Is it possible to clone objects?

[bgolden]

I'm adding some army tanks in a shot and am having problems with overlapping instances with populations. I thought I would just add several individual objects [tanks] and it would be nice to get one inserted and the surfacing dialed in, then clone or in other words copy and paste the remaining number I need from the original object..

Does Terragen 2 have cloning ability for objects?

[Henry Blewer]

Use a population of tanks. Go to the objects tab, select add object and then population. Load in the tank object. You can adjust the coverage with the spacing a,b. The scale can be changed also in another tab.

[choronr]

I'm adding some army tanks in a shot and am having problems with overlapping instances with populations. I thought I would just add several individual objects [tanks] and it would be nice to get one inserted and the surfacing dialed in, then clone or in other words copy and paste the remaining number I need from the original object..

Does Terragen 2 have cloning ability for objects?

If you are only positioning several objects (tanks), I would suggest you add them as individual objects. The alternative would be to populate and use the painted shader to have them appear where you want them.

[TheBlackHole]

Copy/paste the object nodes.

[dandelO]

The keyboard shortcut is ctrl+D. In the node network, when any node(or multiple nodes), is highlighted, this shortcut will duplicate(clone) that particular node/s.

[dandelO]

* Windows version shortcut ^^.

I never used a Mac but there will be an equivalent key binding, if it's a Mac you use.

You can also customize all of your shortcuts in the preferences dialogue. 'Customize key bindings'.

[Hetzen]

Have a play with the object spacing variation (default 1) set it to to say 0.1 in the latest TG build. I guess you're working on divisional formations over platoons/squadrons.

[jo]

Hi,

The Mac version Duplicate shortcut is cmd-D :-).

You can't customise menu shortcuts using the preferences.

Regards,

Jo

[bgolden]

There is no way to keep instances from overlapping. Is that correct? It's fine for trees but can't have overlapping tanks obviously.

[Hetzen]

Your variation is determined by the amount of variance within the population. No, that calculataion has no collision detection. If you set a distribution spread of say 10m and your object is 10m wide, and your spacing variation is set to zero, you will have a grid 10 by 10 tanks...

[bgolden]

Yes, was curious about collision detection and Ctrl+D was what I was looking for - for cloning. Thanks for the help.

[dandelO]

You can't customise menu shortcuts using the preferences.

Doh! Of course not! Sorry. :/