best sim quality: sim level of detail(lod) max settings

remove the ugly popups and disfigurations of sim models(mesh) due to zoom level lod sim quality settings.

do tha thing

so this will make it so that sims level of detail stays constant and pretty no matter how zoomed in or out you are.


navigate to the "graphics rules" SGR file in your steam/steamapps/common/the sims 3/game/bin folder

open it with notepad or whatever.

search for "SimQuality"

change the following lines of whatever setting your using to...

prop $ConfigGroup RenderSimLODDistances "600, 700, 800, 1000"
prop $ConfigGroup RenderSimTextureSizes "2048, 2048, 1024, 512"
prop $ConfigGroup RenderSimUseSpecular "1, 1, 1, 1"




it dosnt matter which setting level you modify in the "graphics rules" SGR; just so long as you choose it from the in-game setting menu. as you can see, i use the "low" setting... rofl.


so hows this work?

prop $ConfigGroup RenderSimLODDistances "600, 700, 800, 1000"

this sets the distance for each lod. it represents the mesh quality and also sets the distance standard for the following two settings. so with this setting, lod setting one will stay at max mesh quality out to a distance of "600". the second level of mesh quality will stay out to a distance of 700. and so on.

prop $ConfigGroup RenderSimTextureSizes "2048, 2048, 1024, 512"

this setting, as noted, follows the distances set in the RenderSimLODDistances line. it decides what textures will be used for each lod setting. so in this instance, the 2048 textures will be used out to distance 600 and then further out to distance 700. then 1024 will be used out to 800. the the texture will be 512 out to infinity.


what are the exact distances? its hard to say really. i like to think each unit is about a third of a meter. so 600 would be like 100 meters away...

[acornco]

np, hope it serves.

if you find settings that work better for you, post em. the settings i listed are a little resource intensive.

[2ndsights]

Thank you!