Question about Sculpts Losing Shape

[JoJo Aurelia]

For some reason a new sculpt I bought with full perms is not holding it's shape. If I zoom out 10 meters or so, it distorts. It's not a small sculpt, it's a craddle of average size. I have many other full perm sculpts in the area (smaller even) and they don't distort. It's not jewlery or something tiny where I should have to change my LOD factor. I came across this a few years ago with a hutch. It always distorted. Is this something to do with the way the sculpt was made? I'd like to sell it but it's borked for me so it might be borked for others. Any ideas??? I've given up researching, as nothing I could find would explain this. Hope someone has an idea. If it's the sculpt I'll delete it and try a different one. Using Firestorm latest release. TYVM

[Theresa Tennyson]

What LOD factor are you using now? There are plenty of large sculpts out there that will lose their shape if your LOD is under about 4. It's how they're made, but I imagine most people just use the LOD workaround.

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

I suspect the sculpt itself. To make sure it's not just you, the simple thing to do is ask someone else if they see the same. (Make sure that other peron doesn't have the RenderVolumeLODFactor at 8)

[JoJo Aurelia]

thanks

[Dragon Ronin]

The way the sculp is built can have a big effect on how it is seen at a distance. Some are complex enough that it cannot be helped, and those made with inworld tools can be generally more problematic than those made with Blender or other high end Program.

In every case all sculpts will step through several levels of detail as set by your viewer at given size/distance. Depending on how the sculp was built, that could be an only slightly changed shape, or it could look like a pile of sticks.

[JoJo Aurelia]

Thanks. I suspected it was the sculpt. But another friend could see it fine. I had changed the wrong LOD setting. But I do have others that are aweful.

[Dragon Ronin]

~~But I do have others that are aweful.~~

That is why I work in Blender where you can control a lot of that, but with only 1028 faces to work with sometimes it cannot be helped.