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Forest Pack => Forest Pro (*) => Topic started by: SozoDigital on October 24, 2016, 01:20:38 PM

Title: Use Forest Pack on deforming surface?
Post by: SozoDigital on October 24, 2016, 01:20:38 PM
Hi,

I am wondering if it is possible to use Forest Pack on a surface that has it's verts animated either via a deformer or on an animated imported geo cache, ie a ground surface animated by a wave-deformer to simulate a stylized earthquake shockwave.

I tried briefly but didnt get very far, since the scattered instances did not stick to the surface when it deformed during the animation.

Cheers!
Title: Re: Use Forest Pack on deforming surface?
Post by: Michal KarmazĂ­n on October 24, 2016, 01:35:31 PM
Hi,

That's possible and it'll depend a lot on how the deformation will look like. For some scenarios (where the UV space is significantly deformed in time) would be recommendable to use a workaround is to use "help" surfaces" as explained in following "Scattering on animated surface (http://forum.itoosoft.com/index.php?topic=2782.0)" thread. Hope you'll find it useful.

Best regards,
Title: Re: Use Forest Pack on deforming surface?
Post by: SozoDigital on October 25, 2016, 12:29:55 PM

Hi Michal,

thank you very much for the speedy reply and the link. I'll look into that right away. :)

Cheers!