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Title: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: russe166 on April 20, 2014, 12:11:07 PM
Hi!

Is it possible to create a population of objects in a volume like asteroid in space?

Michael
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: Kadri on April 20, 2014, 12:19:37 PM

What comes first to my mind is to use a very highly displaced planet and populate it with the asteroid.
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: russe166 on April 21, 2014, 02:56:13 AM
That worked well ...  :)

Thanks for the suggestion.

Michael
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: Kadri on April 21, 2014, 09:56:28 AM

:)
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: bobbystahr on April 22, 2014, 12:08:53 PM
On a similar track, has anyone had success or tried to populate the Displaceable Disc? Was trying to make a ring of asteroids/space junk around a planet with the disc as it is easily adjusted to a torus...no luck so far....
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: Oshyan on April 22, 2014, 02:42:08 PM
You mean make a population *of* discs, or a population anchored to a disc?

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: bobbystahr on April 22, 2014, 03:03:06 PM
Quote from: Oshyan on April 22, 2014, 02:42:08 PM
You mean make a population *of* discs, or a population anchored to a disc?

- Oshyan
onto a disc Oshyan
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: bobbystahr on April 23, 2014, 11:03:27 AM
Well so far it's only the 2 discs that I can't populate on to...I have tried all the others with success..  ...
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: Dune on April 24, 2014, 03:52:59 AM
You can't populate displacable objects (yet). Well, you can and they're visible in preview, but don't render  :(  At least that's my experience.
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: bobbystahr on April 24, 2014, 07:34:08 AM
Quote from: Dune on April 24, 2014, 03:52:59 AM
You can't populate displacable objects (yet). Well, you can and they're visible in preview, but don't render  :(  At least that's my experience.

I managed to populate all of them, like I said except for both versions of the Disc object, displaceable and non displaceable.
Buuut, don't recall if I rendered the tests...they showed up textures in the 3D Preview though...maybe that's what I saw
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: bobbystahr on April 24, 2014, 10:06:33 PM
well I did it...all kwik n dirty but resolves the point
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: Dune on April 25, 2014, 02:19:28 AM
Misunderstanding; I meant you can populate on displacable objects, but you cannot populate displacable objects.
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: bobbystahr on April 25, 2014, 08:19:31 AM
But if you turn the Disc as a Torus transparent the populations disappear...too bad about that..also used an imported obj for the asteroid/rings as I couldn't get the disc to map properly,  or at least determine which mapping worked as none seemed to. I would have thought Y planar style would work and tried that first but in a Default shader it 'flat' out didn't work and the others to a lesser degree.
Title: Re: Asteroid in space ...
Post by: bobbystahr on April 25, 2014, 11:43:11 AM
Quote from: Dune on April 25, 2014, 02:19:28 AM
Misunderstanding; I meant you can populate on displacable objects, but you cannot populate displacable objects.

O K, yeah I found that as well...