I think I'm more inclined to understand what happens, if the player flies over the terrain the decals would have to be visible. And like in GTA V a graphic quality option flying over the terrain.
If the player is never going to leave the ground, I think it would come in handy to set how far away the decal is displayed from the road. All this can be played with hills, dips in the terrain and things like that.
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