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#1 edwperry
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In a draw distance do certain parts of people like for example a persons shoulder pad detail, appear when you get closer to them? Or is that something differant?

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#2 Funkyhamster
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Yeah, that has to do with draw distance.
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Depends. It's not present in all games, but for most games today then yes.
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#4 Teuf_
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Draw distance is how far you can actually see in a game. So a game like Far Cry, Crysis, or Halo tends to have a long draw distance in the large outdoor areas.

However what you're talking about is called Level of Detail, or LOD. This is a technique where you gradually add details to an object as it gets closer to the camera, and take them away as they get further away. Having a good LOD system allows a game to have a long view distance.
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#5 Infinite-Zr0
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Anisotropic filtering also has to do with detail at a distance.
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