing on the windows looked like they had a mesh underneath. Were they possibly converted from .x and contain all their lods in one mesh file

Its great you mentioned about the performance of adding extra distance and that you showed the FPS player has its own camera with its own settings Overall really good video, Thank you

[TattieBoJangle]

[SolarPortal]

[StarFire]

There is some interesting info down the page on clipping planes in this link although its another engine some of the info is still relevent:

There is always a trade off between near and far clipping and this generally should be set for the type of game. Note though if you play with the far rang you should adjust the near range to prevent weird artifacts. This is a problem will most 3D rendering technology.

[TattieBoJangle]

yea that is a nice read i think i stumbled on that before, before i came to skyline i used to use dof & fog to help with such things mask it lol i do love open world myself so i cant wait to see some screenshots to see what others are doing

[lordalmighty1]

thanks for the vid tattie m8 .

[StarFire]

We have made a couple of big open world demos in the past, sadly we then change the core scale and this ruined them and another named "CornSquare" fails to load due to lack of memory , so hopefully once we get 64 bit we will get it back and be able to share it with you.