3D populations

[DJ]

Does anyone know if it is possible to define populations that are distributed not only on a surface but in 3 dimensions, for example swarms of birds, fish, etc?

Thx DJ

[mr-miley]

I may well be talking out of my arse here (why break the habit of a lifetime  ) BUT... I believe that a Power Fractal used for distribution works in all 3 dimensions, just untick the "sit on terrain" tick box in the Terrain tab of the population....

Then again, maybe thats rubbish *shrugs*

Miles

[DJ]

Thank you mr-miley.
If I got it right it should be possible to define a painted shader, connect it with a (invisible) PFS, and place a population on it.
I will try this...

DJ

[Ogre]

Make a very spikey terrain that only will feed into the terrain node of the population and have your population sit only on that terrain.

[DJ]

Thx Ogre.
Did you ever post that image ?

DJ

[Ogre]

That was an early one.  http://www.terragen.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4670

[dandelO]

And here's how I do it in this snowfall image. (.tgd included)

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=4922.msg51226#msg51226

And some more discussion on methods... http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=3438.0

[DJ]

It works!!
Thank you all.

DJ

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[mr-miley]

My name's Dory, I'm in this story, I live on the reef and I don't eat beef!! 

Nice render, really has that underwater feel about it

Miles