Turbine Games Q&A/Graphics/Q-67

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Rendering Radius vs. Portal Time

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Asked:	2000.11.20
Name:	Jam Fear
Question Title:	Rendering Radius vs. Portal Time
Category:	Graphics
Question:	I have heard that reduction of rendering radius can decrease the time spent in portal space. Is this true? Should the default amount of 5 be maintined for optimum play.

Answered:	2000.11.21
Name:	Jason Booth
Answer:	At high render radius's, more landscape has to be created when you portal into a new area. This requires more loading, and more calculations when you jump from one area to another. So yes, it may take a little longer to portal into an area with a high render radius, but I wouldn't imagine it would be more than half of a second or so..