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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: amitgedia on March 09, 2017, 01:19:45 PM
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i am trying to distribute the flower objects on id 2 of the arc but i am not able to do so, i know i am doing something wrong please help
Note : attaching the .max file as well
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Fox Renderfarm
Hi,
Sometimes it might be tricky to get the distribution applied correctly on "rotated" surface and it might require a Reset XForm operation to be performed. As mentioned in this "Scattering on Vertical Surfaces (http://www.itoosoft.com/tutorials/scattering-on-vertical-surfaces?back=page%3D1%26tag%3Dfp)" tightly related tutorial:
"The most important thing to understand is how to orientate the Axes of the Forest Object, the surface and the scatter geometry. Forest Pack expects the local Z axis of the surface and Forest Pack's local Z axis to be aligned. Any deviation from this and you'll start to encounter issues. In normal use, if you create a new Forest Pack object by selecting a surface, it will inherit the transformation matrix of the selected object. In this case correct alignment is automatic but only if the surface's coordinate system is already oriented correctly, with the local Z axisperpendicular to the plane."
Also, the work-flow described in following "can't propagate things on whole surface (http://forum.itoosoft.com/index.php?topic=4277.msg16664#msg16664)" post would be a good option: "A recommendable way would be to detach a copy of these polygons into a "help surface" which will Forest use for the distribution and remap UVs as wanted to get the correct distribution."
Attaching a modified scene. Hope you'll find it useful.
Best regards,
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thanks a lot for the great help... i knew i was doing some silly mistake and thanks a million for your help....