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Mar 22^nd, 2006 at 3:50pm

Travis Offline
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Right now I'm going through each part of my aircraft (nearly 200 objects in the exterior alone! Shocked

) and adding "_LOD_400" to each one. This is incredibly time consuming, and I still have to do it for a whole crapload of other LODs to make it work! Tongue

Does anyone know of a faster way to do this? There has got to be one, as I really doubt all you designers out there are just doing what I'm doing. It's infuriating!

Perhaps there is some MakeMDL trick for this, or a MaxScript for it? Or maybe I'm going about this all wrong . . .

What do ya'll think? Please, anything is usefull, here . . .

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Reply #1 - Mar 22^nd, 2006 at 7:11pm

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Only your topnode dummy needs the LOD tag.
Say you have a dummy "myaircraft_LOD_100" next link the fuselage to it (which should have all other parts below it in the hierarchy) and you're done.

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Reply #2 - Mar 22^nd, 2006 at 11:33pm

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Only your topnode dummy needs the LOD tag.
Say you have a dummy "myaircraft_LOD_100" next link the fuselage to it (which should have all other parts below it in the hierarchy) and you're done.

Thank you, sir! Now all I need to figure out is how to make LODs! Tongue

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