<div id="topic-title"> <h1> <a href="/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865">Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works</a> </h1> <div class="topic-category" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList"> <span itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem"> <a href="https://devforum.roblox.com/c/help-and-feedback/54" class="badge-wrapper bullet" itemprop="item"> <span class='badge-category-bg' style='background-color: #99DAFF'></span> <span class='badge-category clear-badge'> <span class='category-name' itemprop='name'>Help and Feedback</span> </span> </a> <meta itemprop="position" content="1" /> </span> <span itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem"> <a href="https://devforum.roblox.com/c/help-and-feedback/building-support/56" class="badge-wrapper bullet" itemprop="item"> <span class='badge-category-bg' style='background-color: #1DC462'></span> <span class='badge-category clear-badge'> <span class='category-name' itemprop='name'>Building Support</span> </span> </a> <meta itemprop="position" content="2" /> </span> </div> </div> <div id='post_1' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <div itemprop='publisher' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop='name' content='Developer Forum | Roblox'> <div itemprop='logo' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop='url' content='https://devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/5X/c/3/2/5/c325b8f46fd0b3c5b418b005b66c7af661539d44.png'> </div> </div> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://devforum.roblox.com/u/BullfrogBait'><span itemprop='name'>BullfrogBait</span></a> (BullfrogBait) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865"> <link itemprop="image" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/0/b/b/0bb6269a32c60f10b7b34a92d10145564770620f.png"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2021-05-22T06:47:34Z' class='post-time'> May 22, 2021, 6:47am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2021-05-22T06:47:34Z'> <span itemprop='position'>#1</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='articleBody'> <p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/0/b/b/0bb6269a32c60f10b7b34a92d10145564770620f.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/1FBvwsjMAUoPQfJ6Xnq1W4RQsa3.png?dl=1" title="15a2fa801ae21c987f81cea98658adad" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"><img src="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/0/b/b/0bb6269a32c60f10b7b34a92d10145564770620f_2_690x317.png" alt="15a2fa801ae21c987f81cea98658adad" data-base62-sha1="1FBvwsjMAUoPQfJ6Xnq1W4RQsa3" width="690" height="317" srcset="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/0/b/b/0bb6269a32c60f10b7b34a92d10145564770620f_2_690x317.png, //devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/0/b/b/0bb6269a32c60f10b7b34a92d10145564770620f.png 1.5x, //devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/0/b/b/0bb6269a32c60f10b7b34a92d10145564770620f.png 2x" data-small-upload="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/0/b/b/0bb6269a32c60f10b7b34a92d10145564770620f_2_10x10.png"><div class="meta"> <svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">15a2fa801ae21c987f81cea98658adad</span><span class="informations">803×370 342 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg> </div></a></div></p> <p>Above is my bush model, the little leaves you see (more visible on the left side) are just extra details. I decided to keep performance alive that I wanted to use RenderFidelity smartly.</p> <p>On the right side is the same leaf meshpart, except I changed its RenderFidelity to performance, as you can see below.</p> <p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/6/2/8/628d3e7b59748fa98625d8e5646b22042d7356ec.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/e3Ppb9A9ZV0IKahOGAyfAFnnb6Q.png?dl=1" title="587e6d21dd854164b41f7fb42940a607" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"><img src="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/6/2/8/628d3e7b59748fa98625d8e5646b22042d7356ec.png" alt="587e6d21dd854164b41f7fb42940a607" data-base62-sha1="e3Ppb9A9ZV0IKahOGAyfAFnnb6Q" width="690" height="37" data-small-upload="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/6/2/8/628d3e7b59748fa98625d8e5646b22042d7356ec_2_10x10.png"><div class="meta"> <svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">587e6d21dd854164b41f7fb42940a607</span><span class="informations">839×46 5.13 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg> </div></a></div></p> <p>Above states that it’ll do what it takes to reach performance, does that mean good computers will see the high quality version while worse computers will see the poor quality version in order to save performance?</p> </div> <meta itemprop='headline' content='Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works'> <meta itemprop='keywords' content=''> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> <span class='post-likes'>2 Likes</span> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/CommentAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> </div> <div class='crawler-linkback-list' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/ItemList'> <div itemprop='itemListElement' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/ListItem'> <a href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/does-my-renderfidelity-really-works/2942501" itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting' itemprop='item'> <meta itemprop='url' content='https://devforum.roblox.com/t/does-my-renderfidelity-really-works/2942501'> <span itemprop='name'>Does my RenderFidelity really works?