Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:55 am by Dev
LOD is short for "level of detail"; the LODranges line will specify at what distances the different models of the ship will be used. The majority of custom ships have just one model and so will have just one level of detail, but most (if not all) vanilla ships have several.
LODranges = 0, 50, 150, 300, 450, 700, 1000, 1300 means the following:
Show the model for the first (highest) level of detail between 0 and 50 meters.
Show the model for the second level of detail between 50 and 150 meters.
etc...
Presumably the custom ship you are using has only one model and thus should only have one level of detail. For example:
LODranges = 0, 2000
would make the ship appear out to 2000 meters... potentially a bit more since the cutoff is based on a coordinate transform rather than straight line distance, but it will at least be close to 2000. You could make the distance higher, say 10000 meters, but you will run into the numerous other distance limits that Freelancer inconveniently has. You can break these other limits if you want, but it's fairly involved and you probably don't want to go there just yet.
