Map tiles vanishing

[Holy_Diver]

They dont show up in game.

I'm quite certain they are there because of the jpg output format.

Sorry, what is "they" referring to?

Thanks for clearing all that up, i tried the lowest ratio and it still has the vanishing pieces, like you said. I noticed in kf tac that most outdoor areas are really closed in, by caves and the like.

Off topic ive begun setting the parameters etc for a demo.

Well the pieces disappearing is just a fluke of Som. Because the developers did not take the aspect ratio into account when programming the frustum culling routines. The outdoor areas in KF4 are probably closed in for the same reason the sky is pretty problematic in Som. I've never been involved in an honest to goodness game project in my life, so I'd never really thought about sky until recently. It's a general problem in games. About the only way to approach sky sanely is the way it's done in Shadow of the Colossus. Otherwise you just have to work around it in the level design.

FYI: In SOTC the background sky map is basically being redrawn all the time, albeit much more slowly than the stuff in the foreground. Which is possible because stuff far away doesn't move much in terms of camera vantage points, but anything animated in the background, like a distant waterfall could not be integrated into the matte painting so to speak.

We could probably someday do that with Som. I just need to get things to the point where the stuff Som does can be completely detached from DirectX etc. So like you can build a list of everything Som did that frame then process and do the actual rendering/etc. Unfortunately even with max draw distance and an unoptimized map, without a frustum fix you'd still be wearing blinders on either side.