Hi,
From Thinkbox software they kindly provide us a license of XMesh MX software, so we were able to do some testing with it.
The randomization of animation frames is working without any troubles. You have various options how to archive it under
Animation tab in Forest Pack. Please check simple
Random Samples setting on attached screenshot (this way you can set
Time Offset and total
Count of samples). More about
Animation tab settings you can find
here.
Regarding the viewport issue: First I should mention, that XMeshLoader viewport settings doesn't affect the render process of Forest object and for all viewport modes it's rendering as supposed. Also use of
Mesh or
Faces display modes inside of XMeshLoader works fine together with Forest Pack and we can recommend it. You can for example simplify the object by lowering
Percent values for
Faces mode in XMeshLoader in combination of
Point-cloud mode in Forest Pack. Attaching screenshots with
Mesh display modes and of the above mentioned combination (
Faces +
Point-cloud).
In case of using
Verts display mode you should use
Proxy viewport mode in Forest Pack as actually Forest Pack is not displaying vertexes. We´ll see what we can do this case.
Hope this helps you.
Kind regards,