Some newbie help please :-)

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Using this object you can provide total coverage of your maps or target areas that need foliage embedding.

It provides you with the ability to create hundreds of thousands of foliage items over a controlled area. You can also control whether items are placed on terrain, interiors, statics or water. You can also control the terrain slope limit so that you don't get foliage stuck on steep angles of terrain which can look weird.

You can setup random sizes of foliage plus have the ability to fix the aspect ratio where you don't want your textures distorted but still have different sizes within the scene.

A neat feature is the ability to setup random swaying to simulate wind effects. There is also a lighting feature that changes the luminance of the foliage over time to simulate lighting changes in the scene.

On the performance side of things you can set the distance at which foliage appears. If you don't want the foliage just appearing/disappearing then there is the ability to control that too so items gradually fade in/out of view.

I have also added a very efficient culling algorithm that literally removes the processing of objects that are not within the view.

As always, I have hosted the code on my FTP site plus some images that are too large to host on the GG site. You will find instructions within the zip file but you should have no problem if you have previous used my fxShapeReplicator object as the installation is almost identical.