I downloaded radiant when I first bought UO. I took one look at the interface and decided to become a modder instead, but I'm still sorta fascinated by what you guys do.

Would anyone be kind enough to tell me what a "tris" is? I'm just curious.

ITOE_MC writes...Triangular surface.
Each object is build up of these tris.
Example: A cube has six sides but 12 triangular surfaces (2 on each face).

samikaze writes...

the cullfog setting in your .gsc can achieve that you don;t need much portals, even in a very large map. this command sets a fog which extend to a certain distance. after that distance nothing is drawed. the problem with this is you can have structures popping out of the fog when you move closer.

Thanks, Old Fella.

To Hybrid: does Expfog achieve the same result?

HyBr!d writes...

I tried that already and didn't like the way bldgs from far away showed up. Anyone that'll get my map in the future can always edit the gsc file and uncomment the "//" for it. I left it like that on purpose. :)

@babycop: expfog creates the same type of fog but does NOT hide tris. so everything in the map is drawed.

you can use exp and cull fog together. it will cull the polygons at a distance, than exp will obscure the culling. exp fog is processor intensive though