<div dir="ltr"><div style>I haven't been following the LOD development, I've read the documentation and tried it along for the first time. I'll just describe my experience and leave to Daniel to decide if something is a documentation problem, an interface problem/design decision, or just my problem :-)</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Introduction - okay, let's start..</div><div style>Settings - I tried for a while to 'type' the Lod name into the objects field before realizing I was supposed to select an object. I was expecting a range and not a distance field. You mention a 'base level of detail', that is an exception and automatically set?, but the interface starts empty. Is this a bug, or you mean that the normal object's mesh is automatically LOD0 and doesn't even appear on the slots? Maybe this needs a bit of 'overall functioning' explanation before the 'settings' interface? As to use mesh and material: "<span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Lucida,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:17px">When this option is enabled, the mesh from the level of detail object is used until a lower level of detail overrides it."</span><font color="#333333" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:17px"> </span></font>or else? what is used? In what example cases will I want one or the other?</div>
<div style>Tools - a figure indicating where to click would be nice</div><div style>Set by Name - cool :-)</div><div style>Generate - you talk about the <span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Lucida,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:justify">decimate modifier</span>, maybe include a link or a short explanation on what it does? Maybe mention where the interface from the figure appears?</div>
<div style>Clear All - ok</div><div style><br></div>Typos:<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Lucida,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">The settings for each level of detail *is -> are* displayed in its own box. </span><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Overall: I've read through just thinking 'how do I play with this?', it wasn't until 'Generate' that I suddenly had a screen full of monkeys and got really happy :-P. The 'generate' part is nearly at the bottom of the documentation. I would suggest 'Intro', new 'Overview' or something with the overall process, such as:<br>
</div><div style>"You can generate the lods automatically from an existing mesh, or you can model everything and set manually. Or semi-automatically with a naming convention." How do mesh and materials enter here?</div>
<div style>Now, I'd start by 'generate', you'd get instant happiness :-), and then you can explain 'settings' better when people already have something to look at if they are trying it along. Finally, how do I test this? This is important, I've learned how to use the tool, how can I see it working? (I'd personally also want to compare framerates and vert counts, but that is me :-P)</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is surely not documentation:<br></div><div style>1 - If I press generate, and then press generate again. It extends the existing lods, but does not add the objects (that will have the same mesh as the ones that existed?). If this is not intended at all, grey-out 'generate' when existing lods already exist?</div>
<div style>2 - If I 'clear all', the configured lods disappear, but not the created objects, I was expecting them to disappear if I created them with 'generate'.</div><div style>3- Have you considered put 'packed into group' in the main interface? I may want to easily pack all my lods even if they are not generated</div>
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