LoD-System for Cycles/Internal

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What is LoD / Level-of-Detail, well Wikipedia says:* In computer graphics, accounting for level of detail involves decreasing the complexity of a 3D object representation as it moves away from the viewer or according other metrics such as object importance, viewpoint-relative speed or position.*__When/Why to use it? __This technique is usually used in games to increase the performance obviously. However, I was working on an old project where I had a particle system with millions of objects, though it rendered quite well I wanted to keep the render time low and inspired bythis videoI made a simple* system.*__How does it work? __The target object gets a Decimate-modifier. The ratio of that modifier is triggered with a driver related to the camera distance. The actual minimum/maximum-distance [(10/(x-1)] can be modified by changing the multiplicator eg. [(25/(x-1)]. Actually it's simply an influence curve like you know it from the Graph-Editor. I wouldn't have figured this out without the help of a good friend, kudos to him! If you want to try it, just press ALT-A to enjoy that cinematic animation I prepared for you! :)Technical SupportIf it doesn't work in first place click "Reload trusted" in the info-panel to gain python support.Latest Change on 2013/12/11, 21:49:25typos