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
I may well be talking out of my arse here (why break the habit of a lifetime ;D ) 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
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
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.
Thx Ogre.
Did you ever post that image ?
DJ
That was an early one. http://www.terragen.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4670
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
It works!!
Thank you all.
DJ
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My name's Dory, I'm in this story, I live on the reef and I don't eat beef!! ;D
Nice render, really has that underwater feel about it
Miles