</span> </a> <meta itemprop='position' content='3'> </div> </div> </div> <div id='post_2' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <div itemprop='publisher' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop='name' content='Developer Forum | Roblox'> <div itemprop='logo' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop='url' content='https://devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/5X/c/3/2/5/c325b8f46fd0b3c5b418b005b66c7af661539d44.png'> </div> </div> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://devforum.roblox.com/u/0929lego'><span itemprop='name'>0929lego</span></a> (0929lego) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2021-05-23T01:57:59Z' class='post-time'> May 23, 2021, 1:57am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2021-05-23T01:57:59Z'> <span itemprop='position'>#2</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='articleBody'> <p>RenderFidelity is related to roblox’s LOD (Level Of Detail) system. The higher the render fidelity, the better your mesh will show when the character is far away.</p> <p>If a player is far away from a mesh, then you might not want to display the mesh in full detail. Setting it to something like <code>Automatic</code> will have a beneficial effect on your game’s performance. If you want to have greater detail on your meshes from whatever distance the player is at, then you can set it to <code>Performance</code>. Keep in mind that this <em>will</em> cause your game to have slightly degraded performance on devices that struggle to handle roblox (depending on how many meshes you have that have the RenderFidelity set to <code>Performance</code>).</p> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="BullfrogBait" data-post="1" data-topic="1243865"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="20" height="20" src="https://doy2mn9upadnk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/devforum.roblox.com/bullfrogbait/40/3928554_2.png" class="avatar"> BullfrogBait:</div> <blockquote> <p>does that mean good computers will see the high quality version while worse computers will see the poor quality version in order to save performance?</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Yes, if a device can handle roblox really well, then your model will be displayed in high quality. If a device struggles (like a phone), then roblox will adjust the quality based on how well the player’s device runs.</p> </div> <meta itemprop='headline' content='Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works'> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="3" /> <span class='post-likes'>3 Likes</span> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/CommentAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> </div> </div> <div id='post_3' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <div itemprop='publisher' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop='name' content='Developer Forum | Roblox'> <div itemprop='logo' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop='url' content='https://devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/5X/c/3/2/5/c325b8f46fd0b3c5b418b005b66c7af661539d44.png'> </div> </div> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://devforum.roblox.com/u/BullfrogBait'><span itemprop='name'>BullfrogBait</span></a> (BullfrogBait) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2021-05-23T06:56:23Z' class='post-time'> May 23, 2021, 6:56am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2021-05-23T06:56:23Z'> <span itemprop='position'>#3</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='articleBody'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="0929lego" data-post="2" data-topic="1243865"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="20" height="20" src="https://doy2mn9upadnk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/devforum.roblox.com/0929lego/40/2791707_2.png" class="avatar"> 0929lego:</div> <blockquote> <p>Keep in mind that this <em>will</em> cause your game to have slightly degraded performance on devices that struggle to handle roblox</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Did you mean that it’ll have slightly better performance? Cause I think performance means it’ll run better.</p> <p>Thank you for replying anyways, I learned a lot!</p> </div> <meta itemprop='headline' content='Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works'> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Like</span> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/CommentAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> </div> </div> <div id='post_4' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <div itemprop='publisher' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop='name' content='Developer Forum | Roblox'> <div itemprop='logo' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop='url' content='https://devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/5X/c/3/2/5/c325b8f46fd0b3c5b418b005b66c7af661539d44.png'> </div> </div> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://devforum.roblox.com/u/0929lego'><span itemprop='name'>0929lego</span></a> (0929lego) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865"> <link itemprop="image" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/d/1/d/d1dfa7cfdae69be34d336437387503b0ada5cc4e.png"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2021-05-23T16:47:59Z' class='post-time'> May 23, 2021, 4:47pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2021-05-23T16:47:59Z'> <span itemprop='position'>#4</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='articleBody'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="BullfrogBait" data-post="3" data-topic="1243865"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="20" height="20" src="https://doy2mn9upadnk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/devforum.roblox.com/bullfrogbait/40/2779981_2.png" class="avatar"> BullfrogBait:</div> <blockquote> <p>Did you mean that it’ll have slightly better performance? Cause I think performance means it’ll run better.