Culling Mask toggle?

[Josephguy]

Hi, I am new to Dolphin and its forums, as well as being a rather low level coder; so excuse me if I am posting this in the wrong place or if it seems like a stupid question:

I am trying to use the Free Look camera to explore level Scenes; that is, to see how they were built. But the game of course has a Culling Mask and, irreverent of the Free Look camera, hides everything one would normally not see. Not very grateful of that fact I am wondering: is there a way to turn this off in the Dolphin menu? Otherwise maybe I could be given a decent direction for modifying the code with a Hex editor or something. It's entirely possible that the game is determining it's culling based on distance and not the camera, but from playing it I somewhat doubt that (perhaps it is a fusion of both).

For reference I am using the 5.0-11824 x64 of Dolphin, and the game is Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.

Thank you!

[JosJuice]

(04-28-2020, 02:46 PM)Josephguy Wrote: But the game of course has a Culling Mask and, irreverent of the Free Look camera, hides everything one would normally not see. Not very grateful of that fact I am wondering: is there a way to turn this off in the Dolphin menu?

No. You would need to hack the game's code in order to remove it.

(04-28-2020, 02:46 PM)Josephguy Wrote: It's entirely possible that the game is determining it's culling based on distance and not the camera, but from playing it I somewhat doubt that (perhaps it is a fusion of both).

It's usually determined based on how the game sets the camera parameters. The game isn't aware of what camera you end up having in practice with freelook.

[mstreurman]

(04-28-2020, 02:46 PM)Josephguy Wrote: Hi, I am new to Dolphin and its forums, as well as being a rather low level coder; so excuse me if I am posting this in the wrong place or if it seems like a stupid question:

I am trying to use the Free Look camera to explore level Scenes; that is, to see how they were built. But the game of course has a Culling Mask and, irreverent of the Free Look camera, hides everything one would normally not see. Not very grateful of that fact I am wondering: is there a way to turn this off in the Dolphin menu? Otherwise maybe I could be given a decent direction for modifying the code with a Hex editor or something. It's entirely possible that the game is determining it's culling based on distance and not the camera, but from playing it I somewhat doubt that (perhaps it is a fusion of both).

For reference I am using the 5.0-11824 x64 of Dolphin, and the game is Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.

Thank you!

IIRC There are wide-screen "cheat codes" for some games that give you the opportunity to change the culling mask a bit, like the one for Beyond Good and Evil. So there maybe are some possibilities for you to turn it off completely if you write an Action Replay or Gecko Code (if Gecko is fixed)