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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: FM3996 on October 19, 2010, 06:19:56 AM

Title: Convert to instances
Post by: FM3996 on October 19, 2010, 06:19:56 AM
I've been trying to find a way to convert a forest pro setup to a bunch of instanced meshes. I realize I can convert to an edit mesh, but these obviously get huge. It would great to be able to convert to a single mesh for each geometry and an instance per scattered tree. I believe MultiScatter has a function similar to this.

Is this possible? If not does it sound like something you would contemplate for the future?

Thanks

Simon
Title: Re: Convert to instances
Post by: iToo on October 19, 2010, 07:31:57 AM

It can be done with the Forest Tools utility. You can find it in the Utilities Panel:

http://www.itoosoft.com/forestpack/reference/tools.php

Title: Re: Convert to instances
Post by: FM3996 on October 20, 2010, 08:01:55 AM
Awesome, thanks. It looks like that will work perfectly.

When I was looking for this I searched in CHM help for anything referencing "instance" and nothing showed up. Turns out that if I search for anything, nothing ever shows up in the search results. Just looks like the search function in the CHM is broken.
Title: Re: Convert to instances
Post by: iToo on October 22, 2010, 12:03:03 PM

Yes. The CHM help is a very old format with many problems. We like to replace it by a online help system with search options.

Title: Re: Convert to instances
Post by: DIMITRIS on October 22, 2010, 02:15:01 PM
Also a modern PDF would be great