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I feel clever but someone probably already thought of this....

by Richard Ranft · in Torque 3D Professional · 11/29/2009 (3:09 am) · 4 replies

I decided to use the Forest Editor to scatter boulders. Is rampant coolness....

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I was a soldier, then a computer technician, an electrician, a technical writer, game programmer, and now software test/tools developer. I've been a hobbyist programmer since the age of 13.


#1
11/29/2009 (9:24 am)
I've planted trucks.
#2
11/29/2009 (8:36 pm)
Yea... it can be used for non-tree things just as well.

My main suggestion would be to keep it to smaller elements... no bigger than a tree... and for things your gonna have 1000s of instances of.

Still... abuse it all you like and see what works for you.
#3
11/29/2009 (9:35 pm)
It makes for good ground clutter

www.braggingrightsproductions.com/torque/lake.jpg

but I was thinking basically the same thing that you said.

Collision is less than optimal with my rocks - some you can walk on, some you can walk through - I'm thinking about re-exporting to collada since I'm currently using DTS rocks.

<edit> Sorry - wide pic - 1600x900ish
#4
11/29/2009 (10:22 pm)
Nice pic. You can also build a town with it. :-D Now that's fun.