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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: in3des on February 20, 2014, 01:01:34 PM
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hi
maybe my question is not new...
I have couple surfaces, one on the top of the other, overlapping.
How to get forest growing on the top one and only then on the bottom one.
Thanks
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PS - surface area is turned off in my case
I'm using spline borders
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Hi,
Please see the scene attached for a possible solution. In this case I've unwrapped both surfaces so that they do not share a UVW space and then animated a gradient ramp's offset so that it sweeps a white ramp across one surface then the other. This map is then put in the transform>scale map slot but would work equally well in the new Forest Back beta's Frame From Map option if you have pre-animated growth. Hopefully I've understood correctly what you are trying to achieve.
Many thanks,
Paul
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hi
this is not exactly what I'm trying to achieve...
pls see the simple scene attached - I'm trying to get forest object growing on the top plane
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Hi,
Sorry I misunderstood. One solution would be to turn surfaces back on and then use an outlined spline to Exclude the trees you do not want. This does not have the limitation of only planting objects on the highest polygons.
(http://lonelymonk.com/forum_images/84e95609cb6e48cc90e5489ebfb21930.jpg)
Thanks,
Paul
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hm...
got it
is there any other solution? as I have not only single spline area...
that could be a problem attaching all splines into single object (and some of them not flat as were extracted from the surface edges)
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actually this is not the first time I'm trying to use this method, but last time I gave up as surface and spline areas were huge
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Hi,
I'm afraid that probably is the only way to do it. Include splines generate a single object on the highest surface. The easiest way would probably be to create multiple Forest objects, though this a bit less elegant.
Thanks,
Paul
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yes, I see
maybe there could be a way to set surface priority - something like changing order through the list up/down (similar to area feature)
thx
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guys
any solution or future option?
thx
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In the latest beta items are placed in the highest surface, what should be logical choice. I'm afraid that adding a surface priority doesn't solve this specific case, because it's necessary to generate multiple items by spline (one by surface).
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thank you
"highest surface" is quite enough! :)