Nice work! When I compiled this Epona now makes a neigh sound at the start of Title Screen. Can you please check this is not due to this feature? Thanks

Nice work! When I compiled this Epona now makes a neigh sound at the start of Title Screen. Can you please check this is not due to this feature? Thanks

It is due to that since you will "see" the Epona spawning which is always followed by her shout, same thing will happen for the bushes Epona will encounter while following her path you'll hear them being destroyed

Kinda lazy to fix that specific part to be honest, will probably check that later

Speaking of Epona, I think this might be messing with using Epona's song to summon her when she's in the same scene as you. Normally with the draw distance when you play Epona's song, she isn't loaded in yet so she kind of teleports to you and then runs toward you, or she's close enough that her running from where she is spawned in isn't very far away. But with draw distance turned off, she's already loaded in even if she's all the way across Hyrule Field, so she does hear the song and run toward you, but she only runs so far. When I played the song I thought it was glitched until I saw her way off in the background and realized it was probably the draw distance that caused it.

ADDENDUM: I actually just dropped Epona off in Gerudo Valley specifically to see if her not being already on Hyrule Field caused her to spawn properly, and she still did not spawn in, at least not anywhere where I could see her. Turning the draw distance back on immediately fixed it, and the next Epona's song spawned her in correctly.

Another observation, not necessarily worth the energy to fix, when you wake up Biggoron during the quest to get the Prescription, you can hear him groaning and rubbing his eyes the entire way down the mountain. I suppose that's somewhat more realistic given his size, just thought it was funny.

Can confirm that last commit fixes Epona's issues.

Can confirm that last commit fixes Epona's issues.

Since you seems to play test it

Please let me know if there is any behaviours that needs to be fixed like Biggoron

Same if you see some models not despawning on cinematic pans when they should have 😃

Sure, I started using the build from Jenkins for this in a semi-casual playthrough recently, switched to this around the time I went to Adult Link for the first time. I'll keep using it and let you know what all I find. I've beaten Water Temple and Forest Temple so far (doing dungeons out of order), and done Biggoron's quest (some of that may have been done before the switch. Then once this file is beaten I'll at least check some key points as Young Link.

A common thing I've noticed so far is that you can often hear noisy actors in large areas that you wouldn't hear in Vanilla since they normally stop getting drawn altogether when you get too far away. I.E. Biggoron when he's rubbing his eyes or the Blue Bubbles at the top of the block pushing room in Forest Temple. It doesn't seem to have any other noticeable effects on gameplay, but sometimes the noise is a bit annoying. Would it be feasible to repurpose the Draw Distance into an Earshot Distance in a generic enough way that it can apply to all actors? Or is it easier to handle these on a case by case basis? Or is this just a necessary evil to have unlimited draw distance?

Sure, I started using the build from Jenkins for this in a semi-casual playthrough recently, switched to this around the time I went to Adult Link for the first time. I'll keep using it and let you know what all I find. I've beaten Water Temple and Forest Temple so far (doing dungeons out of order), and done Biggoron's quest (some of that may have been done before the switch. Then once this file is beaten I'll at least check some key points as Young Link.

A common thing I've noticed so far is that you can often hear noisy actors in large areas that you wouldn't hear in Vanilla since they normally stop getting drawn altogether when you get too far away. I.E. Biggoron when he's rubbing his eyes or the Blue Bubbles at the top of the block pushing room in Forest Temple. It doesn't seem to have any other noticeable effects on gameplay, but sometimes the noise is a bit annoying. Would it be feasible to repurpose the Draw Distance into an Earshot Distance in a generic enough way that it can apply to all actors? Or is it easier to handle these on a case by case basis? Or is this just a necessary evil to have unlimited draw distance?

Case by case is probably the way to do it and simply remove the noisy ones out of the draw distance removal is the easier way since their sounds are basically from the moment you see them and not distance based, I'll need to analyze that to see if it's possible to do like a "range" from where the sound should play for problematics entities

Finished my playthrough, didn't notice anything else out of the ordinary with this enhancement, Tomorrow I will also go through some of the child areas that I passed before this PR came out but I can't think of anything that would be an issue. I did already experience most of the dungeons again while searching for a few Heart Pieces and Gold Skulltulas I missed and there weren't any issues.

As for the audio issues we found earlier, I'm sure excepting them from the draw distance removal is probably the easiest, but don't Gold Skulltulas already have a system in place for proximity based audio? Might be possible to adapt that code, but whether or not its worth the effort is your decision.

Can you add no draw distance to King Zora? King Zora spawns as you're walking up the stairs. Thanks

Also, the Deku Tree isn't always drawn.

Is this even possible? as it looks to be based on collision trigger?

Can you add no draw distance to King Zora? King Zora spawns as you're walking up the stairs. Thanks

Also, the Deku Tree isn't always drawn.

Is this even possible? as it looks to be based on collision trigger?

This is a complete different process
Each scenes (map) are divided by multiple rooms, that load / unload from a trigger point
Example in a dungeon, when you open the door, you're unloading your current room to load the one you're going in

What you want is a complete rewrite of the scene loading system and not a draw visibility distance

Perhaps someone will do that in the future which will make this feature compatible with it if it ever happen

I always do my playthroughs using the Draw Distance cvar on and I didn't see anything out of the ordinary save for Biggoron or the Ganon and Zelda horses not disappearing in their cinematic...

But one thing I noticed that would be nice to add now that Draw Distance is added to the enhancements section would be a way to tweak the spawning distance of more hardcoded actors, I am speaking for example about Mido and Saria, they aren't spawning as the rest of the Kokiri because the function is not there, also some grass patches, mostly in Hyrule Field, are still spawning only when Link gets a certain distance...