Lego style buildings

[Querer]

In general, buildings are fine, yes. But it is just strange that I think for example: ok, this group of houses is a good landscape "object" for turning base, I fly in this direction and when I am almost there, the group of houses is gone but the flat phototexture indicating houses stays. Kills atmosphere like hell...

[RE77ACTION]

I haven't seen any disappearing houses, but maybe I'm not paying enough attention. But I've seen those flat houses. It looks like every major town/city has a few of them. I've always wondered why they are there and what they are supposed to be.

By the way, I play with building amount on high.

[skouras]

most of the people here playing with high settings

[katdogfizzow]

Originally Posted by skouras

most of the people here playing with high settings

Thanks guys...it really helped putting the buildings setting to unlimited. During my setup, this was the last setting I increased and I was getting the lego building popping in too. I thought for sure increasing this would crush my frame rates...but so far so good. Not much of killer as I thought

I must say, London is looking pretty awesome even at 30fps with all the buildings rendering.

EDIT: Make that 40+ FPS with my mirror off

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by RE77ACTION

But I've seen those flat houses. It looks like every major town/city has a few of them. I've always wondered why they are there and what they are supposed to be.

By the way, I play with building amount on high.

My guess is that it's buildings that normally would be there if building amount is set to 'unlimited.'
The game knows that it cannot render the building proper on 'high' mode (for example) but it still needs to recognise that that particular space on the map represents a building.