From 35c24ce5d4ee1276a4bc1f17e42f7ce0a443bb13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Wickstrom <daniel.c.wickstrom@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 07:10:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update radius of AI model after model data is loaded -
 prevents rendering artifacts at near/far camera boundary.

---
 src/AIModel/AIBase.cxx | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/AIModel/AIBase.cxx b/src/AIModel/AIBase.cxx
index 2f1aec7b6..c756d1c18 100644
--- a/src/AIModel/AIBase.cxx
+++ b/src/AIModel/AIBase.cxx
@@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ public:
             _hasInteriorPath = true;
         }
 
+        // save radius of loaded model for updating LOD
+        auto bs = n->getBound();
+        if (bs.valid()) {
+            _radius = bs.radius();
+        }
+
         _fxpath = prop->getStringValue("sound/path");
         _nasal[path] = std::unique_ptr<FGNasalModelDataProxy>(new FGNasalModelDataProxy(_root));
         _nasal[path]->modelLoaded(path, prop, n);
@@ -106,6 +112,7 @@ public:
     bool getInteriorLoaded(void) { return _interiorLoaded;}
     bool hasInteriorPath(void) { return _hasInteriorPath;}
     inline std::string& getInteriorPath() { return _interiorPath; }
+    inline float getRadius() { return _radius; }
 private:
     std::string _fxpath;
     std::string _interiorPath;
@@ -116,6 +123,7 @@ private:
     bool _initialized = false;
     bool _hasInteriorPath = false;
     bool _interiorLoaded = false;
+    float _radius = -1.0;
     SGPropertyNode* _root;
 };
 
@@ -288,6 +296,10 @@ void FGAIBase::update(double dt) {
         // which must be done in main thread
         _modeldata->init();
 
+        // update LOD radius from loaded modeldata
+        _model->setRadius(_modeldata->getRadius());
+        _model->dirtyBound();
+
         // sound initialization
         if (fgGetBool("/sim/sound/aimodels/enabled",false))
         {