How to make the MainCamera 'far clipping plane' a Sphere

Questions & Answers
1

I’ve searched a long time with different tags like viewdistance drawdistance circle sphere… but I cannot find any information about this…

How do I set the “draw distance” called “Clipping Planes - far” on the main camera, to a Circle/Sphere form? I can see further in my gameworld near the edges of my screen because the “draw distance” is set to a square as default!

Like in Minecraft, you can set this “draw distance” to a sphere or square, you just loose some FPS if you choose sphere…

Is it really possible that this feature is not implemented in Unity3D ?

Kind regards

3

I found this with a quick Google search…

Camera.layerCullSpherical

There’s no global setting but the solution is to set the far clip plane further away and then use per-layer culling for all visible layers to cull them before that distance and set layerCullSpherical to true.

4

you should set the layer’s layerCullDistance and set the camera’s layerCullSpherical as true

like this

float distances = new float[32];

distances[0] = 20 //smaller than your camera clipping planes’s far value
**
Camera.main.layerCullDistances = distances;

Camera.main.layerCullSpherical = true;**

5

I believe you could do it by rendering an inverted sphere with a DepthMask shader, positioned before everything else in the render queue.

2

Yeah, I’m kinda new to Unity, but I think that’s not implemented. If it really bothers you, you could set up a script for every bigger gameobject so that it disables the MeshFilter when the distance is greater than a maxDist between the camera and the gameobject, but I don’t know performance-wise how that handles.