Godot: LOD is not working (also for particles)

[Gibbz]

_bugsquadedit: issue was opened when the newest commit was: 787dad5ac4341a90ecf135884d8ca71bdbd5d252_

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Operating system or device - Godot version:
arch + ubuntu

Issue description:
Make a particle system, add some lod. Test ingame and youll notice its always visible...

[nunodonato]

LODs are not working for anything

[reduz]

sorry, will fix in 3.1 as the lod system is complex and we kinda ran out of time

[supagu]

Hey Guys,

Just wondering if any work has been done on this one yet?

[avrame]

Yeah, LODs don't seem to be working for me either.

[supagu]

Just checking this is still on schedule for 3.1?
Cant really release a working game without lod...

[reduz]

LOD will be properly rewritten in 3.2

[valdemar-const]

LOD will be properly rewritten in 3.2

[Toshiwoz]

Another happy user that will be even happier with LOD (and terrain?) implemented.

[Antokolos]

Hi, guys, maybe someone can point me to the 3.0.X version where LOD system is not broken yet?
Unfortunately it is not very good for us to wait for Godot 3.2, which I think will be released not earlier than 2020 :)

P.S.: I'll answer my own question, it seems that there is no such version.
Very sad(

[Calinou]

@Antokolos I don't think LOD is available in any 3.0.x release. There's a pull request that implemented LOD for an earlier version of 3.1 (before it even was in alpha), but it won't be merged as a more robust implementation should be written for 3.2 or 4.0.

[Antokolos]

@Calinou , thanks, got it! Well, we'll try to make our game without LODs then )
Just a note for Godot core developers: I like the engine very much and I value the hard work that you've done so far, but pushing issues like this one or this: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/13954 or this: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/9786 to 3.2 is very sad. IMO you should concentrate on fixing the things that are CRITICAL for any 3D game before implementing anything else, I think a lot of people will agree with this.
At the time being I am forced to create ugly hacks in scripts, just because the game will be too unoptimized and slow otherwise.

[supagu]

What I did in my game just this last week was made a special node: LODGroup which has some ranges setup and switches children based on distance from camera. This is sufficient for what I need, this is how Unity seems to do it.

[Antokolos]

@supagu , thanks for the advice! Looks like a good solution for this problem.

[clayjohn]

Im am closing this in favour of godotengine/godot-proposals#692 which has the most up-to-date discussion.

It is better to keep all the discussion in one place.

FYI LOD is planned for 4.x now. It is a very important feature and we want to make sure we do it right.