LOD(nged)

configure Level of Detail (LOD) drawing

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💅 LOD(nged) — configure Level of Detail (LOD) drawing 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the LOD(nged) page in the BRL-CAD User Commands manual — this is the full glow-up on LoD drawing, fr fr. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

lod — configure Level of Detail (LOD) drawing. no cap, that’s the whole name and it ate. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lod
lod (on|off|enabled)
lod scale (points|curves) [factor]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The lod command configures the Level of Detail (LoD) drawing behavior for the current view. When LoD drawing is enabled, BRL-CAD adapts the rendering complexity of wireframe geometry based on view conditions, improving performance for complex models. ✨

When you call lod with no arguments, it prints the current LoD configuration, including:

  • Whether adaptive LoD drawing is currently enabled or disabled. 👀
  • The current point scale factor.
  • The current curve scale factor.
  • The current BoT face threshold — the number of faces at which a BoT switches to simplified display. 💀

🎀 Subcommands 🎀

  • on — Enable adaptive LoD drawing. periodt. ✅
  • off — Disable adaptive LoD drawing. bye bestie. 🙈
  • enabled — Print 1 if LoD is currently enabled, 0 if disabled. Suitable for scripting. iykyk. 🧚
  • scale points [factor] — If factor is given, sets the point density scale. If omitted, prints the current point scale value. 🎀
  • scale curves [factor] — If factor is given, sets the curve complexity scale. If omitted, prints the current curve scale value. 🦋

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

🍓 Example 1. Query current LoD state

mged> lod

LoD drawing: enabled
Point scale: 1.000000
Curve scale: 1.000000
BoT face threshold: 32768

Prints the current LoD configuration. simple as that. 💖

🍓 Example 2. Enable LoD and reduce curve complexity

mged> lod on mged> lod scale curves 0.5

Enables LoD drawing and halves the curve complexity scale, reducing the number of line segments used to approximate curves. yes, that line really has both mged> prompts in it in the original — keeping it character for character, bestie 😭🫶

🍓 Example 3. Check LoD status for scripting

mged> lod enabled

Returns 1 if LoD is enabled, 0 if disabled. Useful in scripts or Tcl procedures. lowkey iconic for automation. ⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team — icons only. 💜

🐛 BUG REPORTS 🐛

Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org. 🐛💌

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