view dependent displacement

[stevesideas]

Is something like this possible where the displacement is only calculated within the cone of the selected camera ? This would be very useful for saving memory when doing landscapes. Currently I have to break apart the landscapes and use displacement on different sections depending on the camera position.

[vlado]

It is not impossible... it was requested before and we'll get to that.

Best regards,
Vlado

[stevesideas]

Good stuff.

[bardo]

I think it could be good also to have a degradation of the tesselation dependently from the distance to the camera.
If it's possibile, you should control the degradation with a near/far input values like the clipping planes.

Vlado..what do you think??
I think in this mode the memory optimization it's the best possible.

[vlado]

I think it could be good also to have a degradation of the tesselation dependently from the distance to the camera.

This is precisely what the "view-dependent" option does It uses the edge length to drive the tessellation though.

Best regards,
Vlado

[bardo]

but at the moment with which rule it defines the tessellation levels?

What I'm saying is that sometimes I should have the ability to control the degradation...and some near/far spinners could help...is it doable??

EDIT: I'm sorry...I've read the manual and I found which rule it uses...but I think my question is good again.
As comparison, you could think how the scatters plugins (multiscatter, forest pro, ecc) works with near/far density of the instances.
is it possibile to have a similar workflow for the displacement tessellation??