Getting the distance between the object and the viewer

[richter]

The object gets culled based on its actual size (unaffected by dist-scale). So if you make the object larger, then scale it down with dist-scale, it will be visible farther out.

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[wkitty42]

that's interesting... very interesting... actually comes out as the reverse of what most people would do...

[TheEagle]

The object gets culled based on its actual size (unaffected by dist-scale)

ARGH - I just spent half an hour chasing the bug in my models's XML file … for nothing, as there was none. Until I remembered this thread …