350z ready for export

[joevenzon]

When you said this:

I was thinking I could use the lowest detail version in the map itself and then save the high detail versions with the same name and a suffix like _1000 for a version that is accurate from roughly 1000m away.

Did you mean:

I was thinking I could use the highest detail version in the map itself and then save the low detail versions with the same name and a suffix like _1000 for a version that is accurate from roughly 1000m away.

Having a suffix sounds like a reasonable way to go and would be easy to do in the code. Put "LOD" in the suffix somewhere too.

Once LOD is added batching will allow for hundreds of repeated identical objects like rocks, trees, grass, etc.

What exactly do you mean by batching?

When adding multiple identical objects to the track should I duplicate them in blender or is there some way to place them without having to export the identical data a second time?

Placing multiple objects that have the same model data is supported in the engine but not in the list.txt file format. I couldn't think of a good way to make it work when exporting from blender.

By the way, just so you're aware, if you aren't already: there's a version of the exporter in the art package (the one with "all" in the name) that exports the entire scene, not just the selected object.