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Ground cover following the camera

by Jonas · in Torque 3D Professional · 12/28/2010 (4:54 pm) · 8 replies

Hi there!

as the question says the groundcover object (billboards) are following the camera
is there a way to change this?

Kind regards
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    Torque Owner Ivan Mandzhukov
    Liman3D
    #1
    12/28/2010 (5:34 pm)
    What do you mean by "following" ?
    I believe the transformation stuff is driven on the GPU (groundCoverV.hlsl)

    BTW I had troubles with groundcover objects,I still cannot get them working,that's why I'm using fxFoliageReplicator.

    Torque Owner Jonas
    #2
    12/28/2010 (5:49 pm)
    hm ok, any idea if this can be located from within the editor at all?

    PS: im using the latest build aka 1.1 beta 3

    best regards

    Oscar Velzi
    Iron Tower Studio
    #3
    12/28/2010 (6:05 pm)
    Yes, don't use them. Just make a flat shape and load that instead. Billboards, by their very nature, face the camera =)

    @Ivan: What kind of troubles? It works great in 1.1b3, can you describe what's happening?

    Torque Owner Ivan Mandzhukov
    Liman3D
    #4
    12/28/2010 (6:42 pm)
    I think I have problems with the datablocks,may be a wrong validation,I get no rendering at all.
    Oscar,if you have a workable variant of settings,please post them here.
    I'm using T3D 1.0

    Torque Owner Jonas
    #5
    12/28/2010 (8:37 pm)
    ah i see, thank you very much!

    Oscar Velzi
    Iron Tower Studio
    #6
    12/28/2010 (9:30 pm)
    @Ivan: I see... Yeah, I never got the ground cover in 1.01 to work right... In 1.1b3 it works wonderfully. The foliage replicator will eat your resources like crazy though. We just ported to 1.1b3 and it was quite painless all in all, and the new features were worth it, IMO.

    Associate Steve Acaster
    [YorkshireRifles.com]
    #7
    12/29/2010 (12:37 am)
    I had some issues (bugs) in beta1/2 but they seem fixed in B3.

    Torque Owner Joe Melton
    Fails At Making Games
    #8
    12/29/2010 (8:02 am)
    Quote:
    BTW I had troubles with groundcover objects,I still cannot get them working,that's why I'm using fxFoliageReplicator.

    I had no idea the fx* stuff was still in the engine...