How To Prevent Decorations From Being Culled?

[CBurn]

I'm making a level with a lot of custom textures and assets and needed a way to essentially bullshit a background that's going to have 2 layers for parallax.

 

however this has a glaring issue, that being decorations are culled based off their bounding box, thank god its not their origin cause I'd be shit outta luck otherwise.

 

Is their anyway to tell Doom to always render these assets besides making them ungodly massive as seen in the screenshot cause even at their current scale its very easy for them to stop rendering and they need to essentially take up the whole map to fix said issue

 

Sidenote after I've made my second map I will be putting a video together on all the technical pitfalls I have encountered to help newer mappers,

I don't want to ask 20 questions, make a few maps then disappear as that seams kinda wasteful of peoples time

 

Thank you for your time!

 

 

Edited May 22, 2023 by CBurn
Title clean up

[Bauul]

I assume this is for GZDoom? By default the Thing will only render if the sector it's placed in is visible.

 

One solution is an Actor Property called RenderRadius that tells the engine to check sectors further away from the Thing's origin for the purpose of rendering. It can ruin FPS if you apply it to too many Things in too complex a level, but assuming you only have these four Things, feel free to slap it quite high and it should solve your problem.

 

Another solution would be to Join all the sectors that all four of your Things appear in, then if any one is visible they are all visible (because it's all one big sector). It's a little more hacky of an approach, but there's no chance of the FPS issue that comes from RenderRadius.

[SMG_Man]

Is there a reason you're not using a skybox for this?

[CBurn]

16 minutes ago, Bauul said:

I assume this is for GZDoom? By default the Thing will only render if the sector it's placed in is visible.

Aye it is, my bad for not specifying still VERY new to this

17 minutes ago, Bauul said:

but assuming you only have these four Things, feel free to slap it quite high and it should solve your problem.

8 total, a foreground and background but I take it this would still be fine

 

And the first solution worked, I checked this exact page and even did find render but I must of missed it Thank you so much!

[CBurn]

59 minutes ago, SMG_Man said:

Is there a reason you're not using a skybox for this?

The skybox is spherical or at least appears so and warps any pixel art texture placed on it, and in general, just doesn't look right, and like I said I needed a way to do Paralax on the background and I highly doubt I can have 2 skyboxes with transparent textures atop of the other issues meaning this was the most logical solution I could think of

[SMG_Man]

Sorry, I didn't just mean replacing the sky texture. (G)ZDoom offers full support for actual skyboxes. I'm still not entirely sure what you're wanting to achieve here, but I think looking into this may help.