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Author Topic: Distant Geometry Clipping/Disappearing  (Read 4316 times)

Distant Geometry Clipping/Disappearing
« on: October 01, 2011, 07:56:56 am »
October 01, 2011, 07:56:56 am
Hi, I have a model that is quite big. There is a hill some 8 km away (its a google earth mesh) that is a focal point in the area... when in Lumion however, that hill flickers and its top half kind disappears, and only when I get closer the hill appears again in its entirety.

it happens both in preview mode and also when rendering final movie.


its there some setting to avoid this? Some setting I can change?

maybe resizing the model, INSIDE Sketchup, from 8000 meters wide to 800 meters??

Although I suppose it will be a pain in the ass to resize all standart objects that I include from Lumion (people, trees, cars) to the correct size to match the size imported from Sketchup...

ps: it seems the distant objects (in the case the large hill) only has the "clipping" / dissapearance problem when straight ahead of the camera. When the hill in the corner of the screen, it appears fully.

Re: Distant Geometry Clipping/Disappearing
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2011, 09:21:46 am »
October 01, 2011, 09:21:46 am
Scene Effects -> Camera Clip Planes -> Far plane -> 10000
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Re: Distant Geometry Clipping/Disappearing
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2011, 07:27:03 pm »
October 05, 2011, 07:27:03 pm
thanks a lot Morten. Worked flawlessly.

although I noticed that I cant put Lumion objects (people, cars, trees) very far from the virtual center of the Lumion environment.

the position cursor even disappears!

Re: Distant Geometry Clipping/Disappearing
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2011, 07:37:12 pm »
October 05, 2011, 07:37:12 pm
Which version of Lumion are you using?

Lumion FREE SP2 Build 5?
Lumion FREE SP2 Build 7?
Lumion Basic/Ultimate SP2 Build 8?

In Build 7+ we've made it possible to place objects much further away from the world origin than in Build 5. Ferry knows how much further :)
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