Hi everyone,
curious stuff, here are some test renderings.
Distribution of the population object is set to 0.0 on all random values to see more clearly where on the populated object it gets placed.
What position information does the populator read initially from the populated object? Polygon center? Point on a Polygon?
A few things I found:
- The populator does not seem to update the position values of the object it has to populate correctly - if at all.
It actually looks like it only repopulates objects on the positions which are identical after the populated objects rotation values are manipulated.
- Only changing the rotation values on the populated object influence the populator. That`s what some people already found out.
Maybe it has something to do with local and global values not calculated correctly.
- A pre-rotated object imported from LW for example gets populated correctly although not completely. (see attached picture)
As soon as you start to rotate the object in Terragen the same populaton error occurs.
- Rotating the object in Terragen in steps of 90 degrees works on all axes.
It will be populated more or less correctly.
But again not the whole object gets populated when you rotate by 90 and 270 degrees.
That is in a right angle from the original rotation values. It somehow seems to only see the "upper" half of the body.
Are the values of the objects "lower" half negative values Terragen does not compute?
I tried to figure out a way to read and write the vector / scalar / normal values of the rotated object and feed them to the populator node.
But my skills are veeery limited. And of course I am only guessing what might be the problem here...
Is that at all possible?
Maybe some blue node guru in the forum could give it a try?!
You may all have a good laughand make fun of me if I completely headed in the wrong direction with this
cheers, Klaus
ps1: the first picture shows an object where I only exported the centerpoints of the polys of the object I created in LW.
It is then populated with a card and a rock (Terragen objects)
ps2: posts will get shorter sooner or later, hopefully