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augustuslazarus

11-28-2008, 09:57 AM

Hi everybody,
I want to place trees along road and want them to have the same size.

First I tried to place tree objects. But in this case Vue crashes ALWAYS after I placed some.

Now I want to paint an ecosystem with one tree (no crashes so far). But does anybody now a way to control the size of the trees? It it possible to ajust the ecosystem so that tree sizes don´t vary that much ?

Thanx

cgswami

11-28-2008, 01:03 PM

better to use the replicate tool and set the spacing and rotation

augustuslazarus

12-01-2008, 11:37 AM

Yep, right. that´s another possibility....i´ll try that.

So there is no way to ajust the variation of object sizes in an ecosystem ?

Sy1ar

12-02-2008, 10:07 AM

As no one else has replied... no you can’t do that I'm afraid. I'm still only a beginner but from my experience its random otherwise there would be little use for it as an eco-system tool. As cgswami suggested the replicate tool would be your best choice, time consuming but it's the best option for what you need.

cgswami

12-02-2008, 10:45 PM

actualy you can scale ecosystems if randomly

1. by using the ecosystem material and poplating with random figures for scaling
2. if you are using a tablet you can set the size based on pressure sensitivity when painting ecosystems.

MikeBracken

12-03-2008, 12:52 AM

And actually even if you are not using a tablet you can enable the drive with pressure option and it will cause all instances to be the same height.

Regards,
Mike

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