LOD rendering height changes (Or doesn't?) when player height is altered

[DarianLStephens]

Uhh, basically the title. When your camera height changes, the LOD disconnects from the real terrain.

Perhaps it's trying to overcompensate, or is working off some old head height position, or the feet pos?

[Karnatour]

Uhh this is weird. I assume you are talking about the stairs ? But it looks like other blocks around have correct height. If you relog the issue still persist ? Or if you try to render the stairs only with LODs. I think camera height could cause enabling LOD rendering instead of vanilla rendering since height also count as distance. My main question is if it's invalid data in database(you will know this by flying more away from it so it renders only with LODs)

[DarianLStephens]

It's not just them, they're only the most easily noticeable case. The entire LOD render is offset.
The data is fine, it's just the rendering that's offset, no matter where you move, and the offset distance changes dynamically as the player's size changes.

The same thing happens in third person, on a much smaller scale. The LOD doesn't quite stick with the terrain properly, and shifts around.
My guess is this is falling victim to the same problem a lot of mods with special rendering do, and is rendering relative to the player's head or feet, instead of the camera. You can see a similar issue with space mods, where planets and stars will shift around in third-person, because the camera is panning around the sphere that makes their skybox, revealing its true shape and breaking the illusion.

[Karnatour]

Am I doing something wrong ? Third person also changes nothing

[DarianLStephens]

Third person is very subtle, if it's working the way I think.
Try a mod like LuCraft with some addon that has size-changing superpowers, that's probably the easiest way to get the camera super displaced.

[Karnatour]

Can you try latest action build ?

[DarianLStephens]

Seems to be working!

The only issue remaining appears to be the near clip distance not adjusting.

[Karnatour]

Which mod are you using to achieve such camera shift ? I am unable to reproduce the near-clip issue but you can try latest action if it fixed it

[DarianLStephens]

Just Lucraft, the /sizechange command.

[Karnatour]

I think this is caused by the extreme FOV on sizechange 16. On size 8.0 everything renders fine for me. I don't think there is someone playing with so large size

[DarianLStephens]

Perhaps the clip plane could move back the higher your FOV is?

[Karnatour]

I don't know what else can I change without having to rewriting whole code. I noticed that the clouds break also on size 8.0+ . I will give it a last try, otherwise I close it as completed since I fixed the offset/height issue at least.

[Karnatour]

When porting VH to DH this could be caused by using game settings FOV ? Reopening this so I wont forget to test it