</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Setting it to Performance will be more performance costly than other options such as Automatic as roblox will push the quality to the devices performance level. I’ve never really tested it to the extend to see if it will cause immense degraded performance, but I can assume that it will be slightly more costly than Automatic. If you only have like less than 50 meshes or so (depending on mesh size) set to Performance, there will barely be a difference, so you should be fine in your case.</p> <p>In summary, Automatic will automatically change the quality of your meshes depending on the distance the player is from the mesh. Precise will disregard player distance and set the mesh quality to highest no matter what. Performance will try to set the quality of the mesh to highest depending on the devices power.</p> <p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/d/1/d/d1dfa7cfdae69be34d336437387503b0ada5cc4e.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/tWCYcJJptKXvBvECPVGVq34jsn4.png?dl=1" title="image" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"><img src="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/d/1/d/d1dfa7cfdae69be34d336437387503b0ada5cc4e.png" alt="image" data-base62-sha1="tWCYcJJptKXvBvECPVGVq34jsn4" width="690" height="224" data-small-upload="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/d/1/d/d1dfa7cfdae69be34d336437387503b0ada5cc4e_2_10x10.png"><div class="meta"> <svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">image</span><span class="informations">894×291 27.2 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg> </div></a></div></p> </div> <meta itemprop='headline' content='Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works'> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> <span class='post-likes'>2 Likes</span> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/CommentAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> </div> </div> <div id='post_5' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <div itemprop='publisher' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop='name' content='Developer Forum | Roblox'> <div itemprop='logo' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop='url' content='https://devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/5X/c/3/2/5/c325b8f46fd0b3c5b418b005b66c7af661539d44.png'> </div> </div> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://devforum.roblox.com/u/BullfrogBait'><span itemprop='name'>BullfrogBait</span></a> (BullfrogBait) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2021-05-24T09:54:24Z' class='post-time'> May 24, 2021, 9:54am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2021-05-24T09:54:24Z'> <span itemprop='position'>#5</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='articleBody'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="0929lego" data-post="4" data-topic="1243865"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="20" height="20" src="https://doy2mn9upadnk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/devforum.roblox.com/0929lego/40/2791707_2.png" class="avatar"> 0929lego:</div> <blockquote> <p>Setting it to Performance will be more performance costly</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Wait do you mean if I set the MeshPart to performance, it’ll cause more framerate lag in total or will it just make the meshpart have worse quality for bad computers?</p> <p>I set everything that isn’t a major detail to performance mode, so players with bad computers will have a better experience, while everything else is on Automatic so if they’re far away it’ll be rendered poorly. Am I using it wrong?</p> </div> <meta itemprop='headline' content='Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works'> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Like</span> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/CommentAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> </div> </div> <div id='post_6' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <div itemprop='publisher' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop='name' content='Developer Forum | Roblox'> <div itemprop='logo' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop='url' content='https://devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/5X/c/3/2/5/c325b8f46fd0b3c5b418b005b66c7af661539d44.png'> </div> </div> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://devforum.roblox.com/u/0929lego'><span itemprop='name'>0929lego</span></a> (0929lego) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865"> <link itemprop="image" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/d/1/d/d1dfa7cfdae69be34d336437387503b0ada5cc4e.png"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2021-05-24T16:37:35Z' class='post-time'> May 24, 2021, 4:37pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2021-05-24T16:37:35Z'> <span itemprop='position'>#6</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='articleBody'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="0929lego" data-post="4" data-topic="1243865"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="20" height="20" src="https://doy2mn9upadnk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/devforum.roblox.com/0929lego/40/2791707_2.png" class="avatar"> 0929lego:</div> <blockquote> <p>Setting it to Performance will be more performance costly <strong>than other options such as Automatic as roblox will push the quality to the devices performance level.