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RailClone => RailClone Pro (*) => Topic started by: RobH2 on March 18, 2019, 11:22:39 PM

Title: Can "any" forest geometry be converted to a Billboard?
Post by: RobH2 on March 18, 2019, 11:22:39 PM

I'm probably mistaken but I thought I read once that any Forest objects could be converted or turned into Billboards. I have some grass and changed the 'Template' to 'Two Planes' and that's what I get, two planes of green. There is no alpha so, therefore, no plant shape.

I need to render reflections of trees and grass in a river surface but don't want to render the forest object in high resolution. The renders are about 15-minutes each.

If I can't set the forests to render as Billboards, is there a workflow that I can use to get the plants reflections without having to do the really long renders?

Title: Re: Can "any" forest geometry be converted to a Billboard?
Post by: Rokas on March 19, 2019, 02:15:42 PM

There is no such option to convert Geometry to 2d billboard in Forest Pack.
ForestPack Pro comes with some 2d Billboard library. I hope they are enough for Your case:
(https://i.imgur.com/bKVavJ6.png)

Title: Re: Can "any" forest geometry be converted to a Billboard?
Post by: RobH2 on March 19, 2019, 02:44:14 PM

Thanks for your comment. I assumed I was mistaken about that. I do know about the 2d assets and went ahead and used them. They did work out for me well enough. Since the 'noise' I was using broke the surface up, I was able to fake the reflection believably and keep my render times way down.

Thank you again...