Thread:War Pig1237/@comment-204.187.76.254-20160421170057/@comment-25101690-20160429190051

Lord Numair wrote: Sinthorion wrote: Since Minecraft has no LOD, zooming would mean simply cropping a part of the screen. That would not affect the performance at all. For example Optifine also has a zoom key.

Maybe you thought to load distant chunks when you look into this direction. That could have a huge effect on the performance. Loading chunks could mean generating new terrain, spawning and loading entities, and other things. What if you turn around yourself very quickly while using a telescope? It would have to load all distant chunks all around you. It would also probably cause a lot of bugs with chunks that don't get unloaded again and would possibly interfere with Fastcraft and Optifine. I think the Optifine version is better... what if you could just load in entitys farther away? like supass the entity dissapear limit. Disappearing entities is part of the spawning mechanics, not the rendering. It's actually despawning.