[photomg1]

I'm setting up a scene with grass, it's a fairly large area. Should I take it that maxwell grass is not using any kind of view frustum culling? .

Just want to check whether or not I need to be very careful how I set up my meshes that contain grass , as in whether or not its worth me doing my own culling on what is out of view.

Thanks

[eric nixon]

There is a culling %, its at the bottom of the dialogue.

[Mihnea Balta]

Maxwell won't do frustum culling for anything in general, because stuff that's not in view can still affect the render: cast shadows, show up reflected on objects which are in view, bleed color on things which are in view etc.

[photomg1]

Maxwell won't do frustum culling for anything in general, because stuff that's not in view can still affect the render: cast shadows, show up reflected on objects which are in view, bleed color on things which are in view etc.

Thanks Chaps, that's what I expected to be the case Mihnea thought I'd check just in case grass worked differently.

[Fernando Tella]

Maybe you are looking for "level of Detail" parameters, which changes grass density based on the distance to the camera.

http://support.nextlimit.com/display/mxdocsv3/Grass

[photomg1]

Thanks Fernando/Eric , I've sorted my issues it wasn't the level of detail settings . I was setting it up in another package and my ram usage was very different , I just wasn't being efficient with where I placed the grass in maxwell . I had grass way out of view ( camera and reflections) so I've just removed that and all is good.