Stop render script from hiding 3d animated models?

selimanac · April 18, 2025, 7:11am

It’s not a problem, it’s actually a very useful feature called frustum culling. It’s the recommended way to render objects efficiently.

If you don’t want to use it, you can turn it off by setting use_frustum = false on this line:

github.com/defold/defold

engine/engine/content/builtins/render/default.render_script

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          local function set_camera_world(state)
              local camera_components = camera.get_cameras()
          
              -- This will set the last enabled camera from the stack of camera components
              if #camera_components > 0 then
                  for i = #camera_components, 1, -1 do
                      if camera.get_enabled(camera_components[i]) then
                          local camera_component = state.cameras.camera_component
                          camera_component.camera = camera_components[i]
                          render.set_camera(camera_component.camera, { use_frustum = true })
                          -- The frustum will be overridden by the render.set_camera call,
                          -- so we don't need to return anything here other than an empty table.
                          return camera_component.options
                      end
                  end
              end
          
              -- If no active camera was found, we use the default main "camera world" camera
              local camera_world = state.cameras.camera_world
              render.set_view(camera_world.view)

However, disabling it may lead to performance issues that you’ll need to address yourself.

Other render scripts actually have to implement this feature.