"this does not happen by default for some reason?" source does not use gpu culling or any other kind of occlusion. instead, it's all done using binary space partitioning, which has its quirks, that being overdraw in scenarios where the mapper does not care about bsp

can you please add a feature where you can turn off the horde optimizer for certain entities? turrets disappear when knocked over, striders are just a pain to fight because they constantly turn invisible, it probably wouldnt do much to your system just turning it off for them because they aren't spawned in hordes frequently. (p.s npc battles are now so much better thnak you)

Not useful when sniping or shooting from afar.

this causes a duplicate npc to appear when performing a killmove with bsmod

the fog scared me and made me think my addons were compromised, cool addon though,. maybe i should read first </3

or vj??

does this work for snpcs?

Could there be a toggle that prevents some entities from not being rendered? The Gargantuan from black mesa flickers when half of it is behind something. Could be as simple as; "Copy paste model / npc name and it will be blacklisted from the optimization" or is it not that simple to add?

ISTG I WAS GOING CRAZY OVER THE FOG
ITS JUST THIS MOD

Did I leave it on by default lmao

I was wondering how there was random fog in my game, turns out it was an intended feature lol

works like a charm but i'm noticing it breaks RT cameras, so stuff like breen's monitor is flickering repeatedly
not game breaking or anything just a heads up for epileptic people

Fix applied thanks for the heads up!

[Horde Optimizer] lua/autorun/hordeoptimizer.lua:144: Tried to use a NULL entity!
1. GetNPCState - [C]:-1
2. fn - lua/autorun/hordeoptimizer.lua:144
3. unknown - lua/ulib/shared/hook.lua:109

this could benefit from a nullcheck in case whatever entity is being used here becomes null/non-existent

Can you make an addon that does what this does but for props?

If I play with this on the server will it work?

10\10 yay

You could try setting the visibility distance of npcs beyond the fog, to something small like 1, would probably bring perf up another step

yup

is ho_fog_enabled a serverside convar?

sounds pretty lit

purely model hiding

another thing, do npcs stop thinking when they arent rendering or is it purely model(s)?

I somehow didn't think of that. Thanks for your suggestion!

can you add a command for making npcs always render at a certain distance, this would help avoid npcs being invisible even though you're right next to them. Thanks

it also makes them disappear but only for like milliseconds its kinda hard to describe i can send a video though.

Idk why but the mod keeps making errors when i spawn in enemy's using things like Dr.Gbase

Help I was transported back in time when I heard that music in the video


Great mod actually though!

Fixed

Seems to be singleplayer only issue, fixing it now. Thanks for reporting.

I tried the addon with any NPC-altering addons disabled such as iNPC, Extended PM Animations for NPCs and Armored Combine NPCs, but the bug still persists.

@some random idiot Not much that I can think of. Mind you that this bug doesn't occur when I kill NPCs with MWII Takedowns.

I can't seem to recreate those bugs on my end. Do you have any addon of note?

Not only that, when a Hunter NPC from HL2 Episode 2 is killed, it will flicker while its death animation is playing before becoming a dead ragdoll.

There's a bug I found in this addon. When an NPC is killed, it'll leave its final-"pose"-before-being-killed for a second or two before disappearing from view, while its dead ragdoll spawns normally.