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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: SR1351 on March 27, 2022, 09:33:32 PM

Title: Lock Calculation for rendering.
Post by: SR1351 on March 27, 2022, 09:33:32 PM

Hi,

We work on very large environmental areas with acres of grass. Forest Pro scatters the grass fantastically but the calculation of scatter for every frame takes way to long and a lot of times longer than the render.  Is there a way to lock the calculation so it doesn't need to calculate for every frame? This would GREATLY speed up rendering.

Title: Re: Lock Calculation for rendering.
Post by: Paul Roberts on March 28, 2022, 09:08:11 AM

Hi,

Thanks for the question. You can do this by going to the Items Editor rollout and changing the mode to Custom Edit.

(https://i.imgur.com/N9N8IEi.png)

This will bake in the current distribution and no further calculations will be required. Of course a side effect is that you can't use the camera clipping features.

I hope that helps,

Paul

Title: Re: Lock Calculation for rendering.
Post by: SR1351 on March 28, 2022, 06:26:44 PM

Quote from: Paul Roberts on March 28, 2022, 09:08:11 AM

Hi,

Thanks for the question. You can do this by going to the Items Editor rollout and changing the mode to Custom Edit.

(https://i.imgur.com/N9N8IEi.png)

This will bake in the current distribution and no further calculations will be required. Of course a side effect is that you can't use the camera clipping features.

I hope that helps,

Paul

Wow this is actually great, I have to try this.  So your saying it will load those huge scatters of grass really fast then without a 1-2 min loading time? Never thought of this trick.