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Flowerbeds, vertically cloned...how to?
« on: December 19, 2011, 04:24:36 PM »
I have a problem where I don't know how to do it best.
I have to create a facade with flowerbeds, they are on top of each other, vertically aligned.
Now when I have a column of vertical overlapping splines, Forest only populates the first spline.
Whats the best way to handle this situation?

thanks, Marc


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Re: Flowerbeds, vertically cloned...how to?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2011, 06:50:17 PM »
Forest handles the splines in 2D, so by default it doesn't create overlapped items. There are two ways to fix it, both using surfaces:

a) Using XY Surfaces:

- Create one surface for each spline (for example, applying a UVW map modier), and assign them to Forest (Surface rollout)

Note: You must create several surfaces, because in this mode a same surface object cannot have overlapped faces.

b) Using UV Surfaces:

- Same as before, but there are not restrictions with the overlapped faces. So, you can attach all the surfaces in a unique mesh.

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Re: Flowerbeds, vertically cloned...how to?
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2011, 08:19:05 PM »
Thanks, I managed to do it with UV surfaces.

I have to figure out how UV surfaces work though...the distribution map is no longer used apparently and I'm getting regular gaps between the plants.

With XY Surfaces I can't get it running, as soon as the surfaces are on the same XY space but different height the Forest object will only populate one.

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Re: Flowerbeds, vertically cloned...how to?
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2011, 09:11:37 PM »

If that helps, please use the attached scene. I have included both samples of XY and UV surfaces.

When using UV surfaces, be sure that the mapping coordinates have the same scale on U and V (for example, checking it with a checkbox map).

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Re: Flowerbeds, vertically cloned...how to?
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2011, 10:21:41 PM »
Thanks for the test scene. It works great, but I have a problem with my specific scene file, where it doesn't.
I think there is some kind of scale issue. I can't get rid of the gaps when I'm in UV mode, regardless of the distribution map scale.
Please have a look at the max file, if you can.

Thanks, Marc


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Re: Flowerbeds, vertically cloned...how to?
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2011, 04:54:44 PM »

It is strange, i don't get those gaps here (FP 3.6.2). What Forest version do you use, 3.6.2 or the beta ?

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Re: Flowerbeds, vertically cloned...how to?
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2011, 05:45:36 PM »
I'm using ForestPackPro371b.

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Re: Flowerbeds, vertically cloned...how to?
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2011, 08:48:19 PM »

Yes, it seems a bug of the beta with the UV coordinates.

We will check it, until then you should use individual XY surfaces.

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