Hide at a distance from the camera - works but slooooowwww

[alexandre sk]

Hello again.

I was playing with the ruby and make a little plug in to hide everything away from the camera.

Like this:

It work perfectly! but slow like a turtle! this scene above take about 20 seconds

Here is the script:

model=Sketchup.active_model
eye=model.active_view.camera.eye
selection = Sketchup.active_model.selection
selection.each { |entity|
	distance=eye.distance(entity.bounds.center)
	if distance > 20000
		entity.hidden = true
	end
}

I think that calculate the center of all items is very hard work. Maybe you guys have a way that don't make the cpu calculate so hard. Or maybe what is taking time is to calculate the distance, then teh ideia is bad after all.

[Dan Rathbun]

You could also adjust the fog settings.

[alexandre sk]

well the idea is to work with large models, and don't have to manually hide objects to give more frame rate. I thinks fog don't help with less entities to display.

[tt_su]

Fog generally tends to slow down the framerate.