</strong></p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Here is a general rule of thumb you can go by:</p> <ul> <li>If a mesh is not important in your game, then set the RenderFidelity to Automatic. It is better to set it to Automatic over Performance for non-important meshes because you don’t want the roblox engine to push for quality if a mesh does not need to be high quality.</li> <li>If a mesh is important to your game, consider setting the RenderFidelity to Performance. This will cause the roblox engine to push the mesh’s quality to the device’s power.</li> </ul> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="BullfrogBait" data-post="5" data-topic="1243865"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="20" height="20" src="https://doy2mn9upadnk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/devforum.roblox.com/bullfrogbait/40/2779981_2.png" class="avatar"> BullfrogBait:</div> <blockquote> <p>I set everything that isn’t a major detail to performance mode, so players with bad computers will have a better experience,</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>It would be better (and is recommended by roblox) to set the RenderFidelity to Automatic for these smaller and non-important meshes because setting it to Performance will make the roblox engine try its hardest to display the highest quality mesh. On a lower end device, this would technically cause slightly more lag because the engine is displaying a higher quality mesh. On the other hand, setting it to Automatic would tell the roblox engine to cut the mesh’s quality if the camera is far away, so roblox doesn’t have to push as hard to show the highest quality mesh.</p> <p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/d/1/d/d1dfa7cfdae69be34d336437387503b0ada5cc4e.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/tWCYcJJptKXvBvECPVGVq34jsn4.png?dl=1" title="image" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"><img src="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/d/1/d/d1dfa7cfdae69be34d336437387503b0ada5cc4e.png" alt="image" data-base62-sha1="tWCYcJJptKXvBvECPVGVq34jsn4" width="690" height="224" data-small-upload="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/d/1/d/d1dfa7cfdae69be34d336437387503b0ada5cc4e_2_10x10.png"><div class="meta"> <svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">image</span><span class="informations">894×291 27.2 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg> </div></a></div></p> </div> <meta itemprop='headline' content='Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works'> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Like</span> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/CommentAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> </div> </div> <div id='post_7' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <div itemprop='publisher' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop='name' content='Developer Forum | Roblox'> <div itemprop='logo' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop='url' content='https://devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/5X/c/3/2/5/c325b8f46fd0b3c5b418b005b66c7af661539d44.png'> </div> </div> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://devforum.roblox.com/u/BullfrogBait'><span itemprop='name'>BullfrogBait</span></a> (BullfrogBait) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865"> <link itemprop="image" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/1/2/e/12e087e57f8da3cb51a48b9d082c82458e34db62.png"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2021-05-24T17:08:36Z' class='post-time'> May 24, 2021, 5:08pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2021-05-24T17:08:36Z'> <span itemprop='position'>#7</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='articleBody'> <p>Thanks for replying! Automatic and performance actually go hand in hand (found this out through testing). Where if the camera is far away and it’s set to performance, even on good computers it’ll act like automatic and still make the mesh better to generate.</p> <p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/1/2/e/12e087e57f8da3cb51a48b9d082c82458e34db62.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/2GZEh0A7JTPKt38Q6ETECvkM7om.png?dl=1" title="5794b42262b353cfb2b739a25b975320" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"><img src="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/1/2/e/12e087e57f8da3cb51a48b9d082c82458e34db62_2_345x123.png" alt="5794b42262b353cfb2b739a25b975320" data-base62-sha1="2GZEh0A7JTPKt38Q6ETECvkM7om" width="345" height="123" srcset="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/1/2/e/12e087e57f8da3cb51a48b9d082c82458e34db62_2_345x123.png, //devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/1/2/e/12e087e57f8da3cb51a48b9d082c82458e34db62_2_517x184.png 1.5x, //devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/1/2/e/12e087e57f8da3cb51a48b9d082c82458e34db62_2_690x246.png 2x" data-small-upload="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/1/2/e/12e087e57f8da3cb51a48b9d082c82458e34db62_2_10x10.png"><div class="meta"> <svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">5794b42262b353cfb2b739a25b975320</span><span class="informations">819×293 103 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg> </div></a></div></p> <p>Here’s an example, from left to right it’s the exact same mesh with renderfidelity set to Performance, then Automatic and finally Precise.