primitive hide in vpx

[mistermixer]

In lot of recent tables there are primitives with only the “+” visible . So you can’t see the shape in the editor.

For example in ‘Lost World’ on layer 5 there is a primitive ‘playfield_off ‘ with only the ‘+’ at the left upper corner

How do you achieve this ? ( and why doing this ?  )

Thanx

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[bord]

It is for memory saving purposes. When VP shows full mesh outlines it makes the editor very sluggish to work in so you can set a clip value. Doesn’t change gameplay, just editor work.

With a mesh selected you can see an Editor value in the options menu. I believe default is .25. On a flat mesh this will show nothing. Meshes with x,y,z topology will appear but not in full. If you change that value to 1 it will show all tris.

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[Tom]

Does that slow the table down?  Didn’t realize that

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[Thalamus]

@armyaviation : Pretty sure that it won’t slow the gameplay down. But, surely does for the editor. The way I usedit is that one I’m happy with placement, and if I remember to do it ( not the last thing I’m doing – kinda ) then, I’ll drop the editor value to .25 so I still in most cases see it, but, ain’t getting too much “lag” while working in the editor.

Still an area where I’m not 100% sure if I’ve understood how it works or not.

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[bord]

Tom wrote:

Does that slow the table down? Didn’t realize that

Nope, as Thalamus said. It does not slow anything down in the game, just makes work in the editor laggy.

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