bending a plane

[mhaze]

Can anyone tell me how to bend a plane?

[j meyer]

Maybe you'll find an answer here
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,10980.0.html

[Dune]

You can displace a plane however you want, bending it by simple shape, distance shader (or of course PF), that sort of thing. As long as there's a white/black gradient.

[mhaze]

Cheers Dune, I'd kinda come to that conclusion but it's going to take a while to work it out.

[bobbystahr]

You can displace a plane however you want, bending it by simple shape, distance shader (or of course PF), that sort of thing. As long as there's a white/black gradient.

Can someone please do a tutorial on manipulating the plane object. I've been able to little with it other than occasionally use it as a water object. Handles on that sucker would be very handy. Jebus, I haven't even managed to rotate it...

[Oshyan]

I recommend using the Card object instead. The Plane is quite simply best for the mathematically inclined.

- Oshyan

[bobbystahr]

I recommend using the Card object instead. The Plane is quite simply best for the mathematically inclined.

- Oshyan

D'oh....one day I'll remember that it's there...I have it in billboard category in my brain and rarely if ever use billboards now...

[bobbystahr]

Well I had a play with the Card object and can't seem to get it to do displacement like the Plane...any trick to that? Also when using image maps through a Default shader the Card was very dark compared to the Plane.

[Dune]

The card is quite invisible, but the plane isn't. So I prefer the plane. You can do wonders with it.

[bobbystahr]

The card is quite invisible, but the plane isn't. So I prefer the plane. You can do wonders with it.

I as well would prefer the plane object, if it were possible for a layman to do any more to it than scale and displace....think they'll ever make it like everything else?

[Dune]

What else do you want to do with it? It's kind of the same as a planet or sphere...

[bobbystahr]

What else do you want to do with it? It's kind of the same as a planet or sphere...

It's that freaking matrix box which I could never come to grips with all those years back in Imagine...the only thing I couldn't grok.
For example how do you rotate the bloody thing around the Y axis...and sometimes it would be handy vertical as well so same query for the X axis?

[j meyer]

Take a look at this Bobby and give it some tries.
http://planetside.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Plane

[bobbystahr]

Thanks for the link j m...I got that about 1/2 hr ago by accident but gave up as I couldn't get it to image map no matter what projection I used; but my real query was rotating around the Y say to follow a river running diagonally....It would be nice to be able to do this by degree but I suspect a weird algorithm at play that I don't grok....yet.

[Dune]

In that case you'd better use a card, much easier to rotate.