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populate forest over specific material id only
« on: October 09, 2013, 04:01:03 PM »
Hi
Is there any way to populate forest over specific material id (lets say matID=4)?
I have lots of geometry and unfortunately its not instances...  so I need to detach every single polygon, then join, then use as surface to scatter forest (stones in this case)

hope there is a solution

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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2013, 04:23:10 PM »
No, sorry. There is not an option to scatter by material ID. You must prepare the surfaces manually.
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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2013, 04:37:01 PM »
thx for reply
any chance to have this option in the future?

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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2013, 05:18:15 PM »
If i remember well, we tried it some time ago but there was some technical limitation. I'll take a look to it again.
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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2013, 08:20:22 AM »
would be nice
thank you

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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2013, 09:25:22 AM »
hi
I have some other issue, could you please help me to isolate the problem
I joined all geometry manually into one polygon (stone_surf)
but stones never grow on it
I made new plane and it works fine over plane. Tried to attach stone_surf to plane - still no luck. Stones don't want to scatter over small polygons (((

pls guide me how to fix it
Thanks

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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2013, 09:50:26 AM »
Please, check the normals of those polygons. They must be facing up.
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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2013, 10:00:18 AM »
yes, that was the first think I checked
extrude polygon goes up
still no luck

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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2013, 10:10:14 AM »
Please, post a test scene. I will check it.
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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2013, 10:15:35 AM »
here it is

my walkoround for now - big plane and spline area instead

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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2013, 11:39:49 AM »
It was a normals issue after all. Applying a Normal modifier solves the problem.
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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2013, 12:41:49 PM »
hm...
I tried 'normal' modifier before and it didnt work
will try again
thank you

PS. any chance to force forest to grow up ignoring normals?

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Re: populate forest over specific material id only
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2013, 01:07:49 PM »
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PS. any chance to force forest to grow up ignoring normals?

It would generate strange results with the "Direction" parameter, besides other features that use the surface normal.
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