Rental Rizzler
New graphics preferences to control how many additional regions your client will render. I have seen this feature before in an older client and I really loved that level of control.
This gives users much better control over their performance allowing them to determine how many additional regions their client will render. Draw Distance would still affect additional regions being rendered.
The way I would suggest handling this is through two additional sliders in the graphics preferences under a new category:
Region Visibility
Region Grid Range: A slider (1-9, unlimited option)
  • This controls how many grid layers can be rendered
  • Set to 1 you will see any regions directly connected to the region you are in (including connected by corners)
  • Set to 2 in addition you will see any regions connected to the layer 1 regions, and so on
Region Rendering Limit: A slider (0-361, unlimited option)
  • This controls how many additional regions in total the client renders
  • Set to 0 you will only see the region you are in
  • Set to 1 you will only see one additional region closest to you
  • Set to 2 you will only see the two regions closest to you, and so on
The reasoning behind adding the Region Grid Range slider would be allowing for higher draw distances while still limiting how many connected region grids you can see. As an example if I kept my draw distance at 4096, but kept my Region Grid Range to 1, I would then see every region connected directly to the region that I am currently in but nothing beyond that. If set to 2 I would then see every region connected directly to the region I am in, and then also any regions directly connected to those additional regions.