Well you got me intrigued so I added a quick command in the test resource. Everyone can test it out. You need to do it on every map.
/lodrange 300
Works really great on titten 2 @hulpje
This is the code (yes only one line sue me im a vago)
addCommandHandler('lodrange', function(p,dis) for k,v in ipairs(getElementsByType'object') do engineSetModelLODDistance(getElementModel(v), tonumber(dis)) end end)
I don't think you need to create a new object @Iwasawa, engineSetModelLODDistance only increases the distance attribute of an object before the lod is loaded (or becomes invisible if no LOD), it doesn't make it a LOD object. Great job though, nice thinking.