</p> <p><img src="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/1/b/4/1b44aab354f9a13b8b43633bb947e059b2cae16c.png" alt="0ed2905d577ec7e91ff78fdced398d2c" data-base62-sha1="3Te0B3xrSFUtXs663BQzvQf0SwA" width="268" height="132"></p> <p>As I move farther from the camera, the middle one (automatic) does as it should, it reduces the quality to improve the games overall framerate performance. The one on the left (renderfidelity: performance) also behaves like automatic.</p> <p>With this proven, I still think that renderfidelity set to performance is the best to have and way better than automatic. I’m not sure if Roblox would release a renderfidelity performance setting if it caused more lag.</p> <p><div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/1/3/3/133b0ffeef3f6813e28566aeb7f00dcadc7af10b.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/2K7BZjQr4oiBVtEP4DPmISiBrXt.png?dl=1" title="09728ac28300686ce9e1dcd27f57f33e" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"><img src="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/1/3/3/133b0ffeef3f6813e28566aeb7f00dcadc7af10b_2_690x117.png" alt="09728ac28300686ce9e1dcd27f57f33e" data-base62-sha1="2K7BZjQr4oiBVtEP4DPmISiBrXt" width="690" height="117" srcset="//devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/optimized/4X/1/3/3/133b0ffeef3f6813e28566aeb7f00dcadc7af10b_2_690x117.png, //devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/4X/1/3/3/133b0ffeef3f6813e28566aeb7f00dcadc7af10b.png 1.5x, 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data-username="0929lego" data-post="6" data-topic="1243865"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="20" height="20" src="https://doy2mn9upadnk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/devforum.roblox.com/0929lego/40/2791707_2.png" class="avatar"> 0929lego:</div> <blockquote> <p>(and is recommended by roblox)</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Do you know where I can read more about this?</p> </div> <meta itemprop='headline' content='Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works'> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="3" /> <span class='post-likes'>3 Likes</span> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/CommentAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> </div> </div> <div id='post_8' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/DiscussionForumPosting' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <div itemprop='publisher' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop='name' content='Developer Forum | Roblox'> <div itemprop='logo' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop='url' content='https://devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/5X/c/3/2/5/c325b8f46fd0b3c5b418b005b66c7af661539d44.png'> </div> </div> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://devforum.roblox.com/u/0929lego'><span itemprop='name'>0929lego</span></a> (0929lego) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2021-05-24T17:21:46Z' class='post-time'> May 24, 2021, 5:21pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2021-05-24T17:21:46Z'> <span itemprop='position'>#8</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='articleBody'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="BullfrogBait" data-post="7" data-topic="1243865"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img loading="lazy" alt="" width="20" height="20" src="https://doy2mn9upadnk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/devforum.roblox.com/bullfrogbait/40/3928554_2.png" class="avatar"> BullfrogBait:</div> <blockquote> <p>Do you know where I can read more about this?</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Here’s a helpful article about game performance: <a href="https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/articles/Improving-Performance" class="inline-onebox">Best Practices | Roblox Creator Documentation</a></p> </div> <meta itemprop='headline' content='Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works'> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope 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class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://devforum.roblox.com/u/Tobonyko'><span itemprop='name'>Tobonyko</span></a> (Tobonyko) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/not-completely-sure-how-renderfidelity-works/1243865"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2021-06-10T07:15:31Z' class='post-time'> June 10, 2021, 7:15am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2021-06-10T07:15:31Z'> <span itemprop='position'>#9</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='articleBody'> <p>Hey! I don’t know if you figured this out, but you are actually correct in your assumption.</p> <p>While Automatic is useful, Performance rendering is specifically used for bettering performance. If you set all models to performance, it automatically creates LoD models that “break” the further away you are. I’ve worked with quite a few large game studios (even my own), and this is what performance means.</p> <p>Also, check out streaming enabled.</p> <p>Hope that helps!</p> </div> <meta itemprop='headline' content='Not completely sure how RenderFidelity works'> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="6" /> <span class='post-likes'>6 Likes</span> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/CommentAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> </div> </div>