Increase geometric level of detail
Allows increasing the geometry level of detail slider above 1.0 without breaking the LOD system
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About this mod Machine translation
Allows increasing the geometry level of detail slider above 1.0 without breaking the LOD system
Increase geometric level of detail
🎯 Features
This mod breaks the limitations of the original game and allows you to adjust the geometry level of detail slider above 1.0 without causing LOD (Level of Detail) system crashes or distant objects disappearing.
🔧 Technical principles
In the original game, the geometry level of detail was hard capped at 1.0, and any setting above this would cause LODs and distant trees to disappear. By digging into the game files, I discovered a way to increase the geometric level of detail without breaking the LOD system.
✨ Significant advantages
- **Longer Rendering Distance**: Ability to render props, pedestrians and small plants at longer distances
- **Tree display optimization**: Increase the range of trees transformed into substitutes, completely solving the problem of trees suddenly appearing
- **Compatible with existing functions**: Contains all existing functions of the extended LOD module
📸 Effect comparison
**Before fix (LODSCALE 2.0)**
**After fix (LODSCALE 2.0)**
**Details comparison (LODSCALE 1.0 vs 2.0)**
While the difference may not be obvious in the pictures, the actual effect in the game is huge.
LODSCALE 1.0
LODSCALE 2.0
⚠️ Current Limitations
Due to the way the game's LOD system is set up, there can only be a 0.25 difference between the highest and lowest setting of the Geometry Level of Detail slider (versus 0.75 to 1.0 in the original version). This means I need to make different versions of the mod, each with an increment of 0.25, rather than one unified version with a wide range of options.
📦 Installation instructions
Just unzip the ZIP file and place the folder into your LML installation directory.
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*Thanks for reading! This mod, while still in its early stages, can already significantly improve the gaming experience. If you find any bugs related to improving the LOD ratio during use, please provide feedback in time. *
Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
- There is no universal mod manager for this game: some mods replace game files directly, some go into a game-specific Mods folder, and some need a game-specific community loader or tool first — follow the bundled readme.
- Place the files exactly as the readme says; mods with listed dependencies need those installed too.
- Launch the game to confirm it loaded; some games require enabling mods in settings or an in-game mod menu.
Install locations vary a lot between games and mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.