How to remove the manual object culling?

SebaaX · November 30, 2023, 9:34pm

Hello, good afternoon/night, I wanted to ask how I can remove the object culling manual. I don’t know how it can be removed. Thank you very much and greetings.

MoltonMontro · November 30, 2023, 10:34pm

If you’ve placed a Manual Object Culling volume, you can select the volume and then press the [Delete] key on your keyboard (similar to deleting an object or any other volume).

If you’re trying to remove an automatic object culling volume added to your object, you can add the following to the object’s .dat file: Exclude_From_Culling_Volumes true.

For more information, see: Manual Object Culling — Unturned 0.1 documentation

SebaaX · November 30, 2023, 11:24pm

Thanks for responding greetings!

SebaaX · November 30, 2023, 11:46pm

I placed a manual object culling in the editor but I try to remove it and it says that it is removed but it is not removed

prank · December 1, 2023, 8:31am

I know about this update notice, I wonder if it will help you.

github.com

SmartlyDressedGames/Unturned-Docs/blob/old-markdown-archive/ManualObjectCulling.md

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Manual Object Culling
=====================

This article is intended for map developers and explains **Manual Object Culling** volumes.

Drawing fewer objects is usually better for performance. Culling volumes allow you to override the distance at which the contained objects are drawn where otherwise they might be drawn much further away than necessary. For example, by default the vanilla chair models are visible from quite far away in case they are placed outdoors, whereas inside an office building they only need to be seen while near the building.

![Building in Moscow with culling volumes](Images/CullingVolumes.jpg)

This comes with an obvious downside: when zooming in on most buildings it is readily apparent that the furniture is missing. I experimented with some workarounds like enabling objects near the center of your view while zoomed, but it did not feel any better. In my opinion the performance trade-off is worth it. "Large" objects like shipping containers that have higher gameplay importance as cover are excluded by default, and most buildings have their culling volumes inset from the edges slightly so that objects in the windows are excluded.

Editing volumes
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You can enable the **Preview Culling** checkbox to hide all objects inside culling volumes. This is useful to find any objects that are not included when they should be. For example, while working on this update I realized the volumes in the vanilla cargo ships did not extend low enough to catch some of the furniture in the crew quarters.

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Jdance_Media · December 2, 2023, 11:28pm

Here is the link to it on the actual website:
Manual Object Culling — Unturned 0.1 documentation (smartlydressedgames.com)

I pasted the link and it auto-generated ‘Unturned 0.1 documentation’, which is so confusing, might want to look into that.

FlutterShein · December 11, 2023, 5:54am

I am facing the same problem, and the question is where in the file should this “Exclude_From_Culling_Volumes true” be written. Where to write it, let’s say I have Unturned\maps\fjordinar\level and there is a file Objects.dat, but there is not clear encoding, and then what to do?

MoltonMontro · December 11, 2023, 7:56am

If you’re trying to remove an automatic culling volume from your object, you need to edit the object’s dat file – not the server’s Object.dat file. This is an object property that you can configure per asset; there isn’t a server setting.

For example, this is how Bunker_5.dat is configured:

GUID 17723c9812f04815afad1b55769f6bb0
Type Large
ID 912

Collision_Important
Exclude_From_Culling_Volumes true
Has_Clip_Prefab false

https://docs.smartlydressedgames.com/en/stable/assets/object-asset.html

Romelete · December 11, 2023, 12:42pm

won’t changing the object’s .dat file result in them not being able to join multiplayer servers?

MoltonMontro · December 11, 2023, 4:05pm

My assumption was what @SebaaX and @FlutterShein would be modifying their own custom objects if they were trying to add that property, but you’re correct that both of them could be having issues with a vanilla object. In which case, this wouldn’t be a viable option.

system · January 8, 2024, 4:05pm

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